* § 1901. Definitions. As used in this title, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
- 1. "Authority" shall have the same meaning as in subdivision two of section eighteen hundred fifty-one of this article.
- 2. "Commission" shall mean the public service commission.
- 3. "Departments" shall mean the department of environmental conservation, the department of agriculture and markets, the department of economic development and the department of public service.
- 4. "Environmental justice area" shall mean a minority or low-income community that may bear a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies.
- 5. "Host community" shall mean any municipality within which a major renewable energy facility or qualified energy storage system, or any portion thereof, has been proposed for development.
- 6. "Renewable energy facility" shall have the same meaning as renewable energy systems defined in section sixty-six-p of the public service law.
- 7. "Municipality" shall mean a county, city, town or village or political subdivision.
- 8. "Build-ready site" shall mean a site for which the authority has secured permits, property interests, agreements and/or other authorizations necessary to offer such site for further development, construction and operation of a renewable energy facility, with or without a paired qualified energy storage system, or a stand-alone qualified energy storage system, in accordance with the other provisions of this title.
- 9. "Qualified energy storage system" shall have the same meaning as qualified energy storage system defined in section seventy-four of the public service law. * NB Repealed December 31, 2030