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This bill sets safety and privacy standards for smart meters and allows customers to decline or remove them without penalty.
Why it matters
Mandates strict safety and privacy standards for smart meters. , requiring compliance with federal radio frequency regulations, ANSI accuracy standards, and additional safeguards set by New York to protect health, safety, and customer data security.
Explicitly defines both one-way and two-way smart meters. , clarifying the types of devices that utilities can install and outlining their technical capabilities, which can affect how much data about your energy use is collected and communicated.
Gives every customer the unconditional right to decline a smart meter. or have one removed within a year of installation—without facing any penalty, fee, or service charge, ensuring consumer choice and control over home technology.
Requires utilities to provide written notice at least 90 days before installing a two-way smart meter. , giving customers time to opt out; if a customer wants removal after one year, a fee may apply, balancing consumer protection with utility operations.
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Let Residents Refuse Smart Meters
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- Referred to energy
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Let Residents Refuse Smart Meters
In Senate Committee · Energy And Telecommunications · Sponsor Kevin S. Parker
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3066
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 26, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Energy
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to advanced metering infrastructure devices for residential services
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 67-b to read as follows:
§ 67-b. Advanced metering infrastructure devices for electric and gas services. 1. The commission shall not allow for the installation of any advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) device by an electric and/or gas corporation unless such device meets or exceeds the following standards for AMI performance and safety, which shall include:
(a) Federal Communications Commission standards for intentional and unintentional radio frequency emissions and any other relevant standards related to radio frequency exposure;
(b) American National Standards Institute (ANSI) specifications for meter accuracy and performance; and
(c) any other standards, requirements and guidelines established by the commission to protect customer health and safety and ensure, to the fullest extent possible, the protection and encryption of customer personal, financial and energy usage information. The commission shall promulgate regulations necessary to effectuate this subdivision.
2. For purposes of this section advanced metering infrastructure shall include:
(a) a one-way smart meter, which shall mean a device designed to utilize one-way communications systems, including but not limited to: (i) power line carrier; (ii) radio frequency; (iii) wireless fidelity network; (iv) telephony; and (v) the internet to transmit customer usage data to an electric and/or gas corporation for the purposes of billing;
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and be designed to be capable of measuring and storing customer electric and/or gas usage data, including time of use in real time; or
(b) two-way smart meter, which shall mean a device that is designed to utilize two-way communications systems, including but not limited to: (i) radio frequency; (ii) wireless fidelity network; or (iii) the internet to transmit electric usage and pricing data between an electric and/or gas corporation and its customers, where such device is capable of (A) measuring usage data and transmitting such data in intervals of at least once per day; (B) receiving in real-time, per-kilowatt hour (kWh) and/or per (therm) gas and electric supply and delivery rates; (C) detecting customer service disruptions and transmitting such information to an electric and/or gas corporation; and (D) storing customer usage data.
3. It shall be the right of every customer of an electric and/or gas corporation, at no penalty, fee or service charge to decline the permission of his or her electric and/or gas corporation, (a) to replace an existing meter at such customer's premises that is assigned to such customer's account with a two-way smart meter or (b) to install any two-way smart meter device at his or her property without such customer's consent.
4. An electric and/or gas corporation may not install a two-way smart meter on a customer's premises that is assigned to such customer's account unless it shall provide written notice to the customer no less than ninety days prior to the scheduled installation of such meter. Such notice shall provide that:
(a) the customer shall have the right to decline his or her electric and/or gas corporation from installing a two-way smart meter with no fee, penalty or service charge;
(b) the customer may, at any point during a period of three hundred sixty-five days following the installation of a two-way smart meter, require the removal of such device with no fee, penalty or service charge;
(c) the customer may be liable for a fee to be determined by the commission for the removal of a two-way smart meter device if the customer requests the removal more than three hundred sixty-five days following the installation of such meter at his or her premises.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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