BILL ANALYSIS ------------------------------------------------------------ |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 21| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |1020 N Street, Suite 524 | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ------------------------------------------------------------ THIRD READING Bill No: AB 21 Author: Krekorian Amended: 9/4/09 in Senate Vote: 21 PRIOR VOTES NOT RELEVANT SUBJECT : Renewable energy resources: clean-up to SB 14 SOURCE : Author DIGEST : This bill makes a change in SB 14 (Simitian) relating to renewable energy resources in order to correct a date problem in the provision concerning the percentages of electricity from eligible renewable energy resources a local publicly owned electric utility must procure. It requires the utility to procure 20 percent by 2013, instead of 2012. This bill becomes operative only if AB 64 (Krekorian) and SB 14 (Simitian) are chaptered. ANALYSIS : SB 14 has a provision requiring that the Renewables Portfolio Standard established for a local publicly owned electric utility, require it to procure the following percentages of electricity from eligible renewable energy resources by the following dates: 20 percent by December 31, 2012; 23 percent by December 31, 2014; 26 percent by December 31, 2016; 30 percent by December 31, 2018; and until December 31, 2012, the same percentage as actually achieved by the utility during 2009; 20 percent by December 31, 2012; 25 percent by December 31, CONTINUED AB 21 Page 2 2016; and 33 percent by December 31, 2020. This bill changes the date by which the utility must procure 20 percent eligible renewable resources from December 31, 2012 to December 31, 2013. (The Legislative Counsel digest has the date as 2013.) FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes Local: No DLW:mw 9/12/09 Senate Floor Analyses SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED **** END ****