{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "last_updated": "2026-07-02",
  "source": "https://pluginsolarhub.org/state-legality/",
  "disclaimer": "Informational, not legal advice. Plug-in solar law evolves fast; verify with your utility and state authority.",
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "attribution": "PlugInSolarHub (pluginsolarhub.org)"
  },
  "state": "New York",
  "slug": "new-york",
  "status": "Passed legislature — awaiting Governor",
  "status_badge_verbatim": "Passed legislature — awaiting Governor",
  "avg_rate_cents": 25,
  "main_utilities": [
    "Con Edison",
    "National Grid",
    "NYSEG"
  ],
  "page_url": "https://pluginsolarhub.org/state-legality/new-york/",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-08-01",
  "legislation": {
    "bill": "A.9111C / S.8512C (Solar Up Now NY Act, promoted as the SUNNY Act)",
    "status": "passed_awaiting_governor",
    "date": "2026-05-28",
    "effective": null,
    "max_watts": 1200,
    "cert_required": "Accredited testing laboratory (e.g. UL); state fire code compliance",
    "signed_by": null,
    "source_url": "https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?Actions=Y&Memo=Y&Summary=Y&Text=Y&bn=A09111&term=2025",
    "notes": "A9111C / S8512C. The bill limits a device to 'supplying a maximum aggregate continuous AC INVERTER NAMEPLATE OUTPUT of not more than one thousand two hundred watts TO THE UTILITY ELECTRIC GRID'. Passed both chambers; no delivery to the Governor recorded as at 1 August 2026. Takes effect on the ninetieth day after becoming law.",
    "short_title_verbatim": "Solar Up Now NY Act",
    "effective_rule": "ninetieth day after it becomes law",
    "source_url_type": "primary - full action history, New York State Assembly",
    "watt_tiers": [
      {
        "max_watts": 1200,
        "basis": "AC inverter nameplate output to the utility electric grid",
        "provision": "A9111C §(ii)",
        "effect": "Would remove case-by-case utility approval for devices within the cap. Not law yet."
      }
    ],
    "verified_against_primary": {
      "date": "2026-08-01",
      "confirmed": [
        "'maximum aggregate continuous AC inverter nameplate output ... to the utility electric grid'"
      ],
      "corrected": [
        "cap was described as panel capacity; the bill says AC inverter nameplate output"
      ]
    }
  },
  "source_file": "/data/plug-in-solar-laws.json"
}