Bill Text: CA SB18 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hydrogen: green hydrogen: emissions of greenhouse gases.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-08-26 - August 26 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB18 Detail]
Download: California-2021-SB18-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
June 21, 2021 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
June 07, 2021 |
Amended
IN
Senate
May 20, 2021 |
Amended
IN
Senate
May 03, 2021 |
Amended
IN
Senate
March 23, 2021 |
Introduced by Senator Skinner (Coauthor: Senator Eggman) |
December 07, 2020 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
(3)Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) in consultation with the Independent System Operator, to establish resource adequacy requirements for all load-serving entities to ensure reliability of electrical services in California while advancing, to the extent feasible, the state’s goals for clean energy, reducing air pollution, and reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.
Except as provided, this bill would require the PUC to modify the resource adequacy requirements and accounting rules to provide equal consideration for dispatchable local and system resource adequacy resources made from green electrolytic hydrogen. The bill would require the PUC, in any rulemaking proceeding related to energy storage, commenced after December 31, 2021, to consider green electrolytic hydrogen as part of encouraging
electrical resource portfolio diversity.
(4)
Digest Key
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) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 38561.7 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:38561.7.
(a) Not later than December 31, 2022, as part of the scoping plan prepared pursuant to Section 38561 and the state’s goal for carbon neutrality, the state board shall prepare(2)
SEC. 3.
Section 25307 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:25307.
(a) For purposes of this section, “decarbonizing” means reducing or eliminating associated emissions of greenhouse gases.(a)Except as provided in subdivision (b), the commission shall modify the resource adequacy requirements established pursuant to Section 380 and accounting rules to provide equal consideration for dispatchable local and system resource adequacy resources made from green electrolytic hydrogen, as defined in Section 400.2.
(b)If insufficient information exists to consider a hydrogen resource pursuant to subdivision (a), the commission may make a finding that the resource cannot be considered for resource adequacy purposes.
In any rulemaking proceeding related to energy storage, commenced after December 31, 2021, the commission shall consider green electrolytic hydrogen, as defined in Section 400.2, as part of encouraging electrical resource portfolio diversity.