Bill Text: NY S07229 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to remote metering by farm and non-residential customer-generators for solar electric generating equipment or farm waste electric generating equipment.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-16 - PRINT NUMBER 7229B [S07229 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S07229-Amended.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        7229--B
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 24, 2010
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       Introduced by Sens. MAZIARZ, AUBERTINE, McDONALD, THOMPSON -- read twice
         and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
         on   Energy  and  Telecommunications  --  committee  discharged,  bill
         amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
         tee  --  reported  favorably  from said committee and committed to the
         Committee on Finance -- reported favorably  from  said  committee  and
         committed  to  the  Committee  on  Rules -- committee discharged, bill
         amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
         tee
       AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to remote metering
         by farm and non-residential customer-generators
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Subdivision 3 of section 66-j of the public service law is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
    3    (E) A CUSTOMER WHO OWNS OR OPERATES A FARM OPERATION AS SUCH  TERM  IS
    4  DEFINED  IN SUBDIVISION ELEVEN OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED ONE OF THE AGRI-
    5  CULTURE AND MARKETS LAW,  OR  A  NON-RESIDENTIAL  CUSTOMER-GENERATOR  AS
    6  DEFINED  BY  SUBPARAGRAPH  (III)  OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF
    7  THIS SECTION MAY LOCATE SOLAR  ELECTRIC  GENERATING  EQUIPMENT  OR  FARM
    8  WASTE  ELECTRIC  GENERATING  EQUIPMENT  WITH  A NET ENERGY METER ON LAND
    9  OWNED OR LEASED BY SUCH CUSTOMER-GENERATOR  AND  DESIGNATE  ONE  HUNDRED
   10  PERCENT  OF  THE  NET  METERING CREDITS GENERATED BY SUCH EQUIPMENT TO A
   11  METER OR METERS AT ANY LOCATION OWNED OR LEASED BY SUCH CUSTOMER-GENERA-
   12  TOR WITHIN THE SERVICE AREA OF THE SAME ELECTRIC  CORPORATION  TO  WHICH
   13  THE  CUSTOMER-GENERATOR'S NET ENERGY METERS ARE INTERCONNECTED AND BEING
   14  WITHIN A RADIUS OF TWENTY-FIVE MILES OF THE  SOLAR  ELECTRIC  GENERATING
   15  EQUIPMENT OR FARM WASTE ELECTRIC GENERATING EQUIPMENT.
   16    S  2.  Subdivision  3  of  section  66-1  of the public service law is
   17  amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
   18    (E) A  CUSTOMER  WHO  OWNS  OR  OPERATES  LAND  USED  IN  AGRICULTURAL
   19  PRODUCTION  AS  DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED ONE
   20  OF THE AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS LAW, OR A NON-RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER-GENER-
   21  ATOR AS DEFINED BY PARAGRAPH (C-1) OF SUBDIVISION ONE  OF  THIS  SECTION
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD16617-05-0
       S. 7229--B                          2
    1  MAY LOCATE WIND ELECTRIC GENERATING EQUIPMENT WITH A NET ENERGY METER ON
    2  LAND  OWNED  OR  LEASED  BY  SUCH  CUSTOMER-GENERATOR  AND DESIGNATE ONE
    3  HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE NET METERING CREDITS GENERATED BY SUCH  EQUIPMENT
    4  TO  A  METER  OR  METERS  AT  ANY  LOCATION  OWNED  OR  LEASED  BY  SUCH
    5  CUSTOMER-GENERATOR WITHIN THE SERVICE AREA OF THE SAME  ELECTRIC  CORPO-
    6  RATION TO WHICH THE CUSTOMER-GENERATOR'S NET ENERGY METERS ARE INTERCON-
    7  NECTED  AND BEING WITHIN A RADIUS OF TWENTY-FIVE MILES OF THE WIND ELEC-
    8  TRIC GENERATING EQUIPMENT.
    9    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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