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- Substituted by A6270B
- Amended on third reading 3407a
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.143
- Referred to energy and telecommunications
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Relates to remote net metering by farm and non-residential customer-generators
Signed by Governor · Sponsor Marcos Crespo
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BILL NUMBER:S3407A
Title of bill
An act to amend the public service law, in relation to remote net metering by farm and non-residential customer-generators
Purpose
This legislation amends portions of the state's net metering law to allow farm operations, customers who own land used in agricultural production and non-residential customers of an electric corporation to generate electricity at one location that is owned or under the control of such customer, and, via "remote not metering", apply net metering credit for such electricity generation to meters at other locations on the customer's property in order to offset the customer's total annual energy costs.
Summary of provisions
The bill establishes a process for remote net metering by authorizing the designation of net metering credit by a farm operation, a customer who owns land used in agricultural production, or a non-residential customer, for the use of such net metering credit at a separate location, having its own net energy meter, and being owned by or under the control of the customer to offset the customer's total annual energy usage. The bill contains a requirement that the amount of the net metering credits allowable under this bill could not exceed the total amount billed to the participating customer-generator in the course of a year, and can only be applied to meters at any property owned or leased by such customer generator. Furthermore, the meter to which the designation of any net metering credit is made shall be within the service territory of the same electric corporation to which the customer-generator's net meters are interconnected, and also within the same load zone as determined by the location based marginal price.
Justification
This legislation is designed to allow certain electricity customer-generators, whose wind, solar or farm waste energy generating equipment is not immediately adjacent to the location of their energy use, to remotely net-meter this resource. New York's current net metering law allows customers to install renewable energy systems connected to a single meter in order to meet their energy needs. When such systems generate energy that is not used on-site, it is sent out to the grid to be used by the utility with a credit applied to the meter or customer's account. In some instances, it is not practical or possible to utilize electricity on the immediate site where it is produced. In other cases, customers have multiple meters for multiple buildings/facilities.
This bill would allow farm operations, customers with land in agricultural production (including those with "residential" rate meters), or non-residential customers to install renewable energy systems and apply credit received for power delivered to the grid to any of the customer's meters rather than only to a single, directly connected meter as long as they are located on the customer's
property within the same utility territory. This is envisioned as particularly helpful to agricultural enterprises, municipalities, school districts and some businesses as they will be able to better control their energy costs into the future. The goal of this legislation is to allow customers the ability to offset the total annual energy consumption of their collective accounts through use of renewable energy generated by their system, but it is not intended to facilitate construction and net metering of facilities that routinely generate energy in excess of total annual energy consumption by the customer's accounts. All other requirements for interconnection as described in the Standard Interconnection Requirements (SIR) developed by the Department of Public Service would apply.
Legislative history
S.7229 of 2010, Rules Committee
Fiscal implications
None for the State.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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