AB 802 — Energy efficiency.

Summary

(1) Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) , at least every 2 years, to conduct assessments and forecasts of all aspects of energy industry supply, production, transportation, delivery, distribution, demand, and prices. Existing law requires the Energy Commission to use these assessments and forecasts to develop energy policies that conserve resources, protect the environment, ensure energy reliability, enhance the state's economy, and protect public health and safety. Existing law requires the Energy Commission to prepare an integrated energy policy report every 2 years and requires the report to include an assessment and forecast of system reliability and the need for resource additions, efficiency, and conservation that considers certain criteria. This bill would require the Energy Commission, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission, to make all reasonable adjustments to its energy demand forecasts conducted pursuant to the above-described provisions to account for its findings of market conditions and existing baselines, and in making those adjustments, would authorize the commission to consider the results from specified programs. The bill would require the Energy Commission to use the above-described assessments and forecasts relating to various aspects of the energy industry to develop and evaluate energy policies and programs. (2) Existing law requires electric and gas utilities to maintain records of the energy consumption data of all nonresidential buildings to which they provide service and requires that this data be maintained, in a format compatible for uploading to the United States Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, for at least the most recent 12 months. Existing law also requires, upon the written authorization or secure electronic authorization of a nonresidential building owner or operator, an electric or gas utility to upload all of the energy consumption data for the account specified for a building to the United States Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager in a manner that preserves the confidentiality of the customer. Existing law requires an owner or operator to disclose the United States Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager benchmarking data and rating to a prospective buyer, lessee of the entire building, or lender that would finance the entire building based on a schedule of compliance established by the Energy Commission. This bill would revise and recast these provisions. The bill would require utilities to maintain records of the energy usage data of all buildings to which they provide service for at least the most recent 12 complete months. Beginning no later than January 1, 2017, the bill would require each utility, upon the request and the written authorization or secure electronic authorization of the owner, owner's agent, or operator of a covered building, as defined, to deliver or provide aggregated energy usage data for a covered building to the owner, owner's agent, operator, or to the owner's account in the ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, subject to specified requirements. The bill would also authorize the commission to specify additional information to be delivered by utilities for certain purposes. The bill would delete the requirement of an owner or operator of a building to disclose the above-described information to a prospective buyer, lessee of the entire building, or lender that would finance the entire building. The bill would require the Energy Commission to adopt regulations providing for the delivery to the commission and public disclosure of benchmarking of energy use for covered buildings, as prescribed. The bill would authorize the Energy Commission to impose a civil fine, as provided, for a violation of these data submission requirements. (3) Existing law requires the Energy Commission to develop and implement a comprehensive program to achieve greater energy savings in existing residential and nonresidential building stock. Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to investigate the ability of electrical corporations and gas corporations to provide various energy efficiency financing options to their customers for the purposes of implementing the program developed by the Energy Commission. This bill would require the PUC, by September 1, 2016, to authorize electrical corporations and gas corporations to provide incentives, rebates, technical assistance, and support to their customers to increase the energy efficiency of existing buildings, as specified, and would authorize electrical corporations and gas corporations to recover the reasonable costs of those programs in rates. The bill would require the PUC to authorize electrical corporations and gas corporations to count all energy savings achieved through the authorized programs, unless determined otherwise, toward overall energy efficiency goals or targets established by the PUC. The bill would authorize the PUC to adjust the energy efficiency goals or targets of electrical corporations and gas corporations to reflect the estimated change in energy savings resulting from those programs.

Bill Text

• Chaptered 10/08/15 - Chaptered Current pdf October 08, 2015
• Enrolled 09/16/15 - Enrolled pdf September 16, 2015
• Amended 09/10/15 - Amended Senate pdf September 10, 2015
• Amended 09/04/15 - Amended Senate pdf September 04, 2015
• Amended 06/22/15 - Amended Senate pdf June 22, 2015
• Amended 05/28/15 - Amended Assembly pdf May 28, 2015
• Amended 05/01/15 - Amended Assembly pdf May 01, 2015
• Amended 04/20/15 - Amended Assembly pdf April 20, 2015
• Amended 04/07/15 - Amended Assembly pdf April 07, 2015
• Introduced 02/26/15 - Introduced pdf February 26, 2015
• AB802 View text html

Action History

1. October 08, 2015

   Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 590, Statutes of 2015.

2. October 08, 2015

   Approved by the Governor.

3. September 23, 2015

   Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

4. September 11, 2015

   Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3205.).

5. September 11, 2015

   Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3194.)

6. September 11, 2015

   In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

7. September 11, 2015

   Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 2749.).

8. September 10, 2015

   Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

9. September 10, 2015

   From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 10).

10. September 10, 2015

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (September 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

11. September 09, 2015

    Re-referred to Com. on E., U., & C.

12. September 09, 2015

    Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 27. Noes 6. Page 2646.)

13. September 09, 2015

    Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 27. Noes 6. Page 2646.)

14. September 09, 2015

    Joint Rule 61(a) suspended. (Ayes 27. Noes 6. Page 2645.)

15. September 08, 2015

    Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c).

16. September 08, 2015

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

17. September 04, 2015

    Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

18. August 31, 2015

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

19. August 27, 2015

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 27).

20. August 17, 2015

    In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

21. July 14, 2015

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

22. July 06, 2015

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

23. June 22, 2015

    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.

24. June 18, 2015

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

25. June 11, 2015

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

26. June 02, 2015

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

27. June 02, 2015

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1808.)

28. June 01, 2015

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

29. May 28, 2015

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

30. May 28, 2015

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28).

31. May 06, 2015

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

32. May 04, 2015

    Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

33. May 01, 2015

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

34. April 28, 2015

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

35. April 21, 2015

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

36. April 20, 2015

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

37. April 13, 2015

    From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on U. & C. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on U. & C.

38. April 09, 2015

    Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.

39. April 09, 2015

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

40. April 08, 2015

    Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

41. April 07, 2015

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

42. March 23, 2015

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

43. February 27, 2015

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.

44. February 26, 2015

    Read first time. To print.

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• Williams · Primary

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