Bill Text: NY A09652 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to limiting the sale of electricity or natural gas by ESCOs to non-residential customers only.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-24 - referred to energy [A09652 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09652-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          9652
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 24, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Energy
        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to limiting authori-
          ty  for  retail wheeling or delivery of natural gas not purchased from
          the electric or  gas  corporation  delivering  it  to  non-residential
          customers
          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 12-b  of  section  66  of  the
     2  public  service  law,  as  added  by chapter 626 of the laws of 1983, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (b) The commission may also authorize utility corporations to contract
     5  with existing or prospective  industrial  and  commercial  customers  to
     6  wheel  or  deliver electricity or gas purchased directly by such custom-
     7  ers, provided that the commission finds that such  arrangements  are  in
     8  the  overall  best  interest  of the rate payers of the corporation, and
     9  that the rates and fees for the services provided adequately  compensate
    10  the corporation for the use of its facilities, and further provided that
    11  such  wheeling  or delivery of electricity or natural gas to residential
    12  customers shall not be allowed.
    13    § 2. Section 66-d of the public service law, as added by  chapter  519
    14  of the laws of 1984, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 790 of the laws
    15  of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
    16    § 66-d. Contract  carrier  authorization.  1.  For  purposes  of  this
    17  section the term natural gas shall mean natural gas produced within  the
    18  state  or  transported  within  the  state  no matter where produced for
    19  consumption in the state by non-residential customers.
    20    2. The commission, upon its own initiative or upon  application  by  a
    21  natural gas producer or a non-residential consumer of natural gas in any
    22  year  and after notice and hearing shall, upon such terms and subject to
    23  such conditions as the commission considers just  and  reasonable,  have
    24  the authority to order any gas corporation to transport or contract with
    25  others  to  transport  gas  under  contract for sale by such producer or
    26  owned by such non-residential consumer  provided  that,  the  commission
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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