BILL ANALYSIS �
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Date of Hearing: June 20, 2011
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON UTILITIES AND COMMERCE
Steven Bradford, Chair
SB 674 (Padilla) - As Introduced: February 18, 2011
SENATE VOTE : 39-0
SUBJECT : Data Security; California Solar Initiative Rebates
for Mobile Home Parks; and repeal obsolete statute.
SUMMARY : This bill deletes an obsolete provision in law,
clarifies treatment of photovoltaic rebates when projects are
installed in mobile home parks, and extends privacy provisions
for utility customers to 3rd party consultants. Specifically,
this bill :
1)Clarifies that contracts between utilities and third parties
involving access to utility customer data require prior
consent from customers.
2)Excludes California Solar Initiative incentives from the
definition of a rebate for solar thermal or photovoltaic
systems that serve the common area of a mobile home park.
3)Repeals provisions in statute related to interconnection rules
applicable to Federal Communication rules affecting local
exchange carriers.
EXISTING LAW
Requires electric and gas investor owned and publicly owned
utilities to protect their customer energy usage data from
unauthorized access or disclosure. If Investor Owned Utilities
(IOUs) or Publicly Owned Utilities (POUs) contract with 3rd
party data services to allow a customer to access billing data
current law provides that customers may use the services without
sharing their data with a 3rd party.
Requires the owner of a master metered mobile home park the
proportional share of any rebate that the mobile home park owner
receives from an IOU.
Requires the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to
monitor and participate in a 1999 proceeding of the Federal
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Communications Commission (FCC).
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown.
COMMENTS : The author states that this is a code maintenance
bill which repeals an obsolete section of the Public Utilities
Code and makes 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 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 mobile home park operator must extend any
funds received in the form of rebates to all of its sub-metered
customers (referred to as master metering). This bill would,
only for incentive payments under the California Solar
Initiative, permit the mobile home park owner to receive and
retain the incentive payments if the installed solar only serves
the common area of the mobile home park.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
Division of Ratepayer Advocates (DRA)
Opposition
None on file.
Analysis Prepared by : DaVina Flemings / U. & C. / (916)
319-2083