AB 2229, as introduced, Bradford. Energy efficiency: military bases and facilities.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations, as defined. The Public Utilities Act requires the Public Utilities Commission to review and adopt a procurement plan for each electrical corporation in accordance with specified elements, incentive mechanisms, and objectives. The act requires that an electrical corporation’s proposed procurement plan include certain elements, including a showing that the electrical corporation will first meet its unmet needs through all available energy efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible. Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to identify all potentially achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings, and to establish efficiency targets for electrical corporations to achieve pursuant to their procurement plan.
The act requires the Public Utilities Commission, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to identify all potentially achievable cost-effective natural gas efficiency savings and to establish efficiency targets for gas corporations to achieve, and requires that a gas corporation first meet its unmet resource needs through all available gas efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible.
This bill would require the commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission and the Department of Defense, to identify all potentially achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings at military bases and facilities in the state, and to establish efficiency targets for an electrical corporation to achieve at military bases and facilities.
This bill would require the commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission and the Department of Defense, to identify all potentially achievable cost-effective natural gas efficiency savings at military bases and facilities in the state and to establish efficiency targets for the gas corporation to achieve at military bases and facilities.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
The Legislature finds and declares all of the
2following:
3(a) The Department of Defense is required to comply with laws
4enacted by Congress, executive orders, and goals established by
5military leaders, including requirements for 3 percent annual
6reductions in facility energy intensity , which is measured by
7energy used per gross square foot.
8(b) The Department of Defense is reducing energy demand
9through conservation and efficiency. The Department of Defense
10is improving the efficiency of its existing buildings through
11retrofitting, including the use of advanced lighting, heating,
12ventilation, and air conditioning technologies.
13(c) Department of Defense military bases and facilities located
14in California pay into California energy public purpose programs
15that fund energy efficiency and other programs.
16(d) There is currently no targeted partnership with Department
17of Defense military bases and facilities located in California to
18ensure that funding available for energy efficiency improvements
19through programs authorized by the Public Utilities Commission
20are directed towards Department of Defense military bases and
21facilities located in California.
Section 454.57 is added to the Public Utilities Code,
2to read:
Through an existing or new proceeding, the
4commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission and the
5Department of Defense, shall do the following:
6(a) Identify all potentially achievable cost-effective electricity
7efficiency savings at military bases and facilities in the state and
8establish efficiency targets for electrical corporations to achieve
9at military bases and facilities in the state pursuant to Section 454.5.
10(b) Identify all potentially achievable cost-effective natural gas
11efficiency savings at military bases and facilities in the state and
12establish efficiency targets for gas corporations to achieve at
13military bases and facilities in the state pursuant to Section
454.56.
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