Bill Text: CA AB813 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Multistate regional transmission system organization: membership.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-08-24 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. [AB813 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB813-Amended.html
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Assembly Bill | No. 813 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Holden (Coauthors: Assembly Members Patterson and Quirk) (Coauthors: Senators Stern and Wieckowski) |
February 15, 2017 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law establishes the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program, which requires the PUC to establish a renewables portfolio standard requiring all retail sellers, defined as including electrical corporations, to procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, so that the total kilowatthours of those products sold to their retail end-use customers achieves certain percentages of retail sales by certain dates. The program additionally requires each local publicly owned electric utility to procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources to achieve the procurement requirements established by the program. The program, consistent with the goals of procuring the least-cost and best-fit eligible
renewable energy resources that meet project viability principles adopted by the commission, requires that all retail sellers and local publicly owned electric utilities procure a balanced portfolio of electricity products from specified categories of eligible renewable energy resources, known as portfolio content categories. Existing law provides that electricity products may be differentiated for these purposes by their impacts on the operation of the electrical grid in supplying electricity, as well as meeting the requirements of the program.
If the ISO becomes a multistate regional transmission system organization and thereafter operates an expanded balancing authority area that includes one or more new participating transmission owners located outside of California, this bill would specify that the boundary of the balancing
authority area used for determining the portfolio content categories is the boundary of the Independent System Operator’s balancing authority area as of December 31, 2018. However, if another balancing authority in California elects to join the ISO’s balancing authority area, the bill would add the facilities of that balancing authority to the ISO’s balancing authority area for purposes of determining the portfolio content categories.
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Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
(a) In enacting this act, it is the intent of the Legislature to enable the transition of the Independent System Operator to a regional governance structure. To that end, it is the intent of the Legislature that the Independent System Operator continue the work it began with stakeholder groups throughout the region that resulted in the “Second Revised Proposal: Principles for Governance of a Regional ISO” published on October 7, 2016 (October 2016 Proposal).SEC. 2.
Section 352 of the Public Utilities Code is repealed.SEC. 3.
Section 359 of the Public Utilities Code is repealed.SEC. 4.
Section 359 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:359.
(a) The Independent System Operator’s Board of Governors may develop and submit to the Energy Commission a governance proposal that complies with each of the requirements of Section 8392. The Independent System Operator shall provide notice and a copy of this submission to the Legislature and the Governor at the same time as it is submitted to the Energy Commission.(a)If the Independent System Operator becomes a multistate regional transmission system organization pursuant to the process set forth in Section 359 and thereafter operates a balancing area that expands beyond the Independent System Operator’s balancing authority area as for December 31, 2018, to include one or more new participating transmission owners located outside of California, the balancing authority area boundary used for determining compliance with the requirements of Section 399.16, except as provided in subdivision (b), shall continue
to be the boundary of the Independent System Operator’s balancing authority area as of December 31, 2018.
(b)If another balancing authority in California elects to join the Independent System Operator’s balancing authority area, the balancing authority used for determining compliance with the requirements of Section 399.16 shall include facilities of that other balancing authority that are added to the Independent System Operator’s balancing authority area.