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          Bill No:  AB 1391
          Author:   Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee
          Amended:  As introduced
          Vote:     21

           
           SENATE ENERGY, UTIL. & COMMUNIC. COMM.  :  10-0, 6/21/11
          AYES:  Padilla, Fuller, Berryhill, Corbett, De Le�n, 
            DeSaulnier, Rubio, Simitian, Strickland, Wright
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Pavley
           
          ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  77-0, 5/16/11 (Consent) - See last page 
            for vote


           SUBJECT  :    Electricity:  net energy metering:  report

           SOURCE  :     Author


           DIGEST  :    This bill deletes a report required to be 
          submitted by the Public Utilities Commission in 2010.

           ANALYSIS  :    

          Existing law: 

          1. Requires every electric utility, as defined, to make 
             available to an eligible customer-generator, as defined, 
             a standard contract or tariff for net energy metering on 
             a first-come-first-serve basis until the time that the 
             total rated generating capacity used by the eligible 
             customer-generators exceeds five percent of the electric 
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             utility's aggregate customer peak demand. 

          2. Requires the Public Utilities Commission, in 
             consultation with the California Energy Commission, to 
             submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature by 
             January 1, 2010, on the costs and benefits of net energy 
             metering, wind energy, co-metering, and co-energy 
             metering. 

           Background  

          Full retail net metering was expanded when the California 
          Solar Initiative was established by the Legislature in 
          2006.  At that time, the Legislature called for an analysis 
          of the costs and benefits of net-energy metering by 2010.  
          The required report was submitted and this bill strikes the 
          report from the codes as part of an effort to maintain the 
          codes.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  No   Fiscal Com.:  No   
          Local:  No


           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  : 
          AYES:  Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall, 
            Bill Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford, 
            Brownley, Buchanan, Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos, 
            Carter, Cedillo, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Davis, Dickinson, 
            Donnelly, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani, 
            Beth Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Gordon, Grove, 
            Hagman, Halderman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Roger 
            Hern�ndez, Hill, Huber, Hueso, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, 
            Knight, Lara, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, 
            Miller, Mitchell, Monning, Morrell, Nestande, Nielsen, 
            Olsen, Pan, Perea, V. Manuel P�rez, Portantino, Silva, 
            Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Swanson, Torres, Valadao, 
            Wagner, Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, John A. P�rez
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Gorell, Mansoor, Norby


          RM:mw  6/22/11   Senate Floor Analyses 

                       SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  NONE RECEIVED








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