BILL ANALYSIS �
AB 1392
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( Without Reference to File )
CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 1392 (Utilities and Commerce Committee)
As Amended September 9, 2011
Majority vote
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(vote not available)
Original Committee Reference: U. & C.
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SUMMARY : Deletes obsolete authority vested in the Public Utilities
Commission (PUC) to consider exempting from the California Solar
Initiative's time-variant tariff those residential customers whose
rates were protected under a rate freeze adopted during the
electricity crisis of 2000-01. Specifically, this bill :
1) Deletes the permissive authority previously granted to PUC to
exclude residential customers under the rate cap for baseline
quantities or usage by those customers of up to 130 percent of
baseline quantities stemming from the 2000-01 electricity crisis
when developing the time-variant tariff for the California Solar
Initiative (CSI).
The Senate amendments extend authority in existing law for
allocation of ARRA funds for energy efficiency.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill was substantially amended and
is not similar to the version passed by the Senate.
FISCAL EFFECT : None
COMMENTS : Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,
the California Energy Commission (CEC) received $226 million in
State Energy Program funds for increasing energy efficiency to
reduce energy costs and consumption, cut reliance on imported
energy, and shrink energy impacts on the environment.
Current law authorizing CEC expenditure of ARRA funds for the State
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Energy Program allocates $25 million for the 2009-2010 fiscal year
to the Department of General Services (DGS) for the Energy Efficient
State Property Revolving Loan Program to help finance energy
efficiency retrofits in state buildings. Additional State Energy
Program funds were allocated to a variety of other energy efficiency
programs. All ARRA State Energy Program funds have an expenditure
deadline of April 30, 2012.
These amendments authorize the CEC to transfer an additional $50
million total to the DGS revolving loan program in the 2011-12 and
2012-13 fiscal years. This authority will give the Energy Commission
maximum flexibility to expend all the ARRA funds by the 2012
deadline, in accordance with the rules of the federal Department of
Energy.
Analysis Prepared by : DaVina Flemings / U. & C. / (916) 319-2083
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