Bill Text: CA AB1023 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Renewable energy resources.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-02 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1023 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB1023-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1023	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 2, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ruskin

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 399.20 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1023, as amended, Ruskin. Renewable energy resources.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations,
as defined. The Public Utilities Act imposes various duties and
responsibilities on the commission with respect to the purchase of
electricity by electrical corporations and requires the commission to
review and adopt a procurement plan and a renewable energy
procurement plan for each electrical corporation pursuant to the
California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program. The program
requires that a retail seller of electricity, including electrical
corporations, purchase a specified minimum percentage of electricity
generated by eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, in any
given year as a specified percentage of total kilowatthours sold to
retail end-use customers each calendar year (renewables portfolio
standard).
   Existing law requires every electrical corporation to file with
the commission a standard tariff for electricity generated by an
electric generation facility, as defined, that is owned and operated
by a retail customer of the electrical corporation. Existing law
requires, among other things, that the electric generation facility
have an effective capacity of not more than 1.5 megawatts and be
located on property owned or under the control of the customer.
   This bill would instead require that the electric generation
facility have an effective capacity of not more than  20
  10  megawatts and be located on property owned or
under the control of the customer.  The   bill would
also allow the commission to increase the 10 megawatt capacity
limitation up to, and including, a capacity of 15 megawatts. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 399.20 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   399.20.  (a) It is the policy of this state and the intent of the
Legislature to encourage electrical generation from eligible
renewable energy resources.
   (b) As used in this section, "electric generation facility" means
an electric generation facility, owned and operated by a retail
customer of an electrical corporation, that meets all of the
following criteria:
   (1) Has an effective capacity of not more than  20
  10  megawatts and is located on property owned or
under the control of the customer.
   (2) Is interconnected and operates in parallel with the electric
transmission and distribution grid.
   (3) Is strategically located and interconnected to the electric
transmission system in a manner that optimizes the deliverability of
electricity generated at the facility to load centers.
   (4) Is an eligible renewable energy resource, as defined in
Section 399.12.
   (c) Every electrical corporation shall file with the commission a
standard tariff for electricity generated by an electric generation
facility.
   (d) The tariff shall provide for payment for every kilowatthour of
electricity generated by an electric generation facility at the
market price as determined by the commission pursuant to Section
399.15 for a period of 10, 15, or 20 years, as authorized by the
commission.
   (e) Every electrical corporation shall make this tariff available
to customers that own and operate an electric generation facility
within the service territory of the electrical corporation, upon
request, on a first-come-first-served basis, until the combined
statewide cumulative rated generating capacity of those electric
generation facilities reaches 500 megawatts. An electrical
corporation may make the terms of the tariff available to customers
in the form of a standard contract subject to commission approval.
Each electrical corporation shall only be required to offer service
or contracts under this section until that electrical corporation
meets its proportionate share of the 500 megawatts based on the ratio
of its peak demand to the total statewide peak demand of all
electrical corporations.
   (f) Every kilowatthour of electricity generated by the electric
generation facility shall count toward the electrical corporation's
renewables portfolio standard annual procurement targets for purposes
of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 399.15.
   (g) The physical generating capacity of an electric generation
facility shall count toward the electrical corporation's resource
adequacy requirement for purposes of Section 380.
   (h)  (1)    The commission may modify or adjust
the requirements of this section for any electrical corporation with
less than 100,000 service connections, as individual circumstances
merit. 
   (2) The commission may increase the 10 megawatt capacity
limitation of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) up to, and including,
15 megawatts.