What's happening
This bill requires a report on residential customer savings and outcomes from using time-of-use tariffs and smart meters in New York.
Why it matters
Examines real-world impacts on consumers. By mandating detailed reporting on both savings and costs, the bill seeks to clarify whether time-of-use tariffs and smart meters are actually lowering bills for New Yorkers, or if costs outweigh benefits for residential customers.
Assesses broader outcomes beyond cost. The legislation requires analysis of environmental impacts (like carbon emissions), shifts in how and when electricity is used, and changes in outage frequency/duration—helping policymakers understand system-wide effects of these technologies.
Addresses data privacy and access concerns. The bill compels utilities to summarize their policies on customer data access and privacy protections, spotlighting how consumer data from smart meters is managed and safeguarded.
Informs future utility planning and policy. With required forecasts for smart meter rollouts and time-of-use participation through 2024, the report aims to guide decision-makers as New York expands grid modernization and potentially scales up these programs.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3017
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. FAHY, GALEF, SIMON, GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Energy
AN ACT requiring reporting on residential customer savings realized through the use of time-of-use tariffs and smart meters
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. On or before December 1, 2020, the New York state public service commission, in consultation with the New York state energy research and development authority, the Long Island power authority, and the New York power authority shall publish an up to date report on residential customer savings realized through the use of time-of-use tariffs and smart meters. The report on residential customer savings shall include, at a minimum, the following:
1. A comprehensive summary, for New York state and for each utility, of:
(a) the total number of customers enrolled in time-of-use tariffs;
(b) the total number of smart meters installed;
(c) the total cost, including capital expenditures and operating expenses, actually incurred or spent on the use of smart meters, including the allocation of costs between utilities, all ratepayers, and smart meter customers;
(d) the total savings realized through time-of-use tariffs and smart meters; and
(e) outcomes associated with time-of-use tariffs and smart meters, including, at a minimum, the following:
i. changes in carbon emissions;
ii. changes and/or shifts in customer electricity usage;
iii. changes in the frequency and/or duration of electricity outages; and
iv. any other outcomes the commission deems relevant;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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2. An analysis of each utility's time variant pricing tariffs and customer bill savings realized through the use of such tariffs, including, but not limited to time-of-use;
3. An analysis and summary of each utility's best practices, procedures, and policies for providing smart meter and time-of-use customers with reasonable access to their own data, protecting the privacy and confidentiality of such data, and any other information the commission deems relevant to customer data protection;
4. A forecast of smart meter installations and penetration by the year 2024; and
5. A forecast of customer enrollment in time-of-use tariffs by the year 2024.
§ 2. For purposes of this act, the term:
1. "Smart meter" shall mean a meter that is capable of recording consumption of electric energy and communicating such information utilizing two-way communication between the meter and the utility; and
2. "Utility" shall include electric corporations and combination gas and electric corporations having annual gross revenues in excess of two hundred million dollars.
§ 3. A copy of the report required by section one of this act shall be submitted to the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chairperson of the senate standing committee on energy and telecommunications and the chairperson of the assembly standing committee on energy.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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