Bill Text: NY A00288 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that each investor owned utility must file with the public service commission an electric vehicle charging tariff that allows a customer to purchase electricity solely for the purpose of recharging an electric vehicle; defines terms; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-1)

Status: (Passed) 2017-10-23 - signed chap.337 [A00288 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00288-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           288
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 5, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PAULIN, SANTABARBARA, BUCHWALD, COLTON, GALEF,
          GOTTFRIED, MOSLEY, LIFTON, RAIA, PEOPLES-STOKES, FAHY, SKOUFIS, SIMON,
          ROSENTHAL, LUPARDO, SEPULVEDA, GUNTHER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of
          A.  GLICK, HIKIND, LOPEZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Energy
        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to establishing  the
          electric vehicle charging tariff
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  66-o to read as follows:
     3    § 66-o. Electric vehicle charging tariff. 1. Definitions. For purposes
     4  of  this  section,  the term "eligible vehicle" shall mean and include a
     5  motor vehicle that:
     6    (a) has four wheels;
     7    (b) was manufactured for use primarily on public  streets,  roads  and
     8  highways;
     9    (c)  the  powertrain  of which has not been modified from the original
    10  manufacturer's specifications;
    11    (d) is rated at not more than eight thousand five hundred pounds gross
    12  vehicle weight;
    13    (e) has a maximum speed capability of at least  fifty-five  miles  per
    14  hour; and
    15    (f)  is propelled at least in part by an electric motor and associated
    16  power electronics which provide acceleration torque to the drive  wheels
    17  sometime  during  normal  vehicle operations, and that draws electricity
    18  from a hydrogen fuel cell or from a battery that:
    19    (i) has a capacity of not less than four kilowatt hours; and
    20    (ii) is capable of being recharged from an external  source  of  elec-
    21  tricity.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01095-01-7
        A. 288                              2
     1    2.  No  later than April first, two thousand eighteen each combination
     2  gas and electric corporation shall file an application with the  commis-
     3  sion  to  establish  a  residential tariff for eligible vehicles for the
     4  purpose of recharging an eligible vehicle or vehicles.
     5    3.  The  commission  shall,  after  notice  and opportunity for public
     6  comment, approve, modify, or reject the tariff.
     7    4. Within sixty days of commission approval of a combination  gas  and
     8  electric corporation's tariff filed under this section, such combination
     9  gas  and electric corporation shall make the tariff available to custom-
    10  ers.
    11    5. The combination gas  and  electric  corporation  may  at  any  time
    12  propose revisions to a tariff filed under this section based on changing
    13  costs or conditions.
    14    6.  Each  combination  gas and electric corporation providing a tariff
    15  under this section shall  periodically  report  to  the  commission,  as
    16  established  by  the  commission and on a form prescribed by the commis-
    17  sion, the following information:
    18    (a) the number of customers who  have  arranged  to  have  electricity
    19  delivered under the tariff;
    20    (b) the total amount of electricity delivered under the tariff; and
    21    (c) other data required by the commission.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.