California Air Resources Board

Summary

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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Requires licensed architects, as a condition of license renewal, to complete five hours of continuing education training on zero net carbon design, presented by those with knowledge and expertise in these design requirements, and requires the California Architects Board to adopt regulations to establish qualifications for courses and course providers by July 1, 2024.

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Allows Community Choice Aggregators to access the California Public Utilities Commission's Bioenergy Market Adjusting Tariff (BioMAT) program.

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Would have created the Flexible Demand Appliance Rebate Program to incentivize the deployment of qualified flexible demand appliances (i.e., appliances that have the capability to schedule, shift, or curtail electricity use). Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have required each local publicly owned electric utility to develop a transportation electrification plan to support the levels of electric vehicle adoption required to meet the goals of putting five million zero-emission vehicles on California roads by 2030 and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. Held on suspense in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Would have required the California Energy Commission (CEC), by July 1, 2022, to create a three-year appliance rebate program to provide eligible residential customers—defined as those with annual household incomes that are no greater than 200 percent of the federal poverty guideline levels—of an electric utility or gas utility with monetary incentives to purchase new appliances that meet energy star or similar energy efficiency standards approved by CEC. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Requires the California Energy Commission to consider in the investment planning process for the Electric Program Investment Charge Program (EPIC) bioenergy projects for biomass conversion.

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