Bill Text: CA SB662 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Energy: transportation sector: hydrogen.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-06-25 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. [SB662 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB662-Amended.html
Amended
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Assembly
June 25, 2020 |
Amended
IN
Senate
April 30, 2019 |
Amended
IN
Senate
April 11, 2019 |
Introduced by Senator Archuleta (Coauthors: Senators Jones and Stern) (Coauthor: Assembly Member Mayes) |
February 22, 2019 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
This bill would additionally require the PUC and Energy Commission to take into account opportunities to increase grid-responsive production of green electrolytic hydrogen for use in the transportation sector.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
(a) This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Hydrogen Transportation Electrification Act of 2020.SEC. 2.
Section 43869 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:43869.
(a) The state board shall, no later than July 1, 2008, develop and, after at least two public workshops, adopt hydrogen fuel regulations to ensure the following:SECTION 1.SEC. 3.
Section 237.5 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:237.5.
“Transportation electrification” means the use of electricity from external sources, including the electrical grid, to power, in whole or in part, vehicles, vessels, trains, boats, or other equipment that are mobile sources of air pollution and greenhouse gases and the related programs and charging, fueling, and propulsion infrastructure investments to enable and encourage this use of electricity. Transportation electrification also includesThe commission and the Energy Commission shall do all of the following in furtherance of meeting the state’s clean energy and pollution reduction objectives:
(a)Take into account the use of distributed generation to the extent that it provides economic and environmental benefits in disadvantaged communities identified pursuant to Section 39711 of the Health and Safety Code.
(b)(1)Take into account the opportunities to decrease costs and increase benefits, including pollution reduction and grid integration, using renewable and nonrenewable technologies with zero or lowest feasible emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria
pollutants, and toxic air contaminants onsite in proceedings associated with meeting the objectives.
(2)Take into account opportunities to increase grid-responsive production of green electrolytic hydrogen for use in the transportation sector.
(c)Where feasible, authorize procurement of resources to provide grid reliability services that minimize reliance on system power and fossil fuel resources and, where feasible, cost effective, and consistent with other state policy objectives, increase the use of large- and small-scale energy storage with a variety of technologies,
including green electrolytic hydrogen, targeted energy efficiency, demand response, including, but not limited to, automated demand response, eligible renewable energy resources,
or other renewable and nonrenewable technologies with zero or lowest feasible emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxic air contaminants onsite to protect system reliability.
(d)(1)Review technology incentive, research, development, deployment, and market facilitation programs overseen by the commission and the Energy Commission and make recommendations to advance state clean energy and pollution reduction objectives and provide benefits to disadvantaged communities identified pursuant to Section 39711 of the Health and Safety Code.
(2)The Energy Commission shall review technology incentive, research, development, deployment, and market facilitation programs operating in California and overseen by academia and the
private and nonprofit sectors, and make recommendations to advance state clean energy and pollution reduction objectives and
provide benefits to disadvantaged communities identified pursuant to Section 39711 of the Health and Safety Code.
(e)To the extent feasible and consistent with the state and federal constitutions, give first priority to the manufacture and deployment of clean energy and pollution reduction technologies that create employment opportunities in California, including high wage, highly skilled employment opportunities, and increased investment in the state.
(f)Establish a publicly available tracking system to provide up-to-date information at least once annually on progress toward meeting the clean energy and pollution reduction goals of the Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act of 2015.
(g)(1)Establish a disadvantaged community advisory group consisting of representatives from disadvantaged communities identified pursuant to Section 39711 of the Health and Safety Code. The disadvantaged community advisory group shall review and provide advice on programs proposed to achieve clean energy and pollution reduction and determine whether those proposed programs will be effective and useful in disadvantaged communities.
(2)Each member of the disadvantaged community advisory group shall receive per diem and shall be reimbursed for travel and other necessary expenses incurred in the performance of the member’s duties under this section. The total amount of money expended
for panel expenses pursuant to this paragraph shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) per year.
(3)For the purposes of paragraph (2), per diem, travel and other necessary expenses shall be funded equally by the commission and the Energy Commission.
SEC. 3.SEC. 4.
Section 400.3 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:400.3.
The commission, State Air Resources Board, and Energy Commission shall consider green electrolytic hydrogen an eligible form of energy storage, and shall consider other potential uses of green electrolytic hydrogen, including its use as an alternative transportation fuel.SEC. 5.
Section 740.3 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:740.3.
(a) The commission, in cooperation with the Energy Commission, the State Air Resources Board, air quality management districts and air pollution control districts,SEC. 4.SEC. 6.
Section 740.8 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:740.8.
As used in Section 740.3 or 740.12, “interests” of ratepayers, short- or long-term, mean direct benefits that are specific to ratepayers, consistent with both of the following:SEC. 5.SEC. 7.
Section 740.12 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:740.12.
(a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(2)The commission may consider proposed programs and investments in hydrogen fueling infrastructure and the production of green electrolytic hydrogen as a transportation fuel via a reasonable cost recovery mechanism if they are safe, cost-effective for ratepayers, do not result in duplicative transportation electrification investments, are consistent with this section, do not unfairly compete with nonutility enterprises as required under Section 740.3, include performance accountability measures, and are in the interests of ratepayers as defined in Section 740.8.
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