NY A03996

Amends Public Service Law to require the Public Service Commission to develop guidelines for utility energy efficiency programs that prioritize environmental justice communities and priority populations (veterans, Native Americans, individuals with disabilities, low-income individuals, unemployed power plant workers, previously incarcerated individuals, and persons aged 18-24 in work preparedness programs).

Requires utility job training funding for energy efficiency to serve individuals from priority populations or environmental justice communities proportional to their share of state housing and small commercial building stock.

Mandates employees hired for utility energy efficiency program implementation be from priority populations or environmental justice communities, or from other environmental justice communities within 75 miles of work sites, proportional to these areas' share of state housing and small commercial building stock.

Requires residential and small business energy efficiency program funding administered by utilities be allocated to environmental justice communities proportional to their share of state housing and small commercial building stock.

Amends Energy Law to impose similar requirements on the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, including allocating program funding for energy efficiency measures to environmental justice communities and requiring cost-benefit analyses to consider non-energy impacts, distribution impacts, and economic development impacts.