Bill Text: CA AB1110 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Advanced electrical distributed generation technology.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2009-10-11 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 508, Statutes of 2009. [AB1110 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB1110-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1110	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fuentes

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 216.6 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1110, as introduced, Fuentes. Cogeneration.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations,
as defined. The existing definition of an electrical corporation
excludes a corporation or person employing cogeneration, as defined,
technology or producing electricity from other than a conventional
power source for certain purposes.
   This bill would revise the existing definition of cogeneration
where the use of thermal energy follows the generation of
electricity, to allow technologies that utilize thermal energy
internally to increase overall electrical efficiency to not less than
40% high heat value, as established by the commission.
   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.  Section 216.6 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   216.6.  "Cogeneration" means the sequential use of energy for the
production of electrical and useful thermal energy. The sequence can
be thermal use followed by  power production  
generation of electricity  or the reverse, subject to the
following standards:
   (a) At least 5 percent of the facility's total annual energy
output shall be in the form of useful thermal energy.
   (b) Where useful thermal energy follows  power production,
the   the generation of electricity, either of the
following are true: 
    (1)     The  useful annual 
power   electrical  output plus one-half the useful
annual thermal energy output equals not less than 42.5 percent of
any natural gas and oil energy input. 
   (2) The internal thermal use increases overall electrical
efficiency to not less than 40 percent high heat value, as
established by the commission.