New York § 66-AA - 66-AAInterconnection reforms

§ 66-AA. 66-AAInterconnection reforms

§ 66-aa. Interconnection reforms. 1. (a) Within ninety days of the effective date of this section the commission shall commence a proceeding requiring every electric corporation to file a report with the commission which shall include broken down costs of completed upgrades to the electric distribution system required in order to interconnect new distributed energy resources in the prior calendar year categorized by upgrade type and equipment type annually by March thirty-first of each year. Such reports shall be accompanied by sufficiently detailed supporting documentation as determined by the commission. Costs included in such reports shall be intergrated into electric corporations' efforts to develop distribution upgrade cost estimates. (b) Electric corporations shall track actual costs of all distribution upgrades they perform and disclose such costs to the department and to the distributed energy resource company that paid for the upgrade. 2. The commission shall consider proposals to create greater cost-certainty for distribution upgrades in order to limit the risk of cost overruns, and the commission shall commence a proceeding to determine whether any such proposal would increase cost certainty for distribution upgrades, would not negatively impact the operation of the distribution system, and would not increase costs to ratepayers. If the commission so determines, and in response to evidence of cost overruns, it shall issue an order with respect thereto to increase distribution upgrade cost-certainty.