Bill Text: NY S05120 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to establishing electric vehicle charging station reliability reporting and standards; requires the commission to develop reliability, recordkeeping and reporting standards for electric vehicle charging stations by January 1, 2025.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-09 - SUBSTITUTED BY A1721B [S05120 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05120-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5120

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public service law, in relation to establishing
          electric vehicle charging station reliability reporting and standards

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

     1    Section  1.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section
     2  66-u to read as follows:
     3    § 66-u. Electric vehicle charging station  reliability  reporting  and
     4  maintenance  standards.  1.  For purposes of this section, the following
     5  terms have the following meanings:
     6    (a) "charging station" means an electrical component assembly or clus-
     7  ter of component assemblies designed specifically  to  charge  batteries
     8  within electric vehicles by permitting the transfer of electrical energy
     9  to a battery or other storage device in an electric vehicle;
    10    (b)  "excluded  time"  means  the  time  not included when calculating
    11  uptime, as determined pursuant to the determination made by the  commis-
    12  sion pursuant to subdivision three of this section; and
    13    (c) "uptime" means the time a charging station's hardware and software
    14  are  both  operational  and the charging station is able to successfully
    15  dispense electricity. "Uptime" shall not include excluded time.
    16    2. Beginning April first, two thousand twenty-four, an entity that  is
    17  receiving  an  incentive funded by a state agency or through a charge on
    18  ratepayers to install, own, or operate a charging station, in  whole  or
    19  in  part,  shall  report  charging station uptime to the commission. The
    20  service provider selected by such entity to provide electricity for such
    21  charging stations shall provide this data on behalf of  the  entity  and
    22  work  with  the station manufacturer and the site host through a service
    23  level agreement to  ensure  both  software  and  hardware  failures  are
    24  captured  and resolved during the required reporting period. The service

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04265-01-3
        S. 5120                             2

     1  provider may also select a designee qualified in the electronics  opera-
     2  tion, maintenance, and repair of charging stations to provide this data.
     3  Entities that receive funding shall provide this information for a mini-
     4  mum  of  five  years  from  the  date on which the funding was received,
     5  unless the commission determines more time is needed to collect data.
     6    3. The commission shall develop  a  formula  to  calculate  uptime  to
     7  provide  consistent,  standardized reporting of overall charging station
     8  uptime.   The commission shall  determine  what  events  that  render  a
     9  station  inoperable  constitute excluded time for purposes of developing
    10  the formula. The commission shall determine who  should  be  accountable
    11  for resolution of damages under excluded events, including vandalism and
    12  extreme weather events. Excluded events shall be reported to the commis-
    13  sion separately.
    14    4.  Beginning  October first, two thousand twenty-four, the commission
    15  shall assess the uptime of public- and ratepayer-funded charging station
    16  infrastructure, including whether  there  are  differences  in  charging
    17  station  uptime  by population density, geographical area, or population
    18  income level. The commission  shall  update  the  assessments  performed
    19  pursuant  to  this  subdivision  every  two  years. The commission shall
    20  protect confidential business information of the reporting  persons  and
    21  entities,  including but not limited to, anonymizing and aggregating the
    22  uptime data, to ensure no individual uptime data is identifiable in  its
    23  assessments and reports.
    24    5.  On  or before January first, two thousand twenty-five, the commis-
    25  sion shall develop minimum industry operational standards for  the  long
    26  term  maintenance, preservation, reliability, and uptime requirements of
    27  publicly funded electric vehicle charging equipment. An entity receiving
    28  public funding shall operate charging stations in  compliance  with  the
    29  standards developed by the commission.
    30    6.  On or before April first, two thousand twenty-five, the commission
    31  shall develop tools or incentives to improve charging station  reliabil-
    32  ity.
    33    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.