Bill > A00815

This bill amends the New York Public Service Law to establish a critical protection for residential energy producers who use net metering, which is a billing mechanism that credits solar panel owners or other small-scale renewable energy generators for the electricity they add to the grid. Specifically, the bill ensures that customer-generators (individuals or businesses producing their own electricity) will never be compensated at a value lower than what they would receive under net energy metering. By inserting language into two existing sections of law related to electric restructuring, the bill creates a legal guarantee that future changes to the electric industry cannot reduce the financial benefits currently provided to residential energy producers. This protects the economic incentives for individuals and households to invest in renewable energy generation by maintaining net metering as a compensation floor, which means utilities cannot pay these producers less than the current net metering rates, even if the electric industry undergoes significant restructuring. The bill takes effect immediately upon passage.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A815