Bill Text: CA AB3232 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Zero-emissions buildings and sources of heat energy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-09-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 373, Statutes of 2018. [AB3232 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB3232-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Zero-emissions buildings and sources of heat energy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-09-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 373, Statutes of 2018. [AB3232 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB3232-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 3232 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Friedman (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bloom, Chiu, and Mark Stone) (Coauthors: Senators Allen and Stern) |
February 16, 2018 |
An act to add Sections 25328 and 25403 to the Public Resources Code, relating to energy.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 3232, as introduced, Friedman.
Zero-emissions buildings and sources of heat energy.
The Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to adopt building design and construction standards and energy and water conservation standards for new residential and nonresidential buildings to reduce the wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, or unnecessary consumption of energy, including energy associated with the use of water. The act requires those standards to be cost effective when taken in their entirety and when amortized over the economic life of the structure compared with historic practice.
This bill would require the Energy Commission, by January 1, 2020, to establish a plan to achieve the goal that all new residential and nonresidential buildings built on or after January 1, 2030, to be zero-emission buildings, as
defined, and to develop a strategy to achieve a reduction in the emissions of greenhouse gases from the state’s residential and nonresidential building stock of 50% below 1990 levels by January 1, 2030. The bill would require the Energy Commission, by January 1, 2020, to develop standards for use by electrical corporations, gas corporations, local publicly owned electric utilities, and local publicly owned gas utilities for reporting the emissions of greenhouse gases associated with the supply of energy to their customers, on a geographic area basis. The bill would require those utilities to report those emissions to the Energy Commission and would require the Energy Commission to make those reports publicly available. By requiring local publicly owned electric and gas utilities to submit this report, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts
for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) Chapter 249 of the Statutes of 2016 directs the state to achieve a reduction in the emissions of greenhouse gases of 40% below 1990 levels by 2030.
(2) Building-related emissions are the second largest category of emissions of greenhouse gases in the state, accounting for 25% of all emissions of greenhouse gases.
(3) Direct emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels in buildings, primarily for space and water heating, accounts for 10% of all emissions of greenhouse gases in California.
(4) Approximately half of all energy used in buildings in California is in the form of on-site combustion of fossil fuels.
(5) The state has many ambitious energy efficiency building goals. Chapter 470 of the Statutes of 2009 requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to establish a comprehensive program to achieve greater energy savings in the state’s existing residential and nonresidential building stock. The Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act of 2015 (Chapter 547 of the Statutes of 2015) establishes a goal of achieving a cumulative doubling of statewide energy efficiency savings in electricity and natural gas final end uses of retail customers by January 1, 2030. However, the state has not established greenhouse gas emission reduction goals for buildings.
(6) Decarbonizing
California’s buildings is essential to achieve the state’s greenhouse gas emission reduction goals at the lowest possible cost.
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to do both of the following:
(1) Establish the goal that new residential and nonresidential buildings built on or after January 1, 2030, should be zero-greenhouse-gas-emission buildings.
(2) Achieve significant reduction in the emissions of greenhouse gases in the state’s building stock by January 1, 2030.
SEC. 2.
Section 25328 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:25328.
(a) On or before January 1, 2020, the commission shall develop reporting standards for use by electrical corporations, gas corporations, local publicly owned electric utilities, and local publicly owned gas utilities to report the emissions of greenhouse gases associated with the supply of energy to their residential and commercial customers, on a geographic area basis as determined by the commission.(b) (1) Each electrical corporation, gas corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, and local publicly owned gas utility, using the standards developed pursuant to subdivision (a), shall report to the commission the emissions of greenhouse gases associated with its supply of energy.
(2) The commission shall make the reports publicly available on its Internet Web site.
SEC. 3.
Section 25403 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:25403.
(a) For purposes of this section, “zero-emission building” means a building with operational parameters that result in zero or negative emissions of greenhouse gases, as measured on an annual basis, when considering the hourly marginal emissions factors from both thermal fuels and electricity at the time when energy is used in the building.(b) By January 1, 2020, the commission shall do both of the following:
(1) Develop a plan to achieve the goal that all new residential and nonresidential buildings built on or after January 1, 2030, be zero-emission buildings.
(2) Establish a strategy to achieve a reduction in the
emissions of greenhouse gases by the state’s residential and nonresidential building stock of 50 percent below the 1990 levels by January 1, 2030.
(c) The plan and strategy shall include the adoption of policy changes needed in the regulations adopted pursuant to Section 25402 to achieve the goals specified in subdivision (b) and incentive programs that may be authorized by the Public Utilities Commission to transform the market for low-emission space and water heating technologies.
