Expands customer access to community distributed generation by creating a model tariff to provide for the transfer of bill credits associated with electricity produced by community distributed generation facilities in one electric corporation territory to other territories.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5627
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 the transfer of
bill credits associated with the electricity produced by community
distributed generation facilities
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. Community distributed generation facility bill credits. 1. As
4 used in this section, the term "community distributed generation facili-
5 ty" shall mean a photovoltaic system with a rated capacity of not more
6 than five megawatts of alternating current that is connected to an elec-
7 tric system and operated in conjunction with an electric corporation's
8 transmission and distribution facilities. Participating electric
9 customers receive a bill credit for the electricity generated in propor-
10 tion to the size of their interest in the facility, with at least sixty
11 percent of the facility's production allocated to participating custom-
12 ers in increments of twenty-five kilowatts or less.
13 2. Within ninety days of the effective date of this section, the
14 commission shall direct electric corporations to file a model tariff
15 providing for the transfer of bill credits associated with the electric-
16 ity produced by community distributed generation facilities in one elec-
17 tric corporation territory to the accounts of subscribers in other elec-
18 tric corporation territories, and any other settlement systems and
19 processes necessary to effectuate such transfers in a cost-effective
20 manner. Following public comment on the model tariff, the public service
21 commission shall, within two hundred seventy days of the effective date
22 of this section, approve tariffs to enable such transfers.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11107-02-9
