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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 2761
Author: Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SENATE ENERGY, UTIL. & COMMUNIC. COMM. : 10-0, 6/17/14
AYES: Padilla, Fuller, Block, Cannella, Corbett, De León,
DeSaulnier, Hill, Pavley, Wolk
NO VOTE RECORDED: Knight
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 75-0, 5/8/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Public Utilities Commission: report: renewable
energy resources
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill requires the Public Utilities Commission
(PUC) to submit its annual report on the fiscal impact of
renewable energy programs on electrical corporations to the
policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature by April 1,
instead of the current February 1 deadline.
ANALYSIS : Existing law:
1.Requires investor-owned utilities, publicly-owned utilities,
community choice aggregators, and energy service providers to
increase purchases of renewable energy such that at least 33%
of total retail sales are procured from renewable energy
resources by December 31, 2020. In the interim each entity
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would be required to procure an average of 20% of renewable
energy for the period of January 1, 2011 through December 31,
2013 and 25% by December 31, 2016. This is known as the
Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS).
2.Requires PUC, 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 moves the report due date from February 1 to April 1
of each year.
Comments
This bill simply moves an existing reporting requirement of the
PUC from February 1 of each year to April 1. Under existing law
the report results are based on forecasted versus actual data
from the previous year and ultimately does not allow the PUC
sufficient time to compile and verify the data, analyze trends,
and prepare a report. The PUC opines that the date extension
will result in a report that relies on actual information for
the electrical corporation's RPS procurement expenditures.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local:
No
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/18/14)
Public Utilities Commission
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 75-0, 5/8/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hernández, Holden,
Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal,
Maienschein, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian,
Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, Quirk, Quirk-Silva,
Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting,
Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada,
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John A. Pérez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Eggman, Gorell, Mansoor, V. Manuel Pérez,
Vacancy
JG:k 6/19/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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