Bill Text: CA SB801 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility: electrical grid data: electricity demand reduction and response: energy storage solutions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-10-14 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 814, Statutes of 2017. [SB801 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB801-Amended.html
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Senate Bill | No. 801 |
Introduced by Senator Stern |
February 17, 2017 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
(a)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a local publicly owned electric utility that provides electric service to 250,000 or more customers within the Los Angeles Basin shall make publicly available, upon request of any person, electrical grid data necessary or useful to enable distributed energy resource providers to target
solutions that support reliability in the area where electrical reliability has been impacted as a result of reductions in gas storage capacity and gas deliverability resulting from the well failure at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility first reported to the commission in October 2015.
(2)A local publicly owned electric utility shall not make data available pursuant to paragraph (1) that is prohibited from being disclosed pursuant to state or federal law.
(3)The data made available pursuant to this subdivision shall be available upon request, commencing within 60
days of the effective date of this section.
(b)For purposes of this section, “Los Angeles Basin” means the area identified as the “Aliso Canyon Delivery Area” on page 11 of the Aliso Canyon Risk Assessment Technical Report, dated April 4,
2016.
(a)A local publicly owned electric utility providing electric service to more than 250,000 customers within the Los Angeles Basin shall, to the extent that doing so is cost effective, maximize the use of demand response, renewable energy resources, and energy efficiency
to reduce demand in the area where electrical reliability has been impacted as a result of reductions in gas storage capacity and gas deliverability resulting from the well failure at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility first reported to the commission in October 2015.
(b)For purposes of this section, “Los Angeles Basin” means the area identified as the “Aliso Canyon Delivery Area” on page 11 of the Aliso Canyon Risk Assessment Technical Report, dated April
4,
2016.
SECTION 1.
Section 972 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:972.
(a) A penalty assessed against a gas corporation pursuant to this part in regards to a natural gas storage facility leak shall at least equal the amount necessary to reduce the impact on the climate from greenhouse gases by an amount equivalent to the impact on the climate from the greenhouse gases emitted by the leak from the natural gas storage facility, as determined by the State Air Resources Board. In determining the amount necessary to fully offset the impact on the climate from the gases emitted by the leak, the commission shall consider the extent to which the gas corporation has mitigated, or is in the process of mitigating, the impact on the climate from greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the leak, provided that the mitigation is consistent with subdivision (c), as determined by the State Air Resources Board.(b)The commission shall deposit any penalties assessed against a gas corporation pursuant to this part in regards to a natural gas storage facility leak into the Gas Storage Facility Leak Mitigation Account, which is hereby established in the State Treasury.
(c)Moneys in the account shall be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, subject to all of the following conditions:
(1)Moneys shall be expended solely for direct emissions reductions in furtherance of the achievement of the greenhouse gas emissions limit established pursuant to Section 38550 of the Health and Safety Code and, if sufficient moneys remain after mitigating the impact on the climate from the gas corporation’s emissions, as specified in subdivision (a), to reimburse state
and local response costs. Moneys shall not be used for the purchase of allowances or offsets otherwise authorized pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 38500) of the Health and Safety Code).
(2)Moneys shall be expended in a manner to be determined by the commission, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to achieve a reduction in greenhouse gases that will fully offset the impact on the climate from those gases emitted by that leak.
(3)Moneys shall be expended consistent with Section 39713 of the Health and Safety Code.
(4)(A)Consistent with the State Air Resources Board’s Aliso Canyon Climate Impacts Mitigation Program, moneys in the fund resulting from penalties assessed for the Aliso Canyon gas leak shall be
expended to do all the following:
(i)Generate significant and quantifiable reductions in methane emissions within the agriculture and waste sectors.
(ii)Promote a more sustainable energy infrastructure by promoting energy efficiency and decreasing reliance on fossil fuels.
(iii)Detect and address emissions from methane hot spots not presently targeted under federal, state, or local laws.
(iv)Where feasible, yield cobenefits in communities directly affected by the leak and in disadvantaged communities.
(B)Priority shall be given to projects in nearby communities harmed by the leak and other communities directly affected by methane emissions, disadvantaged communities, and communities
within the Aliso Canyon service area.
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