AB 2229, as amended, 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.
end deleteThis 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.
end deleteThis bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to encourage electrical corporations and gas corporations to expedite implementation of energy efficiency measures and enable the achievement of additional energy goals at United States Department of Defense military bases and facilities and United States Coast Guard facilities.
end insertbegin insertThis bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to authorize the energy efficiency program for the above purpose through existing energy efficiency programs administered by electrical corporations and gas corporations. Because a violation of an order or a direction of the commission is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
end insertbegin insertThis bill would repeal the above requirements on January 1, 2020.
end insertbegin insertThe California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
end insertbegin insertThis bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
end insertVote: majority.
Appropriation: no.
Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: begin deleteno end deletebegin insertyesend insert.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
The Legislature finds and declares all of the
2following:
P3 1(a) Thebegin delete Department of Defense isend deletebegin insert United States Department of
2Defense and the United States Coast Guard, as the nation’s largest
3energy users, areend insert required to comply with laws enacted by
4Congress, executive orders, and goals established by military
5leaders, including requirements for 3 percent annual reductions in
6facility energybegin delete intensity ,end deletebegin insert
intensity,end insert which is measured by energy
7used per gross square foot.
8(b) Thebegin delete Department of Defense isend deletebegin insert United States Department of
9Defense and the United States Coast Guard areend insert reducing energy
10demand through conservation and efficiency. Thebegin delete Department of begin insert United States Department of Defense and the United
11Defense isend delete
12States Coast Guard areend insert improving the efficiency ofbegin delete itsend deletebegin insert
theirend insert
13 existing buildings through retrofitting, including the use of
14advanced lighting, heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning
15technologies.
16(c) Department of Defense military bases and facilities located
17in California pay into California energy public purpose programs
18that fund energy efficiency and other programs.
19(d) There is currently no targeted partnership with Department
20of Defense military bases and facilities
located in California to
21ensure that funding available for energy efficiency improvements
22through programs authorized by the Public Utilities Commission
23are directed towards Department of Defense military bases and
24facilities located in California.
25(c) The United States Department of Defense and United States
26Coast Guard facilities have leveraged the energy efficiency
27programs of electrical corporations and gas corporations and
28have used turnkey contracts to facilitate energy efficiency upgrades
29while bundling energy and water efficiency, demand response,
30and distributed generation.
31(d) Additional energy efficiency incentives to assist the United
32States Department of Defense and the United States Coast Guard
33to perform energy efficiency projects will help in meeting the state’s
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greenhouse gas reduction goals.
Section 454.57 is added to the Public Utilities Code,
36to read:
begin deleteThrough end deletebegin insert(a)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertFor the purposes of this section, the
38following terms have the following meanings:end insert
39(1) “Military bases and facilities” are those establishments
40under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Defense
P4 1that are classified in Code 928110 of the North American Industry
2Classification System.
3(2) “United States Coast Guard facilities” are those facilities
4under the jurisdiction of the United States Coast Guard that are
5classified in Code 926120 of the North American Industry
6Classification System.
7(b) Military bases and facilities and United States Coast Guard
8facilities shall be eligible to calculate their energy efficiency
9savings by comparing the facilities’ existing energy usage, as a
10whole, with the facilities’ projected energy usage that would be
11achieved from the implementation of the energy efficiency
12measures.
13begin insert(c)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertThroughend insert an existing or new proceeding, the commission, in
14consultation with the Energybegin delete Commission andend deletebegin insert
Commission,end insert the
15begin insert United States end insert Department of Defense,begin insert and the United States Coast
16Guard,end insert shallbegin delete do the following:end deletebegin insert encourage electrical corporations
17and gas corporations, using existing military contracting
18procedures or new partnerships with the federal government, to
19expedite the implementation of energy efficiency measures and
20shall enable the achievement of additional energy goals, for
21example, demand response, self-generation, and energy storage,
22at military bases and facilities and United States Coast Guard
23facilities.end insert
24(a) Identify all potentially achievable cost-effective electricity
25efficiency savings at military bases and facilities in the state and
26establish efficiency targets for electrical corporations to achieve
27at military bases and facilities in the state pursuant to Section 454.5.
28(b) Identify all potentially achievable cost-effective natural gas
29efficiency savings at military bases and facilities in the state and
30establish efficiency targets for gas corporations to achieve at
31military bases and facilities in the state pursuant to Section 454.56.
32(d) The commission shall authorize a program for energy
33efficiency for the purposes of subdivision (b) through existing
34energy efficiency programs administered by electrical corporations
35and gas corporations.
36(e) To the extent that the commission finds that funds in addition
37to funds collected from ratepayers are needed to achieve energy
38efficiency saving goals in military bases and facilities and United
39States Coast Guard facilities, the commission, in consultation with
40the Energy Commission, the United States Department of Defense,
P5 1and the United States Coast Guard, shall identify other potential
2sources of funding to supplement funds collected from ratepayers
3to achieve those savings goals.
4(f) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2020,
5and as of that date is repealed, unless a
later enacted statute, that
6is enacted before January 1, 2020, deletes or extends that date.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
8Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
9the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
10district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
11infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
12for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of
13the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within
14the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
15Constitution.
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