Bill Text: NY A00090 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to remote metering by farm and non-residential customer-generators.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to energy [A00090 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A00090-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          90
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Energy
       AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to remote metering
         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:
    1    Section  1. Subdivision 3 of section 66-j of the public service law is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
    3    (E) A CUSTOMER WHO OWNS OR OPERATES A FARM OPERATION AS SUCH  TERM  IS
    4  DEFINED  IN SUBDIVISION ELEVEN OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED ONE OF THE AGRI-
    5  CULTURE AND MARKETS LAW,  OR  A  NON-RESIDENTIAL  CUSTOMER-GENERATOR  AS
    6  DEFINED  BY  SUBPARAGRAPH  (III)  OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF
    7  THIS SECTION MAY LOCATE SOLAR  ELECTRIC  GENERATING  EQUIPMENT  OR  FARM
    8  WASTE  ELECTRIC  GENERATING  EQUIPMENT  WITH  A NET ENERGY METER ON LAND
    9  OWNED OR LEASED BY SUCH CUSTOMER-GENERATOR  AND  DESIGNATE  ONE  HUNDRED
   10  PERCENT  OF  THE  NET  METERING CREDITS GENERATED BY SUCH EQUIPMENT TO A
   11  METER OR METERS AT ANY LOCATION OWNED OR LEASED BY SUCH CUSTOMER-GENERA-
   12  TOR WITHIN THE SERVICE AREA OF THE SAME ELECTRIC  CORPORATION  TO  WHICH
   13  THE  CUSTOMER-GENERATOR'S NET ENERGY METERS ARE INTERCONNECTED AND BEING
   14  WITHIN A RADIUS OF TWENTY-FIVE MILES OF THE  SOLAR  ELECTRIC  GENERATING
   15  EQUIPMENT OR FARM WASTE ELECTRIC GENERATING EQUIPMENT.
   16    S  2.  Subdivision  3  of  section  66-1  of the public service law is
   17  amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
   18    (E) A  CUSTOMER  WHO  OWNS  OR  OPERATES  LAND  USED  IN  AGRICULTURAL
   19  PRODUCTION  AS  DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED ONE
   20  OF THE AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS LAW, OR A NON-RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER-GENER-
   21  ATOR AS DEFINED BY PARAGRAPH (C-1) OF SUBDIVISION ONE  OF  THIS  SECTION
   22  MAY LOCATE WIND ELECTRIC GENERATING EQUIPMENT WITH A NET ENERGY METER ON
   23  LAND  OWNED  OR  LEASED  BY  SUCH  CUSTOMER-GENERATOR  AND DESIGNATE ONE
   24  HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE NET METERING CREDITS GENERATED BY SUCH  EQUIPMENT
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04353-01-1
       A. 90                               2
    1  TO  A  METER OR METERS AT ANY LOCATION OWNED OR LEASED BY SUCH CUSTOMER-
    2  GENERATOR WITHIN THE SERVICE AREA OF THE SAME  ELECTRIC  CORPORATION  TO
    3  WHICH  THE CUSTOMER-GENERATOR'S NET ENERGY METERS ARE INTERCONNECTED AND
    4  BEING WITHIN A RADIUS OF TWENTY-FIVE MILES OF THE WIND ELECTRIC GENERAT-
    5  ING EQUIPMENT.
    6    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.