Bill Text: CA AB1966 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 1966 (Prior Session Legislation)

CA State Legislature page for AB1966

Bill Title: Energy: conventional power sources.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-04-21 - From committee: Without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [AB1966 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1966-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 1966	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 17, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Travis Allen

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2016

   An act to amend Section  2802   2805  of
the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1966, as amended, Travis Allen. Energy:  private energy
producers.   conventional power sources. 
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
jurisdiction over public utilities, including electrical
corporations, as defined. Existing law permits a private energy
producer, as defined, to generate electricity not generated from
conventional sources, as  defined, solely for its own use or
the use of its tenants, or generating electricity to or for any
electrical corporation, heat corporation, state agency, city, county,
district, or an association thereof, but not the public, 
 specified,  without becoming a public utility subject to
the general jurisdiction of the commission.  Under existing law,
  a conventional power source includes, but is not limited
to, power derived from the operation of a hydropower facility greater
than 30 megawatts.  
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
 
   This bill would instead include the operation of a hydropower
facility greater than 35 megawatts as a conventional power source.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 2805 of the   Public
Utilities Code   is amended to read: 
   2805.  "Conventional power source" means power derived from
nuclear energy or the operation of a hydropower facility greater than
 30   35  megawatts or the combustion of
fossil fuels, unless cogeneration technology, as defined in Section
25134 of the Public Resources Code, is employed in the production of
 such   that  power. 
  SECTION 1.    Section 2802 of the Public Utilities
Code is amended to read:
   2802.  "Private energy producer" includes every person,
corporation, city, county, district, and public agency of the state
generating or producing electricity not generated from conventional
sources or natural gas for energy either directly or as a byproduct
solely for its own use or the use of its tenants; or generating or
producing electricity, or owning the means thereof, to or for any
electrical corporation, heat corporation, state agency, city, county,
district, or an association thereof, but not to or for the public
for any other purpose. Notwithstanding any other law, a private
energy producer shall not be found to be a public utility subject to
the general jurisdiction of the commission solely because of
conducting an activity authorized by this chapter.