AB 802, as amended, Williams. Public utilities: energy efficiency savings.
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to develop and implement a comprehensive program to achieve greater energy savings in existing residential and nonresidential building stock. Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to investigate the ability of electrical corporations and gas corporations to provide various energy efficiency financing options to their customers for the purposes of implementing the program developed by the Energy Commission.
This bill would require the PUC, by July 1, 2016, to authorize electrical corporations and gas corporations to recover in rates the reasonable costs of programs providing incentives or rebates or both incentives and rebates to their customers to increase the energy efficiency of existing buildings, as specified. The bill would require the PUC to authorize electrical corporations and gas corporations to count all energy savings achieved toward overall energy efficiency goals or targets established by the PUC. The bill would authorize the PUC to adjust the energy efficiency goals or targets of electrical corporations and gas corporations to reflect the energy savings achieved in meeting or exceeding energy efficiency requirements in existing buildings.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 381.2 of the Public Utilities Code is
2amended to read:
(a) The commission shall investigate the ability of
4electrical corporations and gas corporations to provide various
5energy efficiency financing options to their customers for the
6purposes of implementing the program developed pursuant to
7Section 25943 of the Public Resources Code.
8(b) begin insert(1)end insertbegin insert end insert By July 1, 2016, the commission, in a separate or
9existing proceeding, shall authorize electrical corporations or gas
10corporations to recover in rates the reasonable costs of programs
11that
provide financial incentives or rebates or both incentives and
12rebates to their customers to increase the energy efficiency of
13existing buildings based on all estimated energy savings and energy
14usage reductions, taking into consideration the overall reduction
15in normalized metered energy consumption as a measure of energy
16savings. Those programs shall include energy usage reductions
17resulting from the installation of a measure or equipment required
18for modifications to existing buildings to bring them into
19conformity with, or exceed, the requirements of Title 24 of the
20California Code of Regulations. The commission shall authorize
21an electrical corporation and gas corporation to count all energy
22savings achieved toward overall energy efficiency goals or targets
23established by the commission. The commission may adjust the
24energy efficiency goals or targets of an electrical corporation and
25gas
corporation to reflect the energy efficiency savings achieved
26in meeting or exceeding the requirements of Title 24 of the
27California Code of Regulations in existing buildings.
28(2) The commission shall prioritize energy efficiency activities
29consistent with Sections 454.55 and 454.56.
P3 1(c) In the report prepared pursuant to Section 384.2, the
2commission shall include an assessment of each electrical
3corporation’s and each gas corporation’s implementation of the
4program developed pursuant to Section 25943 of the Public
5Resources Code.
6(d) This section does not require the
commission to increase
7funding for energy efficiency programs of electric corporations
8or gas corporations that are recoverable in rates.
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