NY A01750

Prohibits electric corporations and municipalities from imposing fees, penalties, or charges on qualifying farmers beyond the cost of services actually provided for electricity, transmission, distribution, metering, billing, and customer services.

Prevents electric corporations and municipalities from implementing policies or procedures that would prevent qualifying farmers from installing and operating on-site generation equipment and related technology.

Defines a "qualifying farmer" as a farmer with at least $10,000 in federal gross income from farm production in the previous taxable year who installs an on-site electric generation system and notifies the electric corporation or municipality prior to a service-territory-specific cut-off date.

Sets the cut-off date as when notifications from qualifying farmers reach generation capacity equal to one-tenth of one percent of the electric corporation's or municipality's 1998 total electric demand, or September 1, 2020, whichever occurs first.

Prohibits electric corporations from recovering foregone revenues related to these farmer charges from other customers, and repeals the act on September 1, 2020, except provisions continue to apply to qualifying farmers with active on-site generation systems.