California Air Resources Board

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Urges the Alliance for Renewable Clean Hydrogen Energy Systems to prioritize renewable, clean hydrogen for California, as provided.

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Adds hydrogen production facilities and associated onsite storage and processing facilities that do not derive hydrogen from a fossil fuel feedstock, and that receive funding from specified State or federal government sources, to be eligible for centralized permitting and expedited review under the California Environmental Quality Act.

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Requires every city, county, or city and county to adopt an ordinance that creates an expedited, streamlined permitting process for hydrogen-fueling stations, as specified. This bill would authorize a city, county, or city and county developing an ordinance to refer to the recommendations contained in the most current version of the “Electric Vehicle Charging Station Permitting Guidebook” or the “Hydrogen Station Permitting Guidebook,” as specified. The bill requires a city, county, and city and county, in developing the expedited permitting process, to adopt a checklist of all requirements with which hydrogen-fueling stations must comply to be eligible for expedited review.

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Replaces "mineral wool board insulation" with simply "insulation" as one of the eligible materials under the Buy Clean program administered by the Department of General Services with consultation with CARB.

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Authorizes the California Energy Commission (CEC), in consultation with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and CARB, to require any weight class of battery electric vehicle (BEV) to be bidirectional-capable if the CEC determines there is a sufficiently compelling beneficial bidirectional-capable use case to the BEV operator and electrical grid. Authorizes the CEC and CARB to periodically update definitions related to BEVs and service equipment. SB 233 (Skinner) was the original version of this bill that gutted and amended to address an abortion issue.

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Governor’s Signing Message

To the Members of the California State Senate:

I am signing Senate Bill 59, which would authorize the California Energy Commission (CEC), in consultation with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the California Air Resources Board (CARB), to require any weight class of battery electric vehicle (BEV) to be bidirectional-capable if it determines there is a sufficiently compelling beneficial bidirectional-capable use case to the BEV operator and electric grid.

Bidirectional capabilities in BEVs have the potential to improve customer energy reliability, resiliency and demand management during electric grid stress events, while supporting our state's transition to zero-emission transportation. Achieving these outcomes requires close technical alignment between the BEV and bidirectional charging equipment that must also factor in vehicle standards generally, as well as electric rates and potential electric grid effects.

Given the technical complexities of bidirectional charging with BEVs, and the relationship between such standards and vehicle standards already set by CARB, I am directing the CEC to lean on the experience of the CPUC and CARB should it promulgate regulations pursuant to this bill to advance bidirectional-capable BEVs.

Sincerely,

Gavin Newsom

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Summary

Extends requirements on electric investor-owned utilities (IOUs) and community choice aggregators (CCAs) to procure energy from biomass generating electric facilities to July 1, 2025. This bill also expands eligibility of the five-year extension to procurement contracts from biomass facilities to include facilities located in a local air district that voluntarily reclassifies to Severe or Extreme air quality nonattainment status. The biomass generator is required to first obtain a letter or certificate from the relevant air district that states that the Sacramento federal ozone nonattainment area voluntarily opted to be reclassified and that the continued operation of the facility does not impede the local air district's ability to meet its applicable requirements.

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Requires the California Energy Commission to apply any network roaming standards it adopts only to major electric vehicle charging network operators that operate at least 100 publicly available electric vehicle charging stations in the operator’s network in the state and maintains a customer-facing internet-based application for purposes of locating and using electric vehicle charging stations in the operator’s network. Provisions relating to reliability for Electrify America stations and implicating the consent decree were removed.

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This bill extends the September 30, 2025, sunset of California's Clean Air Vehicle (CAV) decal program to January 1, 2027, contingent on a federal extension.

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Requires the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development to develop a model permitting checklist, model zoning ordinances, and best practices for permit costs and permit review timelines to help local governments permit curbside charging stations.

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Extends the rural jurisdiction exemption until 2037 for organic waste collection under California’s Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery regulations pursuant to SB 1383’s (Lara, Chapter 395, Statutes of 2016) Short-lived Climate Pollutant Strategy and changes how population is calculated for organic waste procurement targets, among several other provisions that reduce the stringency of organic waste regulations.

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