BILL NUMBER: AB 1330	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 18, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 30, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 2, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 27, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bloom

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to add Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 8400) to Division
4.1 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1330, as amended, Bloom. Demand response.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has
regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical
corporations and gas corporations, as defined, while local publicly
owned electric utilities, as defined, are under the direction of
their governing boards.
   The existing Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation
and Development Act requires the State Energy Resources Conservation
and Development Commission (Energy Commission), on or before November
1, 2007, and every 3 years thereafter, in consultation with the PUC
and local publicly owned electric utilities, in a public process that
allows input from other stakeholders, to develop a statewide
estimate of all potentially achievable cost-effective electricity and
natural gas efficiency savings and establish statewide annual
targets for energy efficiency savings and demand reduction over 10
years.
   This bill would require the PUC, in consultation with the Energy
Commission, electrical corporations, local publicly owned electric
utilities, and community choice aggregators,  by June 30, 2018,
 to establish an annual  procurement  goal for
demand  response designed to lower peak demand, 
 response,  with a timetable for achieving that percentage.
The bill would require the PUC to require electrical corporations to
achieve the annual  procurement  goal. The bill
would specify that the governing boards of local publicly owned
electric utilities and certain community choice aggregators are
responsible for achieving the annual  procurement 
goal.
   Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule,
direction, demand, or requirement of the Public Utilities Commission
is a crime.
   Because a violation of an order or decision of the Public
Utilities Commission implementing the bill's requirements with
respect to an electrical corporation would be a crime, the bill would
impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. By
placing additional requirements upon local publicly owned electric
utilities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for specified reasons.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 8400) is added to
Division 4.1 of the Public Utilities Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 7.  DEMAND RESPONSE


   8400.  (a) By  November 1, 2017,   June 30,
2018,  the commission, in consultation with the Energy
Commission, electrical corporations, local publicly owned electric
utilities, and community choice aggregators, in a public process that
allows input from other stakeholders, shall establish an annual
 procurement  goal for demand  response
designed to lower peak demand,   response,  with a
timetable for achieving that goal, that  shall support
  advances  renewable energy resources integration,
greenhouse gas reductions, and grid reliability and that shall be
achieved by each electrical utility through supply-side demand
response and types of load-modifying demand  response,
including nonevent-based demand  response. In doing so, the
commission shall consider the role of clean technologies, such as
consumer-sited energy storage, electric vehicle charging, and
distributed generation resources.
   (b) The commission shall require electrical corporations to
achieve the  procurement  goal established pursuant
to subdivision (a).
   (c) The governing board of each local publicly owned electric
utility and each community choice aggregator that elects to
administer energy efficiency programs for its customers pursuant to
Section 381.1 shall be responsible for achieving the 
procurement  goal established pursuant to subdivision (a).
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because a
local agency or school district has the authority to levy service
charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or
level of service mandated by this act or because costs that may be
incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred
because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a
crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or
infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government
Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.