1. A State agency that seeks to purchase any item requiring the use of a power source, including but not limited to motor vehicles, material and cargo-handling equipment such as forklifts, harbor craft, generators, power systems, portable floodlights, microgrids, and telecommunications equipment, shall include in the request for proposals provisions that allow for the consideration of items that are powered by fuel cells.

As used in this section:

“fuel cell” means a device or system that is designed to provide heating or cooling, or electrical or mechanical power, by converting the chemical energy of a fuel and an oxidant into electricity through a non-combustive electrochemical process; and

“State agency” means any of the principal departments in the Executive Branch of the State Government, and any division, board, bureau, office, commission or other instrumentality within or created by such department and any independent State authority, commission, instrumentality or agency which is authorized by law to award contracts.

L.2021, c.91.