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NY A06804

Bill

Status

Introduced

4/2/2015

Primary Sponsor

Gary Finch

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Origin

Assembly

2015-2016 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Expands the definition of "customer-generator" to include non-residential customers who own, lease, or operate micro-combined heat and power generating equipment on their premises, making them eligible for net metering.

  • Increases the rated capacity limit for non-residential micro-combined heat and power equipment from ten kilowatts to twenty-five kilowatts electric, while maintaining the eighty percent fuel use efficiency requirement and two thousand kilowatt-hour annual production threshold.

  • Extends net metering credit provisions to non-residential customers with micro-combined heat and power generating equipment, allowing them to designate credits to multiple meters within the same service territory and load zone.

  • Requires electric corporations to establish interconnection and net metering standards for non-residential micro-combined heat and power generating equipment within three months of the effective date, with safety requirements similar to existing solar and micro-hydroelectric standards.

  • Adds micro-combined heat and power generating equipment owned or operated by non-residential customers to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority's programs for interconnection and net energy metering implementation.

Legislative Description

Relates to net-metering for non-residential customers of electric corporations which own, lease or operate micro-combined heat and power generating equipment.

Last Action

referred to energy

1/6/2016

Committee Referrals

Energy4/2/2015

Full Bill Text

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