S7710 • 2025

Relates to prohibiting the construction of certain energy storage systems within five hundred feet of a school or dwelling in a city of one million or more

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Sponsor: Stephen T. Chan
Last action: 2026-05-06
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to prohibiting the construction of certain energy storage systems within five hundred feet of a school or dwelling in a city of one million or more

Relates to prohibiting the construction of certain energy storage systems within five hundred feet of a school or dwelling in a city of one million or more Prohibits the construction or maintenance of energy storage systems capable of storing more than twenty kilowatt hours within five hundred feet of a school or dwelling in a city with a population of one million or more.

What This Bill Does

Relates to prohibiting the construction of certain energy storage systems within five hundred feet of a school or dwelling in a city of one million or more Prohibits the construction or maintenance of energy storage systems capable of storing more than twenty kilowatt hours within five hundred feet of a school or dwelling in a city with a population of one million or more.

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Bill History

2026-05-06 Senate
DEFEATED IN ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
2026-02-24 Senate
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION - REQUESTED
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
2025-05-01 Senate
REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Official Summary Text

Relates to prohibiting the construction of certain energy storage systems within five hundred feet of a school or dwelling in a city of one million or more
Prohibits the construction or maintenance of energy storage systems capable of storing more than twenty kilowatt hours within five hundred feet of a school or dwelling in a city with a population of one million or more.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          7710

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                       May 1, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CHAN  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  energy  law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting the
          construction and maintenance of certain energy storage systems  within
          five  hundred feet of a school or dwelling in a city with a population
          of one million or more

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.    Subdivision  8  of  section 11-104 of the energy law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (C) "SCHOOL PROPERTY" SHALL MEAN IN OR WITHIN ANY BUILDING, STRUCTURE,
     4  ATHLETIC PLAYING FIELD, PLAYGROUND, PARKING LOT, OR LAND CONTAINED WITH-
     5  IN THE REAL PROPERTY BOUNDARY LINE OF ANY DAYCARE, PRESCHOOL, PUBLIC  OR
     6  PRIVATE  ELEMENTARY  SCHOOL,  PUBLIC  OR PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOL OR ANY
     7  COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY.
     8    § 2.  Section 11-104 of the energy law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     9  subdivision 10 to read as follows:
    10    10. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY LAW, RULE, OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, IN A
    11  CITY  WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, NO ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM
    12  CAPABLE OF STORING MORE THAN TWENTY KILOWATT HOURS SHALL BE  CONSTRUCTED
    13  OR  MAINTAINED WITHIN FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF ANY SCHOOL PROPERTY OR WITHIN
    14  FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF ANY DWELLING.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    16  it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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