BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
SB 1393 (De León) - Energy efficiency and pollution reduction
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|Version: April 12, 2016 |Policy Vote: E., U., & C. 11 - |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: No |
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|Hearing Date: May 16, 2016 |Consultant: Narisha Bonakdar |
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This bill does not meet the criteria for referral to the
Suspense File.
Bill
Summary: SB 1393 makes several technical, clarifying and
substantive changes to the existing statute created by the Clean
Energy and Pollution Reduction Act of 2015 (SB 350).
Fiscal
Impact:
$77,000 annually (Cost of Implementation Fund) to the Air
Resources Board (ARB).
$10,000 (General Fund) annually to the CEC.
Minor costs to the CPUC.
Background: In 2015, the Legislature passed significant new energy and
environmental legislation-The Clean Energy and Pollution
Reduction Act, also known as SB 350. That bill establishes
targets to increase retail sales of renewable electricity to 50
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percent by 2030 and double the energy efficiency savings in
electricity and natural gas end uses by 2030. This bill makes
several technical, clarifying and substantive changes to the
existing statute created by the Clean Energy and Pollution
Reduction Act.
Proposed Law:
This bill makes several technical, clarifying and substantive
changes to the existing statute created by SB 350:
1)Specifies that subsection (j) is the subsection of Public
Utilities Code §399.12 to which the meaning of "retail seller"
is cross-referenced in Health and Safety Code §44258.5.
2)Requires the CEC to continue to evaluate the actual energy
efficiency savings from negative therm interactive effects
generated as a result of electricity efficiency improvements
in each update of the integrated energy policy report (IEPR),
after the 2019 edition.
3)Explicitly adds the AB 32 environmental justice advisory
committee to the entities from which the CEC and ARB must
receive input when completing their studies on barriers to
low-income and disadvantaged communities, as required by
Public Resources Code §25327 subsections (b), (c), and (d).
4)Specifies the types of air pollution, the reduction of which
is one of the unique benefits provided by achieving the
Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) through procurement of
various electricity products.
5)Modifies the existing statutory declaration of the necessity
of supplying electricity to California end-use customers that
is generated by eligible renewable energy resources to improve
California's air quality and public health to explicitly
highlight that the necessity is particularly necessary in
disadvantaged communities as defined in 39711 of the Health
and Safety Code.
6)Expands the requirement in existing law that the CPUC and CEC
review technology incentive, research, development,
deployment, and market facilitation programs to additionally
require those agencies to review programs overseen by academia
and private and nonprofit sectors.
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7)Further qualifies the requirement in existing law that the
CPUC and CEC give first priority to the manufacture and
deployment of clean energy and pollution reduction
technologies that create employment opportunities, including
high wage, highly skilled employment opportunities, and
increased investment in the state. The agencies would need to
additionally do so to the extent consistent with state and
federal law and specifies that job creation is to happen in
the state.
8)Clarifies that the goals that must be achieved by a POU's
Integrated resource Plan (IRP) are only those that are
applicable to POUs and that the requirement that the IRP
achieve those goals does not, in itself, subject a POU to the
requirements otherwise imposed on IOUs.
Related
Legislation: SB 350 (De Leon, Chapter 547, Statutes of 2015)
established targets to increase retail sales of renewable
electricity to 50 percent by 2030 and double the energy
efficiency savings in electricity and natural gas end uses by
2030.
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