California Air Resources Board

Summary

Would authorize the California Public Utilities Commission to consider changes within the resource adequacy (RA) program, a program to ensure sufficient electricity supply to satisfy demand, including the use of a multiyear centralized RA mechanism, among other options. Remains in the Assembly Rules Committee.

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Would authorize a gas corporation that serves an area that will host the 2028 Olympics to identify and propose a green hydrogen project, as defined, or multiple projects, in cooperation with the United States Olympic Paralympic Committee, the City of Los Angeles, or the County of Los Angeles to achieve described purposes. If a green hydrogen project is identified and proposed, the bill would authorize the gas corporation to file an application with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for approval to undertake the project or projects. The bill would require CPUC to approve, or modify and approve, a project or projects and associated investments in green hydrogen and hydrogen-related infrastructure, and to authorize recovery of those expenses incurred through a reasonable cost recovery mechanism. Was not heard in the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee.

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Would revise the SB 100 policy to establish a goal that 100 percent of electrical load be supplied by eligible clean energy resources, as defined. The bill would establish the California 24/7 Clean Energy Standard Program, that would phase in clean energy requirements through 2035. The bill would require the California Energy Commission (CEC), in consultation with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and California balancing authorities, to establish compliance periods and subperiods that meet certain criteria. The bill would require CPUC to establish for each retail seller, and CEC for each local publicly owned electric utility, clean energy procurement requirements for each compliance period and subperiod, as provided. Was not heard in the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee.

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Would, on or after January 1, 2022, prohibit a State agency from designing or constructing a State facility that is connected to the natural gas grid. Was not heard in the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee.

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Would require the California Public Utilities Commission to develop and implement a Clean Community Microgrid Incentive Program by 2022 to fund community microgrids that support the critical needs of vulnerable communities that utilize distributed energy resources for the generation of electricity. Was not heard in the Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee.

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Would require CARB to phase in a 100 percent green and zero carbon hydrogen fuel standard by 2045. The bill would provide a ten year, steadily declining set of personal and corporate income tax credits for green hydrogen production and distribution, as well as for hydrogen fueling stations. CARB would annually certify green hydrogen production and available hydrogen fueling stations to the Franchise Tax Board. Green hydrogen is defined to be hydrogen not produced from fossil fuel feedstock sources. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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Would require the California Public Utilities Commission, by January 31, 2022, to open an investigation into the root causes of demand response market failures and why demand response has not reached its potential and to make recommendations for policy changes aimed at ensuring those market failures are not repeated. Was not heard in the Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee.

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Would direct the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to adopt a new net energy metering (NEM) standard contract or tariff, which the bill would define as the "replacement tariff," by August 1, 2022, and would require an electrical investor-owned utility to offer the replacement tariff to an eligible customer-generator by December 31, 2023. If CPUC fails to act, CPUC would be required to adopt a new tariff under prescribed terms. Failed passage with reconsideration granted and moved to the Assembly Inactive File.

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Would establish the California Procurement Authority as a central procurement entity to ensure that load-serving entities collectively have adequate electrical resources, both in the short run and long run, as are necessary to ensure resource adequacy and to achieve the purposes of the integrated resource planning process. Was not heard in the Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee.

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Would create the Environmental Justice Community Resilience Hubs Program (Program), and would fund the Program by redirecting 5 percent of electrical corporation allocated allowance auction proceeds received under the Cap-and-Trade Program from annual climate credits that are currently provided to residential ratepayers. The Program would fund competitive grants run by electrical corporations and administered by a third-party administrator for owners of critical community institutions for building upgrade projects. Made a 2-Year bill in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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