2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 8 - Siting of Renewable Energy and Electric Transmission › 137 - Definitions.

* § 137. Definitions.  Where used in this article, the following terms
shall have the following meanings:
1. "CLCPA targets" shall mean the public policies established  in  the
climate  leadership  and community protection act enacted in chapter one
hundred six of the laws of two  thousand  nineteen,  including  but  not
limited  to  the  requirement  that  a minimum of seventy percent of the
statewide electric generation be produced by renewable energy systems by
two thousand thirty, that by the year two thousand forty  the  statewide
electrical   demand   system  will  generate  zero  emissions,  and  the
procurement of at least nine  gigawatts  of  offshore  wind  electricity
generation  by  two  thousand thirty-five, six gigawatts of photovoltaic
solar generation by  two  thousand  twenty-five  and  to  support  three
gigawatts of statewide energy storage capacity by two thousand thirty.
2.  "Dormant  electric generating site" shall mean a site at which one
or more electric generating  facilities  produced  electricity  but  has
permanently ceased operating.
3.   "Major   electric   transmission   facility"  means  an  electric
transmission line of  a  design  capacity  of  one  hundred  twenty-five
kilovolts  or  more  extending a distance of one mile or more, or of one
hundred  kilovolts  or  more  and  less  than  one  hundred  twenty-five
kilovolts,  extending  a  distance  of  ten  miles  or  more,  including
associated equipment, but shall not include any such  transmission  line
located  wholly underground in a city with a population in excess of one
hundred twenty-five thousand or a primary transmission line approved  by
the   federal   energy   regulatory  commission  in  connection  with  a
hydro-electric facility.
4. "Major  renewable  energy  facility"  means  any  renewable  energy
system,  as such term is defined in section sixty-six-p of this chapter,
with a nameplate generating capacity of twenty-five  thousand  kilowatts
or  more, and any co-located system storing energy generated from such a
renewable energy system prior to delivering it to the bulk  transmission
system,  including  all  associated  appurtenances  to  electric plants,
including electric transmission facilities less than ten miles in length
in order to provide access to load and to integrate such facilities into
the state's bulk electric transmission system.
5. "Landowner" means the holder of any right, title,  or  interest  in
real  property  subject to a proposed site or right of way as identified
from the most recent tax roll of the appropriate municipality.
6. "Local agency" means any local agency, board, district,  commission
or  governing  body,  including  any  city,  county, and other political
subdivision of the state.
7.  "Local  agency  account"  or  "account"  shall  mean  the  account
established  in  subdivision  seven  of  section  ninety-four-c  of  the
executive  law  now  repealed  and  continued  in  section  one  hundred
forty-five of this article.
8. "Municipality" shall mean a county, city, town, or village.
9. "Right-of-way" shall mean:
(a)  real  property that is used or authorized to be used for electric
utility purposes; or
(b) real property owned or controlled by or under the jurisdiction  of
the state, a distribution utility, or a state public authority including
by  means of ownership, lease or easement, that is used or authorized to
be used for transportation or canal purposes.
10. "ORES" shall mean  the  office  of  renewable  energy  siting  and
electric  transmission  established  pursuant to section three-c of this
chapter.
11. "Executive  director"  or  "director"  shall  mean  the  executive
director   of  the  office  of  renewable  energy  siting  and  electric
transmission.
12.  "Major  renewable  energy  facility siting permit" shall mean the
siting permit issued  to  a  major  renewable  energy  facility  by  the
executive   director  pursuant  to  this  article,  and  the  rules  and
regulations promulgated by ORES and the department and approved  by  the
commission.
13.  "Major  electric  transmission facility siting permit" shall mean
the siting permit issued to a major electric  transmission  facility  by
the  executive  director  pursuant  to  this  article, and the rules and
regulations promulgated by ORES and the department.
* NB Repealed December 31, 2040