Bill Text: CA SB604 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Electricity: transmission and distribution infrastructure: assessment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB604 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB604-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
March 20, 2023 |
Introduced by Senator Wilk |
February 15, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law authorizes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to designate a transmission corridor zone on its own motion or by application of a person who plans to construct a high‑voltage electrical transmission line within the state. Under existing law, designating a transmission corridor zone serves to identify a feasible corridor where future high-voltage electrical transmission lines can be built that are consistent with the state’s needs and objectives as set forth in the strategic plan for the state’s electric transmission grid adopted by the commission.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that accelerating the energy transition requires a steady supply of transmission and distribution infrastructure and equipment. Procurement of electric system equipment is increasing in California as the state readies the electrical grid for carbon neutrality. The supply of these components can be, and has been, imperiled by recent global supply chain constraints.SEC. 2.
Section 25229.5 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:25229.5.
(a) The commission, working with the State Air Resources Board and the Public Utilities Commission, shall prepare a statewide assessment of the supply needs for transmission and distribution infrastructure and equipment that is necessary to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045.(a)The commission may designate a transmission corridor zone on its own motion or by application of a person who plans to construct a high-voltage electrical transmission line within the state. The designation of a transmission corridor zone shall serve to identify a feasible corridor where one or more future high-voltage electrical transmission lines can be built that are consistent with the
state’s needs and objectives as set forth in the strategic plan adopted pursuant to Section 25324.
(b)A person planning to construct a high-voltage electrical transmission line may submit to the commission an application to designate a proposed transmission corridor zone as being consistent with the strategic plan adopted pursuant to Section 25324. The application shall be in the form prescribed by the commission and shall be supported by any information that the commission may require.