Bill Text: CA AB66 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Electricity: system reliability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-10-05 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 578, Statutes of 2013. [AB66 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB66-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 66	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 8, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 14, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Muratsuchi

                        JANUARY 7, 2013

   An act to add Section 2774.1 to the Public Utilities Code,
relating to  the Public Utilities Commission.  
electricity. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 66, as amended, Muratsuchi.  Economic development.
  Electricity: system reliability.  
   Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish
priority among the types or categories of customers of an electrical
corporation. In the event the electrical corporation experiences a
shortage in capacity or capability in the generation, production, or
transmission of electricity and is unable to obtain electricity from
alternative sources to meet all of its customers' demand, existing
law authorizes the commission to order a temporary reduction in
service in an amount that reflects the priority established by the
commission.  
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations,
as defined. The Public Utilities Act authorizes the commission to
ascertain and fix just and reasonable standards, classifications,
regulations, practices, measurements, or service to be furnished,
imposed, observed, and followed by specified public utilities,
including all electrical corporations. If the commission finds after
a hearing that the rules, practices, equipment, appliances,
facilities, or service of any public utility, or of the methods of
manufacture, distribution, transmission, storage, or supply employed
by the public utility, are unjust, unreasonable, unsafe, improper,
inadequate, or insufficient, the act requires that the commission
determine and, by order or rule, fix the rules, practices, equipment,
appliances, facilities, service, or methods to be observed,
furnished, constructed, enforced, or employed. Under existing law, a
violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule,
direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. 

   This bill would require the commission to require an electrical
corporation  to publish and maintain on the electrical
corporation's Internet Web site a report describing local level
  include in an annual reliability report, information
on  system reliability  problems. The bill would require
the report to be updated at least quarterly.  ,
including the frequency and duration of interruptions in services
ranked by areas with both the most frequent and longest outages. The
bill would require the commission to use the information to require
remediation of reliability deficiencies if the report, or more than
one report, identifies   repeated deficiencies in the same
region.  Because a violation of any order, decision, rule,
direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime, this
bill would impose a state-mandated local program  by expanding
the definition of a crime  .
   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.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 2774.1 is added to the Public Utilities Code,
to read:
   2774.1.   (a)    The commission shall require an
electrical corporation  to publish and maintain on the
electrical corporation's Internet Web site a report describing local
level   include in an annual reliability report,
information on  system reliability  problems  ,
including, but not limited to, the frequency and duration of
interruptions in services ranked by areas with both the most frequent
and longest outages. The  report shall be updated at least
quarterly.   information shall be sufficiently
aggregated to maintain electrical system security.  
   (b) The commission shall use the information contained in an
electrical corporation's annual reliability report to require
remediation of reliability deficiencies if the report, or more than
one report, identifies repeated deficiencies in the same region. In
requiring remediation, the commission may consider mitigating factors
that may impede an electrical corporation from implementing required
remediation, including local permitting matters or other events that
may present higher priority safety or reliability issues.  

   (c) (1) The commission may order an electrical corporation to make
more frequent trend analyses of regional service reliability and to
make those analyses publicly available.  
    (2) The information made publicly available shall provide
sufficient confidentiality for purposes of protecting electrical
system security.  
   (3) The commission may make those analyses publicly available.

   SEC. 2.    It is the intent of the Legislature in
adding Section 2774.1 to the Public Utilities Code, that the required
system reliability information be included in the annual report
required by the Public Utilities Commission in Decision 96-09-045
(September 4, 1996), while preserving the discretion of the
commission to modify an electrical corporation's reporting
requirements. 
   SEC. 2.   SEC. 3.   No reimbursement is
required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the
California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred
by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this
act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or
infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within
the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the
definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII
B of the California Constitution.