Today the bill to raise the farm net metering limit was passed in the Senate and sent back to the Assembly which passed it earlier. Since the Assembly passed it first, the Assembly gets to send it to the Governor for signature. For most projects, because they will be a fair bit less than 1,000 kW, this should eliminate concerns about whether the eligibility should be determined by the nameplate on the generator part of the system (PSC position) or by the kW settings of the controls on the overall engine generator set. It may save some larger farms some interconnection costs if their generation is less than 20% of the capacity of the feeder lines, but I’m not sure how often that will be the case though for generators greater than 500 kW.
Yesterday the bill to set up a utility REC program was sent by the Senate Telecommunications and Energy Committee to the Senate Finance Committee.
Here is the net metering bill:
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to farm waste net
energy metering
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of
2 section 66-j of the public service law, as amended by chapter 355 of the
3 laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
4 ”Farm waste electric generating equipment” means equipment that gener-
5 ates electric energy from biogas produced by the anaerobic digestion of
6 agricultural waste, such as livestock manure, farming wastes and food
7 processing wastes with a rated capacity of not more than [five hundred]
8 one thousand kilowatts, that is:
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
NY State soon to have a 1000 kW net metering law
Today the bill to raise the farm net metering limit was passed in the Senate and sent back to the Assembly which passed it earlier. Since the Assembly passed it first, the Assembly gets to send it to the Governor for signature. For most projects, because they will be a fair bit less than 1,000 kW, this should eliminate concerns about whether the eligibility should be determined by the nameplate on the generator part of the system (PSC position) or by the kW settings of the controls on the overall engine generator set. It may save some larger farms some interconnection costs if their generation is less than 20% of the capacity of the feeder lines, but I’m not sure how often that will be the case though for generators greater than 500 kW.
Yesterday the bill to set up a utility REC program was sent by the Senate Telecommunications and Energy Committee to the Senate Finance Committee.
Here is the net metering bill:
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to farm waste net
energy metering
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of
2 section 66-j of the public service law, as amended by chapter 355 of the
3 laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
4 ”Farm waste electric generating equipment” means equipment that gener-
5 ates electric energy from biogas produced by the anaerobic digestion of
6 agricultural waste, such as livestock manure, farming wastes and food
7 processing wastes with a rated capacity of not more than [five hundred]
8 one thousand kilowatts, that is:
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.