Bill Text: CA SB723 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended
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]
Download: California-2015-SB723-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 723 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 27, 2015
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 13, 2015
INTRODUCED BY Senators Pavley and Roth
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Mullin and Williams)
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 amended, Pavley. Energy efficiency: United States Armed
Forces 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 Commission, in
consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission and the United States Armed Forces, to
authorize a pilot program designed to evaluate the effects of using
an alternative baseline energy efficiency methodology at United
States Armed Forces bases and facilities. The bill would
require electrical and gas corporations, using existing military
contracting procedures, to the extent feasible, or new partnership
with the federal government, to accomplish the goals of the pilot
program.
This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to approve
financial incentives for energy efficiency upgrades
measures implemented at Armed Forces
bases and facilities pursuant to the pilot program 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
pilot program 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 Armed Forces, 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 Armed Forces are reducing energy demand
through conservation and efficiency. The United States Armed Forces
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 Armed Forces 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 Armed Forces to perform energy efficiency projects will help
in meeting the state's greenhouse gas reduction goals.
(e) The United States Armed Forces bases and facilities are very
similar to small cities in terms of size, variety, and mix of land
uses and energy use.
(f) Because of their unique command structure, United States Armed
Forces bases and facilities are able to achieve much greater control
of their energy reporting and use, and have already submetered most
of their buildings. Therefore, those bases and facilities are the
perfect testing ground for pilot energy programs.
SEC. 2. Section 454.57 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
454.57. (a) For the purposes of this section, "Armed Forces bases
and facilities" are those establishments under the jurisdiction of
the United States Armed Forces that are classified in Code 928110 of
the North American Industry System and paragraph (4) of subsection
(a) of Section 101 of Title 10 of the United States Code.
(b) (1) Through an existing or new proceeding, the commission, in
consultation with the Energy Commission and the United States Armed
Forces, shall authorize a pilot program designed to evaluate the
effects of using an alternative baseline energy efficiency
methodology at Armed Forces bases and facilities.
(2) Electrical and gas corporations shall, using existing military
contracting procedures, to the extent feasible, or new partnerships
with the federal government, accomplish the purposes of the pilot
program.
(b) Armed
(c) For purposes of the pilot program,
Armed Forces bases and 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 and the United States Armed
Forces, 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 Armed Forces bases and
facilities.
(d) The commission shall approve financial incentives for energy
efficiency upgrades measures implemented
pursuant to the pilot program at Armed Forces bases and
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 Armed Forces bases and facilities, the
commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission and the United
States Armed Forces, shall identify other potential sources of
funding to supplement funds collected from ratepayers to achieve
those savings goals.
(e) This section does not require the commission to allow projects
not located on Armed Forces bases and facilities to be eligible to
calculate their energy efficiency savings in a substantially similar
manner as projects located on Armed Forces bases and facilities.
(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.
