Bill Text: CA SB676 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Transportation electrification: electric vehicles: grid integration.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-02 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 484, Statutes of 2019. [SB676 Detail]

Download: California-2019-SB676-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Senate  March 27, 2019

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 676

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Introduced by Senator Bradford

February 22, 2019

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An act to add Section 740.16 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to transportation electrification.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 676, as amended, Bradford. Transportation electrification: electric vehicles. vehicles: grid integration.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires the PUC, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, Commission (Energy Commission), the State Air Resources Board, electrical corporations, and the motor vehicle industry, to evaluate policies to develop infrastructure sufficient to overcome any barriers to the widespread deployment and use of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. Existing law requires the PUC, in consultation with the Energy Commission and the State Air Resources Board, to direct electrical corporations to file applications for programs and investments to accelerate widespread transportation electrification to achieve specified results. Existing law requires the PUC to approve, or modify and approve, programs and investments in transportation electrification, including those that deploy charging infrastructure, through a reasonable cost recovery mechanism if they are consistent with the certain purposes, do not unfairly compete with nonutility enterprises, include performance accountability measures, and are in the interests of ratepayers. mechanism, under certain circumstances. Existing law requires the PUC, in an existing proceeding, to consider facilitating the development of technologies that promote grid integration.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that accelerates electric vehicle grid integration to minimize the cost impacts of electric vehicles on ratepayers. require the PUC, by December 31, 2020, in an existing proceeding, to establish targets to be achieved by 2025 and 2030 for electric vehicle grid integration, as defined, for the service territory of each electrical corporation with at least 200,000 customers, subtargets for community choice aggregators with at least 200,000 customers in that service territory, and subtargets for electric service providers as the PUC deems just and reasonable. The bill would require the PUC to reference electric vehicle grid integration targets and subtargets in all ongoing and subsequent proceedings that address issues of transportation electrification in any part, as applicable, and identify how programs and investments that the PUC may approve will advance the achievement of that target or subtarget. The bill would require the commission, when executing its transportation electrification responsibilities, to consider how, or if, electric vehicle grid integration can mitigate any generation, transmission, or distribution costs, or increase the economic, social, or environmental benefits associated with transportation electrification, and to not foreclose future utilization of electric vehicle grid integration. The bill would require the Energy Commission, by December 31, 2020, with the assistance of the PUC, to establish electric vehicle grid integration targets for the service territory of each local publicly owned electric utility with at least 200,000 customers.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 740.16 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:

740.16.

 (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(A) State policy incentivizes and encourages the increased use of electric vehicles, and relies, in part, on the ratepayers of electrical corporations to fund policies intended to increase the usage of electric vehicles.

(B) Changes in electricity demand and generation have created escalating peak and low periods of electricity supply and demand, and the cost of wholesale electricity and electricity delivery during peak demand periods is typically greater than during other periods.

(C) It is feasible and practicable to adjust the period during which an electric vehicle charges, in part or in full, to reduce its cost impact during periods of peak demand or grid congestion, to utilize available renewable electric generation, to avoid curtailments of renewable electric generation, and to provide reliability services.

(D) Time of use rates for customers with electric vehicles can reduce costs or mitigate cost increases for all ratepayers due to increased usage of electric vehicles by incentivizing electric vehicle charging at periods of low demand and low grid congestion. Electric vehicle grid integration can provide benefits to all ratepayers in addition to time of use rates.

(2) It is, therefore, the policy of the state and the intent of the Legislature to maximize net ratepayer and grid benefits from transportation electrification and reduce costs or mitigate cost increases for all ratepayers due to increased usage of electric vehicles by accelerating electric vehicle grid integration and by ensuring that any investments in transportation electrification do not foreclose the electric vehicle grid integration potential of these investments.

(b) For purposes of this section, “electric vehicle grid integration” means any action taken by a grid-connected electric vehicle or electric vehicle supply equipment to alter the time or rate at which grid-connected electric vehicles charge or discharge, in a manner that optimizes plug-in electric vehicle interaction with the electrical grid and provides benefits or services to the electrical grid, ratepayers, the electric vehicle driver, or site host. Such actions include, but are not limited to, increasing electrical grid asset utilization, avoiding distribution infrastructure upgrades, integrating renewable energy resources, reducing the cost of electricity supply, or offering reliability services consistent with Section 380 or the Independent System Operator tariff, in a manner that provides net benefits to ratepayers. It does not mean the use of any specific technology to achieve these benefits.

(c) By December 31, 2020, in an existing proceeding, the commission shall establish targets for electric vehicle grid integration for the service territory of each electrical corporation with at least 200,000 customers, subtargets for community choice aggregators with at least 200,000 customers in that service territory, and subtargets for electric service providers as the commission deems just and reasonable, that are consistent with the following:

(1) Expenditures on electric vehicle grid integration must be in the best interest of ratepayers, consistent with Section 451 and including consideration of cost savings for ratepayers by reducing the cost of wholesale electricity supply, the need for increased generation, and the need for increased grid infrastructure to meet forecasted demand.

(2) Electrical corporations, community choice aggregators, electric service providers, electric car manufacturers, electric fleet operators, and electric vehicle service providers shall work to achieve the electric vehicle grid integration targets and subtargets established by the commission.

(3) The electric vehicle grid integration target and subtarget, as applicable, for each service territory or provider must be at least 10 percent of annual total estimated electric vehicle load in that service territory by 2025 and shall be increased annually to achieve at least 25 percent of annual total estimated electric vehicle load by 2030.

(d) By December 31, 2020, the Energy Commission shall, with the assistance of the commission, establish electric vehicle grid integration targets for the service territory of each local publicly owned electric utility with at least 200,000 customers that are consistent with paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, of subdivision (c).

(e) In carrying out its responsibilities pertaining to transportation electrification, including, but not limited to, pursuant to Sections 740.2, 740.3, 740.8, 740.12, 740.13, and 740.14, the commission shall reference electric vehicle grid integration targets and subtargets in all ongoing and subsequent proceedings that address issues of transportation electrification in any part, as applicable, and identify how programs and investments that the commission may approve will advance the achievement of a target or subtarget. When approving, or modifying and approving, transportation electrification applications, the commission shall, to the maximum extent consistent with Section 451, give priority to those applications that assist in meeting the targets or subtargets for electric vehicle grid integration.

(f) In executing its responsibilities on transportation electrification, including, but not limited to, pursuant to Sections 740.2, 740.3, 740.8, 740.12, 740.13, and 740.14, the commission shall consider how, or if, electric vehicle grid integration can mitigate any generation, transmission, or distribution costs, or increase the economic, social, or environmental benefits associated with transportation electrification, and to not foreclose future utilization of electric vehicle grid integration.

SECTION 1.

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that accelerates electric vehicle grid integration to minimize the cost impacts of electric vehicles on ratepayers.