Bill Text: CA AB448 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Renewable energy resources.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB448 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB448-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 448	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 16, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 19, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Quirk

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2013

   An act to add Section 25305.7 to the Public Resources Code,
relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 448, as amended, Quirk. Renewable energy resources. 
   Existing law establishes the California Renewables Portfolio
Standard Program, which requires the Public Utilities Commission to
implement annual procurement targets for the procurement of eligible
renewable energy resources, as defined, for all retail sellers, as
defined, to achieve the targets and goals of the program. 

   Existing law, the Public Utilities Act, provides for the
establishment of an Independent System Operator, referred to as the
ISO, as an incorporated nonprofit public benefit corporation. The ISO
is required to ensure efficient use and reliable operation of the
transmission grid consistent with achieving certain planning and
operating criteria. 
   Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission to adopt, on a biennial basis, an integrated
energy policy report, containing among other things, an overview of
major energy trends and issues facing the state. 
   This bill would require the State Energy Resources Conservation
and Development Commission to include an assessment of various
aspects of the California Renewables Portfolio Standards Program in
its integrated energy policy report.  
   This bill would require the State Energy Resources Conservation
and Development Commission to include in its integrated energy policy
report an assessment of the flexible capacity required by the ISO to
reliably operate the electrical system as energy resources are
diversified. This bill would require this assessment to include an
evaluation of how any change in flexible capacity to accommodate
energy resource diversification impacts various aspects of the
electrical system. 
   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.  Section 25305.7 is added to the Public Resources Code,
to read:
   25305.7.   (a)    The commission shall include
in its integrated energy policy report an assessment of  all
of the following:   the flexible capacity required by
the Independent System Operator to reliably operate the electrical
system as energy resources are diversified.  
   (b) The assessment in the report shall include an evaluation of
how any change in flexible capacity to accommodate energy resource
diversification impacts each of the following:  
   (1) Greenhouse gas emissions from the electrical system. 

   (2) Air pollution from the electrical system.  
   (3) Reliability within the electrical system.  
   (4) Overall cost to the electrical system.  
   (5) Electrical rates.  
   (a) The costs to electrical corporations for compliance with the
requirements 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).  
   (b) The effect of compliance with the renewables portfolio
standard targets on the price of electricity paid by ratepayers.
 
   (c) The overall impact on air quality that compliance with the
renewables portfolio standard targets is expected to have by December
31, 2020.  
   (d) Whether achieving the renewables portfolio standard target of
generating 33 percent of total retail sales of electricity in
California from eligible renewable energy resources by December 31,
2020, will affect system reliability.  
   (e) Potential options for increasing cost effectiveness and system
reliability in regard to achieving the renewables portfolio standard
targets. 
                      
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