California 2009-2010 Regular Session Status: Enacted

AB 2514 — Energy storage systems.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 469, Statutes of 2010.

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This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 19, 2010. Enacted.

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  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Mixed recorded votes

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Summary

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. The existing Public Utilities Act requires the CPUC to review and adopt a procurement plan for each electrical corporation in accordance with specified elements, incentive mechanisms, and objectives. The existing California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program (RPS program) requires the CPUC to implement annual procurement targets for the procurement of eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, for all retail sellers, including electrical corporations, community choice aggregators, and electric service providers, but not including local publicly owned electric utilities, to achieve the targets and goals of the program. The existing Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) , and requires it to undertake a continuing assessment of trends in the consumption of electricity and other forms of energy and to analyze the social, economic, and environmental consequences of those trends and to collect from electric utilities, gas utilities, and fuel producers and wholesalers and other sources, forecasts of future supplies and consumption of all forms of energy. Existing law requires the CPUC, in consultation with the Independent System Operator (ISO) , to establish resource adequacy requirements for all load-serving entities, as defined, in accordance with specified objectives. The definition of a "load-serving entity" excludes a local publicly owned electric utility. That law further requires each load-serving entity to maintain physical generating capacity adequate to meet its load requirements, including peak demand and planning and operating reserves, deliverable to locations and at times as may be necessary to provide reliable electric service. Other existing law requires that each local publicly owned electric utility serving end-use customers to prudently plan for and procure resources that are adequate to meet its planning reserve margin and peak demand and operating reserves, sufficient to provide reliable electric service to its customers. That law additionally requires the utility, upon request, to provide the Energy Commission with any information the Energy Commission determines is necessary to evaluate the progress made by the local publicly owned electric utility in meeting those planning requirements, and requires the Energy Commission to report the progress made by each utility to the Legislature, to be included in the integrated energy policy reports. Under existing law, the governing body of a local publicly owned electric utility is responsible for implementing and enforcing a renewables portfolio standard for the utility that recognizes the intent of the Legislature to encourage renewable resources, while taking into consideration the effect of the standard on rates, reliability, and financial resources and the goal of environmental improvement. This bill would require the CPUC, by March 1, 2012, to open a proceeding to determine appropriate targets, if any, for each load-serving entity to procure viable and cost-effective energy storage systems and, by October 1, 2013, to adopt an energy storage system procurement target, if determined to be appropriate, to be achieved by each load-serving entity by December 31, 2015, and a 2nd target to be achieved by December 31, 2020. The bill would require the governing board of a local publicly owned electric utility, by March 1, 2012, to open a proceeding to determine appropriate targets, if any, for the utility to procure viable and cost-effective energy storage systems and, by October 1, 2014, to adopt an energy storage system procurement target, if determined to be appropriate, to be achieved by the utility by December 31, 2016, and a 2nd target to be achieved by December 31, 2021. The bill would require each load-serving entity and local publicly owned electric utility to report certain information to the CPUC, for a load-serving entity, or to the Energy Commission, for a local publicly owned electric utility. The bill would make other technical, nonsubstantive revisions to existing law. The bill would exempt from these requirements an electrical corporation that has 60,000 or fewer customers within California and a public utility district that receives all of its electricity pursuant to a preference right adopted and authorized by the United States Congress pursuant to a specified law. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the CPUC is a crime. Because certain of the provisions of this bill require action by the CPUC to implement, a violation of these provisions would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. Because certain of the bill's requirements are applicable to local publicly owned electric utilities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 469, Statutes of 2010.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.

  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 48. Noes 27. Page 6803.)

  5. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 27. Page 6645.)

  6. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.

  7. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 13. Page 4851.)

  8. Read second time. To third reading.

  9. Read third time, amended. To second reading.

  10. Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

  11. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.) (August 12).

  12. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  13. In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR suspense file.

  14. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  15. From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (June 29).

  16. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U., & C.

  17. Referred to Com. on E., U., & C.

  18. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  19. Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 41. Noes 28. Page 5591.)

  20. Read second time. To third reading.

  21. (Corrected June 14.)

  22. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

  23. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 28).

  24. In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

  25. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  26. Read second time and amended.

  27. From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (April 22).

  28. Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 47. Noes 29. Page 4778.)

  29. From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 6.) (April 22).

  30. In committee: Reconsideration granted.

  31. Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 48. Noes 29. Page 4779.)

  32. In committee: Set, final hearing. Failed passage.

  33. Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4712.)

  34. Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 4712.)

  35. Re-referred to Com. on U. & C.

  36. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended.

  37. In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  38. Re-referred to Com. on U. & C.

  39. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended.

  40. In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  41. Referred to Coms. on U. & C. and NAT. RES.

  42. Read first time.

  43. From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

  44. Introduced. To print.

Sponsors

  • Skinner · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on · 4 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Skinner

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (121)

121 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

AB 2514 SKINNER Concurrence in Senate Amendments

Passed 57 Yea · 30 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 532803
Democratic 3000
Republican 1200
Total 573003
% of votes cast 63%33%0%3%
How each member voted (90)
Member Party Vote
Fong — Yea
Carter — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Coto — Yea
Davis — Yea
Evans — Yea
Feuer — Yea
Charles — Yea
De — Yea
La — Yea
Torre — Yea
De — Yea
Leon — Yea
Block — Yea
Bonnie — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
V. — Yea
Manuel — Yea
Perez — Yea
Salas — Yea
Saldana — Yea
John — Yea
A. — Yea
Perez — Yea
Cook — Nay
Bill — Nay
Tom — Nay
Fuller — Nay
Fletcher — Nay
Audra — Nay
Portantino — Not Voting
Furutani — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Garrick — Nay
Gilmore — Not Voting
Hagman — Nay
Anderson — Nay
Hall — Yea
Hayashi — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Huber — Nay
Huffman — Yea
Knight — Nay
Lieu — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Miller — Nay
Monning — Yea
Nava — Yea
Norby — Nay
Ruskin — Yea
Silva — Nay
Smyth — Nay
Solorio — Not Voting
Torlakson — Yea
Torres — Yea
Tran — Nay
Villines — Nay
Adams — Nay
Ammiano — Yea
Bass — Yea
Beall — Yea
Blumenfield — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brownley — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Harkey — Nay
Hill — Yea
Jeffries — Nay
Logue — Nay
Ma — Yea
Nestande — Nay
Nielsen — Nay
Skinner — Yea
Swanson — Yea
Torrico — Yea
Conway — Nay
Eng — Yea
DeVore — Nay
Yamada — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Beth Gaines — Nay
Bill Berryhill — Nay
Bill Berryhill — Nay
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Niello, Roger W. Republican Nay
Strickland, Tony Republican Nay

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Passed 23 Yea · 13 Nay · 4 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 211204
Democratic 2000
Republican 0100
Total 231304
% of votes cast 58%33%0%10%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Yee — Yea
Cogdill — Nay
Hancock — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Huff — Nay
Kehoe — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
Negrete — Yea
Ducheny — Yea
Leno — Yea
Liu — Yea
Runner — Nay
Ashburn — Nay
Blakeslee — Yea
Dutton — Nay
Price — Yea
Simitian — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Harman — Not Voting
Oropeza — Not Voting
Wiggins — Not Voting
Aanestad — Nay
Alquist — Yea
Hollingsworth — Nay
McLeod — Yea
Pavley — Not Voting
Romero — Yea
Walters — Nay
Wright — Yea
Cedillo — Yea
Wyland — Nay
Emmerson — Nay
Correa — Nay
DeSaulnier — Yea
Denham — Nay
Florez — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Nay

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Do pass as amended.

Passed 7 Yea · 4 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 7400
Total 7400
% of votes cast 64%36%0%0%
How each member voted (11)
Member Party Vote
Yee — Yea
Kehoe — Yea
Leno — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Price — Yea
Ashburn — Nay
Walters — Nay
Wolk — Yea
Alquist — Yea
Wyland — Nay
Emmerson — Nay

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Placed on Appropriations Suspense file.

Passed 10 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 10001
Total 10001
% of votes cast 91%0%0%9%
How each member voted (11)
Member Party Vote
Yee — Yea
Leno — Yea
Ashburn — Yea
Walters — Not Voting
Wolk — Yea
Alquist — Yea
Kehoe — Yea
Price — Yea
Wyland — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Emmerson — Yea

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Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations.

Passed 8 Yea · 2 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 7101
Republican 0100
Democratic 1000
Total 8201
% of votes cast 73%18%0%9%
How each member voted (11)
Member Party Vote
Lowenthal — Yea
Dutton — Nay
Kehoe — Yea
Simitian — Yea
Wright — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Cox — Not Voting
DeSaulnier — Yea
Florez — Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Nay

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AB 2514 SKINNER Assembly Third Reading

Passed 50 Yea · 29 Nay · 12 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 4628011
Democratic 3000
Republican 1101
Total 5029012
% of votes cast 55%32%0%13%
How each member voted (91)
Member Party Vote
Carter — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Coto — Yea
Davis — Yea
Evans — Yea
Furutani — Yea
Charles — Yea
De — Yea
La — Yea
Torre — Yea
De — Yea
Leon — Yea
Fong — Yea
Bass — Yea
Beall — Yea
Blumenfield — Yea
Bonnie — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
V. — Yea
Manuel — Yea
Perez — Yea
Saldana — Yea
John — Yea
A. — Yea
Perez — Yea
Conway — Nay
Cook — Nay
Bill — Nay
Fletcher — Nay
Tom — Not Voting
Fuller — Nay
Galgiani — Yea
Portantino — Not Voting
Salas — Not Voting
Audra — Not Voting
DeVore — Nay
Gilmore — Nay
Hagman — Nay
Hall — Yea
Hayashi — Nay
Hernandez — Not Voting
Anderson — Nay
Huber — Yea
Huffman — Yea
Knight — Nay
Lieu — Yea
Mendoza — Not Voting
Miller — Nay
Monning — Yea
Nava — Yea
Norby — Nay
Ruskin — Yea
Silva — Nay
Smyth — Nay
Swanson — Yea
Torlakson — Yea
Torres — Yea
Tran — Nay
Villines — Nay
Adams — Nay
Ammiano — Yea
Blakeslee — Nay
Block — Not Voting
Bradford — Yea
Brownley — Yea
Buchanan — Not Voting
Harkey — Nay
Hill — Yea
Jeffries — Nay
Logue — Nay
Ma — Yea
Nestande — Nay
Nielsen — Nay
Skinner — Yea
Solorio — Not Voting
Torrico — Not Voting
Emmerson — Nay
Eng — Yea
Feuer — Yea
Yamada — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Garrick — Nay
Beth Gaines — Nay
Bill Berryhill — Nay
Bill Berryhill — Not Voting
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Niello, Roger W. Republican Nay
Strickland, Tony Republican Not Voting

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Do pass as amended.

Passed 13 Yea · 5 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 12500
Democratic 1000
Total 13500
% of votes cast 72%28%0%0%
How each member voted (18)
Member Party Vote
Charles — Yea
Conway — Nay
Coto — Yea
Harkey — Nay
Miller — Nay
Norby — Nay
Ruskin — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Solorio — Yea
Torrico — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Monning — Yea
Nielsen — Nay
Torlakson — Yea
Davis — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea

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Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.

Passed 8 Yea · 7 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 8701
Total 8701
% of votes cast 50%44%0%6%
How each member voted (16)
Member Party Vote
Fong — Yea
Tom — Nay
Fletcher — Nay
Carter — Yea
Fuller — Not Voting
Swanson — Nay
Villines — Nay
Ammiano — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Knight — Nay
Ma — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Fuentes — Nay
Furutani — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Nay

Official roll call →

Reconsideration granted.

Passed 15 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 15001
Total 15001
% of votes cast 94%0%0%6%
How each member voted (16)
Member Party Vote
Fletcher — Yea
Fong — Yea
Carter — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Fuller — Not Voting
Knight — Yea
Swanson — Yea
Villines — Yea
Tom — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Ma — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Furutani — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea

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Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.

Failed 7 Yea · 7 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 7702
Total 7702
% of votes cast 44%44%0%13%
How each member voted (16)
Member Party Vote
Carter — Yea
Fuentes — Nay
Fuller — Nay
Furutani — Yea
Huffman — Yea
Fong — Yea
Tom — Nay
Fletcher — Nay
Knight — Nay
Skinner — Yea
Swanson — Nay
Villines — Not Voting
Bradford — Yea
Buchanan — Not Voting
Ma — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Nay

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does AB 2514 do?
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. The existing Public Utilities Act requires the CPUC to review and adopt a procurement plan for each electrical corporation in accordance with specified elements, incentive mechanisms, and objectives. The existing California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program (RPS program) requires the CPUC to implement annual procurement targets for the procurement of eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, for all retail sellers, including electrical corporations, community choice aggregators, and electric service providers, but not including local publicly owned electric utilities, to achieve the targets and goals of the program. The existing Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) , and requires it to undertake a continuing assessment of trends in the consumption of electricity and other forms of energy and to analyze the social, economic, and environmental consequences of those trends and to collect from electric utilities, gas utilities, and fuel producers and wholesalers and other sources, forecasts of future supplies and consumption of all forms of energy. Existing law requires the CPUC, in consultation with the Independent System Operator (ISO) , to establish resource adequacy requirements for all load-serving entities, as defined, in accordance with specified objectives. The definition of a "load-serving entity" excludes a local publicly owned electric utility. That law further requires each load-serving entity to maintain physical generating capacity adequate to meet its load requirements, including peak demand and planning and operating reserves, deliverable to locations and at times as may be necessary to provide reliable electric service. Other existing law requires that each local publicly owned electric utility serving end-use customers to prudently plan for and procure resources that are adequate to meet its planning reserve margin and peak demand and operating reserves, sufficient to provide reliable electric service to its customers. That law additionally requires the utility, upon request, to provide the Energy Commission with any information the Energy Commission determines is necessary to evaluate the progress made by the local publicly owned electric utility in meeting those planning requirements, and requires the Energy Commission to report the progress made by each utility to the Legislature, to be included in the integrated energy policy reports. Under existing law, the governing body of a local publicly owned electric utility is responsible for implementing and enforcing a renewables portfolio standard for the utility that recognizes the intent of the Legislature to encourage renewable resources, while taking into consideration the effect of the standard on rates, reliability, and financial resources and the goal of environmental improvement. This bill would require the CPUC, by March 1, 2012, to open a proceeding to determine appropriate targets, if any, for each load-serving entity to procure viable and cost-effective energy storage systems and, by October 1, 2013, to adopt an energy storage system procurement target, if determined to be appropriate, to be achieved by each load-serving entity by December 31, 2015, and a 2nd target to be achieved by December 31, 2020. The bill would require the governing board of a local publicly owned electric utility, by March 1, 2012, to open a proceeding to determine appropriate targets, if any, for the utility to procure viable and cost-effective energy storage systems and, by October 1, 2014, to adopt an energy storage system procurement target, if determined to be appropriate, to be achieved by the utility by December 31, 2016, and a 2nd target to be achieved by December 31, 2021. The bill would require each load-serving entity and local publicly owned electric utility to report certain information to the CPUC, for a load-serving entity, or to the Energy Commission, for a local publicly owned electric utility. The bill would make other technical, nonsubstantive revisions to existing law. The bill would exempt from these requirements an electrical corporation that has 60,000 or fewer customers within California and a public utility district that receives all of its electricity pursuant to a preference right adopted and authorized by the United States Congress pursuant to a specified law. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the CPUC is a crime. Because certain of the provisions of this bill require action by the CPUC to implement, a violation of these provisions would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. Because certain of the bill's requirements are applicable to local publicly owned electric utilities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.
Who sponsors AB 2514?
AB 2514 is sponsored by Skinner.
What is the current status of AB 2514?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 19, 2010. Enacted.
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