Bill Text: CA SB501 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Retail hydrogen refueling stations: reliability and service quality plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB501 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB501-Amended.html
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SECTION 1.
Bill Title: Retail hydrogen refueling stations: reliability and service quality plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB501 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB501-Amended.html
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Amended
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March 20, 2023 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 501
| Introduced by Senator Newman |
February 14, 2023 |
An act relating to greenhouse gases. to add Section 43871.5 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 501, as amended, Newman.
California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations. Hydrogen refueling stations: reliability and service quality plan.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Pursuant to the act, the state board has adopted the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations.
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in partnership with the state board and in consultation with other state agencies, as specified, to develop and adopt a state plan to increase the use of alternative transportation fuels, which includes hydrogen. Existing law requires the energy commission, in consultation with the
state board and the Public Utilities Commission, to prepare a statewide assessment of the fuel cell electric vehicle fueling infrastructure and fuel production needed to support the adoption of zero-emission vehicles, as specified.
This bill would require the energy commission to develop a plan for improving reliability, service quality, and operational uptime of retail hydrogen fueling stations, would require specified metrics for measuring reliability, and would require the use of a public workshop process to develop the measures. The bill would require hydrogen refueling stations to maintain a publicly available online customer feedback portal, post the online address for the portal in a place clearly visible to a customer during refueling, and disqualify a refueling station from receiving publicly funded grants if it fails to comply. The bill would require
the energy commission to convene a public workshop process to create additional feedback portal requirements.
This bill would require the energy commission to use the data collected under these provisions to develop numerical scales for station operator and station quality rankings, as specified. The bill would require the energy commission to create an internet website with an interactive map of every hydrogen refueling station in the state that provides specified information for each station.
This bill would require the state board to develop a performance penalty and quality bonus wherein the poorest performing stations would have a percentage of their Low-Carbon Fuel Standard credits withheld each quarter and those credits would be awarded to the highest performing stations.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation relating to the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations to create a credit-based accountability mechanism to enforce hydrogen refueling station reliability.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 43871.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:43871.5.
(a) The State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission shall do all of the following:(1) Develop a plan for improving the reliability, service quality, and operational uptime of retail hydrogen fueling stations in California.
(2) Convene a public workshop process to develop measures of reliability and service quality at retail hydrogen fueling stations that includes, but is not limited to, the following metrics:
(A) Uptime, defined as the percentage of time each individual pump is operational or nonoperational.
(B) Fuel
availability, defined as both the percentage and the length of time stations lack sufficient saleable hydrogen onsite, to be defined as 20 kilograms of hydrogen.
(C) The number of refuelings that occur per hour.
(D) The percentage of refuelings that are partial refuelings.
(E) Technician response time, defined as the length of time between which station operators become aware a pump is nonoperational and when a technician, who is an employee or contractor trained and equipped to diagnose and repair malfunctions, arrives onsite.
(3) Collect data on measures of reliability and service quality for any retail hydrogen refueling station that has received a public grant. Retail hydrogen refueling station operators shall report any and all data requested by
the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission as necessary to conform with these provisions.
(4) Direct retail hydrogen refueling stations to maintain an online customer feedback portal. The internet website address for the customer feedback portal shall be prominently displayed, conform to all relevant accessibility or disability standards, and be clearly visible to a customer during refueling. The portal shall allow rated customer feedback on, but not limited to, station cleanliness and the estimated wait time to refuel. Failure to provide a customer feedback portal shall disqualify the refueling station from receiving publicly funded grants.
(5) Convene a public workshop process to develop additional measures for inclusion in the customer feedback portal.
(6) Utilizing the data collected
pursuant to this section, develop a station quality ranking that will assign a performance ranking on a numerical scale for all retail hydrogen refueling stations.
(7) Utilizing the data collected pursuant to this section, develop a station operator ranking that will assign a performance ranking on a numerical scale for all retail hydrogen refueling stations.
(8) Publish all data collected pursuant to this section on a publicly accessible internet website that displays all retail hydrogen refueling stations on an interactive map that provides a user with all of the following information for each station:
(A) Station address.
(B) Station operator.
(C) Number of pumps, differentiating
between H35 and H70 nozzles.
(D) Operational status of each pump onsite.
(E) Aggregate uptime of pumps, differentiating between H35 and H70 nozzles.
(F) Volume of saleable hydrogen fuel.
(G) Retail cost per kilogram of hydrogen.
(H) Historical average number of refuelings per hour, displayed by hour of the day.
(b) The state board shall develop a performance penalty for the poorest performing retail hydrogen refueling stations and a quality bonus for the highest performing stations. The performance penalty shall consist of a withholding of a percentage of credits generated each quarter issued to the station under the
Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations (Subarticle 7 (commencing with Section 95480) of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations). The withheld credits shall be awarded to the highest performing stations as a quality bonus.
It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation relating to the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations adopted by the State Air Resources Board pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 38500) of the Health and Safety Code) to create a credit-based accountability mechanism to enforce hydrogen refueling station reliability.
