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This bill requires the Public Service Commission to annually study and report on the economic and environmental impacts of the Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) initiative.
Why it matters
Mandates deeper analysis of REV’s real-world economic and environmental impacts. By requiring a study of both benefits and burdens—including rate increases, new fees, and infrastructure costs—the bill aims to ensure a full accounting of how the Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) initiative is affecting consumers and the state overall.
Includes focus on environmental “leakage” risks. The study must consider whether REV-related costs are inadvertently driving energy production (and associated emissions) out of New York to states or regions with higher pollution, potentially undermining the initiative’s environmental goals.
Requires detailed breakdowns by customer type and utility. The mandate to disaggregate economic impacts by participant status, rate class, and utility means the report could highlight who specifically is benefitting or shouldering costs, informing more equitable policy or rate design.
Creates a mechanism for legislative oversight and public transparency. By mandating annual, publicly available reports to key legislative leaders and committees, the bill strengthens ongoing accountability for a major energy policy affecting millions of New Yorkers.
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- Referred to energy
- Print number 1450b
- Amend (t) and recommit to energy
- Print number 1450a
- Amend (t) and recommit to energy
- Referred to energy
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Study Energy Reform Plan
In Senate Committee · Energy And Telecommunications · Sponsor John A. DeFrancisco
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1450--B
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. JENNE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Energy -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to directing the public service commission to conduct a study of the Reforming the Energy Vision initiative
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 66-o to read as follows:
§ 66-o. Reforming the Energy Vision study. 1. The commission shall annually conduct a study to analyze the economic and environmental benefits and the economic costs and environmental burden, of the Reforming the Energy Vision initiative (REV), the progress of achieving REV related goals, and a description of all current regulatory, tariff, and market designs and incentive structures that are intended to achieve REV related goals. Such study and analysis shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) an analysis of the initiatives costs and benefits for the purposes of this study, the commission shall consider the impacts of reforming the energy vision on electric rates charged to consumers through additional fees, increased rates or any other charges required to support the initiative.
(b) a quantification of the approximate avoided level of emissions including, but not limited to, information concerning: nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide, as well as other air pollutants deemed necessary and appropriate for study by the commission, provided the commission shall use its best efforts to determine environmental leakage which occurs when there is an increase in air emissions outside
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of New York as a result of energy load leaving New York due to the increased cost of REV or REV related infrastructure costs for a location with higher emissions per capita. The study shall also quantify the economic costs and benefits of REV to participants and non-participants, by rate classes and shall further disaggregate the results by utility.
(c) data on the impact on consumers resulting from the cost and expense of replacing existing energy infrastructure including energy transmission and distribution infrastructure; and market platform technology.
2. The commission shall publish a report based on its findings. The report must be published within three hundred sixty-five days of the effective date of this section, and every year thereafter. A copy of the report must be furnished to the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate energy and telecommunications committee and the chair of the assembly energy committee.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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