S 8062: Requires certain utility corporations and the Long Island power authority to establish a meter usage monitor program for the purposes of notifying residential customers when energy usage exceeds a cost or usage threshold in a given billing period determined by the residential customer.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8062 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE May 15, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni- cations AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to establishing a usage monitor program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 44 of the public service law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 8 to read as follows: 3 8. The commission shall require every gas and electric utility corpo- 4 ration utilizing smart meters to establish a usage monitor program for 5 the purposes of notifying customers when energy usage exceeds a cost or 6 usage threshold in a given billing period determined by the customer. 7 The usage monitor program shall provide customers with a notice on the 8 tenth and twentieth day of a billing cycle. The usage monitor program 9 shall notify customers electronically or by mail when their energy usage 10 exceeds their determined threshold and include an estimate of their 11 monthly bill. The usage monitor program shall be an elective program for 12 customers to join. For the purposes of this subdivision, "smart meter" 13 shall mean a metering device that measures and transmits energy usage to 14 a utility for the purposes of billing and monitoring. 15 § 2 This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 16 law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13114-01-5