2019 New York Laws
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Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity
66-N - Net Metering Study.

§  66-n.  Net  metering study. The commission shall conduct a study to
  analyze the economic and environmental benefits from  and  the  economic
  cost  burden,  if any, of the net energy metering program and to analyze
  the extent to which ratepayers receiving service under  the  net  energy
  metering  program  are paying the full cost of services provided to them
  by combined electric and gas corporations and gas corporations, and  the
  extent  to  which their customers pay a share of costs of public purpose
  programs through assessments on their  electric  and/or  gas  bills.  In
  analyzing program costs and benefits for the purposes of this study, the
  commission   shall  consider  all  electricity  generated  by  renewable
  electric generating systems eligible for  net  metering  under  sections
  sixty-six-j  and  sixty-six-l of this article, including the electricity
  used onsite to reduce the customer's  consumption  of  electricity  that
  would  otherwise  be  supplied  through  the electrical grid, as well as
  electrical output that is being fed back  to  the  electrical  grid  for
  which   the   customer   receives  credit  or  net  surplus  electricity
  compensation  under  net  energy  metering.  As  it   relates   to   the
  environmental benefits, the study shall quantify the approximate avoided
  level  of  harmful  emissions including, but not limited to, information
  concerning: nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide, as well
  as other air pollutants deemed necessary and appropriate  for  study  by
  the  commission.  The  study  shall also quantify the economic costs and
  benefits of net energy metering to participants and non-participants and
  shall further disaggregate the results by utility. The study shall  also
  gather  and  present  data on the income distribution of residential net
  metering participants that is publicly available and aggregated  by  zip
  code  and  county. In order to assess the economic costs and benefits at
  various levels of  net  metering  implementation,  the  study  shall  be
  conducted using multiple net energy metering penetration scenarios.
The  commission  shall  publish a report from its findings. The report
  must be published within three hundred sixty-five days of the  effective
  date  of  this  section.  A  copy of the report must be furnished to the
  temporary president of the Senate, the  speaker  of  the  Assembly,  the
  chair  of  the  Senate  energy  and telecommunications committee and the
  chair of the Assembly energy committee.