Bill Text: CA AB2292 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Electrical transmission facilities: certificates of public convenience and necessity.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 709, Statutes of 2024. [AB2292 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2292-Chaptered.html
Assembly Bill
No. 2292
CHAPTER 709
An act to repeal Section 1002.3 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.
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Approved by
Governor
September 27, 2024.
Filed with
Secretary of State
September 27, 2024.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2292, Petrie-Norris.
Electrical transmission facilities: certificates of public convenience and necessity.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. The Public Utilities Act prohibits any electrical corporation from beginning the construction of a line, plant, or system, or of any extension thereof, without having first obtained from the commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require its construction, except that the extension, expansion, upgrade, or other modification of an existing electrical transmission facility, including transmission lines and substations, does not require a certificate of public convenience and necessity. Existing law requires the commission, in considering an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for an electric transmission facility, to consider cost‑effective alternatives to transmission
facilities that meet the need for an efficient, reliable, and affordable supply of electricity, including demand-side alternatives such as targeted energy efficiency, ultraclean distributed generation, as defined, and other demand reduction resources.
This bill would repeal the latter provision requiring the commission to consider cost-effective alternatives to transmission facilities, as specified.
