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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 2761
Author: Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee
Amended: 8/4/14 in Senate
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 modifies two existing reporting
requirements of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) concerning
costs of the Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) program
including conforming the reporting dates of the two reports to
May 1, instead of the current February 1 deadline.
Senate Floor Amendments of 8/4/14 modify two existing reporting
requirements of the PUC concerning costs of the RPS program
including conforming the reporting dates of the two reports.
ANALYSIS :
Existing law:
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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
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 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 modifies two existing reporting requirements of the
PUC concerning costs of the RPS program including conforming the
reporting dates of the two reports to May 1, instead of the
current February 1 deadline.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local:
No
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/5/14)
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,
John A. Pérez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Eggman, Gorell, Mansoor, V. Manuel Pérez,
Vacancy
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JG:k 8/5/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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