BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
AB 1110 (Ting) - Greenhouse gases emissions intensity reporting:
retail electricity suppliers.
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|Version: August 18, 2015 |Policy Vote: E., U., & C. 9 - 0 |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: Yes |
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|Hearing Date: August 24, 2015 |Consultant: Marie Liu |
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This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill
Summary: AB 1110 would expand the disclosure requirements for
entities offering electric services in California to include the
GHG emissions intensity of the electricity it provides.
Fiscal
Impact: Annual on-going costs of approximately $130,000 from
the Energy Resources Program Account (General Fund) for
additional workload associated with expanding the information on
the Power Content Label.
Background: Existing law requires every retail electricity supplier in the
state to disclose its electricity sources for the previous
calendar year in a manner consistent with CEC guidelines and is
accurate, reliable, and simple to understand. This requirement
applies to all retail suppliers, that is investor-owned
utilities, publicly owned utilities, community choice
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aggregators, and energy service providers. The format of this
disclosure is known as the Power Content Label.
The Power Content Label presents information in two broad
categories: (1) specific purchases and (2) unspecified sources
of power. The label breaks out the first category - specific
purchases - into several subcategories: eligible renewables
(meaning eligible for RPS credit), coal, large hydroelectric,
natural gas, nuclear, and other. The label provides no
additional detail to the second category - unspecified sources
of power - because such electricity, by definition, is not
traceable to a specific generation source. In addition, the
label presents comparison data on the power mix for all retail
electricity deliveries in California.
Proposed Law:
This bill would expand the disclosure requirements for
entities offering electrical services in California to include
the GHG emissions intensity of the electricity provided.
Specifically, the GHG emissions intensity shall be reported as a
sum of all annual GHG emissions divided by annual retail
electric sales. Retailers would not be allowed to make
adjustments for renewable energy credits, offset credits, or any
other attribute acquired by a facility that is not actually
delivering electricity to the retail customer.
This bill would also require the CEC, in consultation with the
ARB, to calculate the GHG emissions intensity associated with
the statewide retail electricity sales.
Staff
Comments: To develop the new GHG requirements for the Power
Content Label, including rulemaking and hosting workshops, and
then to conduct reporting compliance and verification, the CEC
anticipates on-going annual costs of approximately $130,000 for
one position.
The ARB anticipates that it will have minor and absorbable costs
to consult with the CEC on the GHG methodology calculations.
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