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N.Y. Staff Propose Consolidated Utility Billing Improvements, Granting Access to Customer Data, in REV Straw Proposal
Staff of the New York PSC has issued a straw proposal for Track One of New York's Reforming the Energy Visions Proceeding, which, among other things, recommends enhancements to consolidated utility billing, and would grant distributed energy resource (DER) providers with customers information, unless the customer opts out.
Regarding consolidated utility billing, Staff proposes that utilities make available approximately 1,000 characters on their bills for ESCO bill messages concerning DER or other energy-related value-added products.
"Conceptually, ESCOs could develop customer-specific messages based on the energy usage of their customers, and use EDI to transmit that information to utilities for printing on CUB," Staff said.
"In their comments regarding this proposal, utilities should individually quantify the cost of implementing this requirement. Utilities which cannot implement this change within six months after issuance of a Commission Order directing such action, should provide a complete explanation for their inability to do so. Staff also proposes that utilities individually quantify the cost they would expect to incur to modify their systems to accommodate customer-specific messages from ESCOs regarding DER and related products," Staff said.
ESCO-consolidated billing would continue to be further studied, with no specific proposal contained in the strawman.
Staff also said that utilities should jointly design and develop web-based tools to enable customers to shop for, and purchase, DER and other energy-related value-added services.
Staff also proposes granting DER providers access to customer data, unless the customer opt outs. "Individual customer usage data should be made available, on an opt-out basis, to DER providers that satisfy Commission requirements," Staff said.
Staff said that the type and format of personalized customer electricity use data that should be made available on an opt-out basis to registered DER providers through this exchange includes, but is not limited to:
• The customer’s total electricity usage for the previous 12 months;
• Monthly customer electricity consumption;
• Indicator of whether electricity commodity service is provided by an ESCO or the utility;
• Service classification according to the utility tariff;
• Installed Capacity (ICAP) tag, which indicates the customer’s peak electricity demand;
• The number of meters associated with the customer;
• Account information that clearly identifies the customer service to a mapped distribution feeder or other distribution system identifier;
• Additional market information relevant to energy use collected by the utility or authorized third party, such as census data, weather, energy audit data, or other; and
• Other data needs as identified by the Commission.
"To preserve customer privacy and security, customers should be given the option to opt-out of the information exchange," Staff said.
"Market participants seeking data from the exchange should be subject to data access registration requirements with the information data exchange operator. Initial data registration requirements may include, but not be limited to: affirmation that the entity is actively marketing DER, energy management products and/or other products and services that promote and support REV outcomes; certification that the information will not be disclosed to other entities; and confirmation that the market participant employs sufficient practices and protocols, in conformance with standard industry practices to secure and protect information from inappropriate release," Staff said.
Staff also recommended that DER providers participating in Distributed System Platform markets should be subject to some degree of Commission oversight.
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