Senate Bill S8203

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to net energy metering for fuel-flexible linear generator electric generating equipment

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S8203 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10268
Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2 & 66-j, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S1163, S8327, A3768

2019-S8203 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to net energy metering for fuel-flexible linear generator electric generating equipment.

2019-S8203 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8203 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8203
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 15, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. BENJAMIN -- 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 net energy meter-
   ing for fuel-flexible linear generator electric generating equipment
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2-b of section 2 of the public service law,  as
 amended by chapter 6 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   2-b.  The  term  "alternate  energy production facility," when used in
 this chapter, includes any solar, wind turbine, fuel cell, FUEL-FLEXIBLE
 LINEAR GENERATOR ELECTRIC  GENERATING  EQUIPMENT,  tidal,  wave  energy,
 waste  management  resource  recovery, refuse-derived fuel, wood burning
 facility, or energy storage device utilizing batteries, flow  batteries,
 flywheels  or  compressed  air,  together  with  any  related facilities
 located at the same project site, with an electric  generating  capacity
 of  up  to  eighty  megawatts, which produces electricity, gas or useful
 thermal energy.
   § 2. The section heading of section 66-j of the public service law, as
 amended by chapter 546 of the laws  of  2011,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   Net energy metering for residential solar, farm waste, non-residential
 solar  electric generating systems, micro-combined heat and power gener-
 ating equipment, fuel cell electric generating equipment,  FUEL-FLEXIBLE
 LINEAR  GENERATOR ELECTRIC GENERATING EQUIPMENT, and micro-hydroelectric
 generating equipment.
   § 3. Subparagraphs (v) and (vi) of paragraph (a) of subdivision  1  of
 section  66-j  of the public service law, subparagraph (v) as separately
 amended by chapters 530 and 546 of the laws  of  2011  and  subparagraph
 (vi) as added by chapter 530 of the laws of 2011, are amended to read as
 follows:
   (v) a residential customer of an electric corporation who owns, leases
 or  operates  fuel  cell  generating  equipment  OR FUEL-FLEXIBLE LINEAR
 GENERATOR ELECTRIC GENERATING EQUIPMENT located on the customer's  prem-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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