Bill Text: NY A06367 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Relates to the rates paid for net-metering; makes the rates paid by micro-combined heat and power or fuel cell customer-generators the same as other customer-generators.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 27-3)

Status: (Vetoed) 2014-12-17 - tabled [A06367 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A06367-Introduced.html

---

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
       ________________________________________________________________________
                                         6367
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 26, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. PAULIN, BRINDISI, ENGLEBRIGHT, HEVESI, ABINANTI,
         BARRETT, CROUCH, GABRYSZAK, GALEF, JAFFEE, LAVINE,  LUPARDO,  MILLMAN,
         OTIS, QUART, ROBERTS, ROSENTHAL, SCHIMMINGER, SKARTADOS -- Multi-Spon-
         sored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN, COLTON, CORWIN, GLICK, GOTTFRIED, HEAST-
         IE, P. LOPEZ, MAGEE, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Energy
       AN  ACT  to  amend the public service law, in relation to the rates paid
         for net energy metering technology
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  4 of section 66-j of the
    2  public service law, as amended by chapter 355 of the laws  of  2009,  is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    (b)  In the event that the amount of electricity produced by a custom-
    5  er-generator during the billing period exceeds the amount of electricity
    6  used by the customer-generator, the corporation shall apply a credit  to
    7  the  next  bill  for service to the customer-generator for the net elec-
    8  tricity provided at the  same  rate  per  kilowatt  hour  applicable  to
    9  service  provided  to other customers in the same service class which do
   10  not generate electricity onsite[, except  for  micro-combined  heat  and
   11  power  or  fuel  cell  customer-generators,  who will be credited at the
   12  corporation's avoided costs. The avoided cost credit provided to  micro-
   13  combined heat and power or fuel cell customer-generators shall be treat-
   14  ed  for  ratemaking  purposes as a purchase of electricity in the market
   15  that is includable in commodity costs].
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   17  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07067-01-3