California Air Resources Board

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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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Requires the California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) and the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with CARB and other stakeholders, to research and develop, and optionally propose for adoption by CBSC, mandatory building standards for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations in existing multifamily dwellings, hotels, motels, and nonresidential developments during specified retrofits, additions, and alterations to existing parking facilities.

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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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Would have required the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), the California Energy Commission, and CARB, in consultation with all balancing authorities, to develop a strategy by January 1, 2024, on how to achieve the SB 100 (De León, Chapter 312, Statutes of 2018) policy of achieving the 100 percent renewable and zero-carbon resources goal by the end of 2045 in a cost-effective and environmentally beneficial manner. Specifically, the strategy would have been required to achieve a target of at least five Gigawatt-hours of “operational long-term backup electricity” by the end of 2030, and in each subsequent year beginning 2031 through 2045. The strategy would have been required to address carbon sequestration and storage of emissions from conventional power plants. By January 1, 2024, CPUC would have been required to submit the strategy in a report to the Legislature and every four years thereafter through January 1, 2044, detailing the progress made on achieving the targets of the strategy. Was not heard in the Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee.

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