What's happening
This bill requires an annual public report on New York appliance and equipment energy efficiency standards and projected energy and utility bill savings.
Why it matters
Increased transparency and accountability. By mandating annual reports on the status of energy efficiency standards for appliances and equipment, the bill ensures that policymakers and the public can track progress, delays, or federal preemption, highlighting where New York is leading or lagging.
Data-driven policy and consumer awareness. The requirement to include projections of energy use reductions and utility bill savings (for specific future years) means stakeholders—like lawmakers, advocates, and consumers—will have concrete data to support decisions and evaluate the real-world benefits of state efficiency standards.
Focus on gaps and barriers. The bill compels the state to publicly explain why standards have not been proposed for certain products when not federally preempted, potentially pressuring agencies to address regulatory gaps or identify roadblocks such as technological, economic, or legal challenges.
Public accessibility. By posting the report online, the legislation ensures that this information is easily available, empowering citizens, businesses, and researchers to understand and potentially influence energy efficiency policy in New York.
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Who cares
Department of State
The secretary would have to issue annual reports beginning in 2021 identifying adopted, proposed and federally preempted efficiency standards and explaining why other standards have not been proposed.
Governor and legislative energy committees
They would receive annual updates on standards, with estimates of potential energy reductions and utility bill savings added beginning in 2022.
Appliance and equipment manufacturers
Product-by-product reporting would help them track which efficiency standards are adopted, proposed or determined to be federally preempted.
Utility customers and energy efficiency advocates
Reports posted online would provide estimates of potential utility bill savings and energy reductions from adopted standards.
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Report on Energy Savings Required
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Sponsors
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History
- Approval memo.53
- Signed chap.666
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 46–16
- 3rd reading cal.908
- Substituted for S5866
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.194
- Rules report cal.194
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- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Referred to energy
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Report Appliance Energy Savings
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Robert Jackson
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7779
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 20, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Energy
AN ACT to amend the energy law, in relation to requiring an annual report on appliance and equipment energy efficiency standards and resulting energy and utility bill savings; and providing for repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 16-106 of the energy law is amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
4. Beginning in two thousand twenty-one, by March fifteenth of each year, the secretary shall produce a report to the governor, the speaker of the assembly, the temporary president of the senate, the chair of the assembly committee on energy and the chair of the senate committee on energy and telecommunications on the status of regulations establishing energy efficiency performance standards pursuant to this article, which shall indicate for each product enumerated in subdivision one of section 16-104 of this article whether such performance standards have been (a) adopted, (b) proposed, or (c) determined to be preempted by federal government energy efficiency standards. For any product that has not been determined by the secretary to be preempted by federal government energy efficiency standards and for which regulations establishing energy efficiency performance standards have not been proposed, the report shall set forth the reasons that no standards have been proposed. Beginning in two thousand twenty-two, such report shall also set forth the estimated potential annual reductions in energy use and potential utility bill savings resulting from adopted performance standards for the years two thousand twenty-five and two thousand thirty-five and the potential cumulative reductions in energy use through the year two thousand thirty-five. The secretary shall consult with the president in preparing such estimates. Such report shall be updated each year and a
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[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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copy shall also be posted by March fifteenth on the websites of the authority and the department of state.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be deemed repealed December 31, 2030.
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