STATE OF NEW YORK
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7883
IN SENATE
March 6, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. PERALTA -- 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 directing the
public service commission to conduct a study and report on time-of-use
plans offered by gas and electric utilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section
2 66-p to read as follows:
3 § 66-p. Time-of-use study and report. The commission shall conduct a
4 study and compile a report analyzing the available time-of-use plans
5 offered by all gas and electric utility companies conducting business in
6 the state. Such study and report shall include, but not be limited to:
7 (a) all available time-of-use plans from all gas and electric utility
8 companies in the state that are available to residential customers;
9 (b) all available time-of-use plans from all gas and electric utility
10 companies in the state that are available to commercial customers;
11 (c) details about prices, including a comparison of the prices for
12 different types of plans for each such utility company;
13 (d) recommendations regarding Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
14 including, but not limited to, whether the utility companies' plans
15 require an AMI to implement a time-of-use plan, recommendations on how
16 to incentivize AMI growth in the state, and recommendations on alterna-
17 tive ways to finance the installation of AMI in residences;
18 (e) recommendations regarding the impacts of increased electric-vehi-
19 cle use in off-peak timeframes;
20 (f) details regarding restrictions on time-of-use plans listed by each
21 utility company;
22 (g) recommendations for consumers on how to use time-of-use plans most
23 efficiently; and
24 (h) include possible impacts on ratepayers if they choose time-of-use
25 plans.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 The commission shall publish a report of its findings within one
2 hundred eighty days of the effective date of this section. Copies of
3 such report shall be submitted to the temporary president of the senate,
4 the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate energy and telecom-
5 munications committee and the chair of the assembly energy committee.
6 The commission shall also publish the report online.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.