Bill Text: CA SB284 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Electricity: energization transparency and efficiency: wholesale distribution service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-07-01 - July 1 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB284 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 284
| Introduced by Senator Wiener |
February 01, 2023 |
An act to add Chapter 8.6 (commencing with Section 2849) to Part 2 of Division 1 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 284, as amended, Wiener.
Electricity: energization transparency and efficiency: wholesale distribution service.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory jurisdiction over public utilities, including electrical corporations.
This bill would require each electrical corporation to provide distribution planning data, as defined, to development project applicants, energizing entities, as defined, and public entities in a timely and efficient manner. The bill would require the PUC to require each electrical corporation to develop and make publicly available uniform technical standards and requirements for the energization of electrical load on the distribution system and information about its distribution system interconnection queue necessary for the energization of electrical load. The bill would require each electrical corporation that has filed a wholesale distribution tariff with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to
offer service under that tariff to the state, an agency, authority, or instrumentality of the state, or a political subdivision to transmit electricity that those public entities consume or sell directly to an ultimate consumer, as provided.
Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the PUC is a crime.
Because a violation of a PUC action implementing the bill would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 8.6 (commencing with Section 2849) is added to Part 2 of Division 1 of the Public Utilities Code, to read:CHAPTER 8.6. Interconnection and Distribution
Article 1. General Provisions
2849.
The(a) Distribution system information, including distribution planning data, should be made available to increase transparency and efficiency in the energization process, promote least cost interconnections of electrical load, increase transparency, and promote effective participation in the distribution planning process. Comparable information for transmission system planning and transmission
load interconnections is available publicly or pursuant to nondisclosure agreements.
(b) To promote competition in the electrical distribution system and meet the state’s electrification goals, the state’s three largest electrical corporations that have filed a wholesale distribution tariff with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should remove barriers to accessing their distribution system for the state and its political subdivisions, including local publicly owned electric utilities and municipal electric utilities, to serve their own load and the load of their ultimate consumers and residents.
2849.1.
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:(a) “Distribution planning data” means the same or equivalent distribution data that an electrical corporation uses to plan the system, including distribution system planning models, all underlying load, including retail load and wholesale load, storage, distribution infrastructure facility data, detailed physical maps, historical, in-progress, and planned distribution capacity projects and facility upgrades, and distribution system planning standards.
(b) “Energization” means the connection of electrical load to the electrical transmission or distribution
grid of an electrical corporation.
(c) “Energizing entity” means an entity seeking to connect electrical load to the electrical transmission or distribution grid of an electrical corporation.
