Bill Text: NY S02627 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "renewable energy bill of rights"; declares that each natural person who is a resident of this state has the right to generate, consume and export renewable energy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S02627 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02627-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2627

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. MAY, SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommu-
          nications

        AN ACT to amend the public service law,  in  relation  to  enacting  the
          "renewable energy bill of rights"

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the  "renewable
     2  energy bill of rights".
     3    § 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 66-u to
     4  read as follows:
     5    §  66-u.  Right  to renewable energy. 1. The legislature declares that
     6  each natural person who is a resident of this state has the right to:
     7    (a) generate, consume and export renewable energy and  reduce  his  or
     8  her use of electricity that is obtained from the grid;
     9    (b) use technology to store energy at his or her residence;
    10    (c) if the person generates renewable energy pursuant to paragraph (a)
    11  of  this subdivision, or stores energy pursuant to paragraph (b) of this
    12  subdivision, or any combination thereof, connect his or her system  that
    13  generates renewable energy or stores energy, or any combination thereof,
    14  with the electricity meter on the customer's side that is provided by an
    15  electric corporation:
    16    (i) in a timely manner;
    17    (ii)  in  accordance  with  requirements  established  by the electric
    18  corporation to ensure the safety of electric corporation workers; and
    19    (iii) after providing  written  notice  to  the  electric  corporation
    20  providing service in the service territory and installing a nomenclature
    21  plate  on  the  electricity  meter  panel  indicating that a system that
    22  generates renewable energy or stores energy, or any combination thereof,
    23  is present, if the system meets all applicable state  and  local  safety
    24  and electrical code requirements;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00433-01-3
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     1    (d)  receive  fair  credit  for  any renewable energy or stored energy
     2  exported to the grid pursuant to section sixty-six-j or  sixty-six-l  of
     3  this article or both;
     4    (e) consumer protections in contracts for renewable energy;
     5    (f)  have  his or her generation of renewable energy given priority in
     6  planning and acquisition of energy resources by an electric utility; and
     7    (g) remain within the existing rate class to which the resident  would
     8  belong  in  the absence of a net metering system or a system that gener-
     9  ates renewable energy or stores  energy,  or  any  combination  thereof,
    10  without any fees or charges that are different than the fees and charges
    11  assessed to customers of the same rate class, regardless of the technol-
    12  ogies  on the customer's side of the electricity meter, including, with-
    13  out limitation, energy production, energy savings,  energy  consumption,
    14  energy storage or energy shifting technologies, provided that such tech-
    15  nologies  do  not  compromise  the safety and reliability of the utility
    16  grid.
    17    2. For purposes of this section, the  term  "renewable  energy"  shall
    18  mean  energy  generated from any non-combustible renewable energy source
    19  set forth in section sixty-six-j or sixty-six-l of this article.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.