BILL NUMBER: AB 2021	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Levine

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2006

   An act relating to energy efficiency.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2021, as introduced, Levine  Public utilities: energy
efficiency.
   Existing law regulates public utilities, as defined, including
public utilities owned by municipal corporations and publicly owned
utilities.
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to develop
comprehensive legislation to carry out all achievable cost-effective
energy efficiency programs by requiring municipal utilities to
decouple revenues from total sales of electricity if current
practices are limiting investments in cost-effective energy
efficiency, requiring that local publicly owned utilities contribute
proportionally to meeting any statewide energy saving targets
established by the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission, requiring local publicly owned utilities to
contract for independent evaluation, measurement, and verification of
energy and demand savings achieved by the energy efficiency
programs, and requiring the energy commission to investigate options
and develop a plan to improve the energy efficiency, and to decrease
peak electricity demand of air conditioners, as provided.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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


  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to develop
comprehensive legislation to carry out all achievable cost-effective
energy efficiency programs through all of the following:
   (a) Requiring that local publicly owned utilities, as defined by
Section 9604 of the Public Utilities Code, contribute proportionally
to meeting any statewide energy saving targets established by the
State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
(Energy Commission), and to contribute at a level no lower than the
investor-owned utilities' annual energy savings in dollars as a
percent of sales.
   (b) Requiring municipal utilities to decouple revenues from total
sales of electricity if current practices are limiting investments in
cost-effective energy efficiency.
   (c) Requiring local publicly owned utilities to contract for
independent evaluation, measurement, and verification of energy and
demand savings achieved by the energy efficiency programs, and to
make evaluation reports available to the public upon request.
   (d) Requiring the Energy Commission to investigate options and
develop a plan to improve the energy efficiency, and to decrease peak
electricity demand, of air conditioners in the hot, dry climate that
drives peak electricity demand in much of the state.