Bill Text: NY A03720 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to limiting the sale of electricity or natural gas by ESCOs to non-residential customers only.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to energy [A03720 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03720-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3720
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. DINOWITZ, COOK, ORTIZ, STECK, ZEBROWSKI, GOTT-
          FRIED, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BLAKE -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Energy
        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to limiting authori-
          ty for retail wheeling or delivery of natural gas not  purchased  from
          the  electric  or  gas  corporation  delivering  it to non-residential
          customers
          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 12-b of section 66 of the
     2  public service law, as added by chapter 626 of  the  laws  of  1983,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (b) The commission may also authorize utility corporations to contract
     5  with  existing  or  prospective  industrial  and commercial customers to
     6  wheel or deliver electricity or gas purchased directly by  such  custom-
     7  ers,  provided  that  the commission finds that such arrangements are in
     8  the overall best interest of the rate payers  of  the  corporation,  and
     9  that  the rates and fees for the services provided adequately compensate
    10  the corporation for the use of its facilities, and further provided that
    11  such wheeling or delivery of electricity or natural gas  to  residential
    12  customers shall not be allowed.
    13    §  2.  Section 66-d of the public service law, as added by chapter 519
    14  of the laws of 1984, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 790 of the laws
    15  of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
    16    § 66-d. Contract  carrier  authorization.  1.  For  purposes  of  this
    17  section  the term natural gas shall mean natural gas produced within the
    18  state or transported within the  state  no  matter  where  produced  for
    19  consumption in the state by non-residential customers.
    20    2.  The  commission,  upon its own initiative or upon application by a
    21  natural gas producer or a non-residential consumer of natural gas in any
    22  year and after notice and hearing shall, upon such terms and subject  to
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  such  conditions  as  the commission considers just and reasonable, have
     2  the authority to order any gas corporation to transport or contract with
     3  others to transport gas under contract for  sale  by  such  producer  or
     4  owned  by  such  non-residential  consumer provided that, the commission
     5  finds that the gas corporation has available  capacity,  that  no  undue
     6  burden  shall  be  placed upon the gas corporation or its ratepayers and
     7  that the ability of the gas corporation to render  adequate  service  to
     8  its customers is not impaired.
     9    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.