N.Y. PBS Law § 66-N

§ 66-n. Net metering study. The commission shall conduct a study to\nanalyze the economic and environmental benefits from and the economic\ncost burden, if any, of the net energy metering program and to analyze\nthe extent to which ratepayers receiving service under the net energy\nmetering program are paying the full cost of services provided to them\nby combined electric and gas corporations and gas corporations, and the\nextent to which their customers pay a share of costs of public purpose\nprograms through assessments on their electric and/or gas bills. In\nanalyzing program costs and benefits for the purposes of this study, the\ncommission shall consider all electricity generated by renewable\nelectric generating systems eligible for net metering under sections\nsixty-six-j and sixty-six-l of this article, including the electricity\nused onsite to reduce the customer's consumption of electricity that\nwould otherwise be supplied through the electrical grid, as well as\nelectrical output that is being fed back to the electrical grid for\nwhich the customer receives credit or net surplus electricity\ncompensation under net energy metering. As it relates to the\nenvironmental benefits, the study shall quantify the approximate avoided\nlevel of harmful emissions including, but not limited to, information\nconcerning: nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide, as well\nas other air pollutants deemed necessary and appropriate for study by\nthe commission. The study shall also quantify the economic costs and\nbenefits of net energy metering to participants and non-participants and\nshall further disaggregate the results by utility. The study shall also\ngather and present data on the income distribution of residential net\nmetering participants that is publicly available and aggregated by zip\ncode and county. In order to assess the economic costs and benefits at\nvarious levels of net metering implementation, the study shall be\nconducted using multiple net energy metering penetration scenarios.\n The commission shall publish a report from its findings. The report\nmust be published within three hundred sixty-five days of the effective\ndate of this section. A copy of the report must be furnished to the\ntemporary president of the Senate, the speaker of the Assembly, the\nchair of the Senate energy and telecommunications committee and the\nchair of the Assembly energy committee.\n