Bill Text: CA AB841 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: Industrial Heat Electrification Roadmap.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-09-01 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB841 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB841-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 16, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Berman |
February 14, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 25216.9 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:25216.9.
(a) On or before June 30, 2024, the commission shall submit an Industrial Heat Electrification Roadmap to the Legislature.The commission shall develop and coordinate a program of research and development in energy supply, consumption, and conservation and the technology of siting facilities and shall give priority to those forms of research and development that are of particular importance to the state, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(a)Methods of energy conservation specified in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 25400).
(b)Increased energy use efficiencies of existing thermal
electric and hydroelectric powerplants and increased energy efficiencies in designs of thermal electric and hydroelectric powerplants.
(c)(1)Expansion and accelerated development of alternative sources of energy, including geothermal and solar resources, including, but not limited to, participation in large-scale demonstrations of alternative energy systems sited in California in cooperation with federal agencies, regional compacts, other state governments, and other participants. For purposes of this subdivision, “participation”
means any of the following:
(A)Direct interest in a project.
(B)Research
and development to ensure acceptable resolution of
environmental and other impacts of alternative energy systems.
(C)Research and development to improve siting and permitting methodology for alternative energy
systems.
(D)Experiments using the alternative energy systems.
(E)Research and development of appropriate methods to
ensure the widespread usage of economically useful alternative energy systems.
(2)Large-scale demonstrations of alternative energy systems are exemplified by the 100KWe to 100MWe range demonstrations of solar, wind, and geothermal systems contemplated by federal agencies, regional compacts, other state
governments, and other participants.
(d)Improved methods of construction, design, and operation of facilities to protect against seismic hazards.
(e)Improved methods of energy-demand forecasting.
(f)To accomplish the purposes of subdivision (c), an amount not more than one-half of the total state funds appropriated for the solar energy research and development program as proposed in the budget prepared pursuant to Section 25604 shall be allocated for large-scale demonstration of alternative energy systems.