California Air Resources Board

Summary

Would have required the California Energy Commission to incorporate firm renewable energy sources such as biomass, digester gas, and municipal solid waste conversion into an existing required assessment due at the end of 2023 on firm zero-carbon resources. The bill would have also required the California Public Utilities Commission to include the findings of the assessment into the Integrated Resources Plan. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have required the California Energy Commission, if it awarded funding to hydrogen fueling station projects under the Clean Transportation Program, to provide preference to those projects located at a port and are publicly accessible, are co-located at a fueling station for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, or are located along a federally designated Trade Corridor of National and Regional Significance, California’s portion of the National Highway Freight Network, or along a corridor with high freight volume as determined by the California Transportation Commission. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have allowed a personal and corporate credit beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2030, in an amount equal to 40 percent of the amount paid or incurred in qualified costs by a qualified taxpayer during the taxable year for the installation of specified electric vehicle supply equipment in a covered multifamily dwelling, subject to certain maximum credit amounts. Was not heard in the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee.

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Would have, until January 1, 2032, required the California Energy Commission to establish and implement a program to provide financial incentives to produce renewable propane, renewable hydrogen, and renewable dimethyl ether that met certain requirements and were used as an energy source for buildings in the State. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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Would have required 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 have required CARB to phase in a 100 percent green and zero carbon hydrogen fuel standard by 2045. The bill would have provided 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 have had to annually certify green hydrogen production and available hydrogen fueling stations to the Franchise Tax Board. Green hydrogen was 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 have required 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 have directed the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to adopt a new net energy metering (NEM) standard contract or tariff, which the bill would have defined as the "replacement tariff," by August 1, 2022, and would have required an electrical investor-owned utility to offer the replacement tariff to an eligible customer-generator by December 31, 2023. If CPUC failed to act, CPUC would have been required to adopt a new tariff under prescribed terms. Moved to the Assembly Inactive File.

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Would have established 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 have created the Environmental Justice Community Resilience Hubs Program (Program) and would have funded 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 have funded building upgrade projects for owners of critical community institutions through competitive grants run by electrical corporations and administered by a third-party administrator. Was not heard in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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