Senate Bill S4959

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to remote net metering by farm and non-residential customer-generators

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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Feb 14, 2012	recommit, enacting clause stricken
Jan 04, 2012	referred to energy and telecommunications
May 02, 2011	referred to energy and telecommunications

2011-S4959 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:: Public Service Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §66-j & 66-l, Pub Serv L

2011-S4959 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to remote net metering by farm and non-residential customer-generators; permits designating credits over a period of time.

2011-S4959 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S4959

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the public service law, in relation to remote net metering
by farm and non-residential customer-generators

PURPOSE:
This legislation amends portions of the state's net metering law to
allow certain customers of an electric corporation to produce
electricity at one location owned or under the control of the
customer and designate another location of the same customer as the
recipient or user of the electricity produced at the "remote site".

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
The legislation sets forth the procedure for remote metering by
authorizing the designation of net metering credit by a Farm
operation, a customer who owns land used in agricultural production
or a Non-residential customer of the use of such credit (up to 100-%
of the electricity generated at a "remote site") by a separate
location having its own net energy meter and being owned by or under
the control of the customer, The bill contains a requirement that the
meter to which the designation of any net metering credit is made
shall be within a radius of 25 miles of the wind, solar or farm waste
electric generating equipment.

JUSTIFICATION:
Under current law, utilities are required to provide for the
interconnection and net energy metering of wind, solar and farm waste
generating equipment owned or operated by a "customer-generator".
Customer-generators include three categories: Residential, Farm
service and Non residential. This bill authorizes farm and non
residential customers to more practically utilize renewable energy
resources by allowing the use of remote net-metering.

Presently, the law requires the customer's meter to be physically
connected to the electricity production installation, and only
accounts for the use of one meter. In some instances, it is not
practical or possible to utilize electricity on the immediate site
where it is produced. In other cases, customers have multiple meters
for multiple buildings/facilities. The present law does not allow
these customers to utilize the electricity they produce on more than
one meter, or on a meter not connected to the site of electricity
production. Under this proposed legislation, farm and non residential
customers will be able to generate electricity at one location and,
via "net remote metering", obtain credit for such electricity
generation at another location.

Farms, small businesses, municipalities and school districts in the
state are some of the types of customers that would be able to employ
remote metering to reduce and/or eliminate all or part of an electric
bill at one location or at multiple locations. Adoption of the
legislation will allow customers to save money as they utilize a
renewable energy source to offset their own electricity usage.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:


A.11413A Passed Assembly in 2010

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None for the State.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2011-S4959 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4959

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               May 2, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  BALL  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
  cations

AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to remote net meter-
  ing by farm and non-residential customer-generators

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.  Subdivision 3 of section 66-j of the public service law is
amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
  (E) A CUSTOMER WHO OWNS OR OPERATES A FARM OPERATION AS SUCH  TERM  IS
DEFINED  IN SUBDIVISION ELEVEN OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED ONE OF THE AGRI-
CULTURE AND MARKETS LAW,  OR  A  NON-RESIDENTIAL  CUSTOMER-GENERATOR  AS
DEFINED  BY  SUBPARAGRAPH  (III)  OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF
THIS SECTION THAT LOCATES SOLAR ELECTRIC GENERATING  EQUIPMENT  OR  FARM
WASTE  ELECTRIC GENERATING EQUIPMENT WITH A NET ENERGY METER ON PROPERTY
OWNED OR LEASED BY SUCH CUSTOMER-GENERATOR MAY DESIGNATE, OVER A  PERIOD
AS  PRESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPH (C) OF SUBDIVISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION, ALL
OR A PORTION OF THE NET METERING CREDITS GENERATED BY SUCH EQUIPMENT  TO
METERS AT ANY PROPERTY OWNED OR LEASED BY SUCH CUSTOMER-GENERATOR WITHIN
THE  SERVICE  TERRITORY  OF  THE  SAME ELECTRIC CORPORATION TO WHICH THE
CUSTOMER-GENERATOR'S NET ENERGY  METERS  ARE  INTERCONNECTED  AND  BEING
WITHIN  THE  SAME LOAD ZONE AS DETERMINED BY THE LOCATION BASED MARGINAL
PRICE AS OF THE DATE OF INITIAL REQUEST  BY  THE  CUSTOMER-GENERATOR  TO
CONDUCT NET METERING.  THE ELECTRIC CORPORATION WILL CREDIT THE ACCOUNTS
OF  THE CUSTOMER BY APPLYING ANY CREDITS TO THE HIGHEST USE METER FIRST,
THEN SUBSEQUENT HIGHEST USE METERS UNTIL ALL SUCH CREDITS ARE ATTRIBUTED
TO THE CUSTOMER.
  S 2. Subdivision 3 of section  66-1  of  the  public  service  law  is
amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
  (E)  A  CUSTOMER  WHO  OWNS  OR  OPERATES  LAND  USED  IN AGRICULTURAL
PRODUCTION AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION THREE  HUNDRED  ONE

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09483-04-1

S. 4959                             2

OF THE AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS LAW, OR A NON-RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER-GENER-
ATOR  AS  DEFINED  BY PARAGRAPH (C-1) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION
THAT LOCATES WIND ELECTRIC GENERATING EQUIPMENT WITH A NET ENERGY  METER
ON  PROPERTY  OWNED  OR  LEASED BY SUCH CUSTOMER-GENERATOR MAY DESIGNATE
OVER A PERIOD AS PRESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPH (C) OF SUBDIVISION FOUR OF THIS
SECTION, ALL OR A PORTION OF THE NET METERING CREDITS GENERATED BY  SUCH
EQUIPMENT   TO   METERS,  AT  ANY  PROPERTY  OWNED  OR  LEASED  BY  SUCH
CUSTOMER-GENERATOR WITHIN THE SERVICE TERRITORY  OF  THE  SAME  ELECTRIC
CORPORATION  TO  WHICH  THE  CUSTOMER-GENERATOR'S  NET ENERGY METERS ARE
INTERCONNECTED AND BEING WITHIN THE SAME LOAD ZONE AS DETERMINED BY  THE
LOCATION  BASED  MARGINAL PRICE AS OF THE DATE OF INITIAL REQUEST BY THE
CUSTOMER-GENERATOR TO CONDUCT NET METERING.   THE  ELECTRIC  CORPORATION
WILL  CREDIT THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CUSTOMER BY APPLYING ANY CREDITS TO THE
HIGHEST USE METER FIRST, THEN SUBSEQUENT HIGHEST USE  METERS  UNTIL  ALL
SUCH CREDITS ARE ATTRIBUTED TO THE CUSTOMER.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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