TUPPER LAKE — Village residents will have their electric bills slightly increase as part of obligations placed on electric utilities by the New York Power Authority, directed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The increase comes from two requirements, a zero emissions credit and a renewable energy credit, village clerk Mary Casagrain said at Monday’s village board meeting.

“The power authority calls them credits, but we’re not giving the customer credit back; it’s a charge,” Casagrain said. “But they’re broken down into very small fractions of a penny. Nonetheless, it is a charge and a result to our users.”

Starting in March, the authority will require the ZEC, which bills customers to pay into a fund that pays owners of certain nuclear power plants, according to an Municipal Electric Utilities Association memo. The cost per customer for the obligation will be three-tenths of penny per kilowatt hour.

For an average customer using 600 kWh per month, their increased charge would be $1.80 per month.

Starting in February, the REC requires all customers to pay into a fund for owners of qualified renewable energy generation facilities, according to the memo. The authority has not determined how it will address this obligation but the amount will be minimal, costing fractions of a penny per kWh.

The village board appointed Marc Staves, superintendent of the village’s municipal electrical department, as voting delegate to represent the village for a Jan. 25 state Municipal Electric Utilities Association special meeting.

The cost of the mandates is expected to increase after 2017 as part of the state’s “50 by 30” program to implement half of electrical generation from identified renewable sources as of 2030.