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          Bill No:  AB 1392
          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  :  74-0, 4/11/11 (Consent) - See last page 
            for vote


           SUBJECT  :    Energy:  California Solar Initiative

           SOURCE  :     Author


           DIGEST  :    This bill deletes the authority of the Public 
          Utilities Commission to modify the rates of customers 
          frozen during the energy crisis to facilitate the 
          time-of-use tariff.

           ANALYSIS  :    Current law establishes the California Solar 
          Initiative, a $3.3 billion program which provides 
          incentives for the installation of solar photovoltaic 
          systems for customers of the state's investor-owned 
          utilities and publicly owned utilities.  Under this 
          program, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is 
          authorized to use time-of-use (TOU) rates that create the 
          maximum incentive for ratepayers to install solar energy 
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          systems so that the system's peak electricity production 
          coincides with peak electricity demands.  The PUC is also 
          authorized to modify rates for participating California 
          Solar Initiative customers which had their rates were 
          frozen as a result of the energy crisis.

          This bill deletes obsolete authority allowing the PUC to 
          make adjustments to a TOU rate intended to create the 
          maximum incentive for ratepayers to install solar electric 
          energy systems in a manner that their system's peak 
          electricity production coincides with California's peak 
          electricity demand.  The adjustment allowed the PUC to 
          exclude customers whose usage was at baseline quantities or 
          up to 130 percent of baseline quantities.  This provision 
          was made due to an electricity rate freeze that was enacted 
          as a result of the 2000-02 electricity crisis.  That rate 
          freeze has since been modified �SB 695 (Kehoe), Chapter 
          337, Statutes of 2010] and TOU rates are not used for 
          residential customers in the California Solar Initiative 
          program.

          This bill is intended to maintain the codes.  

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


           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  74-0, 4/11/11 (Consent)
          AYES:  Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall, 
            Bill Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford, 
            Brownley, Buchanan, Charles Calderon, Campos, Carter, 
            Cedillo, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Davis, Dickinson, Eng, 
            Feuer, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani, Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, 
            Gordon, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Roger 
            Hern�ndez, Hill, Huber, Hueso, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, 
            Knight, Lara, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mansoor, 
            Mendoza, Miller, Mitchell, Monning, Morrell, Nestande, 
            Nielsen, Norby, 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:  Butler, Donnelly, Fletcher, Gorell, 
            Halderman, Vacancy








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