Legislation brings business in on energy-savings program
-
- June
- 19
  The Assembly just passed an energy bill that was part of a list of agreed-upon legislation announced yesterday by the governor and legislative leadership. The so-called net-metering bill will allow businesses to sell excess electricity they generate from windmills, solar panels and other alternative-energy sources back to the utility company. That will reduce their energy costs and provide more power to the state.
  Residential customers already have the ability to do this. Extending permission for stores, factories, farms and offices to do it will help the business climate in the state and lead to a cleaner environment, state officials said.
  “For too long, New York has lagged behind as other states have passed us with important programs like commercial net-metering, drawing much-needed investment away from New York,” Carol Murphy, executive director of the Alliance for Clean Energy New York, said in a statement. “With the passage of this critically important package of legislation, New York has the opportunity to catch up and for all customers to hedge against rising energy costs.”
This entry was posted
on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 11:55 am by Cara Matthews.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Print This Post
| 
Email This Post
Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
