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Senator · Senate District 40
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- Recommit, enacting clause stricken
- Referred to energy and telecommunications
- Referred to energy and telecommunications
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BILL NUMBER:S4959
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 certain customers of an electric corporation to produce electricity at one location owned or under the control of the customer and designate another location of the same customer as the recipient or user of the electricity produced at the "remote site".
Summary of provisions
The legislation sets forth the procedure for remote 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 of the use of such credit (up to 100-% of the electricity generated at a "remote site") by a separate location having its own net energy meter and being owned by or under the control of the customer, The bill contains a requirement that the meter to which the designation of any net metering credit is made shall be within a radius of 25 miles of the wind, solar or farm waste electric generating equipment.
Justification
Under current law, utilities are required to provide for the interconnection and net energy metering of wind, solar and farm waste generating equipment owned or operated by a "customer-generator". Customer-generators include three categories: Residential, Farm service and Non residential. This bill authorizes farm and non residential customers to more practically utilize renewable energy resources by allowing the use of remote net-metering.
Presently, the law requires the customer's meter to be physically connected to the electricity production installation, and only accounts for the use of one meter. 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. The present law does not allow these customers to utilize the electricity they produce on more than one meter, or on a meter not connected to the site of electricity production. Under this proposed legislation, farm and non residential customers will be able to generate electricity at one location and, via "net remote metering", obtain credit for such electricity generation at another location.
Farms, small businesses, municipalities and school districts in the state are some of the types of customers that would be able to employ remote metering to reduce and/or eliminate all or part of an electric bill at one location or at multiple locations. Adoption of the legislation will allow customers to save money as they utilize a renewable energy source to offset their own electricity usage.
Legislative history
A.11413A Passed Assembly in 2010
Fiscal implications
None for the State.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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