| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|---|---|
| Jan 08, 2014 |
referred to energy and telecommunications |
| Jun 21, 2013 |
committed to rules |
| Feb 11, 2013 |
advanced to third reading |
| Feb 05, 2013 |
2nd report cal. |
| Feb 04, 2013 |
1st report cal.27 |
| Jan 18, 2013 |
referred to energy and telecommunications |
Senate Bill S2498
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
(D) Senate District
(D) Senate District
(D, WF) Senate District
(R, C) 60th Senate District
2013-S2498 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A3143
- Current Committee:
- Senate Energy And Telecommunications
- Law Section:
- Public Service Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยงยง66-j & 66-l, Pub Serv L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
-
2015-2016:
A1915
2017-2018: A1633
2013-S2498 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S2498
TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public service law, in relation to
rate schedules for net energy metering
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: Currently, Sections 66-j and 66-1 of
the Public Service law set limits of 1% and 3/10 of 1% respectively on
the number of customers who can access net metering in a particular
utility service territory. This bill would raise the caps to 5% and
2%.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends section 66-j of the public service law to increase
the cap on the number of net metered systems from 1% of households in
a particular service territory to 5%.
Section 2 amends section 66-1 of the public service law to increase
the cap on the number of net metered systems from 3/10 of 1% of
households in a particular service territory to 2%.
Section 3 sets forth the effective date
JUSTIFICATION: Starting in 1997, New York State began to allow
customers to utilize net metering to promote renewable energy while
reducing their utility bills. While the initial law affected only
2013-S2498 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
2498
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 18, 2013
___________
Introduced by Sen. MAZIARZ -- 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 rate schedules
for net energy metering
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of
section 66-j of the public service law, as amended by chapter 546 of the
laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
(iii) Each electric corporation shall make such contract and schedule
available to customer-generators on a first come, first served basis,
until the total rated generating capacity for solar and farm waste elec-
tric generating equipment, micro-combined heat and power generating
equipment, fuel cell electric generating equipment and micro-hydroelec-
tric generating equipment owned, leased or operated by customer-genera-
tors in the corporation's service area is equivalent to [one] FIVE
percent of the corporation's electric demand for the year two thousand
five, as determined by the department.
S 2. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section
66-1 of the public service law, as amended by chapter 483 of the laws of
2008, is amended to read as follows:
(iii) Each electric corporation shall make such contract and schedule
available to customer-generators on a first come, first served basis,
until the total rated generating capacity for wind electric generating
equipment owned or operated by customer-generators in the corporation's
service area is equivalent to [three-tenths] TWO percent of the corpo-
ration's electric demand for the year two thousand five, as determined
by the department.
S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07124-01-3
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