What's happening
This bill allows tenants in residential buildings converting from master meters to request smart meters, with tenants covering additional installation costs.
Why it matters
Empowers tenants. The bill gives tenants in buildings transitioning away from shared master meters the explicit right to request installation of smart or advanced meters, offering them more control and transparency over their individual energy consumption.
Promotes modern energy technology. By enabling the optional installation of smart meters, the bill encourages adoption of advanced metering infrastructure, which can support energy efficiency, real-time usage data, and potentially more flexible billing or pricing.
Shifts cost responsibility. While tenants gain the option to request a smart meter, they must pay any additional costs above the standard meter installation, which may impact the decision for those weighing the benefits against the extra expense.
Could influence landlord-tenant dynamics. Landlords are required to accommodate tenant requests for smart meters during meter conversions, potentially leading to more collaborative or contentious relationships around utility upgrades and building modernization.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1999
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Energy
AN ACT to amend the energy law, in relation to the installation of smart or advanced meters
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The energy law is amended by adding a new article 23 to read as follows:
ARTICLE 23
RESIDENTIAL ENERGY Section 23-101. Definitions.
23-102. Smart or advanced meters.
§ 23-101. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:
1. "Master meter." A meter that measures energy usage in a building occupied by more than one tenant using a common utility meter.
2. "Smart meters." Meters that record electrical consumption in realtime or over short intervals and communicate such information to the utility through a two-way information exchange.
§ 23-102. Smart or advanced meters. 1. Tenants of residential rental buildings may request that a smart or advanced meter be installed in cases where the building they occupy is being converted from a master meter to an electric or gas meter that measures usage of any end-use customer of electricity or gas services.
2. Where a tenant requests to have a smart or advanced meter installed as provided in subdivision one of this section, the landlord/owner shall install such meter and the tenant shall bear any costs associated with the purchase and installation of the advanced or smart meter that are in excess of costs associated with the purchase and installation of the electric or gas meter originally proposed to be used in the conversion from the master meter.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02463-01-7
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