9/14/11 N.Y. St. Reg. PSC-37-11-00010-P
PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE State Administrative Procedure Act, NOTICE is hereby given of the following proposed rule:
Proposed Action:
The Commission is considering a proposed tariff filing by Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation to make various changes in rates, charges, rules and regulations contained in Schedule for Electric Service, PSC No. 19.
Statutory authority:
Public Service Law, section 66(12)
Subject:
Net Energy Metering for Farm Waste Electric Generating Systems and Standardized Interconnection Requirements (SIR).
Purpose:
To effectuate changes to Public Service Law, sections 66-j and 66-l in relation to Net Energy Metering and SIR.
Substance of proposed rule:
The Commission is considering whether to approve, modify or reject, in whole or in part, a tariff filing by Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation to effectuate changes to Public Service Law (PSL) Sections 66-j and 66-l in relation to net energy metering for farm and non-residential solar photovoltaic or farm waste, and farm and non-residential wind electric customer generators. The amendments allow for the application of excess generation credits from the customer's generator to other meters on property that is owned or leased by the same customer (referred to as "Remote Net Metering The New York State Standard Interconnection Requirements (SIR) document would be modified to incorporate this update to PSL Sections 66-j and 66-l. The filing has an effective date of December 1, 2011. The Commission may apply aspects of its decision here to the requirements for tariffs of other utilities.
Text of proposed rule and any required statements and analyses may be obtained by filing a Document Request Form (F-96) located on our website http://www.dps.state.ny.us/f96dir.htm. For questions, contact:
Leann Ayer, Public Service Commission, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350, (518) 486-2655, email:
leann_ayer@dps.state.ny.usData, views or arguments may be submitted to:
Jaclyn A. Brilling, Secretary, Public Service Commission, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350, (518) 474-6530, email:
Secretary@dps.state.ny.usPublic comment will be received until:
45 days after publication of this notice.
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.
