N.Y. Energy Law § 3-101: State energy policy

§ 3-101. State energy policy. It shall be the energy policy of the

state:

1. to obtain and maintain an adequate and continuous supply of safe,

dependable and economical energy for the people of the state, including

through the protection of critical energy infrastructure as defined in

subdivision fourteen of section 1-103 of this chapter, and to accelerate

development and use within the state of renewable energy sources, all in

order to promote the state's economic growth, to create employment

within the state, to protect its environmental values and agricultural

heritage, to husband its resources for future generations, and to

promote the health and welfare of its people;

2. to encourage conservation of energy and to promote the clean energy

and climate agenda, including but not limited to greenhouse gas

reduction, set forth within chapter one hundred six of the laws of two

thousand nineteen, also known as the New York state climate leadership

and community protection act, in the construction and operation of new

commercial, industrial, agricultural and residential buildings, and in

the rehabilitation of existing structures, through heating, cooling,

ventilation, lighting, insulation and design techniques and the use of

energy audits and life-cycle costing analysis;

3. to encourage the use of performance standards in all energy-using

appliances, and in industrial, agricultural and commercial applications

of energy-using apparatus and processes;

4. to encourage transportation modes and equipment which conserve the

use of energy;

5. to foster, encourage and promote the prudent development and wise

use of all indigenous state energy resources including, but not limited

to, on-shore oil and natural gas, off-shore oil and natural gas, natural

gas from Devonian shale formations, small head hydro, wood, solar, wind,

solid waste, energy from biomass, fuel cells and cogeneration; and

6. to encourage a new ethic among its citizens to conserve rather than

waste precious fuels; and to foster public and private initiative to

achieve these ends at the state and local levels.

* 7. to conduct energy planning in an integrated and comprehensive

manner through development of a long-range energy master plan which

shall provide the framework for energy related decisions made throughout

the state.

* NB Expired January 1, 1984