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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         6270--B
                                                                Cal. No. 221
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     March 11, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. CRESPO, P. RIVERA, CROUCH, STEVENSON, N. RIVERA,
          HOYT, RUSSELL, CAHILL, ROSENTHAL, LINARES -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.
          of A. BRENNAN, BURLING, OAKS, SCARBOROUGH, TENNEY, THIELE -- read once
          and  referred to the Committee on Energy -- committee discharged, bill

          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee  --  reported from committee, advanced to a third reading, amended
          and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third read-
          ing
 
        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to remote net meter-
          ing by farm and non-residential customer-generators
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1.  Subdivision 3 of section 66-j of the public service law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
     3    (e)  A  customer who owns or operates a farm operation as such term is
     4  defined in subdivision eleven of section three hundred one of the  agri-
     5  culture  and  markets  law,  or  a non-residential customer-generator as

     6  defined by subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a)  of  subdivision  one  of
     7  this  section  that  locates solar electric generating equipment or farm
     8  waste electric generating equipment with a net energy meter on  property
     9  owned  or  leased  by  such  customer-generator  may  designate all or a
    10  portion of the net metering  credits  generated  by  such  equipment  to
    11  meters at any property owned or leased by such customer-generator within
    12  the  service  territory  of  the  same electric corporation to which the
    13  customer-generator's net energy  meters  are  interconnected  and  being
    14  within  the  same load zone as determined by the location based marginal
    15  price as of the date of initial request  by  the  customer-generator  to

    16  conduct net metering.  The electric corporation will credit the accounts
    17  of  the customer by applying any credits to the highest use meter first,
    18  then subsequent highest use meters until all such credits are attributed
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  to the customer. Any excess credits shall be carried over to the follow-
     2  ing month.
     3    §  2.  Subdivision  3  of  section  66-l  of the public service law is
     4  amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
     5    (e) A  customer  who  owns  or  operates  land  used  in  agricultural

     6  production  as  defined in subdivision four of section three hundred one
     7  of the agriculture and markets law, or a non-residential customer-gener-
     8  ator as defined by paragraph (c-1) of subdivision one  of  this  section
     9  that  locates wind electric generating equipment with a net energy meter
    10  on property owned or leased by such customer-generator may designate all
    11  or a portion of the net metering credits generated by such equipment  to
    12  meters, at any property owned or leased by such customer-generator with-
    13  in  the  service territory of the same electric corporation to which the
    14  customer-generator's net energy  meters  are  interconnected  and  being
    15  within  the  same load zone as determined by the location based marginal

    16  price as of the date of initial request  by  the  customer-generator  to
    17  conduct net metering.  The electric corporation will credit the accounts
    18  of  the customer by applying any credits to the highest use meter first,
    19  then subsequent highest use meters until all such credits are attributed
    20  to the customer. Any excess credits shall be carried over to the follow-
    21  ing month.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.