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For the purposes of this division, the following terms have the following meanings:(a) “Commission” means the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, commonly known as the California Energy Commission.
(b) “Community choice aggregator” has the same meaning as defined in Section 331.1 of the Public Utilities Code.
(c) “Community energy resilience plan” means a planning document prepared by a local government or
government, community choice aggregator aggregator, or regional energy collaborative pursuant to this division that sets forth a strategy
and identifies specific projects for maintaining a reliable supply of electricity during both
reducing the adverse impacts associated with electrical power interruptions resulting from scheduled and unintended outages. Unless the context requires otherwise, “plan” means a community energy resilience plan.
(d) “Critical facility” means the types of facilities described in Public Utilities Commission Decision 19-05-042, Decision Adopting De-Energization Guidelines, or any subsequent amendments to that decision by the Public Utilities Commission, and other facilities identified by a local government.
(d)
(e) “Local government” means a city, county, city and county, or community choice aggregator. or California Native American tribe, as defined in Section 21073.
(e)
(f) “Public utility” means an electrical corporation, as defined in Section 218 of the Public Utilities Code, or a local publicly owned electric utility, as defined in Section 224.3 of the Public Utilities Code.
26451.
(a) The commission shall develop and implement a grant program pursuant to this division for local governments to develop community energy resilience plans. plans and expedite permit review of distributed energy resources. A community choice aggregator or other regional energy collaborative may apply for funding and prepare a community energy resilience plan on behalf of one or more of the local governments it serves upon request of that local government.(b) Before dispersing grant funds pursuant to this division, the commission shall do both
all of the following:
(1) Develop and adopt project solicitation and evaluation guidelines procedures for applicants to submit a community energy resilience plan funding proposal to develop
to do both of the following:
(A) Develop a community energy resilience plan and for overall plan structure and content, including development of a formula for prioritizing funds for critical facilities in low-income or disadvantaged communities that are most likely to experience future electrical grid deenergization events, followed in priority by other critical facilities statewide.
(B) Develop a process for the expedited permit review of distributed energy resources.
(2) Conduct two
public meetings to consider public comment.
(c) The project solicitation and evaluation guidelines procedures shall prioritize proposals for funding that would support all both of the following:
(1) Equitable collaboration between public utilities, local governments, community-based organizations, and state agencies to yield plans that not only help achieve local energy resilience objectives, but also state renewable energy goals.
(2) Integration of available mobile storage resources that may become available through transportation electrification.
(3)Integration of community energy resilience plans with other existing local government planning documents, including general plans and climate action plans, with an assumption that, upon completion, a community energy resilience plan would be incorporated by the local government into the existing general plan.
(d) A community energy resiliency plan shall be consistent with the city, county, or city and county general plan and other local government planning documents. The plan may include provisions to facilitate the
expedited local permitting of community energy resilience projects identified in the plan.
(d)
(e) The commission shall fund technical assistance providers to assist in plan development, including all of the following:
(1) Identifying and coordinating with appropriate local government staff and outside consultants capable of drafting the plan. A local government may hire a resilience manager to manage the plan development process and the implementation of any specific projects identified in the plan.
(2) Convening and facilitating one or more community workshops enlisting local stakeholders, including, but not limited to, labor representatives, representatives from community-based organizations, community members, representatives from related technology vendors, local government staff in departments relating to emergency services, planning, and public works, disability rights advocates, and representatives from special districts, load-serving entities, school districts, environmental justice communities, communities of color, and other marginalized groups, to ensure that a diversity of perspectives and input is incorporated into the plan.
(3) Soliciting
and utilizing input from public utility operational and technical subject matter experts, including relevant data to enable local governments to design their plans to make efficient use of existing distribution infrastructure and support grid operation.
(4) Providing guidance and support to each local government receiving plan funds for the local government to designate a diverse plan steering committee to ensure robust and meaningful public participation.
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(f) A plan for which a local government
government, community choice aggregator, or regional energy collaborative receives grant funding shall do all of the following:
(1) Identify critical facilities, including facilities that can serve as community resilience hubs. hubs to accommodate and provide basic services to people who have lost power to their homes.
(2) Identify areas most likely to experience a loss of electrical service based on public utility determinations of remote or hazardous areas likely to be subject to a planned deenergization of the electrical grid.
(3)Include a preliminary feasibility analysis of expected costs and benefits for anticipated projects within the local jurisdiction. A proposed plan shall also include an analysis of multiple project options for each location, including distribution segmentation and microgrids.
(3) Identify electrical distribution system improvements that can be undertaken by a public utility and that will reduce the risk of deenergization for communities and critical facilities.
(4) Identify projects that can be combined to share engineering costs and achieve scalability of projects across like facilities to create the most value for a community.
(5) Identify locations and facilities where the construction of microgrids could meet local resilience needs.
(6) Identify critical facilities that are in greatest need of backup energy generation and potential backup energy systems that may meet the needs of those facilities.
(7) Identify potential funding sources for implementation of projects included in the plan.
(g) Grant funding awarded to a local government, community choice aggregator, or regional energy collaborative pursuant to this division may be expended to complete environmental clearance of community energy resilience projects identified in the plan.
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(h) Grant funding awarded to a local government
local government, community choice aggregator, or regional energy collaborative pursuant to this division does not affect the entity’s eligibility to receive other incentives available from federal, state, or other local governments, public utilities, or any other source, or to leverage the grant funding awarded pursuant to this division with any other incentive.
(i) A public utility shall share information identifying critical facilities and areas most likely to experience a loss of electricity with a local government, community choice aggregator, or regional energy collaborative that is preparing a community energy resilience plan.
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(a) The commission shall maintain a publicly available and searchable database of all local governments local governments, community choice aggregators, or regional energy collaboratives receiving grant funding pursuant to this division, including information on specific plan projects. The database shall include relevant metrics to be determined by the commission.(b) As a condition of receiving grant funding, within six months of completing its plan, a local government
government, community choice aggregator, or regional energy collaborative shall submit the plan and a report of project expenditures to the commission.
(c) (1) The commission shall prepare an annual summary of statewide program expenditures and hire an independent, third-party evaluator to quantify and evaluate the effects of the grant program.
(2) Pursuant to Section 9795 of the Government Code, the commission shall annually report the information it receives to the Legislature and post the report on its internet website.