Assembly BillIntroduced
A 815: Relates to ensuring net metering is a compensation floor for residential producers of energy.
What A 815 does, verified January 16, 2026
The bill aims to ensure that net metering remains a compensation floor for residential producers of energy. Net metering allows customers who generate their own electricity to sell any excess to the grid at the same rate they pay for it, but the bill seeks to protect this policy from being undervalued. The bill requires customer-generators to comply with any commission determinations related to restructuring of the electric industry, but ensures they are not compensated at a value less than what would exist under net energy metering. The bill takes effect immediately.
Bill journey
1IntroducedCurrent
2In CommitteePending
3First Chamber FloorPending
4Second ChamberPending
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: enacting clause stricken (2026-01-15)Alert me
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| Jan. 15, 2026 | enacting clause stricken |
| Jan. 07, 2026 | referred to energy |
| Jan. 08, 2025 | referred to energy |
| Jan. 07, 2025 | referred to energy |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 8, 2025 · 304 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 815 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. STECK, DeSTEFANO, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Energy AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to ensuring net metering is maintained as a compensation floor for residential produc- ers of energy The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 66-j of the public service law, as 2 amended by chapter 355 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 6. Electric restructuring. Notwithstanding the provisions of this 5 section, including, but not limited to paragraph (b) of subdivision 6 three of this section, a customer-generator shall comply with any appli- 7 cable determinations of the commission relating to restructuring of the 8 electric industry. However, customer-generators shall never be compen- 9 sated at a value less than would exist under net energy metering. 10 § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 66-l of the public service law, as 11 amended by chapter 721 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as 12 follows: 13 6. Electric restructuring. Notwithstanding the provisions of this 14 section, including, but not limited to paragraph (c) of subdivision 15 three of this section, a customer-generator shall comply with any appli- 16 cable determinations of the commission relating to restructuring of the 17 electric industry. However, customer-generators shall never be compen- 18 sated at a value less than would exist under net energy metering. 19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03349-01-5
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