BILL ANALYSIS � 1
SENATE ENERGY, UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
ALEX PADILLA, CHAIR
SB 674 - Padilla Hearing Date:
April 5, 2011 S
As Introduced: February 18, 2011 FISCAL B
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DESCRIPTION
Current law requires an investor-owned utility (IOU) or publicly
owned utility (POU) using advanced metering (smart meters) to
protect consumers energy usage data from unauthorized access or
disclosure.
This bill clarifies that contracts between utilities and third
parties to facilitate a customer's access to consumption data
require a customer's prior consent for the third party use and
release of a customer's data for a secondary commercial purpose.
Current law requires a mobilehome park owner which provides
master meter service to its tenants to pass on to each customer
the proportional share of any rebate that the mobilehome park
owner receives from an IOU.
This bill excludes from the definition of rebate an incentive
received from the California Solar Initiative for a solar
thermal or photovoltaic system that service only the common area
of a mobilehome park.
Current law requires the California Public Utilities Commission
(CPUC) to monitor and participate in a 1999 proceeding of the
Federal Communications Commission.
This bill repeals this obsolete provision.
COMMENTS
1. Author's Purpose . This is a code maintenance bill in
which the author has repealed an obsolete section of the
Public Utilities Code and made technical, non-controversial
changes to two other sections.
First, this bill makes technical changes to SB 1476
(Padilla, 2010) which were intended in that bill but the
author was precluded from making due to legislative
deadlines. The language clarifies the requirement in SB
1476 that parties to contracts between utilities and third
parties will follow the principles behind the bill and
include in the terms of contracts between them that a
customer's prior consent will always be required for the
use and release of a customer's data for a secondary
commercial purpose.
Second, under current law a mobilehome park operator which
in essence acts in the place of a utility for its park
tenants is referred to as a master meter and must extend
any funds received in the form of rebates to all of its
submetered customers (tenants). This bill would, only for
incentive payments under the CSI, permit the master meter
to receive and retain the incentive payments if the
installed solar only serves the common area of the
mobilehome park.
2. Double Referral . Should this bill be approved by the
committee, it should be re-referred to the Senate Committee
on Judiciary for its consideration.
POSITIONS
Sponsor:
Author
Support:
Division of Ratepayer Advocates
Oppose:
None on file
Kellie Smith
SB 674 Analysis
Hearing Date: April 5, 2011