| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|---|---|
| Jan 04, 2012 |
referred to energy and telecommunications |
| May 02, 2011 |
referred to energy and telecommunications |
Senate Bill S4961
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee
Actions
2011-S4961 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Energy And Telecommunications
- Law Section:
- Public Service Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง66-l, Pub Serv L
2011-S4961 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S4961
TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the public service law, in relation to remote metering by farm
service and non-residential customer-generators
PURPOSE:
This legislation expands the scope of the state's net metering law to
allow certain customers of an electric corporation (e.g. NYSEG,
National Grid, etc.) 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 the "remote site". Under current law, utilities are required
to provide for the interconnection and net energy metering of wind
generating equipment owned or operated by a "customer-generator".
Customer-generators include three categories: Residential, Farm
service and Non-residential. This bill authorizes the Farm Service
and Non-residential categories to avail themselves of the remote net
metering procedure.
Farms and school districts in the state are two 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 and
all or part of an electric bill at another location. Adoption of the
legislation will allow customers to save money as they utilize a
renewable energy source to reduce the amount of electricity they buy
2011-S4961 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
4961
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 metering
by farm service 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 66-1 of the public service law is
amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
(E) A FARM SERVICE CUSTOMER-GENERATOR AS DEFINED BY PARAGRAPH (C) OF
SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION OR A NON-RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER-GENERATOR
AS DEFINED BY PARAGRAPH (C-1) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION MAY
LOCATE WIND ELECTRIC GENERATING EQUIPMENT WITH A NET ENERGY METER ON
LAND OWNED OR LEASED BY SUCH CUSTOMER-GENERATOR AND DESIGNATE ONE
HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE NET METERING CREDITS GENERATED BY SUCH EQUIPMENT
TO A METER OR METERS OWNED BY THE CUSTOMER-GENERATOR AT ANY LOCATION
OWNED OR LEASED BY SUCH CUSTOMER-GENERATOR WITHIN THE SERVICE AREA OF
THE SAME ELECTRIC CORPORATION TO WHICH THE CUSTOMER-GENERATOR'S NET
ENERGY METERS ARE INTERCONNECTED AND BEING WITHIN A RADIUS OF
TWENTY-FIVE MILES OF THE WIND ELECTRIC GENERATING EQUIPMENT.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08627-01-1
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