Allows farm service and non-residential customer-generators to designate 100% of wind generated credits to meters owned by such customer-generator and being within 25 miles of the wind electric generating equipment.

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S4961-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
• May 2, 2011: REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

S4961-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S4961

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the public service law, in relation to remote metering by farm
service and non-residential customer-generators

PURPOSE:
This legislation expands the scope of the state's net metering law to
allow certain customers of an electric corporation (e.g. NYSEG,
National Grid, etc.) to produce electricity at one location owned or
under the control of the customer and designate another location of
the same customer as the recipient or user of the electricity
produced the "remote site". Under current law, utilities are required
to provide for the interconnection and net energy metering of wind
generating equipment owned or operated by a "customer-generator".
Customer-generators include three categories: Residential, Farm
service and Non-residential. This bill authorizes the Farm Service
and Non-residential categories to avail themselves of the remote net
metering procedure.
Farms and school districts in the state are two of the types of
customers that would be able to employ remote metering to reduce
and/or eliminate all or part of an electric bill at one location and
all or part of an electric bill at another location. Adoption of the
legislation will allow customers to save money as they utilize a
renewable energy source to reduce the amount of electricity they buy
from the service providing utility.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
The legislation sets forth the procedure for remote metering by
authorizing the designation of net metering credit by a Farm service
customer or a Non-residential customer of the use of such credit (up
to 100% of the electricity generated at a "remote site") by a
separate location having its own net energy meter and being owned by
or under the control of the Farm service or Nonresidential customer.
The bill contains a requirement that the meter to which the
designation of any net metering credit is made shall be within a
radius of 25 miles of the Wind electric generating equipment.

JUSTIFICATION:
Bold and comprehensive energy reform is needed to reach standards set
by New York to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. Under this law
farm owners, school districts and others will be able to generate
electricity at one location and, via "net-remote metering", obtain
credit for such electricity generation at another location.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
A.104I7 of 2010

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S4961-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    4961

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                                 May 2, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  Sen.  BALL  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
    printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
    cations

  AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to remote metering
    by farm service and non-residential customer-generators

    THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section  1. Subdivision 3 of section 66-1 of the public service law is
  amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:

    (E) A FARM SERVICE CUSTOMER-GENERATOR AS DEFINED BY PARAGRAPH  (C)  OF
  SUBDIVISION  ONE OF THIS SECTION OR A NON-RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER-GENERATOR
  AS DEFINED BY PARAGRAPH (C-1) OF SUBDIVISION ONE  OF  THIS  SECTION  MAY
  LOCATE  WIND  ELECTRIC  GENERATING  EQUIPMENT WITH A NET ENERGY METER ON
  LAND OWNED OR  LEASED  BY  SUCH  CUSTOMER-GENERATOR  AND  DESIGNATE  ONE
  HUNDRED  PERCENT OF THE NET METERING CREDITS GENERATED BY SUCH EQUIPMENT
  TO A METER OR METERS OWNED BY THE  CUSTOMER-GENERATOR  AT  ANY  LOCATION
  OWNED  OR  LEASED  BY SUCH CUSTOMER-GENERATOR WITHIN THE SERVICE AREA OF
  THE SAME ELECTRIC CORPORATION  TO  WHICH  THE  CUSTOMER-GENERATOR'S  NET
  ENERGY   METERS   ARE  INTERCONNECTED  AND  BEING  WITHIN  A  RADIUS  OF
  TWENTY-FIVE MILES OF THE WIND ELECTRIC GENERATING EQUIPMENT.
    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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