The Staff Whitepaper recommends the continuation of net energy metering for all eligible mass market projects subject to rate design modifications, as well as the continuation of net energy metering for on-site projects of demand-metered non-residential customers where the project’s rated capacity is under 750 kW. Specifically, the Staff Whitepaper recommends that mass market customers who install on-site, net-metering eligible, generation systems after January 1, 2021 be subject to a monthly Customer Benefit Contribution based on system size, designed to recover public benefit funds that net metering otherwise allows those customers to avoid and to thereby reduce the identified cost shifts from participants to non-participants. Staff recommends that the Commission modify the existing eligibility deadline for participation in net metering under current rules from January 1, 2020 to January 1, 2021. The Staff Whitepaper also recommends available alternate rates, including time-of-use rates and optional standby rates, continue to be available to mass market customers with on-site generation.

The full text of the Staff Whitepaper and the full record of the proceeding may be reviewed online at the Department of Public Service web page: www.dps.ny.gov. The Commission may adopt, reject, or modify, in whole or in part, the action proposed and may resolve related matters.

Statements and analyses are not submitted with this notice because the proposed rule is within the definition contained in section 102(2)(a)(ii) of the State Administrative Procedure Act.

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