Bill Text: CA AB2779 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Independent System Operator: transmission planning.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-18 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. [AB2779 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2779-Amended.html
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Amended
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June 10, 2024 |
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March 21, 2024 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2779
| Introduced by Assembly Member Petrie-Norris |
February 15, 2024 |
An act to add Section 350 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2779, as amended, Petrie-Norris.
Independent System Operator: transmission planning.
Existing law establishes the Independent System operator as a nonprofit, public benefit corporation to manage the transmission grid and related energy markets, as provided.
This bill would require the Independent System Operator, upon approval of each transmission plan, to report to the Public Utilities Commission and to the relevant policy committees of each house of the Legislature any new use of any grid enhancing technology that is deemed reasonable by the Independent System Operator in that plan and the cost or and efficiency savings of the deployment of that grid enhancing technology.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 350 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:350.
(a) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, upon approval by the Independent System Operator of each transmission plan produced through the transmission planning process, or a successor process, the Independent System Operator shall report to the commission and the relevant policy committees of both houses of the Legislature any new use of any grid enhancing technology that is deemed reasonable by the Independent System Operator in that plan and the costs(b) The report submitted to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted in accordance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
