BILL NUMBER: AB 2229	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bradford

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to add Section 454.57 to the Public Utilities Code,
relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2229, as introduced, Bradford. Energy efficiency: military
bases and facilities.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations
and gas corporations, as defined. The Public Utilities Act requires
the Public Utilities Commission to review and adopt a procurement
plan for each electrical corporation in accordance with specified
elements, incentive mechanisms, and objectives. The act requires that
an electrical corporation's proposed procurement plan include
certain elements, including a showing that the electrical corporation
will first meet its unmet needs through all available energy
efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective,
reliable, and feasible. Existing law requires the Public Utilities
Commission, in consultation with the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission, to identify all potentially
achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings, and to
establish efficiency targets for electrical corporations to achieve
pursuant to their procurement plan.
    The act requires the Public Utilities Commission, in consultation
with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission, to identify all potentially achievable cost-effective
natural gas efficiency savings and to establish efficiency targets
for gas corporations to achieve, and requires that a gas corporation
first meet its unmet resource needs through all available gas
efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective,
reliable, and feasible.
   This bill would require the commission, in consultation with the
Energy Commission and the Department of Defense, to identify all
potentially achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings
at military bases and facilities in the state, and to establish
efficiency targets for an electrical corporation to achieve at
military bases and facilities.
   This bill would require the commission, in consultation with the
Energy Commission and the Department of Defense, to identify all
potentially achievable cost-effective natural gas efficiency savings
at military bases and facilities in the state and to establish
efficiency targets for the gas corporation to achieve at military
bases and facilities.
   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.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) The Department of Defense is required to comply with laws
enacted by Congress, executive orders, and goals established by
military leaders, including requirements for 3 percent annual
reductions in facility energy intensity , which is measured by energy
used per gross square foot.
   (b) The Department of Defense is reducing energy demand through
conservation and efficiency. The Department of Defense is improving
the efficiency of its existing buildings through retrofitting,
including the use of advanced lighting, heating, ventilation, and air
conditioning technologies.
   (c) Department of Defense military bases and facilities located in
California pay into California energy public purpose programs that
fund energy efficiency and other programs.
   (d) There is currently no targeted partnership with Department of
Defense military bases and facilities located in California to ensure
that funding available for energy efficiency improvements through
programs authorized by the Public Utilities Commission are directed
towards Department of Defense military bases and facilities located
in California.
  SEC. 2.  Section 454.57 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   454.57.  Through an existing or new proceeding, the commission, in
consultation with the Energy Commission and the Department of
Defense, shall do the following:
   (a) Identify all potentially achievable cost-effective electricity
efficiency savings at military bases and facilities in the state and
establish efficiency targets for electrical corporations to achieve
at military bases and facilities in the state pursuant to Section
454.5.
   (b) Identify all potentially achievable cost-effective natural gas
efficiency savings at military bases and facilities in the state and
establish efficiency targets for gas corporations to achieve at
military bases and facilities in the state pursuant to Section
454.56.