BILL NUMBER: AB 904	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 11, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 10, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 14, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Skinner

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to add Section 381.3 to the Public Utilities Code, relating
to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 904, as amended, Skinner. Energy efficiency.
   Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission (Energy Commission) to establish, by March 1,
2010, a regulatory proceeding to develop a comprehensive program to
achieve greater energy savings in the state's existing residential
and nonresidential building stock.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has
regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical
corporations and gas corporations. Existing law authorizes the PUC to
establish rules for all public utilities, subject to control by the
Legislature. Pursuant to existing law, the PUC has opened Rulemaking
09-11-014 (Order Instituting Rulemaking to Examine the Commission's
Post-2008 Energy Efficiency Policies, Programs, Evaluation,
Measurement and Verification, and Related Issues, filed November 20,
2009). Existing law requires the PUC, by March 1, 2010, to open a new
proceeding or amend an existing proceeding 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 above-described Energy Commission
program.
   This bill would require the PUC, as part of Rulemaking 09-11-014,
to  ensure that energy efficiency programs (1) result in
real, absolute reductions in energy consumption, (2) examine
alternatives to traditional administration, delivery, and evaluation
mechanisms for energy efficiency services, and (3)  evaluate
 all  reasonable alternatives for financing
residential energy efficiency retrofits, including efficiency
 improvement   improvements  of heating,
ventilation, and air-conditioning. The bill would require the PUC to
consult and coordinate with the Energy Commission in 
achieving these results   complying with those
requirements  .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 381.3 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   381.3.  (a) As part of Rulemaking 09-11-014 (Order Instituting
Rulemaking to Examine the Commission's Post-2008 Energy Efficiency
Policies, Programs, Evaluation, Measurement and Verification, and
Related Issues, filed November 20, 2009), the commission shall
 ensure that energy efficiency programs that are under review
in that proceeding do all the following: 
    (1) Result in real, absolute reductions in energy
consumption. 
    (2) Examine alternatives to traditional administration,
delivery, and evaluation mechanisms for energy efficiency services,
including, but not limited to, the provision of feed-in tariffs to
those who can provide for and obtain verifiable consumption
reductions.   (3)   
 Evaluate all   evaluate  reasonable
alternatives for financing residential energy efficiency retrofits,
including efficiency improvements of heating, ventilation, and
air-conditioning.
   (b) The commission shall consult and coordinate with the State
Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission in complying
with subdivision (a).