BILL NUMBER: AB 2341	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Blumenfield)

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to add Section 379.9 to the Public Utilities Code, relating
to electricity distribution.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2341, as introduced, Williams. : Distribution grid: distributed
generation.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has
regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical
corporations, as defined. Existing law requires the PUC to
administer, until January 1, 2016, a self-generation incentive
program for distributed generation resources to facilitate the
integration of those resources into the electrical grid, improve
efficiency and reliability of the distribution and transmission
system, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, peak demand, and
ratepayer costs.
   This bill would require the PUC to ensure, through its decisions
in electrical corporation general rate cases and related proceedings,
that all investments in the distribution grid are compatible with
optimal deployment of distributed generation, to the extent grid
upgrades are required to meet a goal of 12,000 megawatts of
distributed generation by 2020.
   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 379.9 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   379.9.  The commission shall ensure, through its decisions in
electrical corporation general rate cases and related proceedings,
that all investments in the distribution grid are compatible with
optimal deployment of distributed generation, to the extent grid
upgrades are required to meet a goal of 12,000 megawatts of
distributed generation by 2020.