Bill Text: CA AB914 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Transmission planning: energy storage and demand response.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB914 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB914-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 914

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Introduced by Assembly Member Mullin

February 16, 2017

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An act to add Section 327.5 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to transmission.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 914, as introduced, Mullin. Transmission planning: energy storage and demand response.

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with jurisdiction over the delivery of electrical services. Existing law provides for the establishment of an Independent System Operator (ISO) as a nonprofit public benefit corporation and requires the ISO to make certain filings with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and to seek authority from FERC as needed to give the ISO the ability to secure generating and transmission resources necessary to guarantee achievement of planning and operating reserve criteria no less stringent than those established by the Western Electricity Coordinating Council and the North American Electric Reliability Council.

This bill would require the commission, in its participation in the ISO’s transmission planning process, to promote the consideration of the use of energy storage systems and demand response as means to address the state’s transmission needs before the use of transmission wires.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 327.5 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:

327.5.

 The commission shall, in its participation in the Independent System Operator’s transmission planning process, promote the consideration of the use of energy storage systems and demand response as means to address the state’s transmission needs before the use of transmission wires.