NY Pub Auth L § 1020-G (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBA - Public Authorities Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities Title 1-A - Long Island Power Authority 1020-G - Powers to Provide and Maintain Generating, Transmission and Resource Recovery Waste to Energy Facilities.

§  1020-g. Powers to provide and maintain generating, transmission and resource recovery waste  to  energy  facilities.  Without  limiting  the generality  of  the  powers  conferred upon the authority by section one thousand twenty-f of this title, the authority shall have  the  specific power:  (a)  Subject  to  the  provisions  of  subdivision  one of section ten hundred  twenty-s  of  this  title,  to  acquire,  construct,   improve, rehabilitate,  maintain  and  operate  such generating, transmission and related facilities as the authority  deems  necessary  or  desirable  to maintain  an  adequate  and  dependable supply of gas and electric power within the service area;  (b) Subject to the  provisions  of  subdivision  one  of  section  ten hundred   twenty-s  of  this  title,  to  acquire,  construct,  improve, rehabilitate, maintain and operate such hydroelectric or energy  storage projects  within  the  state  as  it  deems  necessary  or  desirable to contribute to the adequacy, economy and reliability  of  the  supply  of electric power and energy or to conserve fuel;  (c)  Subject  to  the  provisions  of  subdivision  one of section ten hundred twenty-s of this title, to determine the location,  type,  size, construction, lease, purchase, ownership, acquisition, use and operation of  any  generating,  transmission  or other related facility, provided, however, that in making such determinations relating to  electric  power facilities  the  authority  shall  give  primary  consideration  to  the construction of energy efficient facilities, energy  conservation,  load management programs, and cogeneration in the service area;  (d)  To  proceed  with  the physical construction or completion of any generating, transmission or related facility;  (e) To apply to the appropriate agencies and officials of the  federal and  state  governments,  for  such licenses, permits or approval of its plans or projects as it may deem necessary or advisable, and  to  accept such  licenses,  permits  or  approvals as may be tendered to it by such agencies or officials, upon such terms and conditions  as  it  may  deem appropriate;  (f)  To  institute  suit,  or  to  apply  to  any legislative body for legislation, or to take such other action as it may  deem  necessary  or advisable  in  the furtherance of the purposes of this title and for the protection of its rights, if for any reason the authority shall fail  to secure  any such license, permit or approval as it may deem necessary or advisable;  (g) To study means of maintaining the customer base in, and attracting commerce and industry to the service area;  (h) To implement programs and policies designed  to  provide  for  the interconnection of: (i) (A) solar electric generating equipment owned or operated  by  residential  customers, (B) farm waste electric generating equipment owned or operated by customer-generators, (C)  solar  electric generating equipment owned or operated by non-residential customers, (D) micro-combined  heat  and  power  generating  equipment owned, leased or operated by residential customers, (E)  fuel  cell  electric  generating equipment  owned,  leased  or operated by residential customers, and (F) micro-hydroelectric generating equipment owned, leased  or  operated  by customer-generators  and for net energy metering consistent with section sixty-six-j of the public service law, to  increase  the  efficiency  of energy  end  use, to shift demand from periods of high demand to periods of low demand and to facilitate the  development  of  cogeneration;  and (ii)   wind   electric   generating   equipment  owned  or  operated  by customer-generators and for net energy metering consistent with  section sixty-six-l of the public service law.  (i)  To develop, with public participation, a comprehensive least-cost plan which shall consider practical and economical use of  conservation, renewable  resources,  and  cogeneration  for  providing  service to its customers;  (j)  To cooperate with and to enter into contractual arrangements with private utility companies or public entities:  (i) with respect to the construction and operation  of  facilities  by the authority and the sale of all or part of the output therefrom;  (ii)  with  respect  to  the  construction,  completion,  acquisition, ownership  and/or  operation  of  generating  facilities,  fuel,  docks, sidings,  loading  or  unloading equipment, storage facilities and other subsidiary  facilities  and  the  disposition  of  the  output  of  such generating facilities; and  (iii)  with  respect  to  the  construction,  acquisition,  ownership, operation and/or use of transmission facilities;  (k) To cooperate with and to enter into contractual arrangements  with municipalities   with   respect   to   the   construction,  improvement, rehabilitation, ownership and/or operation of generating facilities;  (l) To cooperate with and to enter into contractual arrangements  with the  New  York  state  energy  research  and  development  authority  in connection  with  the  planning,  siting,   development,   construction, operation  and  maintenance  of  generating  facilities of the authority utilizing new energy technologies;  (m) Subject to the provisions of section ten hundred twenty-aa of this title, to construct, maintain and operate  resource  recovery  waste  to energy facilities; and  (n)  After the establishment of Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) and the commencement of its function as a utility, LIPA shall  acquire  from LILCO  all  franchise  and  utility  service  responsibilities  for  all ultimate consumers of gas and electricity within LILCO's former  service territory,  including  the  responsibility  to provide safe and adequate service.