How AB 2369 changes current law

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This bill amends 2 section(s) of the California codes: Section 454.52 of the Public Utilities Code; Section 454.57 of the Public Utilities Code.

• Section 454.52 of the Public Utilities Code

  twenty-first separate, megawatts and has been directly appropriated funding by the state before January 1, 2023. → SEC. 1.5. Section 454.52 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read: (5) When requiring procurement pursuant to this subdivision, including, but not limited to, ad hoc procurement orders and programmatic requirements, the commission shall account for the ability of energy-only resources to achieve required clean energy deployment rates, to charge storage resources during off-peak periods, and to increase resource diversity, and shall enable energy-only resources to satisfy procurement requirements to the maximum extent feasible. 21st separate megawatts. all of

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• Section 454.57 of the Public Utilities Code

  electric Record-setting proactively to load centers from expected locations for resource resource development, times. 454.53, beginning as soon as possible and not later than March 31, 2024, resources. The guidance shall include the allocation of those resources by region based on technical feasibility and commercial interest in each region to allow the Independent System Operator to identify and approve transmission facilities needed to interconnect resources and reliably serve the needs of load centers. projections each year, annual 15 Division Code. (3) (1) (2) → SEC. 2.5. Section 454.57 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read: electrical Record setting of resources to load centers, resource the times, while ensuring that associated costs are just and reasonable for ratepayers. (1) of Chapter 2.3 454.53, resources that takes into account uncertainty and optionality, is risk prudent, and supports compliance with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission orders, including, but not limited to, FERC Order 1920, as later clarified by FERC Order 1920-A and FERC Order 1920-B, as applicable. (2) In developing the guidance pursuant to paragraph (1) the commission shall do all of the following:(A) Provide an allocation of the renewable energy and zero-carbon resources by region based on consideration of technical feasibility and commercial interest in each region to allow the Independent System Operator to identify and approve transmission facilities needed to interconnect resources and reliably serve the needs of load centers.(B) Use methods that enable decisionmaking under uncertainty, such as robust optimization or stochastic optimization, to develop candidate near-term planning decisions.(C) Evaluate candidate planning decisions via a stress testing process through which the cost and reliability of the electrical system and the implications for future planning decisions and flexibility to support the resource portfolios are assessed, and, in a new or existing proceeding, examine the costs and risks of each candidate planning decision.(D) (i) Submit at least three resource portfolios to the Independent System Operator that are reflective of risk-prudent, near-term planning decisions and collectively representative of the range of resource procurement trajectories that could be necessary to reliably serve load across a range of plausible futures informed by planning uncertainties, to support the Independent System Operator’s compliance with the requirements of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Order 1920, as later clarified by FERC Order 1920-A and FERC Order 1920-B, as applicable.(ii) The commission shall provide the Independent System Operator with relevant load forecasts and resource availability assumptions for each resource portfolio submitted pursuant to clause (i).(E) Request that the Independent System Operator approve transmission projects that align with this guidance and that the commission finds to be reasonable in supporting any of the resource portfolios submitted pursuant to subparagraph (D).(F) Ensure that resource portfolios submitted to the Independent System Operator support resources identified as under contract in integrated resource plans submitted pursuant to Section 454.52 and the interconnection of resources of strategic importance to load-serving entities.(G) Include in this guidance any supplemental or accelerated transmission needs, beyond the requirements of an individual resource portfolio.(H) Implement this guidance in a manner that ensures rates remain just and reasonable, in accordance with Section 451.(3) The commission and Energy Commission shall identify cost-effective opportunities to enable planned or operating energy-only resources to obtain deliverability through transmission capacity expansions and shall request the Independent System Operator to reserve associated deliverability for geothermal and wind in the Independent System Operator’s balancing authority area for this purpose.(4) For purposes of the Independent System Operator’s scoring in its interconnection process, the commission shall designate energy-only resources as long lead-time resources, using criteria consistent with its designation of long lead-time deliverable resources, as applicable. projections, 20 the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Division Code). of Chapter 2.3 is conducted in a cost-effective and risk-prudent manner and all of (3) Supporting the achievement of the state’s energy, climate change, and air quality goals, including, but not limited to, the go

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