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Committee questions workforce and residency rules in battery storage bill; remote operations flagged
Summary
S.9915, which would tie state financial assistance to workforce reliability standards for battery storage O&M, drew questions about whether remote operations count as on-site work and whether workers must be New Yorkers; staff said they would consult labor counsel.
Clerk read S.9915, a bill requiring storage system owners and operators to demonstrate compliance with workforce reliability standards as a condition of state financial assistance and to extend certain wage and whistleblower protections to operations and maintenance (O&M) employees.
A committee member raised a technical concern over language that would deem O&M functions to occur ‘‘at the facility site…
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