Bill Text: CA SB386 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: irrigation districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB386 Detail]

Download: California-2019-SB386-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 386

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Introduced by Senator Caballero

February 20, 2019

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An act to add Section 399.12.4 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 386, as introduced, Caballero. California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: irrigation districts.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities, including a district formed pursuant to the Irrigation District Law, are under the direction of their governing boards. The California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program requires the commission to establish a renewables portfolio standard requiring all retail sellers, defined as including electrical corporations, electric service providers, and community choice aggregators, to procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, so that the total kilowatthours of those products sold to their retail end-use customers achieves 25% of retail sales by December 31, 2016, 33% by December 31, 2020, 44% by December 31, 2024, 52% by December 31, 2027, and 60% by December 31, 2030. The program additionally requires each local publicly owned electric utility to procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources to achieve the procurement requirements established by the program. For these purposes, eligible renewable energy resources include small hydroelectric generation facilities of 30 megawatts or less, conduit hydroelectric facilities, and the incremental increase in electrical generation resulting from efficiency improvements of existing small hydroelectric facilities.

This bill would provide that hydroelectric generation that is owned by one or more irrigation districts is an eligible renewable energy resource for purposes of the program if it has a first point of interconnection with a California balancing authority or has a first point of interconnection with distribution facilities used to serve end users within a California balancing authority area.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 399.12.4 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:

399.12.4.

 (a) For purposes of this section, “irrigation district” means a district formed pursuant to the Irrigation District Law set forth in Division 11 (commencing with Section 20500) of the Water Code.

(b) Notwithstanding Sections 399.12 and 399.12.5, hydroelectric generation that is owned by one or more irrigation districts is an eligible renewable energy resource for purposes of this article if it has a first point of interconnection with a California balancing authority or has a first point of interconnection with distribution facilities used to serve end users within a California balancing authority area.