Bill Text: NY A08517 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Directs the public service commission to study and report on time-of-use plans offered by electric and gas utilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2020-11-11 - tabled [A08517 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A08517-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Directs the public service commission to study and report on time-of-use plans offered by electric and gas utilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2020-11-11 - tabled [A08517 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A08517-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8517 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY August 7, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to directing the public service commission to conduct a study and report on time-of-use plans offered by gas and electric utilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 2 66-p to read as follows: 3 § 66-p. Time-of-use study and report. The commission shall conduct a 4 study and compile a report analyzing the available time-of-use plans 5 offered by all gas and electric utility companies conducting business in 6 the state. Such study and report shall include, but not be limited to: 7 (a) all available time-of-use plans from all gas and electric utility 8 companies in the state that are available to residential customers; 9 (b) all available time-of-use plans from all gas and electric utility 10 companies in the state that are available to commercial customers; 11 (c) details about prices, including a comparison of the prices for 12 different types of plans for each such utility company; 13 (d) recommendations regarding Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) 14 including, but not limited to, whether the utility companies' plans 15 require an AMI to implement a time-of-use plan, recommendations on how 16 to incentivize AMI growth in the state, and recommendations on alterna- 17 tive ways to finance the installation of AMI in residences; 18 (e) recommendations regarding the impacts of increased electric-vehi- 19 cle use in off-peak timeframes; 20 (f) details regarding restrictions on time-of-use plans listed by each 21 utility company; 22 (g) recommendations for consumers on how to use time-of-use plans most 23 efficiently; and EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05548-01-9A. 8517 2 1 (h) include possible impacts on ratepayers if they choose time-of-use 2 plans. 3 The commission shall publish a report of its findings within one 4 hundred eighty days of the effective date of this section. Copies of 5 such report shall be submitted to the temporary president of the senate, 6 the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate energy and telecom- 7 munications committee and the chair of the assembly energy committee. 8 The commission shall also publish the report online. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.