senate Bill S4304

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides that credits for excess electricity generated by customer-generators subject to net energy metering may be carried over and used to offset electricity used

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Current Bill Status - Passed Senate


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    • Passed Assembly
  • Delivered to Governor
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Assembly Actions - Lowercase
Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Apr 25, 2023 referred to energy
delivered to assembly
passed senate
Mar 08, 2023 advanced to third reading
Mar 01, 2023 2nd report cal.
Feb 28, 2023 1st report cal.426
Feb 07, 2023 referred to energy and telecommunications

Votes

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Feb 28, 2023 - Energy and Telecommunications committee Vote

S4304
7
1
committee
7
Aye
1
Nay
0
Aye with Reservations
1
Absent
0
Excused
0
Abstained
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Energy and Telecommunications Committee Vote: Feb 28, 2023

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S4304 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§66-j & 66-l, Pub Serv L; amd §1020-g, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S5839
2013-2014: S2957
2015-2016: S2878
2017-2018: S2696
2019-2020: S3596
2021-2022: S3140

S4304 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that credits for excess electricity generated by customer-generators subject to net energy metering by an electric corporation or the Long Island power authority may be carried over indefinitely and used against any charges imposed by an electric corporation or the Long Island power authority when the customer-generator uses more electricity than such customer generates; provides for the accounting of credits once every 5 years and the electric corporation or Long Island power authority shall reimburse the customer-generator for the accumulated credits.

S4304 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S4304 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4304
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 7, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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 and the public authorities law,
   in relation to credit for electricity generated by a  customer-genera-
   tor subject to net energy metering

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 66-j of the public service law, as
 amended by chapter 355 of the laws of 2009, paragraph (b) as amended  by
 chapter 691 of the laws of 2022 and (c) as amended by chapter 494 of the
 laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   4.  Rates.  An  electric  corporation shall use net energy metering to
 measure and charge for the net electricity supplied by  the  corporation
 and  provided  to  the corporation by a customer-generator, according to
 these requirements:
   (a) In the event that the amount of electricity supplied by the corpo-
 ration during the billing  period  exceeds  the  amount  of  electricity
 provided  by  a customer-generator, the corporation shall, AFTER DEDUCT-
 ING, FROM THE AGGREGATE OF UNUSED CREDIT FOR EXCESS  ELECTRICITY  GENER-
 ATED  BY SUCH CUSTOMER-GENERATOR PRIOR TO SUCH BILLING PERIOD, AN AMOUNT
 OF CREDIT EQUAL TO THE AMOUNT OF ELECTRICITY SUPPLIED  BY  THE  ELECTRIC
 CORPORATION, TO THE EXTENT SUCH CREDIT EXISTS, AND MAY THEREAFTER charge
 the customer-generator for the net electricity supplied, AFTER DEDUCTION
 OF  SUCH  CREDITS,  at  the  same  rate  per kilowatt hour applicable to
 service provided to other customers in the same service class  which  do
 not generate electricity onsite.
   (b)  In the event that the amount of electricity produced by a custom-
 er-generator during the billing period exceeds the amount of electricity
 used by the customer-generator, the corporation shall (I) apply a credit
 to the next bill for service to the customer-generator for the net elec-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06333-01-3

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