2023 New York Laws › PBS - Public Service › Article 4 - Provisions Relating to Gas and Electric Corporations; Regulation of Price of Gas and Electricity › 74-B - Long Island Community Choice Aggregation Programs.

§  74-b. Long Island community choice aggregation programs. 1. For the
purposes of this section:
(a) a "Long Island community  choice  aggregation  program"  or  "CCA"
means a program serving the interests of its residents and appropriately
protecting consumer data, in which an eligible municipality either alone
or  jointly,  after  a  public  hearing  held  following  public notice,
exercises its municipal home rule law authority by enacting a local  law
giving   itself   the   requisite   legal   authority   to   enter  into
competitively-procured  contracts  with  one  or  more  energy   service
companies  in  order  to act as an aggregator and broker for the sale of
electric supply, gas supply, or both, to residents of that  municipality
wherein  all  customers,  including residential and non-residential, are
eligible to participate in the program and  shall  have  the  option  to
opt-out of either, individually. CCA programs may aggregate or otherwise
integrate  energy efficiency and distributed energy resources into their
programs.
(b) "Eligible municipality" means a city, town, or village within  the
service territory of the Long Island power authority.
(c)  "Service  provider" means the entity under contract with the Long
Island power authority to  provide  management  and  operation  services
associated  with  the authority's electric transmission and distribution
system and any subsidiary of such entity  that  provides  such  services
under contract.
2. No later than January first two thousand twenty-two, the commission
shall,  in  consultation  with  the  New  York State energy research and
development authority and the Long Island power authority, establish  by
order, rules, and regulations a Long Island community choice aggregation
program that includes the following:
(a) the extent to which eligible municipalities may collaborate in the
operation  of  joint  CCA  programs  and  any geographic or service area
limitations that may exist;
(b) the ability of eligible municipalities to seek the assistance of a
non-profit, to work with a  consultant,  or  to  otherwise  designate  a
third-party as an administrator of a CCA program;
(c)  the  development  of  a  data security agreement to be adopted by
participating eligible municipalities,  energy  service  companies,  the
Long  Island  power  authority,  and Long Island power authority service
providers;
(d)  an  enrollment  process  for  eligible  customers  with   opt-out
provisions for those customers who do not wish to participate;
(e)  requirements  by which participating eligible municipalities will
report on the status of their CCA  program  to  the  Long  Island  power
authority; and
(f) such other issues deemed appropriate by the commission.
3.  Annual  reports  on the status of the Long Island community choice
aggregation program shall be prepared by the Long Island power authority
and shall be submitted to the governor, the temporary president  of  the
senate, and the speaker of the assembly by March thirty-one of each year
and  must cover the previous calendar year. Annual reports will include,
at a minimum: number of customers served; number of customers cancelling
during the year; number of complaints received  by  CCA  administrators;
commodity  prices  paid;  value-added services provided during the year;
and administrative costs collected, if any.