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LPA-02-16-00015-P Community Distributed Generation Net Metering, Remote Net Metering, and Size Limits for Fuel Cells
1/13/16 N.Y. St. Reg. LPA-02-16-00015-P
NEW YORK STATE REGISTER
VOLUME XXXVIII, ISSUE 2
January 13, 2016
RULE MAKING ACTIVITIES
LONG ISLAND POWER AUTHORITY
PROPOSED RULE MAKING
HEARING(S) SCHEDULED
I.D No. LPA-02-16-00015-P
Community Distributed Generation Net Metering, Remote Net Metering, and Size Limits for Fuel Cells
PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE State Administrative Procedure Act, NOTICE is hereby given of the following proposed rule:
Proposed Action:
The Long Island Power Authority (“LIPA”) is considering a proposal to modify its Tariff for Electric Service to authorize community distributed generation net metering and to modify provisions regarding remote net metering and size limits for fuel cells.
Statutory authority:
Public Authorities Law, section 1020-f(z), (u) and (gg)
Subject:
Community distributed generation net metering, remote net metering, and size limits for fuel cells.
Purpose:
To authorize community distributed generation net metering and to modify provisions for remote net metering and fuel cells.
Public hearing(s) will be held at:
10:00 a.m., Feb. 29, 2016 at H. Lee Dennison Bldg., 100 Veterans Memorial Hwy., Hauppauge, NY; 2:00 p.m., Feb. 29, 2016 at 333 Earle Ovington Blvd., 4th Fl., Uniondale, NY.
Interpreter Service:
Interpreter services will be made available to hearing impaired persons, at no charge, upon written request submitted within reasonable time prior to the scheduled public hearing. The written request must be addressed to the agency representative designated in the paragraph below.
Accessibility:
All public hearings have been scheduled at places reasonably accessible to persons with a mobility impairment.
Substance of proposed rule:
The Long Island Power Authority (“the Authority”) proposes to modify the Tariff for Electric Service (“Tariff”) effective April 1, 2016 to: (1) authorize Community Distributed Generation (“DG”) Net Metering; (2) modify existing Tariff provisions relating to Remote Net Metering to conform to NY Public Service Commission (“PSC”) practices for the regulated utilities; and (3) modify other Tariff provisions to conform to amendments to Public Service Law § 66-j regarding eligibility and size limits for net metering.
Net metering, also known as net energy metering, allows customers with certain types of generation to reduce their energy bill in two ways: (1) electricity generated and used immediately reduces the amount of electricity that is bought from the Authority; and (2) electricity generated in excess of the customer’s immediate need is injected into the grid to displace other sources of generation, for which the customer receives a credit to offset later energy needs, further reducing the customer’s electricity bill.
The Authority proposes to expand the eligibility for customer participation in net metering by, among other things, allowing for Community Net Metering. Community DG Net Metering allows residential customers to participate in renewable generation at some central location and share the benefits of the renewable generation among the members.
The Authority proposes to authorize Community DG Net Metering, allowing customers to associate with a project sponsor (the “host account”) that would be responsible for building the Community DG generation facility, interconnecting it to the utility grid, and then owning or operating it in conformance with net metering requirements of the Tariff for Electric Service. The host site would have a non-residential account and any excess generation (net of energy consumed on-site) produced by the host account would be allocated among the members (the “satellite accounts”) in proportions to be designated by the host account. Any generation allocated to a satellite account in excess of that account’s energy usage would be used to offset future energy use at that account or cashed out on the account’s annual anniversary date, just as if that account was net metered on an individual basis.
The Authority’s proposal would also increase eligibility for remote net metering to include Farm Waste and update the size limits applicable to Non-Residential Fuel Cells.
Text of proposed rule and any required statements and analyses may be obtained from:
Justin Bell, Long Island Power Authority, 333 Earle Ovington Blvd., Suite 403, Uniondale, NY 11553, (516) 719-9886, email: jbell@lipower.org
Data, views or arguments may be submitted to:
Same as above.
Public comment will be received until:
Five days after the last scheduled public hearing.
Regulatory Impact Statement, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis, Rural Area Flexibility Analysis and Job Impact Statement
Statements and analyses are not submitted with this notice because the proposed rule is within the definition contained in section 102(2)(a)(ii) of the State Administrative Procedure Act.