Bill Text: NY A08800 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8800 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Changes the combined rated capacity of fuel cell electric generating equipment for net energy metering for non-residential customers from 1,500 kilowatts to 2,000 kilowatts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-29 - substituted by s6485 [A08800 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A08800-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 14, 2014
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       Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Energy
       AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to fuel cell elec-
         tric generating equipment
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (g)  of  subdivision  1 of section 66-j of the
    2  public service law, as amended by chapter 530 of the laws  of  2011,  is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    (g) "Fuel cell electric generating equipment" means:
    5    (i)(A)  in  the  case of a residential customer, a solid oxide, molten
    6  carbonate, proton exchange membrane or phosphoric acid fuel cell with  a
    7  combined  rated  capacity of not more than ten kilowatts; and (B) in the
    8  case of a non-residential customer, a  solid  oxide,  molten  carbonate,
    9  proton  exchange  membrane  or phosphoric acid fuel cell with a combined
   10  rated capacity of not more than [one] TWO thousand [five hundred]  kilo-
   11  watts; and
   12    (ii)  that  is manufactured, installed and operated in accordance with
   13  applicable government and industry standards, that is connected  to  the
   14  electric  system and operated in parallel with an electric corporation's
   15  transmission and  distribution  facilities,  and  that  is  operated  in
   16  compliance  with  any  standards and requirements established under this
   17  section.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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