STATE OF NEW YORK
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7684
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 21, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. GORDON -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Energy
AN ACT to amend the energy law, in relation to allowing the sale and
supply of electricity to a neighboring consumer
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 21-106 of the energy law, is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
3 (e) The term "neighboring consumer" shall mean a non-residential
4 consumer of energy that is located within ten miles of the lands upon
5 which a co-generation, small hydro or alternate energy production facil-
6 ity is located.
7 § 2. Subdivisions 4 and 5 of section 21-106 of the energy law are
8 renumbered subdivisions 5 and 6 and a new subdivision 4 is added to read
9 as follows:
10 4. Any owner or operator of a co-generation, small hydro or alternate
11 energy production facility constructed and placed in operation on or
12 after June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred eighty, may sell and supply
13 electricity produced at such facility to one neighboring consumer. The
14 state energy office, in consultation with the public service commission,
15 shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement this subdivision by
16 January first, two thousand ten.
17 § 3. 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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