BILL NUMBER: AB 2584	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 6, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nestande

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 2827.8 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to electricity.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2584, as amended, Nestande. Energy: California Renewables
Portfolio Standard Program.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations,
as defined, while local publicly owned electric utilities, as
defined, are under the direction of their governing board. Existing
law relative to private energy producers requires every electric
utility, as defined, to develop a standard contract or tariff
providing for net energy metering, as defined, and to make this
contract or tariff available to eligible customer generators, as
defined, upon request for generation by a renewable electrical
generation facility, as defined. Existing law authorizes a local
publicly owned electric utility to elect to instead offer co-energy
metering, which uses a generation-to-generation energy and
time-of-use credit formula, as specified.
   Existing law establishes separate requirements for wind energy
co-metering that provides a credit against the generation component
of an electricity bill of an electric utility for those eligible
customer-generators utilizing a wind energy project with a generating
capacity greater than 50 kilowatts, but not exceeding one megawatt,
unless approved by the electric utility.
   This bill would provide that, for a United States Department of
Defense  installation,   installation that
operates a wind turbine and is served by Southern California Edison,
 wind energy co-metering is available if the generating capacity
does not exceed 1.5 megawatts.
   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 2827.8 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   2827.8.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, the
following provisions apply to an eligible customer-generator
utilizing wind energy co-metering with a capacity of more than 50
kilowatts, but not exceeding one megawatt, or for a United States
Department of Defense  installation,  
installation that operates a wind turbine and is served by Southern
California Edison,  not exceeding 1.5 megawatts, unless approved
by the electric utility.
   (a) The eligible customer-generator shall be required to utilize a
meter, or multiple meters, capable of separately measuring
electricity flow in both directions. Nothing in this section
precludes the use of advanced metering infrastructure devices. All
meters shall provide "time-of-use" measurements of electricity flow,
and the customer shall take service on a time-of-use rate schedule.
If the existing meter of the eligible customer-generator is not a
time-of-use meter or is not capable of measuring total flow of energy
in both directions, the eligible customer-generator is responsible
for all expenses involved in purchasing and installing a meter that
is both time-of-use and able to measure total electricity flow in
both directions. This subdivision shall not restrict the ability of
an eligible customer-generator to utilize any economic incentives
provided by a government agency or the electric utility to reduce its
costs for purchasing and installing a time-of-use meter.
   (b) The consumption of electricity from the electric utility for
wind energy co-metering by an eligible customer-generator shall be
priced in accordance with the standard rate charged to the eligible
customer-generator in accordance with the rate structure to which the
customer would be assigned if the customer did not use an eligible
wind electrical generating facility. The generation of electricity
provided to the electric utility shall result in a credit to the
eligible customer-generator and shall be priced in accordance with
the generation component, excluding surcharges to cover the purchase
of power by the Department of Water Resources, established under the
applicable structure to which the customer would be assigned if the
customer did not use an eligible wind electrical generating facility.