Bill Text: CA AB1293 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Electricity: rates: proposed investments: data.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1293 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 1293 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Irwin |
February 17, 2017 |
An act to add Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 8400) to Division 4.1 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1293, as amended, Irwin.
Electricity: rates: proposed investments: data.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined, while local publicly owned electric utilities, as defined, are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility, and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable.
This bill would require local publicly owned electric utilities, when adjusting their rates, to collect and analyze data supporting their proposed investments in the electrical grid, and would require each electrical corporation with more than 100,000 customer accounts in California, as part of its general rate case application, to submit data, and an analysis of that data, supporting its proposed investments in the
electrical grid to the commission. The bill would require local publicly owned electric utilities and these electrical corporations grid. The bill would require those utilities to make their that data and analyses analysis publicly available and, upon request, to electronically transfer their that data and analyses
analysis to the requester. The bill would require that the data and analyses analysis be in a digital, machine-readable format.
This bill would require the commission to consider providing the public with access to data, in a digital, machine-readable format, related to proposed investments in the electrical grid by electrical corporations, to the degree that the access is feasible and protects both grid security and privacy.
By imposing additional duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Under existing law, a
violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because a violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing the requirements of the bill would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
It is the intent of the Legislature to require maximum transparency and public review of technical data and analysis supporting proposed investments in the electrical grid by large electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities.SEC. 2.
Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 8400) is added to Division 4.1 of the Public Utilities Code, to read:CHAPTER 7. Ratemaking
8400.
(a) A local publicly owned electric utility, when adjusting its rates, shall collect and analyze data supporting its proposed investments in the electrical grid.(b) The local publicly owned electric utility shall make the data and analysis publicly available, and shall, upon request, electronically transfer the data and analysis to the requester, who shall have flexible access to the information, as determined by the governing body of the local publicly owned electric utility.
(c) The local publicly owned electric utility shall ensure that the data and analysis is secure and that customer information remains
confidential, while also maximizing the accessibility and usefulness of the information, as determined by the governing board of the local publicly owned electric utility.
(d) The data and analysis shall be in a digital, machine-readable format.
(a)An electrical corporation, as part of its general rate case application, shall submit data, and an analysis of that data, supporting its proposed investments in the electrical grid to the commission.
(b)The electrical corporation shall make the data and analysis publicly available, and shall, upon request, electronically transfer the data and analysis to the requester, who shall have flexible access to the information, as determined by the commission.
(c)The electrical corporation shall ensure that the data and analysis is secure and that customer information remains confidential, while also maximizing the accessibility and usefulness of the information, as determined by
the commission.
(d)The data and analysis shall be in a digital, machine-readable format.
(e)This section shall only apply to an electrical corporation with more than 100,000 customer accounts in California.
