File #: Int 1222-2025    Version: * Name: Providing notification to public officials regarding the installation of energy storage systems.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
On agenda: 3/26/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing notification to public officials regarding the installation of energy storage systems
Sponsors: Kamillah Hanks, Farah N. Louis, Chris Banks
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require the Mayor to designate an office or agency to provide at least 30 days’ notice to a Borough President, Council Member, and Community Board of a planned installation of an energy storage system within their respective jurisdictions. At a minimum, the notice would have to include the location, zoning district, and estimated commencement and completion dates of the planned installation. The designated office or agency would have to solicit from Borough Presidents, Council Members, and community boards their preferred methods of notice and appropriate contact information.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1222, 2. Int. No. 1222, 3. March 26, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-26-25

Int. No. 1222

 

By Council Members Hanks, Louis and Banks

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing notification to public officials regarding the installation of energy storage systems

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subchapter 1 of chapter 1 of title 3 of the administrative code is amended by adding a new section 3-119.9 to read as follows:

§ 3.119.9 Notification regarding installation of energy storage systems. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the term “energy storage system” means a set of methods and technologies for storing potential, kinetic, chemical, electromagnetic, thermal, or any other type of energy, including compressed air, flywheels, batteries, superconducting magnetic storage, and ice storage, so that such energy may be used at a time other than when it is generated.

b. Provision of notice. At least 30 days prior to the commencement of any planned installation of an energy storage system, an office or agency designated by the mayor shall provide notice of such installation to the borough president, council member, and community board with jurisdiction over the location of such installation.

c. Notice requirements. The notice required under subdivision b of this section shall, at a minimum, include:

1. The location of the planned installation of an energy storage system, indicated by the street address, but if the street address is not available, by the nearest intersection;

2. The zoning district in which such installation will occur;

3. The estimated date such installation will commence; and

4. The estimated date such installation will be complete.

d. Means of communicating notice. The office or agency designated by the mayor under subdivision b of this section shall solicit from borough presidents, council members, and community boards: (i) designations regarding whether they prefer to receive the notice required under such subdivision by text message, phone call, e-mail, or a combination of such options; and (ii) a phone number, e-mail address, or both, as appropriate. Such office or agency shall provide such notice according to such designation. In the absence of such designation, such office or agency shall determine the means of communicating such notice.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.KF

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