Bill Text: CA AB853 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Electrical and gas corporations: security of plant and facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-11-30 - Died on Senate inactive file. [AB853 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB853-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 853	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Roger Hernández

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to amend Section 1002.3 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to electricity.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 853, as introduced, Roger Hernández. Electrical transmission:
certificates of public convenience and necessity.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations,
as defined. The Public Utilities Act prohibits any electrical
corporation from beginning the construction of, among other things, a
line, plant, or system, or of any extension thereof, without having
first obtained from the commission a certificate that the present or
future public convenience and necessity require or will require that
construction (certificate of public convenience and necessity).
Existing law requires the commission, in considering an application
for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for an electric
transmission facility, to consider cost-effective alternatives to
transmission facilities that meet the need for an efficient,
reliable, and affordable supply of electricity, including demand-side
alternatives such as targeted energy efficiency, ultraclean
distributed generation, as defined, and other demand reduction
resources.
   This bill would include demand response as being amongst the
demand-side alternatives that the commission is to consider.
   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 1002.3 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   1002.3.  In considering an application for a certificate for an
electric transmission facility pursuant to Section 1001, the
commission shall consider cost-effective alternatives to transmission
facilities that meet the need for an efficient, reliable, and
affordable supply of electricity, including, but not limited to,
demand-side alternatives such as targeted energy efficiency, 
demand response,  ultraclean distributed generation, as defined
in Section 353.2, and other demand reduction resources.