Bill Text: CA AB33 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Electrical corporations: energy storage systems: long duration bulk energy storage resources.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-26 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 680, Statutes of 2016. [AB33 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: AB 33	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 6, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Quirk

                        DECEMBER 1, 2014

   An act to add  and repeal Section   Sections
 38561.5  of   and 38561.7 to  the
Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 33, as amended, Quirk. California Global Warming Solutions Act
of 2006:  scoping plan.   Climate Change
Advisory Council. 
   The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes
the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for
monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act
requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas
emissions limit, as defined, to be achieved by 2020 equivalent to the
statewide greenhouse gas emissions levels in 1990. The act requires
the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving
the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in
greenhouse gas emissions.  The act requires the scoping plan
to be updated at least once every 5 years.  
   This bill, until January 1, 2020, would require, for purposes of
advising the update of the next scoping plan, the state board to
develop specified information by July 1, 2016. The bill would require
the state board on or before January 1, 2017, to submit a report to
the appropriate committees of the Legislature on the specified
information. The bill would provide that the specified information is
intended to assist in establishing state policy and does not change
any statute, regulation, or regulatory decision.  
   This bill would establish the Climate Change Advisory Council in
state government and would assign the council specified duties,
including, among others, developing an analysis of various strategies
to achieve the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit. The bill
also would require the state board to establish consistent metrics to
accurately quantify reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, quantify
public health benefits, and measure the cost-effectiveness of the
various strategies identified by the council. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) Climate change is a global emissions problem.
   (b) California is responsible for approximately 1 percent of the
world's global greenhouse gas emissions and, thus, needs to address
the problem of climate change with a global perspective.
   (c) Significant technological advances and major policy
initiatives that can be deployed at scale in developed and developing
countries will be necessary to transition away from fossil fuel as
the primary fuel source to allow the developed and developing
countries of the world to achieve low-carbon economic growth.
   (d) It is in the best interest of the state to ensure that
greenhouse gas  emissions  reduction goals are achievable by
strategies that other states and countries could reasonably adopt.
   (e) Demonstrating effective climate change policy can increase the
likelihood that other states and countries will follow California's
lead, which is necessary for the state to have a significant effect
on the global climate change problem.
   SEC. 2.    Section 38561.5 is added to the  
Health and Safety Code   , to read:  
   38561.5.  (a) The Climate Change Advisory Council is hereby
established in state government, and it shall consist of all of the
following:
   (1) The chair of the state board, or his or her designee.
   (2) The president of the Public Utilities Commission, or his or
her designee.
   (3) The chair of the governing board of the California Independent
System Operator, or his or her designee.
   (4) The chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, or his
or her designee.
   (5) The chair of the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission, or his or her designee.
   (b) The council, as recommendations for inclusion in the scoping
plan developed pursuant to Section 38561, shall complete all of the
following:
   (1) Develop an analysis of various strategies to achieve the
statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, including, but not limited
to, all of the following:
   (A) Strategies necessary for the energy grid to integrate a
40-percent, a 50-percent, and a greater than 50-percent standard as
part of the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program (Article
16 (commencing with Section 399.11) of Chapter 2.3 of Part 1 of
Division 1 of the Public Utilities Code) in order to minimize and
eliminate over-generation and the need for curtailment, including,
but not limited to, all of the following:
   (i) Deepening regional coordination in the western
interconnection.
   (ii) Increasing energy storage.
   (iii) Retrofitting existing baseload electrical generation
facilities in order that they may perform as peaking electrical
generation facilities.
   (iv) Using renewable energy generation facilities as peaking
electrical generation facilities.
   (v) Allowing for very low-carbon-fossil-fuel peaking electrical
generation facilities by deploying carbon capture and storage.
   (vi) Encouraging demand response through both of the following:
   (I) Transitioning to time-of-use pricing for residential
buildings.
   (II) Increasing customer access to real-time or near-real-time
energy usage data.
   (B) Strategies to increase energy efficiency in both commercial
and residential buildings, including, but not limited to, all of the
following:
   (i) Validating existing energy efficiency programs against actual
energy usage data.
   (ii) Optimizing heating and cooling systems.
   (iii) Transitioning to the electrification of buildings.
   (C) Strategies to advance the transportation sector, including,
but not limited to, all of the following:
   (i) Increasing the fuel economy of light-duty vehicles.
   (ii) Examining strategies for reducing emissions from heavy-duty
vehicles, such as through the use of natural gas, biogas, and
biodiesel.
   (iii) Increasing the market for low-carbon and very low-carbon
fuels.
   (iv) Building electric vehicle infrastructure and low-carbon and
very low-carbon vehicle infrastructure.
   (2) Develop an economic assessment using the best available
economic models and data of the various greenhouse gas emissions
reduction strategies required to achieve the statewide greenhouse gas
emissions limit.
   (3) Develop an analysis of the benefits to the health, safety, and
welfare of state residents, worker safety, the state's environment
and quality of life, and any other benefits associated with the
various greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategies to achieve the
statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit.
   (c) The information developed pursuant to subdivision (b) is
intended to assist in establishing state policy and does not change
any statute, regulation, or regulatory decision. 
   SEC. 3.    Section 38561.7 is adde   d to
the  Health and Safety Code   , to read:  

   38561.7.  The state board shall establish consistent metrics to
accurately quantify reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, quantify
public health benefits, and measure the cost-effectiveness of the
various strategies identified by the Climate Change Advisory Council
pursuant to Section 38561.5 in order to achieve the statewide
greenhouse gas emissions limit.  
  SEC. 2.    Section 38561.5 is added to the Health
and Safety Code, to read:
   38561.5.  (a) On or before July 1, 2016, for purposes of advising
the update of the next scoping plan pursuant to subdivision (h) of
Section 38561, the state board shall develop a proposal consistent
with Sections 38550 and 38551 that includes all of the following:
   (1) A proposed goal that further reduces greenhouse gas emissions
by 2040.
   (2) A proposed goal that further reduces greenhouse gas emissions
beyond the 2040 goal by 2050.
   (3) A proposed goal for 2030 that includes all of the following:
   (A) An evaluation of the 2030 goal based on what policies and
technologies can be scaled to the rest of the country and the world.
   (B) An economic assessment using the best available economic
models and data of the various greenhouse gas emissions-reduction
strategies required to achieve the 2030 goal. The economic assessment
shall include a marginal cost analysis.
   (C) An analysis of the benefits to the health, safety, and welfare
of state residents, worker safety, the state's environment and
quality of life, and any other benefits associated with the various
greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategies to achieve the 2030
goal.
   (D) The establishment of consistent metrics to accurately quantify
reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, quantify public health
benefits, and measure the cost-effectiveness of various policies and
technologies.
   (b) (1) On or before January 1, 2017, the state board shall submit
to the appropriate committees of the Legislature the information
developed pursuant to subdivision (a).
   (2) A report to be submitted pursuant to this subdivision shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
   (c) The information developed pursuant to subdivision (a) is
intended to assist in establishing state policy and does not change
any statute, regulation, or regulatory decision.
   (d) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2020, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2020, deletes or extends
that date.