New York A 11419: Relates to establishing guidelines for the connection of utility service for high-usage customers

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A11419 Summary:

BILL NOA11419 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORRules (Gray)

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COSPNSRBlankenbush, Manktelow, Simpson, Pirozzolo, Lemondes, Tague, Maher, Ra

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §66-x, Pub Serv L; amd §§8-0105 & 15-1501, En Con L

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Relates to high-usage customers of electric utilities; establishes guidelines for electric service for high-usage customers; relates to water usage of high-usage customers entering into a high-usage contract with an electric utility or large-scale generation provider.

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BILL NOA11419 

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05/15/2026referred to energy

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 11419

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 15, 2026
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 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gray) --
 read once and referred to the Committee on Energy

 AN ACT to amend the public service law and the environmental conserva-
 tion law, in relation to establishing guidelines for the connection of
 utility service for high-usage customers

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section
 2 66-x to read as follows:
 3 § 66-x. High-usage customers. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this
 4 section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
 5 (a) "High-usage customer" shall mean a current or potential customer
 6 in the service territory of an electric utility that: (i) requests elec-
 7 tric service under a large-scale service request; or (ii) enters into a
 8 private generation contract with a generation provider.
 9 (b) "Large-scale service request" shall mean a request submitted to an
 10 electric utility for: (i) a new electric service that is expected to
 11 reach a cumulative demand of one hundred megawatts or greater within
 12 five years of the requested initial start date; or (ii) additional elec-
 13 tric service that is expected to increase a customer's total service
 14 level by one hundred megawatts or greater within five years of the
 15 requested start date for the additional service.
 16 (c) "Closed private generation system" shall mean electric generating
 17 facilities and associated transmission infrastructure that: (i) are not
 18 connected to and operate independently from the transmission system of
 19 an electric utility, cooperative utility, municipal utility, or other
 20 utility; (ii) serve one or more customers with a minimum cumulative
 21 electrical demand of one hundred megawatts; and (iii) serve one or more
 22 high-usage customers through direct connection.
 23 (d) "Connected generation system" shall mean electric generating
 24 facilities and associated transmission infrastructure that: (i) are
 25 connected to and operate in conjunction with the transmission system of
 26 an electric utility; (ii) serve one or more high-usage customers through
 27 connection to the transmission system of an electric utility; and (iii)

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15727-01-6

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 1 except as provided in a high-usage service contract, operate independent
 2 of the generation resources of any electric utility, cooperative utili-
 3 ty, municipal utility, or other utility.
 4 (e) "High-usage service contract" shall mean a contract for the
 5 provision of electric service for a high-usage service request between:
 6 (i) an electric utility or a large-scale generation provider; and (ii) a
 7 high-usage customer.
 8 (f) "Large-scale generation provider" shall mean an entity that: (i)
 9 is not an electric utility; and (ii) owns, operates, or contracts for
 10 the output of one or more generation resources intended to be used to
 11 supply certain retail electric services to a high-usage customer pursu-
 12 ant to a high-usage contract or a private generation contract.
 13 (g) "Private generation contract" shall mean a contract for the
 14 provision of electric service through a closed private generation system
 15 between: (i) a large-scale generation