AB 802, as amended, Williams. Public utilities: energy efficiency savings.
Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy 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. Existing law requires the PUC, in consultation with the Energy 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 PUC, in evaluating the cost-effectiveness of those efficiency savings, to consider the total energy savings to be the difference between the energy usage after the installation of the energy efficiency measure funded by ratepayer-funded incentives or rebates and the energy usage without that energy efficiency measure.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
2legislation to require electrical and gas corporations to satisfy the
3state’s energy requirements with energy efficiency measures when
4procuring those measures is less expensive to the corporation than
5procuring alternative electric or gas resources.
6(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to require
7that all applicable state and federal contractor
qualifications,
8licensing, certifications, and wages appropriate for the work to be
9performed are followed for any energy efficiency retrofit and
10installation project funded bybegin delete ratepayers, and to require that the begin insert ratepayers.end insert
11Public Utilities Commission not create additional qualification,
12license, certification, or wage requirements.end delete
Section 454.55 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
14to read:
(a) The commission, in consultation with the State
16Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission,
17shall identify all potentially achievable cost-effective electricity
18efficiency savings and establish efficiency targets for an electrical
19corporation to achieve pursuant to Section 454.5.
20(b) In evaluating the cost-effectiveness ofbegin delete electrictyend deletebegin insert electricityend insert
21 efficiency savings, the commission shall consider the total
22electricity
efficiency savings to be the difference between the
23electrical usage resulting after the installation of the energy
24efficiency measure funded by ratepayer-funded incentives or
25rebates, and the electrical usage without that energy efficiency
26measure, without regard to standards prescribed pursuant to
27subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 25402 of the Public Resources
28Code.
Section 454.56 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
30to read:
(a) The commission, in consultation with the State
32Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission,
33shall identify all potentially achievable cost-effective natural gas
P3 1efficiency savings and establish efficiency targets for the gas
2corporation to achieve.
3(b) A gas corporation shall first meet its unmet resource needs
4through all available natural gas efficiency and demand reduction
5resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible.
6(c) In evaluating the cost-effectiveness of natural gas efficiency
7savings, the commission shall consider the total natural gas
8
efficiency savings to be the difference between the natural gas
9usage resulting after the installation of the energy efficiency
10measure funded by ratepayer-funded incentives or rebates, and the
11natural gas usage without that energy efficiency measure, without
12regard to standards prescribed pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b)
13of Section 25402 of the Public Resources Code.
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