Bill Text: CA SB338 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Integrated resource plan: peak demand.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 389, Statutes of 2017. [SB338 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB338-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
April 24, 2017 |
Amended
IN
Senate
March 21, 2017 |
Senate Bill | No. 338 |
Introduced by Senator Skinner (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Mullin) |
February 14, 2017 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law requires the
Public Utilities Commission (PUC) and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to take specified actions in furtherance of meeting the state’s clean energy and pollution reduction objectives, including, among others, taking into account in proceedings associated with meeting the objectives the opportunities to decrease costs and increase benefits using renewable and nonrenewable technologies with zero or lowest feasible emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxic air contaminants onsite.
This bill, on or before January 1, 2020, would require the PUC and the Energy Commission, in consultation with the Independent System Operator, to establish policies or procedures to ensure that electrical service providers meet net-load peak, as defined, energy and reliability needs while minimizing the use of fossil fuels and utilizing low-carbon technologies and electrical grid management strategies, as specified.
The bill would require the PUC, no later than January 1, 2022, and every 4 years thereafter, to make a specified report to the Legislature.
Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the PUC is a crime.
Because the provisions of this bill would be a part of the act and because a violation of an order or decision of the PUC implementing its requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new 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.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 454.52 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:454.52.
(a) (1) Commencing in 2017, and to be updated regularly thereafter, the commission shall adopt a process for each load-serving entity, as defined in Section 380, to file an integrated resource plan, and a schedule for periodic updates to the plan, to ensure that load-serving entities do the following:SEC. 2.
Section 9621 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:9621.
(a) This section shall apply to a local publicly owned electric utility with an annual electrical demand exceeding 700 gigawatthours, as determined on a three-year average commencing January 1, 2013.(c)
(d)
SEC. 3.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act or because 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.The Legislature finds and declares that the intent of establishing a low-cost, low-carbon reliability requirement is to ensure that the state meets its energy goals while reducing the need for new electricity generation and unnecessary new transmission, thus achieving the state’s goals at the least cost to ratepayers.
(a)“Net-load peak” is the daily period of three or more consecutive hours in which the latest of the three hours is the hour of peak demand for electricity, excluding demand met by generation on the customer side of the meter.
(b)On or before January 1, 2020, the commission and the Energy Commission, in consultation with the Independent System Operator, shall establish policies or procedures to ensure that electrical service providers meet net-load peak energy and reliability needs while minimizing the use of fossil fuels and utilizing low-carbon technologies and electrical grid management strategies.
(c)In furtherance of subdivision (a), the commission and the Energy
Commission may consider establishing new targets or requirements for energy technology that minimizes the percent of load met by fossil fuels during net-load peak energy demand and maximizes the use of low-carbon technologies to meet energy and capacity needs, including, but not limited to, any of the following:
(1)Energy storage.
(2)Demand response or demand management technology.
(3)Energy efficiency.
No later than January 1, 2022, and every four years thereafter, the commission shall report to the Legislature on all of the following:
(a)The percent of overall energy needs met through the use of fossil-fueled electrical generation during net-load peak demand, as defined in Section 400.1.
(b)The commission’s efforts to reduce the percentage of energy needs met through the use of fossil-fueled electrical generation.
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.