Christine Kehoe
- Democratic
Author
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined, while local publicly owned electric utilities, as defined, are under the direction of their governing board. Existing law, relative to private energy producers, requires every electric utility, as defined, to develop a standard contract or tariff providing for net energy metering, as defined, and to make this contract or tariff available to eligible customer generators, as defined, upon request for generation by a renewable electrical generation facility, as defined. An electric utility, upon request, is required to make the contract or tariff for net energy metering available to eligible customer-generators on a first-come-first-served basis until the time that the total rated generating capacity used by eligible customer-generators exceeds 5% of the electric utility's aggregate customer peak demand. With one exception, existing law requires that each net energy metering contract or tariff be identical with respect to rate structure, all retail rate components, and any monthly charges, to the contract or tariff to which the same customer would be assigned if the customer did not use a renewable electrical generation facility, except that eligible customer-generators shall not be assessed standby charges on the electrical generating capacity or the kilowatthour production of a renewable electrical generation facility. This bill would prohibit the commission from adopting any new demand charge, standby charge, customer charge, minimum monthly charge, interconnection charge, or other fixed charge that applies only to customers receiving electric service pursuant to a net energy metering contract or tariff.
In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
Vetoed by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 52. Noes 23. Page 6022.) Ordered to the Senate.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (August 8).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 6. Page 3650.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3598.) (May 24).
Set for hearing May 24.
Placed on APPR. suspense file.
Set for hearing May 14.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1. Page 3304.) (April 24).
Set for hearing April 24.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
Read first time.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB1537 | HTML |
| 02/24/12 - Introduced | |
| 04/09/12 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/01/12 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/22/12 - Enrolled |
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