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 providingbegin delete incentives or
rebates or both incentives and rebatesend deletebegin insert incentives, rebates, technical assistance, and supportend insert 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) (1) 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 financialbegin delete incentives or rebates or both incentives and begin insert
incentives, rebates, technical assistance, and supportend insert to
12rebatesend delete
13their customers to increase the energy efficiency of existing
14buildings based on all estimated energy savings and energy usage
15reductions, taking into consideration the overall reduction in
16normalized metered energy consumption as a measure of energy
17savings. Those programs shall include energy usage reductions
18resulting from thebegin delete installationend deletebegin insert adoptionend insert of a measure orbegin insert installation
19ofend insert equipment required for modifications to existing buildings to
20bring them into conformity with, or exceed, the requirements of
21Title 24 of the California Code ofbegin delete Regulations.end deletebegin insert
Regulations, as
22well as operational, behavioral, and retrocommissioning activities.end insert
23 The commission shall authorize an electrical corporation and gas
24corporation to count all energy savings achieved toward overall
25energy efficiency goals or targets established by the commission.
26The commission may adjust the energy efficiency goals or targets
P3 1of an electrical corporation and gas corporation to reflect the energy
2efficiency savings achieved in meeting or exceeding the
3requirements of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations in
4existing buildings.
5(2) The commission shall prioritize energy efficiency activities
6consistent with Sections 454.55 and 454.56.
7(c) In the report prepared pursuant to Section 384.2, the
8commission shall include an
assessment of each electrical
9corporation’s and each gas corporation’s implementation of the
10program developed pursuant to Section 25943 of the Public
11Resources Code.
12(d) This section does not require the commission to increase
13funding for energy efficiency programs of electric corporations or
14gas corporations that are recoverable in rates.
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