Bill Text: CA SB366 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Electrical corporations: Green Tariff Shared Renewables Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-07-12 - July 12 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB366 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB366-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
April 03, 2017 |
Senate Bill | No. 366 |
Introduced by Senator Leyva |
February 14, 2017 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, gas corporations, water corporations, and telephone corporations. The California Constitution authorizes the PUC to establish rules and to fix the rates and charges for all public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature. Existing law directs the PUC to require every electrical, gas, water, and telephone corporation, and wireless telecommunications service provider, with annual gross revenues exceeding $25,000,000, and their regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, to annually submit a detailed and verifiable plan for increasing procurement from women-, minority-, and disabled veteran-owned, and LGBT business enterprises, as defined, and directs the PUC to require the reporting of certain related information. The PUC, by its rulemaking
authority, has adopted General Order 156, applicable to certain electrical, gas, and telephone corporations, to effectuate these requirements.
This bill would require the PUC, in consultation with the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, to establish rules by January 1, 2019, requiring an electrical corporation to establish training programs that will cultivate quality workforce development, and that will provide recruitment, job opportunities, and job retention strategies for residents living in disadvantaged communities. The bill would require that the training program include those training opportunities that the PUC determines to be prudent and reasonable for persons that construct, operate, or maintain distributed generation resources that interconnect to the electrical corporation’s electrical grid.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 2831.5 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:2831.5.
(a) This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Green Tariff Shared Renewables Program.SEC. 2.
Section 2833 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:2833.
(a) The commission shall require a green tariff shared renewables program to be administered by a participating utility in accordance with this section.(o)
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SEC. 3.
Section 2833.2 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:(a)An operator of a generating facility participating in a utility’s green tariff shared renewables program pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 2833 shall not charge a participating low-income customer in a disadvantaged community for the purchase of the customer’s share of the electricity at a rate above the applicable California Alternate Rates for Energy program rate.
(b)The Energy Commission shall establish a grant program to provide financial assistance to the operator of a generating facility participating in a utility’s green tariff shared renewables program that is providing electricity to participating low-income customers in
communities identified pursuant to Section 39711 of the Health and Safety Code.
2833.2.
(a) By January 1, 2019, the commission shall implement the Renewable Energy for All program to pay any net costs associated with subscriptions by participating low-income customers for a generating facility that is built pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 2833. The commission shall ensure that the moneys made available for the Renewable Energy for All program are sufficient, at a minimum, to eliminate any forecasted rate premium and ensure meaningful bill savings over the duration of the contractual commitment by participating low-income customers. The commission may limit subscriptions as necessary to ensure sufficient moneys are available to meet the requirements of this section.To ensure consistent, high-quality installations and to maximize benefits to disadvantaged communities, an operator of a generating facility participating in a utility’s green tariff shared renewables program pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 2833 shall coordinate with the electrical corporation’s workforce development program established pursuant to Section 8291.
For purposes of this article, “disadvantaged communities” means communities identified pursuant to Section 39711 of the Health and Safety Code.
By January 1, 2019, the commission, in consultation with the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, shall establish rules requiring an electrical corporation to establish training programs that will cultivate quality workforce development, and that will provide recruitment, job opportunities, and job retention strategies for residents living in disadvantaged communities. In order to ensure electrical grid reliability that accommodates distributed generation, in addition to training persons who are or potentially may become employees of the electrical corporation, the training program shall include those training opportunities that the commission determines to be prudent and reasonable for persons that construct, operate, or maintain distributed
generation resources that interconnect to the electrical corporation’s electrical grid.