Bill Text: NY A01721 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to establishing electric vehicle charging station reliability reporting and standards; requires the commission to develop reliability, recordkeeping and reporting standards for electric vehicle charging stations by January 1, 2025.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2023-12-22 - tabled [A01721 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01721-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1721

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 20, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Energy

        AN ACT to amend the public service  law,  in  relation  to  establishing
          electric vehicle charging station reliability reporting and standards

          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-u to read as follows:
     3    §  66-u.  Electric  vehicle charging station reliability reporting and
     4  maintenance standards. 1. For purposes of this  section,  the  following
     5  terms have the following meanings:
     6    (a) "charging station" means an electrical component assembly or clus-
     7  ter  of  component  assemblies designed specifically to charge batteries
     8  within electric vehicles by permitting the transfer of electrical energy
     9  to a battery or other storage device in an electric vehicle;
    10    (b) "excluded time" means  the  time  not  included  when  calculating
    11  uptime,  as determined pursuant to the determination made by the commis-
    12  sion pursuant to subdivision three of this section; and
    13    (c) "uptime" means the time a charging station's hardware and software
    14  are both operational and the charging station is  able  to  successfully
    15  dispense electricity. "Uptime" shall not include excluded time.
    16    2.  Beginning April first, two thousand twenty-four, an entity that is
    17  receiving an incentive funded by a state agency or through a  charge  on
    18  ratepayers  to  install, own, or operate a charging station, in whole or
    19  in part, shall report charging station uptime  to  the  commission.  The
    20  service provider selected by such entity to provide electricity for such
    21  charging  stations  shall  provide this data on behalf of the entity and
    22  work with the station manufacturer and the site host through  a  service
    23  level  agreement  to  ensure  both  software  and  hardware failures are
    24  captured and resolved during the required reporting period. The  service
    25  provider  may also select a designee qualified in the electronics opera-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04265-01-3
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     1  tion, maintenance, and repair of charging stations to provide this data.
     2  Entities that receive funding shall provide this information for a mini-
     3  mum of five years from the date  on  which  the  funding  was  received,
     4  unless the commission determines more time is needed to collect data.
     5    3.  The  commission  shall  develop  a  formula to calculate uptime to
     6  provide consistent, standardized reporting of overall  charging  station
     7  uptime.    The  commission  shall  determine  what  events that render a
     8  station inoperable constitute excluded time for purposes  of  developing
     9  the  formula.  The  commission shall determine who should be accountable
    10  for resolution of damages under excluded events, including vandalism and
    11  extreme weather events. Excluded events shall be reported to the commis-
    12  sion separately.
    13    4. Beginning October first, two thousand twenty-four,  the  commission
    14  shall assess the uptime of public- and ratepayer-funded charging station
    15  infrastructure,  including  whether  there  are  differences in charging
    16  station uptime by population density, geographical area,  or  population
    17  income  level.  The  commission  shall  update the assessments performed
    18  pursuant to this subdivision  every  two  years.  The  commission  shall
    19  protect  confidential  business information of the reporting persons and
    20  entities, including but not limited to, anonymizing and aggregating  the
    21  uptime  data, to ensure no individual uptime data is identifiable in its
    22  assessments and reports.
    23    5. On or before January first, two thousand twenty-five,  the  commis-
    24  sion  shall  develop minimum industry operational standards for the long
    25  term maintenance, preservation, reliability, and uptime requirements  of
    26  publicly funded electric vehicle charging equipment. An entity receiving
    27  public  funding  shall  operate charging stations in compliance with the
    28  standards developed by the commission.
    29    6. On or before April first, two thousand twenty-five, the  commission
    30  shall  develop tools or incentives to improve charging station reliabil-
    31  ity.
    32    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.