Bill Text: CA SB527 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Neighborhood Decarbonization Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB527 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB527-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Neighborhood Decarbonization Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB527 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB527-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 527
| Introduced by Senator Min |
February 14, 2023 |
An act relating to energy.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 527, as introduced, Min.
Equitable Zonal Decarbonization Program.
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to establish the Equitable Building Decarbonization Program, which includes establishing the direct install program to fund certain projects and remediation and safety measures to facilitate the installation of new technologies and a statewide incentive program for low-carbon building technologies, as specified.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to direct the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to establish the Equitable Zonal Decarbonization Program, which would establish a small-scale community-targeted decarbonization program, and to require the PUC to fund, administer, and implement the program to ensure rate affordability, dedicated and prioritized funding for disadvantaged and low-income customers, and the
development of high road jobs and workforces.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) Buildings are responsible for 25 percent of all emissions and 13 percent of all direct emissions of greenhouse gases, which contribute to indoor and outdoor pollution.
(2) Building decarbonization should prioritize high road jobs for workers and prioritize benefits to environmental justice communities.
(3) There are a range of technologies that can achieve deep emission reductions in buildings, including advanced energy efficiency technologies, clean heating technologies, and demand and load management strategies.
(4) Research has shown that targeted decarbonization has been shown to provide a potential decarbonization strategy that both reduces emissions and provides greater gas rate stability for utility customers.
(5) Despite the favorable economics of targeted decarbonization, regulatory and financial challenges have impeded California from exploring and scaling targeted decarbonization efforts.
(6) It is essential to enable cost-effective decarbonization strategies, such as targeted decarbonization, to achieve California’s greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
(7) Network geothermal, thermal energy network, and closed-loop energy systems have the potential to decarbonize buildings at the community and utility-scale level and would assist in achieving
California’s 2045 carbon neutrality goal.
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to do both of the following:
(1) Direct the Public Utilities Commission to establish the Equitable Zonal Decarbonization Program, through a new or existing proceeding, to establish a small-scale community-targeted decarbonization program.
(2) Require the commission to fund, administer, and implement the Equitable Zonal Decarbonization Program to ensure rate affordability, dedicated and prioritized funding for disadvantaged and low-income customers, and the development of high road jobs and workforces.
