BILL NUMBER: AB 1124	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 13, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 11, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 10, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Skinner
   (Coauthors: Senators DeSaulnier and Hancock)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 381.2 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1124, as amended, Skinner. Energy: energy efficiency.
   Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to
order certain electrical corporations to collect and spend certain
funds for public benefit programs, including cost-effective energy
efficiency and conservation programs. Existing law requires the PUC,
by March 1, 2010, to have opened a new proceeding or amended an
existing proceeding to investigate the ability of electrical
corporations and gas corporations to provide energy efficiency
financing options to their customers to implement the comprehensive
energy efficiency program for certain residential and nonresidential
buildings developed by the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission pursuant to a specified provision of law.
Existing law also requires the PUC to include an assessment of each
electrical corporation's and each gas corporation's implementation of
that program in a specified triennial report required under existing
law.
   This bill would require the PUC, in its review of the energy
efficiency programs of electrical corporations and gas corporations,
to ensure compliance with  certain   specified
 principles  , as specified  .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 381.2 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   381.2.  (a) By March 1, 2010, the commission, by opening a new
proceeding or amending an existing proceeding, shall investigate the
ability of electrical corporations and gas corporations to provide
various energy efficiency financing options to their customers for
the purposes of implementing the program developed pursuant to
Section 25943 of the Public Resources Code.
   (b) In the report prepared pursuant to Section 384.2, the
commission shall include an assessment of each electrical corporation'
s and each gas corporation's implementation of the program developed
pursuant to Section 25943 of the Public Resources Code.
   (c) In its review of the energy efficiency programs of electrical
corporations and gas corporations, the commission shall ensure
compliance with the following principles.  The energy
efficiency programs shall:  
   (1) Encourage job creation and training opportunities, with an
emphasis on skilled occupations necessary for installation of highly
efficient energy savings measures.  
   (2) 
    (1)  Achieve maximum energy savings for all 
types of customers   customer classes  by adopting
whole building, performance-based approaches. 
   (3) 
    (2)  Maximize opportunities of leveraging private
capital by increasing and streamlining access to on-bill repayment
programs without increasing utility costs. 
   (3) Encourage job creation and training opportunities, with an
emphasis on skilled occupations necessary for installation of highly
efficient energy savings measures. 
   (4)  Facilitate   Create a single point of
contact to coordinate  access to  the  energy
efficiency programs for prospective customers using approaches that
streamline and simplify procedures for determining property-level
program enrollment and customer eligibility  as well as encourage
customer participation  . 
   (5) Create a single point of contact to coordinate access to
energy efficiency programs for prospective customers to maximize
energy savings and encourage customer participation. 

   (6) 
    (5)  Provide equivalent funding and comparable measures
for all eligible customers within the energy efficiency programs,
particularly those customers that are more difficult to reach and
have not yet been served by the programs, including small businesses,
renters, multifamily renters, persons with disabilities, and those
located in remote areas.