N.Y. Public Service Law § 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.