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NY A09640

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/21/2026

Primary Sponsor

Didi Barrett

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Origin

Assembly

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Authorizes the New York Public Service Commission to implement performance-based regulation for electric and gas utilities, using incentives and penalties to drive specific outcomes
  • Targets five key areas: reducing greenhouse gas emissions, expanding distributed energy resources and community solar, enhancing service reliability and resiliency, offering flexible payment plans to reduce disconnections for low-income customers, and improving operations to lower ratepayer costs
  • Requires any adopted framework to establish clear, objective, verifiable, and achievable performance standards, baselines, and metrics for measuring utility performance
  • Mandates the commission consider impacts on ratepayer rates when developing incentive and penalty structures
  • Allows for performance metrics that require annual utility reporting to the commission without being tied to financial incentives or penalties

Legislative Description

Authorizes the public service commission to implement performance-based regulation of electric or gas corporations; requires that any such regulation shall provide performance standards and metrics by which such performance shall be measured.

Last Action

reported referred to codes

2/25/2026

Committee Referrals

Codes2/25/2026
Energy1/21/2026

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