Bill Text: CA AB2789 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2789 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: distributed energy resources: study.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-17 - Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. [AB2789 Detail]

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2789

Introduced by Assembly Member Kamlager

February 20, 2020

An act to add Section 913.16 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity, and making an appropriation therefor.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2789, as introduced, Kamlager. Electricity: electrical grid outages: cost avoidance: study.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law requests the California Council on Science and Technology to undertake and complete a study analyzing the regional and gas corporation specific issues relating to minimum heating value and maximum siloxane specifications adopted by the commission for biomethane before it can be injected into common carrier gas pipelines. Existing law, until January 1, 2023, requests the council, upon request by the chairperson of a fiscal committee or certain policy committees of either the Assembly or Senate, the Speaker of the Assembly, or the President pro Tempore of the Senate, and if the council determines it has sufficient funds, to undertake and complete an analysis of the effects of legislation proposing to mandate procurement of electricity products, gas products, energy storage resources, or electrical or gas infrastructure by an electrical corporation, gas corporation, community choice aggregator, electric service provider, local publicly owned electric or gas utility, or any state-level energy procurement entity.

This bill would require the PUC, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to request the council to undertake and complete a study, as specified, relative to electrical grid outages and cost avoidance resulting from deployment of eligible renewable energy resources, battery storage systems, and demand response technologies. The bill would require the PUC to report the results of the study to the Legislature by January 1, 2022. The bill would appropriate $1,500,000 to the PUC for the study.

Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: YES Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 913.16 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:

913.16.

(a) The commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, shall request the California Council on Science and Technology to undertake and complete a study to determine all of the following:

(1) The economic impacts of electrical grid outages, both planned and unplanned.

(2) The potential to reduce the extent of grid outages by shifting to a more flexible and decentralized electrical system.

(3) The total value of avoided electrical transmission and distribution infrastructure avoided by installed capacity of behind-the-meter distributed eligible renewable energy resources in existence at the time of the study.

(4) The estimated value of electrical transmission and distribution infrastructure that may be avoided by behind-the-meter eligible renewable energy resources, battery energy storage systems, and demand response technologies between 2020 and 2040, under various transportation and building end-use electrification scenarios.

(b) The results of the study shall be reported to the Legislature by January 1, 2022.

SEC. 2.

The amount of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the commission study authorized by Section 913.16 of the Public Utilities Code.