Bill Text: CA SB720 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Electrical transmission system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB720 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB720-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 720	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Strickland

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act relating to electricity.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 720, as introduced, Strickland. Electrical transmission system.

   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations.
The existing restructuring of the electrical industry within the
Public Utilities Act provides for the establishment of an Independent
System Operator (ISO), states the intent of the Legislature that
electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities
commit control of their transmission facilities to the ISO, and
requires the ISO to ensure efficient use and reliable operation of
the transmission grid consistent with achieving planning and
operating reserve criteria no less stringent than those established
by the Western Electricity Coordinating Council and the American
Electric Reliability Council.
   This bill would provide that it is the policy of the state and the
intent of the Legislature to ensure timely investments are made in
the state's electrical transmission system to integrate electricity
generation from renewable energy resources, to increase capacity to
import electricity, and to accommodate load growth consistent with
the efficient use and reliable operation of the grid.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the policy of this state and the intent of the
Legislature to ensure timely investments are made in the state's
electrical transmission system to integrate electricity generation
from renewable energy resources, to increase capacity to import
electricity, and to accommodate load growth consistent with the
efficient use and reliable operation of the grid.