California Air Resources Board

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Formalizes the existence of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development’s (GO-Biz) ZEV division as the ZEV Market Development Office in statute, as specified, and establishes the ZEV Equity Advocate, within the office, until January 1, 2028, as specified. Requires the ZEV Market Development Office to coordinate with relevant state agencies, including CARB.

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Requires every retail supplier of electricity to annually report information concerning electricity supply used to serve load to the California Energy Commission (CEC), including the retail supplier’s sources of electricity and the emissions of greenhouse gases associated with those sources of electricity. The bill also requires the CEC to share the information reported by retail sellers with the California Public Utilities Commission, CARB, and the California Independent System Operator, to the extent needed, and to annually publish on its internet website an aggregated summary of the data reported by each retail supplier.

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Extends requirements on electric investor-owned utilities and community choice aggregators to procure energy from biomass generating electric facilities by five years and requires extension of existing contracts by five years.

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Requires CARB, in consultation with the California Energy Commission, the California Public Utilities Commission, and the California Workforce Development Board, to conduct an evaluation on hydrogen and post the evaluation on CARB’s website by June 1, 2024, including policy recommendations to accelerate the production and use of hydrogen, and specifically to accelerate the production and use of green hydrogen, in California.

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Among other things, establishes interim targets for the State’s 100 percent clean energy goal in 2045 and accelerates the date by which State agencies must achieve 100 percent clean energy use. This bill requires that CARB’s Scoping Plan workshops be held in non-attainment areas and requires the California Public Utilities Commission, the California Energy Commission, and CARB to create a joint report on electricity reliability.

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Authorizes the extension of operating the Diablo Canyon Nuclear power plant (DCPP) beyond the current expiration dates (2024 for Unit 1 and 2025 for Unit 2), to up to five additional years (no later than 2029 and 2030, respectively), under specified conditions. This bill also authorizes a loan of $1.4 billion from the State to Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), the operator of DCPP, to facilitate the extension of the plant. This bill appropriates $600 million and requires future Legislative action for the remaining funding. This bill also provides expedited permitting to facilitate relicensing of DCPP, including:  limiting State agency review of applications related to the DCPP extension to 180 days, exempting DCPP from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and explicitly authorizing collections from electric ratepayers (both customers of PG&E and those of other electricity providers) for ongoing costs. The California Energy Commission, in consultation with CARB, must develop a Clean Energy Reliability Investment Plan, due to the Legislature by March 1, 2023, that supports programs and projects that accelerate the deployment of clean energy resources, support demand response, assist ratepayers, and increase energy reliability.

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Exempts an extension, expansion, upgrade, or other modification of an existing transmission line or substations from the requirement of a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity and directs the California Public Utilities Commission to revise its general orders, by January 1, 2024, to instead use its permit to construct a process for these approvals.

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Requests, by February 28, 2023, the California Independent System Operator, in consultation with the other California balancing authorities, to produce a report that summarizes recent relevant studies on the impacts of expanded regional cooperation in California and identifies key issues that will advance the State's energy and environmental goals.

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Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development and the California Building Standards Commission to consider mandatory bike parking standards in multifamily buildings and to update existing bike parking standards in a manner independent of vehicle parking.

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Requires the California Energy Commission, in collaboration with CARB and the California Public Utilities Commission, to annually gather existing fleet data on existing medium- and heavy duty on- and off-road vehicles and share that data with electric utilities. This bill also requires utilities to consider the fleet data to facilitate the readiness of their electrical distribution system and to identify investments in general rate cases.

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