BILL NUMBER: AB 2229 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 21, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bradford
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
An act to add and repeal Section 454.57 to
of the Public Utilities Code, relating to
energy.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2229, as amended, 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.
This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to
encourage electrical corporations and gas corporations to expedite
implementation of energy efficiency measures and enable the
achievement of additional energy goals at United States Department of
Defense military bases and facilities and United States Coast Guard
facilities.
This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to
authorize the energy efficiency program for the above purpose through
existing energy efficiency programs administered by electrical
corporations and gas corporations. Because a violation of an order or
a direction of the commission is a crime, this bill would impose a
state-mandated local program.
This bill would repeal the above requirements on January 1, 2020.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no yes .
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 United
States Department of Defense and the United States Coast Guard, as
the nation's largest energy users, are 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 ,
intensity, which is measured by energy used per gross square
foot.
(b) The Department of Defense is United
States Department of Defense and the United States Coast Guard are
reducing energy demand through conservation and efficiency. The
Department of Defense is United States
Department of Defense and the United States Coast Guard are
improving the efficiency of its their
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.
(c) The United States Department of Defense and United States
Coast Guard facilities have leveraged the energy efficiency programs
of electrical corporations and gas corporations and have used turnkey
contracts to facilitate energy efficiency upgrades while bundling
energy and water efficiency, demand response, and distributed
generation.
(d) Additional energy efficiency incentives to assist the United
States Department of Defense and the United States Coast Guard to
perform energy efficiency projects will help in meeting the state's
greenhouse gas reduction goals.
SEC. 2. Section 454.57 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
454.57. Through (a)
For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the
following meanings:
(1) "Military bases and facilities" are those establishments under
the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Defense that are
classified in Code 928110 of the North American Industry
Classification System.
(2) "United States Coast Guard facilities" are those facilities
under the jurisdiction of the United States Coast Guard that are
classified in Code 926120 of the North American Industry
Classification System.
(b) Military bases and facilities and United States Coast Guard
facilities shall be eligible to calculate their energy efficiency
savings by comparing the facilities' existing energy usage, as a
whole, with the facilities' projected energy usage that would be
achieved from the implementation of the energy efficiency measures.
(c) Through an existing or new
proceeding, the commission, in consultation with the Energy
Commission and Commission, the United
States Department of Defense, and the United States Coast
Guard, shall do the following:
encourage electrical corporations and gas corporations, using
existing military contracting procedures or new partnerships with the
federal government, to expedite the implementation of energy
efficiency measures and shall enable the achievement of additional
energy goals, for example, demand response, self-generation, and
energy storage, at military bases and facilities and United States
Coast Guard facilities.
(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.
(d) The commission shall authorize a program for energy efficiency
for the purposes of subdivision (b) through existing energy
efficiency programs administered by electrical corporations and gas
corporations.
(e) To the extent that the commission finds that funds in addition
to funds collected from ratepayers are needed to achieve energy
efficiency saving goals in military bases and facilities and United
States Coast Guard facilities, the commission, in consultation with
the Energy Commission, the United States Department of Defense, and
the United States Coast Guard, shall identify other potential sources
of funding to supplement funds collected from ratepayers to achieve
those savings goals.
(f) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2020, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2020, deletes or extends
that date.
SEC. 3. No reimbursement is required by this act
pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local
agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a
new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or
changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of
Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a
crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the
California Constitution.