Bill Text: NY A07703 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows certain customer-generators who generate solar electricity to donate credit for such electricity to low-income families; requires electric corporations to create a low-income energy assistance pool for the donation of such credits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-25 - substituted by s6919 [A07703 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07703-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7703

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 20, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. McMAHON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Energy

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to allowing  certain
          customer-generators  who  generate  solar electricity to donate credit
          for such electricity to low-income families

          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 494 of the laws  of  2014,  is
     3  amended and a new paragraph (e) is added 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 (i) apply a credit
     7  to 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, or (ii) at the option of the  customer-
    11  generator,  donate  the  credit to the low-income energy assistance pool
    12  established pursuant to paragraph (e)  of  this  subdivision.    Credits
    13  donated  pursuant  to paragraph (e) of this subdivision shall be applied
    14  to bills for service to low-income energy assistance pool credit recipi-
    15  ents for the net electricity provided at the same rate per kilowatt hour
    16  applicable to service provided to other customers in  the  same  service
    17  class  which  do  not generate electricity onsite; except for micro-com-
    18  bined heat and power or fuel  cell  customer-generators  or  farm  waste
    19  generating  equipment  customer-generators  as described in subparagraph
    20  (ix) of paragraph (a) of subdivision one of this section,  who  will  be
    21  credited  at  the  corporation's  avoided costs. The avoided cost credit
    22  provided to micro-combined heat and power or fuel cell  customer-genera-
    23  tors or farm waste generating equipment customer-generators as described
    24  in subparagraph (ix) of paragraph (a) of subdivision one of this section

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  shall be treated for ratemaking purposes as a purchase of electricity in
     2  the market that is includable in commodity costs.
     3    (e)  (i) Within two hundred seventy days of the effective date of this
     4  paragraph, each electric corporation shall file an application with  the
     5  commission to establish a "low-income energy assistance pool" to which a
     6  customer-generator  may elect to donate credits earned by such customer-
     7  generator pursuant to paragraph (b) of this subdivision.  The commission
     8  shall render a decision on each application within ninety days from  the
     9  date  on  which the application is filed. Each application shall provide
    10  for a process whereby  low-income  households,  qualifying  pursuant  to
    11  subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, may apply to receive energy credits
    12  from  the  electric  corporation's  low-income  energy  assistance pool,
    13  pursuant to  the  energy  credit  disbursement  process  established  by
    14  subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph.
    15    (ii)  Within  ninety days of the effective date of this paragraph, the
    16  commission shall create a list of qualifications,  giving  consideration
    17  to  demographics  and  economic  factors within the service territory of
    18  each electric corporation, under  which  low-income  households  meeting
    19  such  qualifications  shall be deemed eligible to receive energy credits
    20  from an electric corporation's low-income energy assistance pool.
    21    (iii) Within one hundred eighty days of the  effective  date  of  this
    22  paragraph,  the  commission  shall  establish  a  process  to direct the
    23  disbursement of energy credits from each electric corporation's  low-in-
    24  come  energy assistance pool to qualifying applicants. In the establish-
    25  ment of such process, the commission shall give consideration to factors
    26  including, but not limited to:
    27    (A) the presence of an applicant household member under age  six,  age
    28  sixty or older, or  with a permanent disability;
    29    (B) applicant household size;
    30    (C)  adverse  applicant circumstances which may warrant prioritization
    31  of such applicant as a credit recipient;
    32    (D) applicant household income; and
    33    (E) an applicant's primary household heating and/or cooling source.
    34    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.