2023 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.