Bill Text: CA AB3014 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 3014 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: California Reliability Authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-05 - Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. [AB3014 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB3014-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 3014

Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi

February 21, 2020

An act to add Division 1.6 (commencing with Section 3400) to the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 3014, as introduced, Muratsuchi. Electricity: centralized procurement.

Existing law provides for the establishment of a Power Exchange as a nonprofit public benefit corporation. Existing law requires the Power Exchange to provide an efficient competitive auction, open on a nondiscriminatory basis to all electricity suppliers, that meets the loads of all exchange customers at efficient prices.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to establish a residual resource adequacy centralized procurement structure in California to help ensure the reliability of the state’s electrical system.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

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

SECTION 1.

Division 1.6 (commencing with Section 3400) is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:

DIVISION 1.6. Residual Resource Adequacy Centralized Procurement

3400.

It is the intent of the Legislaure to establish a residual resource adequacy centralized procurement structure in California to help ensure the reliability of the state’s electrical system.