N.Y. Public Service Law § 66-aa: Interconnection reforms

§ 66-aa. Interconnection reforms. 1. (a) Within ninety days of the

effective date of this section the commission shall commence a

proceeding requiring every electric corporation to file a report with

the commission which shall include broken down costs of completed

upgrades to the electric distribution system required in order to

interconnect new distributed energy resources in the prior calendar year

categorized by upgrade type and equipment type annually by March

thirty-first of each year. Such reports shall be accompanied by

sufficiently detailed supporting documentation as determined by the

commission. Costs included in such reports shall be intergrated into

electric corporations' efforts to develop distribution upgrade cost

estimates.

(b) Electric corporations shall track actual costs of all distribution

upgrades they perform and disclose such costs to the department and to

the distributed energy resource company that paid for the upgrade.

2. The commission shall consider proposals to create greater

cost-certainty for distribution upgrades in order to limit the risk of

cost overruns, and the commission shall commence a proceeding to

determine whether any such proposal would increase cost certainty for

distribution upgrades, would not negatively impact the operation of the

distribution system, and would not increase costs to ratepayers. If the

commission so determines, and in response to evidence of cost overruns,

it shall issue an order with respect thereto to increase distribution

upgrade cost-certainty.