Bill Text: NY S06919 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows certain customer-generators who generate solar electricity to donate credit for such electricity to low-income families; requires electric corporations to create a low-income energy assistance pool for the donation of such credits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2022-12-28 - VETOED MEMO.182 [S06919 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S06919-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6919 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 20, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- 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 allowing certain customer-generators who generate solar electricity to donate credit for such electricity to low-income families The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section 66-j of the 2 public service law, as amended by chapter 494 of the laws of 2014, is 3 amended and a new paragraph (e) is added to read as follows: 4 (b) In the event that the amount of electricity produced by a custom- 5 er-generator during the billing period exceeds the amount of electricity 6 used by the customer-generator, the corporation shall (i) apply a credit 7 to the next bill for service to the customer-generator for the net elec- 8 tricity provided at the same rate per kilowatt hour applicable to 9 service provided to other customers in the same service class which do 10 not generate electricity onsite, or (ii) at the option of the customer- 11 generator, donate the credit to the low-income energy assistance pool 12 established pursuant to paragraph (e) of this subdivision. Credits 13 donated pursuant to paragraph (e) of this subdivision shall be applied 14 to bills for service to low-income energy assistance pool credit recipi- 15 ents for the net electricity provided at the same rate per kilowatt hour 16 applicable to service provided to other customers in the same service 17 class which do not generate electricity onsite; except for micro-com- 18 bined heat and power or fuel cell customer-generators or farm waste 19 generating equipment customer-generators as described in subparagraph 20 (ix) of paragraph (a) of subdivision one of this section, who will be 21 credited at the corporation's avoided costs. The avoided cost credit 22 provided to micro-combined heat and power or fuel cell customer-genera- 23 tors or farm waste generating equipment customer-generators as described EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09354-02-1S. 6919 2 1 in subparagraph (ix) of paragraph (a) of subdivision one of this section 2 shall be treated for ratemaking purposes as a purchase of electricity in 3 the market that is includable in commodity costs. 4 (e) (i) Within two hundred seventy days of the effective date of this 5 paragraph, each electric corporation shall file an application with the 6 commission to establish a "low-income energy assistance pool" to which a 7 customer-generator may elect to donate credits earned by such customer- 8 generator pursuant to paragraph (b) of this subdivision. The commission 9 shall render a decision on each application within ninety days from the 10 date on which the application is filed. Each application shall provide 11 for a process whereby low-income households, qualifying pursuant to 12 subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, may apply to receive energy credits 13 from the electric corporation's low-income energy assistance pool, 14 pursuant to the energy credit disbursement process established by 15 subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph. 16 (ii) Within ninety days of the effective date of this paragraph, the 17 commission shall create a list of qualifications, giving consideration 18 to demographics and economic factors within the service territory of 19 each electric corporation, under which low-income households meeting 20 such qualifications shall be deemed eligible to receive energy credits 21 from an electric corporation's low-income energy assistance pool. 22 (iii) Within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of this 23 paragraph, the commission shall establish a process to direct the 24 disbursement of energy credits from each electric corporation's low-in- 25 come energy assistance pool to qualifying applicants. In the establish- 26 ment of such process, the commission shall give consideration to factors 27 including, but not limited to: 28 (A) the presence of an applicant household member under age six, age 29 sixty or older, or with a permanent disability; 30 (B) applicant household size; 31 (C) adverse applicant circumstances which may warrant prioritization 32 of such applicant as a credit recipient; 33 (D) applicant household income; and 34 (E) an applicant's primary household heating and/or cooling source. 35 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
