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- Recommit, enacting clause stricken
- Referred to energy and telecommunications
- Referred to energy and telecommunications
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Title of bill
An act to amend the public service law, in relation to solar and wind electric generating equipment
Purpose or general idea of bill
The purpose of this bill is to facilitate the use of the net-metering subsidy provided for in section 66-j and 66-1 of the public service law by smaller commercial, non-demand meter customers.
Summary of specific provisions
Section One of this bill would amend section 66-j of the public service law to specify that non-residential commercial customers with solar or farm waste electric generating equipment of up to 25 kilowatts of capacity can qualify for a net-metering credit.
Section Two of this bill would amend section 66-1 of the public service law to make the same changes with regard to such customers with wind generation facilities.
Justification
As a result of a February 2009 Order of the Public Service Commission implementing the State's newly enacted commercial net metering law, (PSC Order in case 08-E-1305, implementing Chapters 452, 480 and 483, Laws of 2008) smaller non-residential (i.e. commercial) customers whose electric usage is not large enough to qualify them for what are called "demand meters" (i.e. non-demand meter customers)and who installed solar, wind or farm waste electric generating equipment for their own use, could not take advantage of the new commercial net metering provisions. This bill would correct that situation by raising significantly the size of the customer non-demand meter system that would qualify for the net metering subsidy and making it uniform across the state, rather than variable for each service territory as directed by the PSC Order.
Prior legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
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Effective date
This bill would take effect immediately.
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