What's happening
This bill requires a study on energy efficiency standards for consumer audio and video products and allows regulations based on the study's findings.
Why it matters
The bill mandates a comprehensive study. before setting energy efficiency standards for consumer audio and video products—meaning any future regulations will be data-driven, considering how such standards might actually affect electricity use, costs, and product features.
Stakeholder impacts are explicitly required in the analysis. , including effects on product availability, manufacturing costs, innovation, and consumer benefits—so the process must weigh environmental gains against potential downsides for businesses and consumers.
Regulatory changes are not automatic. ; new rules can only be issued if the study supports them, providing a check against unnecessary or burdensome regulation and ensuring that standards are justified by real-world evidence.
There’s a clear timeline and transparency. , as the study and any resulting regulations must be completed by January 31, 2020, and standards can’t take effect less than 180 days after being finalized—giving manufacturers and consumers time to adapt.
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Who cares
Consumer audio and video product manufacturers
The bill would replace mandatory efficiency standards for their products with a required study and discretionary standards, considering manufacturing costs, innovation, product convergence, features and function.
State energy regulators
The secretary, consulting with the president, would have to study audio and video product standards and could adopt them by January 31, 2020.
Consumer advocates
The required study would weigh product availability and consumer benefits, and any efficiency standard would take effect no sooner than 180 days after becoming final.
Environmental and energy-efficiency advocates
The study would consider electricity use and environmental benefits in determining whether audio and video products should face energy performance standards.
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Study Energy Use in Electronics
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Sponsors
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History
- Print number 1802a
- Amend and recommit to energy
- Referred to energy
- Referred to energy
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Study Energy Rules for Electronics
In Senate Committee · Energy And Telecommunications · Sponsor Joseph A. Griffo
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1802--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 13, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Energy -- recommitted to the Committee on Energy in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the energy law, in relation to consumer audio and video products energy efficiency standards
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 16-106 of the energy law, as added by chapter 431 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
(a) On or before [June thirtieth, two thousand six] January thirtyfirst, two thousand twenty, the secretary, in consultation with the president, shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of this article establishing: (i) energy efficiency performance standards for new products of the types set forth in paragraphs (a) through (n) of subdivision one of section 16-104 of this article, with the exception of such [paragraph] paragraphs (e) (consumer audio and video products) and (g) (incandescent reflector lamps); (ii) procedures for testing the energy efficiency of the products covered by paragraphs (a) through (n) of subdivision one of section 16-104 of this article; (iii) procedures for manufacturers to certify that products covered under this article meet the energy efficiency standards to be promulgated under this article; and (iv) such further matters as are necessary to insure the proper implementation and enforcement of the provisions of this article. With respect to consumer audio and video products, the secretary, in consultation with the president, shall conduct a study to determine whether an energy performance standard for such products should be established, taking into account factors including but not limited to, the potential impact on electricity usage, product availability, manufacturing cost, innovation, product convergence, product features and function, and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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consumer and environmental benefits. Based on the recommendations of such study, the secretary, in consultation with the president, may adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of this article establishing energy performance standards for such products on or before January thirty-first, two thousand twenty. With respect to incandescent reflector lamps, included in paragraph (g) of subdivision one of section 16-104 of this article, the secretary, in consultation with the president, shall conduct a study to determine whether an energy efficiency performance standard for such product should be established, taking into account factors including the potential impact on electricity usage, product availability and consumer and environmental benefits. If it is determined based on this study that such a standard would reduce energy use and would not be preempted by the federal law, the secretary, in consultation with the president, shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of this article establishing energy performance standards for such product on or before January first, two thousand eight.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that no energy efficiency performance standard shall become effective for a product less than one hundred eighty days after such energy efficiency performance standard shall become final.
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