Bill Text: CA SB723 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Energy efficiency: United States Armed Forces bases and facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB723 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: SB 723	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senators Pavley and Roth

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to add and repeal Section 454.57 of the Public Utilities
Code, relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 723, as introduced, Pavley. Energy efficiency: military bases
and facilities.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations
and gas corporations, as defined. The Public Utilities Act requires
the Public Utilities Commission to review and adopt a procurement
plan for each electrical corporation in accordance with specified
elements, incentive mechanisms, and objectives. The act requires that
an electrical corporation's proposed procurement plan include
certain elements, including a showing that the electrical corporation
will first meet its unmet needs through all available energy
efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective,
reliable, and feasible. Existing law requires the Public Utilities
Commission, in consultation with the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission, to identify all potentially
achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings, and to
establish efficiency targets for electrical corporations to achieve
pursuant to their procurement plan.
    The act requires the Public Utilities Commission, in consultation
with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission, to identify all potentially achievable cost-effective
natural gas efficiency savings and to establish efficiency targets
for gas corporations to achieve, and requires that a gas corporation
first meet its unmet resource needs through all available gas
efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective,
reliable, and feasible.
   This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to
encourage electrical corporations and gas corporations to expedite
implementation of energy efficiency measures and enable the
achievement of additional energy goals at United States Department of
Defense military bases and facilities and United States Coast Guard
facilities.
   This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to approve
financial incentives for energy efficiency upgrades at military
bases and facilities and United States Coast Guard facilities through
existing energy efficiency programs administered by electrical
corporations and gas corporations. Because a violation of an order or
a direction of the commission is a crime, this bill would impose a
state-mandated local program.
   This bill would repeal the above requirements on January 1, 2020.
    The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) The United States Department of Defense and the United States
Coast Guard, as the nation's largest energy users, are required to
comply with laws enacted by Congress, executive orders, and goals
established by military leaders, including requirements for 3 percent
annual reductions in facility energy intensity, which is measured by
energy used per gross square foot.
   (b) The United States Department of Defense and the United States
Coast Guard are reducing energy demand through conservation and
efficiency. The United States Department of Defense and the United
States Coast Guard are improving the efficiency of their existing
buildings through retrofitting, including the use of advanced
lighting, heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning technologies.
   (c) The United States Department of Defense and United States
Coast Guard facilities have leveraged the energy efficiency programs
of electrical corporations and gas corporations and have used turnkey
contracts to facilitate energy efficiency upgrades while bundling
energy and water efficiency, demand response, and distributed
generation.
   (d) Additional energy efficiency incentives to assist the United
States Department of Defense and the United States Coast Guard to
perform energy efficiency projects will help in meeting the state's
greenhouse gas reduction goals.
  SEC. 2.  Section 454.57 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   454.57.  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms
have the following meanings:
   (1) "Military bases and facilities" are those establishments under
the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Defense that are
classified in Code 928110 of the North American Industry
Classification System.
   (2) "United States Coast Guard facilities" are those facilities
under the jurisdiction of the United States Coast Guard that are
classified in Code 926120 of the North American Industry
Classification System.
   (b) Military bases and facilities and United States Coast Guard
facilities shall be eligible to calculate their energy efficiency
savings by comparing the facilities' existing energy usage, as a
whole, with the facilities' projected energy usage that would be
achieved from the implementation of the energy efficiency measures.
   (c) Through an existing or new proceeding, the commission, in
consultation with the Energy Commission, the United States Department
of Defense, and the United States Coast Guard, shall encourage
electrical corporations and gas corporations, using existing military
contracting procedures or new partnerships with the federal
government, to expedite the implementation of energy efficiency
measures and shall enable the achievement of additional energy goals,
for example, microgrids, demand response, self-generation, and
energy storage, at military bases and facilities and United States
Coast Guard facilities.
   (d) The commission shall approve financial incentives for energy
efficiency upgrades at military bases and facilities and United
States Coast Guard facilities through existing energy efficiency
programs administered by electrical corporations and gas
corporations.
   (e) To the extent that the commission finds that funds in addition
to funds collected from ratepayers are needed to achieve energy
efficiency saving goals in military bases and facilities and United
States Coast Guard facilities, the commission, in consultation with
the Energy Commission, the United States Department of Defense, and
the United States Coast Guard, shall identify other potential sources
of funding to supplement funds collected from ratepayers to achieve
those savings goals.
   (f)  This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2020, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2020, deletes or extends
that date.
  SEC. 3.   No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.