Sponsored by:
Assemblyman ALEX SAUICKIE
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Requires electric public utilities to provide industrial portable power stations accessible to customers during certain power outages.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act requiring electric public utilities to provide certain equipment during power outages and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. As used in this section:
Affected area means the entire geographic area that has lost electrical service due to a power outage lasting six or more hours.
Electric public utility means a public utility, as that term is defined in R.S.48:2-13, that distributes electricity to end users within this State.
Industrial portable power station means a large-scale high-energy-density lithium-ion battery that can be used to charge external devices.
b. In the event of a power outage lasting for six or more hours, the electric public utility responsible for providing the interrupted service shall provide industrial portable power stations to the affected area. The electric public utility shall provide one industrial portable power station for every 20 square miles affected by the power outage.
c. The electric public utility shall provide the industrial portable power stations by the end of the sixth hour of the power outage and shall provide the industrial portable power stations in central locations that are accessible to customers within the affected area. The location of each industrial portable power station shall be published on the electric public utilitys Internet website within one hour of providing the industrial portable power station.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires electric public utilities to provide industrial portable power stations during power outages that last six or more hours to the customers affected by the power outage. The electric public utility responsible for providing the interrupted service is required to provide the industrial portable power stations by the end of the sixth hour of the power outage. The electric public utility is required to provide one industrial portable power station for every 20 square miles affected by the power outage. The industrial portable power stations are required to be provided in central locations that are accessible to customers affected by the power outage. The bill requires the location of each industrial portable power station to be published on the electric public utilitys Internet website within one hour of placement.