BILL ANALYSIS Ó ------------------------------------------------------------ |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 2227| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |1020 N Street, Suite 524 | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ------------------------------------------------------------ THIRD READING Bill No: AB 2227 Author: Bradford (D) Amended: 8/7/12 in Senate Vote: 21 SENATE ENERGY, UTIL. & COMMUNIC. COMM.E : 8-0, 7/3/12 AYES: Padilla, Fuller, Corbett, De León, DeSaulnier, Rubio, Strickland, Wright NO VOTE RECORDED: Berryhill, Emmerson, Kehoe, Pavley, Simitian ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 77-0, 5/21/12 (Consent) - See last page for vote SUBJECT : Local publicly owned electric utilities: State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: reporting SOURCE : Northern California Power Agency DIGEST : This bill recasts and revises the reporting requirements of the publicly-owned electric utilities (POUs) for the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the California Solar Initiative (CSI) which are intended to result in a streamlining and consolidation of reporting requirements. ANALYSIS : Existing law: CONTINUED AB 2227 Page 2 1. Requires local POUs to periodically report to the CEC and its customers on energy goals, expenses, and progress including the procurement of renewable energy resources, the CSI, energy efficiency and demand reduction programs, energy storage system procurement targets and policies, and the quantity and source of electricity generated to serve customers. 2. Requires POUs to acquire all available energy efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible. Every third year, each POU is required to identify all potentially achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings and establish annual targets for the next 10-year period to be followed within 60 days with a report to the CEC. 3. Requires POUs to annually report to the CEC and its customers, its investments in energy efficiency and demand reduction programs, a description of programs, expenditures, cost-effectiveness and expected and actual energy efficiency savings and demand reduction results. This bill extends the POUs reporting requirement, for potentially achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings, to every four years. This bill extends the POUs reporting requirement, regarding its investments in energy efficiency and demand reduction programs, to once every two years. Background The CEC is responsible for monitoring the compliance of the POUs for several statutory programs including the Renewables Portfolio Standard and the CSI and energy efficiency and energy storage mandates. Associated with these programs are periodic reports to the CEC. The disclosure and reports required of the POUs to the CEC have different deadlines and formats. Some are required annually, but at different dates; some on demand. A significant focus of the CEC is also the preparation and publication of its biennial Integrated Energy Policy Report CONTINUED AB 2227 Page 3 (IEPR) for which the primary focus is to "conduct assessments and forecasts of all aspects of energy industry supply, production, transportation, delivery and distribution, demand, and prices" and to "use these assessments and forecasts to develop energy policies that conserve resources, protect the environment, ensure energy reliability, enhance the state's economy, and protect public health and safety." In its preparation of the IEPR, the CEC relies heavily on the state's electric and gas utilities to provide the data which forms the basis of its reports and the utilities must comply with data requests on a regular and timely basis. FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local: No SUPPORT : (Verified 8/7/12) Northern California Power Agency (source) California Municipal Utilities Association OPPOSITION : (Verified 8/7/12) Natural Resources Defense Council (unless amended) Sierra Club California (unless amended) ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 77-0, 5/21/12 AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall, Bill Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos, Carter, Cedillo, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Davis, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eng, Feuer, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani, Beth Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Gordon, Gorell, Grove, Hagman, Halderman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Hill, Huber, Hueso, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Lara, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mansoor, Mendoza, Miller, Mitchell, Monning, Morrell, Nestande, Nielsen, Norby, Olsen, Pan, V. Manuel Pérez, Portantino, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Swanson, Torres, Valadao, Wagner, Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, John A. Pérez NO VOTE RECORDED: Fletcher, Roger Hernández, Perea CONTINUED AB 2227 Page 4 RM:k 8/7/12 Senate Floor Analyses SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE **** END **** CONTINUED