Roderick Wright
- 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. The Public Utilities Act imposes various duties and responsibilities on the Public Utilities Commission with respect to the purchase of electricity and requires the commission to review and adopt a procurement plan and a renewable energy procurement plan for each electrical corporation pursuant to the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program. The California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program requires a retail seller, as defined, and local publicly owned electric utilities to purchase specified minimum quantities of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, for specified compliance periods. The program, consistent with the goals of procuring the least-cost and best-fit eligible renewable energy resources that meet project viability principles, requires that all retail sellers procure a balanced portfolio of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources, as specified, referred to as the portfolio content requirements. The program requires the commission to adopt, by rulemaking, a process that provides criteria for the rank ordering and selecting of least-cost and best-fit eligible renewable energy resources to comply with the program obligations on a total cost basis, taking into account specified matter. This bill would additionally require that the process providing criteria for the rank ordering and selecting of least-cost and best-fit eligible renewable energy resources to comply with the program obligations include procurement of specific types of eligible renewable energy resources necessary to maintain the reliability of the electrical grid to meet electrical demand on a 24-hour basis and consider the attributes of utilizing geothermal and other renewable energy resources that provide environmental and electrical system benefits and contribute to grid reliability. The bill would require each electrical corporation, in soliciting and procuring eligible renewable energy resources, to consider the best-fit attributes of resource types that ensure a balanced resource mix to maintain the reliability of the electrical grid.
From Assembly without further action.
From committee without further action.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & C.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & C.
Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 22. Page 2860.)
Re-referred to Coms. on U. & C. and NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended. (Ayes 54. Noes 24. Page 2795.)
Ordered to third reading.
From consent calendar.
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 14).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Hearing postponed by committee.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1091.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Ordered to second reading.
Read third time and amended.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 817.) (May 6).
Set for hearing May 6.
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 8. Noes 0. Page 565.) (April 17).
Set for hearing April 17.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
Read first time.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 26.
Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB760 | HTML |
| 02/22/13 - Introduced | |
| 04/01/13 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/29/13 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/20/13 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/07/13 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/19/13 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/30/13 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/05/13 - Amended Assembly | |
| 01/09/14 - Amended Assembly |
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