Bill Text: CA SB371 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 371 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Electrical corporations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-31 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB371 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB371-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 371	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Blakeslee

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2011

   An act to amend Section 218 of the Public Utilities Code, relating
to electrical corporations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 371, as introduced, Blakeslee. Electrical corporations.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations,
as defined.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive, technical revision to the
definition of an electrical corporation.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 218 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
   218.  (a) "Electrical corporation" includes every corporation or
person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any electric plant
for compensation within this state, except where electricity is
generated on or distributed by the producer through private property
solely for its own use or the use of its tenants and not for sale or
transmission to others.
   (b) "Electrical corporation" does not include a corporation or
person employing cogeneration technology or producing  power
  electricity  from other than a conventional power
source for the generation of electricity solely for any one or more
of the following purposes:
   (1) Its own use or the use of its tenants.
   (2) The use of or sale to not more than two other corporations or
persons solely for use on the real property on which the electricity
is generated or on real property immediately adjacent thereto, unless
there is an intervening public street constituting the boundary
between the real property on which the electricity is generated and
the immediately adjacent property and one or more of the following
applies:
   (A) The real property on which the electricity is generated and
the immediately adjacent real property is not under common ownership
or control, or that common ownership or control was gained solely for
purposes of sale of the electricity so generated and not for other
business purposes.
   (B) The useful thermal output of the facility generating the
electricity is not used on the immediately adjacent property for
petroleum production or refining.
   (C) The electricity furnished to the immediately adjacent property
is not utilized by a subsidiary or affiliate of the corporation or
person generating the electricity.
   (3) Sale or transmission to an electrical corporation or state or
local public agency, but not for sale or transmission to others,
unless the corporation or person is otherwise an electrical
corporation.
   (c) "Electrical corporation" does not include a corporation or
person employing landfill gas technology for the generation of
electricity for any one or more of the following purposes:
   (1) Its own use or the use of not more than two of its tenants
located on the real property on which the electricity is generated.
   (2) The use of or sale to not more than two other corporations or
persons solely for use on the real property on which the electricity
is generated.
   (3) Sale or transmission to an electrical corporation or state or
local public agency.
   (d) "Electrical corporation" does not include a corporation or
person employing digester gas technology for the generation of
electricity for any one or more of the following purposes:
   (1) Its own use or the use of not more than two of its tenants
located on the real property on which the electricity is generated.
   (2) The use of or sale to not more than two other corporations or
persons solely for use on the real property on which the electricity
is generated.
   (3) Sale or transmission to an electrical corporation or state or
local public agency, if the sale or transmission of the electricity
service to a retail customer is provided through the transmission
system of the existing local publicly owned electric utility or
electrical corporation of that retail customer.
   (e) "Electrical corporation" does not include an independent solar
energy producer, as defined in Article 3 (commencing with Section
2868) of Chapter 9 of Part 2.
   (f) The amendments made to this section at the 1987 portion of the
1987-88 Regular Session of the Legislature do not apply to any
corporation or person employing cogeneration technology or producing
power from other than a conventional power source for the generation
of electricity that physically produced electricity prior to January
1, 1989, and furnished that electricity to immediately adjacent real
property for use thereon prior to January 1, 1989.