BILL NUMBER: AB 2761	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Utilities and Commerce (Bradford
(Chair), Bonilla, Buchanan, Garcia, Roger Hernández, Mullin, Quirk,
and Rendon)

                        MARCH 24, 2014

   An act to amend Section 910 of the Public Utilities Code, relating
to the Public Utilities Commission.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2761, as introduced, Committee on Utilities and Commerce.
Public Utilities Commission: report: renewable energy resources.
   Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission, by February
1 of each year, to prepare and submit to the policy and fiscal
committees of the Legislature a report on specified topics generally
relating to the fiscal impact of renewable energy programs on
electrical corporations.
   This bill would instead require the commission to submit the
report to the policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature by
April 1 of each year.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 910 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
   910.  (a) By  February   April  1 of
each year, the commission shall prepare and submit to the policy and
fiscal committees of the Legislature a written report summarizing the
following information:
   (1) All electrical corporation revenue requirement increases
associated with meeting the renewables portfolio standard, as defined
in Section 399.12, including direct procurement costs for eligible
renewable energy resources and renewable energy credits,
administrative expenses for procurement, expenses incurred to ensure
a reliable supply of electricity, and expenses for upgrades to the
electrical transmission and distribution grid necessary to the
delivery of electricity from eligible renewable energy resources to
load.
   (2) All cost savings experienced, or costs avoided, by electrical
corporations as a result of meeting the renewables portfolio
standard.
   (3) All costs incurred by electrical corporations for incentives
for distributed and renewable generation, including the
self-generation incentive program, the California Solar Initiative,
and net energy metering.
   (4) All cost savings experienced, or costs avoided, by electrical
corporations as a result of incentives for distributed and renewable
generation.
   (5) All renewable, fossil fuel, and nuclear procurement costs,
research, study, or pilot program costs, or other program costs for
which an electrical corporation is seeking recovery in rates, that is
pending determination or approval by the commission.
   (6) The decision number for each decision of the commission of
recovery in rates of costs incurred by an electrical corporation
since the preceding report.
   (7) Any change in the electrical load serviced by an electrical
corporation since the preceding report.
   (8) The efforts each electrical corporation is taking to recruit
and train employees to ensure an adequately trained and available
workforce, including the number of new employees hired by the
electrical corporation for purposes of implementing the requirements
of Article 16 (commencing with Section 399.11) of Chapter 2.3, the
goals adopted by the electrical corporation for increasing women,
minority, and disabled veterans trained or hired for purposes of
implementing the requirements of Article 16 (commencing with Section
399.11) of Chapter 2.3, and, to the extent information is available,
the number of new employees hired and the number of women, minority,
and disabled veterans trained or hired by persons or corporations
owning or operating eligible renewable energy resources under
contract with an electrical corporation. This paragraph does not
provide the commission with authority to engage in, regulate, or
expand its authority to include, workforce recruitment or training.
   (b) The commission may combine the information required by this
section with the reports prepared pursuant to Article 16 (commencing
with Section 399.11) of Chapter 2.3.