CA AB 1533

Title: Electricity.
Author: House Utilities and Energy Committee

Summary
AB 1533, as amended, Committee on Utilities and Energy. Electricity. (1) Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to biennially adopt an integrated energy policy report. Existing law requires the Energy Commission to timely incorporate firm zero-carbon resources into that report, and, for purposes of that requirement, defines “firm zero-carbon resources” as electrical resources that can individually, or in combination, deliver electricity with high availability for the expected duration of multiday extreme or atypical weather events and facilitate integration of eligible renewable energy resources into the electrical grid and the transition to a zero-carbon electrical grid.This bill would clarify that, for purposes of that requirement, “firm zero-carbon resources” are those electrical resources described above that deliver zero-carbon electricity.Existing law creates the Demand Side Grid Support Program, and requires the Energy Commission to implement and administer the program to incentivize dispatchable customer load reduction and backup generation operation as on-call emergency supply and load reduction for the state’s electrical grid during extreme events. Existing law requires entities with generation or load reduction assets that are incentivized pursuant to the Distributed Electricity Backup Assets Program to participate in the program, and requires all energy produced as a result of the program to be settled at a relevant reference energy price. This bill would delete the requirements that those entities participate in the program and the produced energy be settled at a relevant reference energy price. Existing law authorizes the Department of Water Resources to construct, own and operate, or contract for the construction and operation of, contract for the purchase of electricity from, or finance through loans, reimbursement agreements, or other contracts actions to secure resources for summer reliability or to preserve the option to extend the life of specified facilities. Existing law requires the department, from October 31, 2022, to October 31, 2026, inclusive, to submit applications for certification to the Energy Commission for sites on which those facilities are located, as specified. Existing law requires the department, beginning on January 31, 2023, and on May 1, August 1, and December 1 annually thereafter, to issue a written report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee detailing certain actions undertaken by the department in the period since the previous report, as specified.This bill would require the department to issue that report in consultation with the Energy Commission and require that report to also detail certain actions undertaken by the Energy Commission, as specified.(2) Existing law prohibits an electrical corporation from beginning the construction of, among other things, a line, plant, or system, or of any extension thereof, without having first obtained from the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require that construction. Under existing law, the extension, expansion, upgrade, or other modification of an existing electrical transmission facility, including transmission lines and substations, does not require a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity requires or will require its construction.This bill would require the PUC, in a proceeding evaluating the issuance of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a proposed transmission project, to establish a rebuttable presumption with regard to need for the proposed transmission project in favor of an Independent System Operator governing board-approved need evaluation if specified requirements are satisfied.(3) Existing law requires the PUC to convene or continue, until August 26, 2025, an independent peer review panel to conduct an independe

Status
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Bill Documents
CA AB 1533 - 05/25/23 - Amended Assembly

CA AB 1533 - 05/01/23 - Amended Assembly

CA AB 1533 - 04/13/23 - Amended Assembly

CA AB 1533 - 02/17/23 - Introduced

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