BILL NUMBER: AB 1739	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Waldron

                        FEBRUARY 1, 2016

   An act to amend Section 2827.3 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to electricity.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1739, as introduced, Waldron. Net energy metering.
   Existing law requires all electric utilities to develop a standard
contract or tariff providing for net energy metering, and to make
this contract available to eligible customer generators, upon
request, except as provided. Existing law requires the Public
Utilities Commission to complete a study by October 1, 2013, to
determine who benefits from, and who bears the economic burden, if
any, of the net energy metering program, and to determine the extent
to which each class of ratepayers and each region of the state
receiving service under the net energy metering program is paying the
full cost of the services provided to them by electrical
corporations, and the extent to which those customers pay their share
of the costs of public purpose programs. Existing law requires the
commission to report the results of the study to the Legislature
within 30 days of its completion.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 2827.3 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   2827.3.  (a) By October 1, 2013, the commission shall complete a
study to determine who benefits from, and who bears the economic
burden, if any, of, the net energy metering program authorized
pursuant to Section 2827, and to determine the extent to which each
class of ratepayers and each region of the state receiving service
under the net energy metering program is paying the full cost of the
services provided to them by electrical corporations, and the extent
to which those customers pay their share of the costs of public
purpose programs. In evaluating program costs and benefits for
purposes of the study, the commission shall consider all electricity
generated by renewable electric generating systems, including the
electricity used onsite to reduce a customer's consumption of
electricity that otherwise would be supplied through the electrical
grid, as well as the electrical output that is being fed back to the
electrical grid for which the customer receives credit or net surplus
electricity compensation under net energy metering. The study shall
quantify the costs and benefits of net energy metering to
participants and nonparticipants and shall further disaggregate the
results by utility, customer class, and household income groups
within the residential class. The study shall further gather and
present data on the income distribution of residential net energy
metering participants. In order to assess the costs and benefits at
various levels of net energy metering implementation, the study shall
be conducted using multiple net energy metering penetration
scenarios, including, at a minimum, the capacity needed to reach the
solar photovoltaic goals of the California Solar Initiative pursuant
to Section 25780 of the Public Resources Code, and the estimated net
energy metering capacity under the 5-percent minimum requirement of
paragraphs (1) and (4) of subdivision (c) of Section 2827.
   (b) (1) The commission shall report the results of the study to
the Legislature within 30 days of  its   the
study's  completion.
   (2) The report shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795
of the Government Code.
   (3) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this
section is repealed on July 1, 2017.