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EPIC monitors and conducts analysis on key energy-related legislation affecting the San Diego region and California. EPIC's Legislative Center provides a listing and summary of pending energy-related legislation.

2007-2008 California Energy Legislation (Updated 6-6-08)

The following bills are being considered in the current legislative session. Bills introduced in 2007 are underlined. These bills may be active but in many cases no activity has taken place since the last legislative session.

Active Bills
Other Bills Introduced but Not Active

2007-2008 Active Bills

The following bills have passed out of their house of origin by the legislative deadline and are active bills.

CA Energy Commission

AB 2176 (Caballero) Federal Block Grants for Energy

This bill would require the CA Energy Commission to administer funds received by the state pursuant to the federal Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, and would require not less than 60% of the funds received to be used to provide subgrants to cities and counties of specified population sizes. The bill also would require the remaining 40% to be used to provide grants to entities eligible under the federal act.

CA Public Utilities Commission

AB 1755 (Fuentes) Utility Plant Accounting Rules

This bill would make a nonsubstantive clarifying change to existing law relative to how gain accruing from the sale of property carried in the plant held for future use account is to be allocated between the gas or electrical corporation and ratepayers. This bill would require the CA Public Utilities Commission to review its guidelines for the plant held for future use account and determine whether it needs to open a proceeding to adjust the time period allowed for a property to be held in the account. The bill would require the CPUC to consider whether it should amend the guidelines, or add a separate guideline to allow a distinct time period for real property located within a transmission corridor zone designated by the Energy Commission.

AB 1973 (Ruskin) Public Utilities Commission Rules

This bill would require the Governor to appoint, subject to the approval of the Senate, a president of the commission from among its members. It also would: repeal the requirement that the president direct commission staff; would authorize the attorney for the commission, if directed to do so by the commission, to intervene, if possible, in any action or proceeding involving any question arising pursuant to the Public Utilities Act; require the attorney for the commission to commence, prosecute, and expedite the final determination of all actions and proceedings, and to generally perform all duties and services as attorney to the commission, as directed or authorized by the commission; require the executive director to keep a full and true record of all proceedings of the commission, issue all necessary process, writs, warrants, and notices, and perform the other duties the commission prescribes; provide that the commission may authorize the executive director to dismiss complaints or applications when all parties are in agreement thereto, in accordance with rules that the commission may prescribe.

SB 312 (Kehoe) Internet Access to CPUC Filings

This bill would require the commission to make all documents, testimony, or other materials filed with the commission in any ratesetting or quasi-legislative proceedings accessible on its Internet Web site. The bill would require the commission to implement these requirements by December 31, 2009. This bill would provide non-substantive definitional changes, and extend by 3 months, the deadline for the submission of certain reports required to be prepared by the P.U.C.

Clean Fuels / Vehicles

AB 1077 (Lieber) Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles

This bill would enact the California Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Leadership Act of 2007. It would establish a 19-member California Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Coordinating Council to coordinate and collaborate on plug-in hybrid electric vehicle-related activities, identify existing and potential barriers to the successful development and commercialization of plug-in hybrid vehicles, assess current and proposed activities related to plug-in hybrid vehicles, and describe the extent to which these will address identified barriers, recommend and prioritize additional work, activities, research, development and demonstration, and programs that will contribute to the resolution of identified barriers. The bill would establish a goal for the council to have at a minimum 1,000,000 plug-in hybrid vehicles on California roads by 2015. It would also require the Energy Commission to award program funds to the council in accordance with the Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act to reimburse the council for costs the council incurs under the bill.

AB 2179 (Furutani) Renewable Diesel Fuel in State Vehicles

This bill would require all vehicles purchased or leased by an entity of the state on or after January 1, 2009, that require diesel fuel to operate to use a renewable biomass-based diesel fuel blend of at least 20 percent, if certain requirements are met. This bill would also require all vehicles owned or leased by the state prior to January 1, 2009, that require diesel fuel to operate to use a renewable biomass-based diesel fuel blend of at least 20 percent by January 1, 2014, if certain requirements are met.

AB 2560 (Lieu) Medium- / Heavy-Duty Motor Vehicle Pollution Assessment

This bill would require the Department of General Services and the California Energy Commission to apply the "Enhanced Efficiency Costing Methodology for Passenger Cars and Light-Duty Vehicles" established under existing law to medium-duty and heavy-duty motor vehicles.

AB 2645 (Nunez) Alternative Fuel Funding Program Changes

This bill would make changes to the eligibility requirements under the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, which is administered by the CA Energy Commission, including the application of the fuel blend criteria, specify life cycle and multimedia analyses as eligible projects under the program, and recast the definition of "full fuel-cycle assessment" or "life-cycle assessment".

SB 494 (Kehoe) Alternative Fuel Vehicles Market in california

This bill would require the CA Air Resources Board, by June 30, 2009, in consultation with the CA Energy Commission, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Department of Food and Agriculture, and other relevant state agencies, to develop and adopt regulations that would become operative no later than January 1, 2015, to ensure that an unspecified percentage of new passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks sold in California each year are clean alternative vehicles by January 1, 2015. The bill also would ensure that commencing January 1, 2020, 1/2 of new passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks sold in California each year are clean alternative vehicles. The bill would require the state board to submit a report to the Legislature on the progress passenger vehicle and light-duty truck manufacturers have made in meeting these requirements, the progress the state has made in increasing the use of alternative fuels and reducing the state's dependence on imported petroleum and petroleum fuels, and any improvements in public health and the environment attributable to the use of clean alternative fuels, as specified.

SB 1240 (Kehoe) Low-Carbon Fuel Standard

This Would charge the CARB (as designated in the CGWSA of 2006) with adoption/enforcement of low-carbon fuel standard to achieve maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in the carbon intensity of transportation fuels, aiming for at least a 10% reduction by 2020. Standard would apply to all refiners, blenders, producers, and importers of transportation fuels. State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission will report on impacts of the low-carbon fuel standard. Violations would be made criminal, so the bill imposes a state-mandated local program. Procedures will be created to reimburse local agencies and school districts for costs mandated by the state.

SB 1574 (Florez) Biodiesel Commission

This bill would establish within state government the California Biomass-based Diesel Commission, comprised of handlers and producers of biomass-based diesel. The commission would be charged with specified powers, duties, and responsibilities, including the promotion of the sale of renewable biomass-based diesel by advertising for the purpose of maintaining and expanding markets for renewable biomass-based diesel. This bill would make it a crime for a person to willfully render or furnish a false report, statement, or record or fail to render upon request when required by the commission. By creating new crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

SB 1737 (Kehoe) Electric and Gas Low-Emission Vehicles

This bill would make technical and nonsubstantive revisions to the requirements placed upon the CA Public Utilities Commission to evaluate and implement policies to promote the development of equipment and infrastructure needed to facilitate the use of electricity and natural gas to power low-emission vehicles. The bill would require the commission to provide a progress report to the Legislature on its efforts to evaluate and implement the policies by January 1, 2010, and by January 1 of each even year thereafter.

Clean Technology

AB 1620 (Arambula) California Clean Technology Services Unit

This bill would establish the California Clean Technology Services Unit within the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to promote the development of new technologies and products that meet the environmental objectives of the state, to facilitate the ability of businesses to bring clean technologies to California's market, and to coordinate with specified state agencies in order to encourage clean technologies that meet the state's environmental goals and standards. This bill would also require the unit to report annually to the Legislature with regard to its activities promoting clean technology within the state.

Climate Change / Greenhouse Gas

AB 1065 (Lieber) Greenhouse Gas Building Standards

This bill would require the commission to adopt standards that would reduce the energy consumption per gross square foot of floor space of a new residential and new nonresidential buildings, from offsite sources, on a specified schedule using the standards adopted in 2003 as the baseline for comparison purposes. The commission would be required to review and or approve one or more computer programs for use in demonstrating compliance with the commission prescribed energy standards. It would also delete an obsolete provision, and would make other technician, non-substantive changes.

AB 1506 (Arambula) Greenhouse Gas Reductions Incentives Study

This bill would require the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to contract with the University of California or another post secondary educational institution to conduct a study of the most effective ways for the state to provide incentives to businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2009.

AB 1602 (Nunez) Sustainable Communities and Urban Greening Program

This bill would establish in the Resources Agency, the Sustainable Communities and Urban Greening Grant Program and would provide that moneys made available by those bond funds may be expended for this program. The bill would require the Resources Agency, in consultation with the California Environmental Protection Agency and the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, to develop and administer a program of grants to local public agencies and nonprofit organizations for the purpose of improving the sustainability and livability of communities through the development of green infrastructure that provides multiple benefits, including improved air and water quality, energy and water conservation, climate change mitigation, and recreational and other community benefits.

AB 1851 (Nava) Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Offset Standards

This bill would require sellers of voluntary greenhouse gas emission offsets to hire independent 3rd-party verifiers to ensure that the project or projects generating the greenhouse gas emission offsets meet protocols and requirements to be developed by the CA Air Resources Board. A person selling offsets in the state would be required to disclose specified information in its marketing materials for those offsets. The bill would make knowing and willful violators of its requirements liable for a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 for each violation, and would authorize the state board to levy administrative penalties.

AB 2432 (Laird) Climate Change - Sea Level Rise Research

This bill would additionally require the CA Energy Commission, pursuant the Public Interest Energy Research Program, to provide investment in research, development, and demonstration activities to mitigate and adapt to climate change impacts. The Energy Commission would be authorized to enter into agreements with state agencies to assist in these activities and be required to convene state agency decision makers responsible for climate change mitigation and adaptation activities to provide those decision makers with information on current climate change research activities and to receive advice on future research needs.

AB 2558 (Feuer) Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Fee: LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

This bill would authorize the Los Angeles County to impose a climate change mitigation and adaptation fee in the County of Los Angeles, subject to approval of an ordinance by a majority of the board of the authority and majority voter approval of a ballot measure containing the fee and an expenditure plan. The bill would specify 2 alternative options for imposing the fee, which would be either a motor vehicle fuel tax or a vehicle fee, subject to specified maximum amounts. Revenues from the fee would be used for public transit and congestion management projects and programs.

SB 375 (Steinberg) Transportation Planning - Sustainable Communities Strategy

This bill would: require the commission, by July 1, 2009, to adopt guidelines for travel demand models used in the development of regional transportation plans by certain transportation planning entities; require the Department of Transportation to assist the commission, on request, in this regard; require the regional transportation plan for specified regions to include a sustainable communities strategy designed to achieve certain goals for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks in a region; require the CA Air Resources Board, working in consultation with the affected transportation agencies, to provide each affected region with greenhouse gas emission reduction targets from the automobile and light truck sector for 2020 and 2035 by January 1, 2010; require certain transportation planning and programming activities by affected regional agencies to be consistent with the sustainable communities strategy contained in the regional transportation plan, but would state that certain transportation projects programmed for funding on or before December 31, 2011, are not required to be consistent with the sustainable communities strategy.

SB 1550 (Florez) Climate Change Disclosure Standards for Corporations

This bill would require the Controller, in consultation with the investment community, to develop a climate change disclosure standard for use by listed companies doing business in California. The standard would provide guidance on disclosure of climate change risks and opportunities for listed companies. The bill would require the Controller to publish the standard on its Internet Web site by December 1, 2008, and would authorize the Controller to periodically revise the standard, as specified.

SB 1645 (Wiggins) Update to Energy Aware Planning Guide

This bill would require the commission, in partnership with the Office of Planning and Research, to update the Energy Aware Planning Guide to include a model for a climate change element and an energy element for local governments' general plans.

SB 1760 (Perata) Climate Action Team

This bill would create the Climate Action Team (CAT), consisting of representatives from specified state agencies, that would be responsible for coordinating the state's overall climate policy. The CAT, on or before January 1, 2010, and annually thereafter, would be required to prepare, adopt, and present to the Legislature, a strategic research, development, and demonstration plan (plan) that establishes priorities and identifies key expenditure categories for research, development, demonstration, and deployment funds to be expended by the state agencies represented on the CAT for the following fiscal year. The CAT, on or before January 1, 2010, and biennially thereafter, would be required to prepare and adopt a climate change impact adaptation and protection plan that includes specified information. The bill would require research, development, and demonstration funds that are administered by the Department of Transportation and are allocated for clean technology, environmental protection, and public interest energy research to be expended consistent with the plan.

Distributed Generation

AB 578 (Blakeslee) Distributed Generation Impacts Study

This bill would delete the existing requirement that the Energy Commission, in consultation with the commission, to evaluate the costs and benefits of having an increased number of operational solar energy systems as part of the electrical system. This bill would require the CA Public Utilities Commission, on or before January 1, 2009, and biennially thereafter, in consultation with the Independent System Operator and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), to study, and submit a report to the Legislature and the Governor, on the impacts of distributed energy generation on the state's distribution and transmission grid. It would require the commission to specifically assess the impacts of the California Solar Initiatives Program, the self-generation incentive program, and the biogas customer-generator net energy metering pilot program.

SB 1012 (Kehoe) Self Generation Incentive Program

This bill would extend until January 1, 2012, the self-generation incentive program for nonsolar distributed generation resources that applies to all eligible technologies, as determined by the commission. The bill would require that combined heat and power units meet certain efficiency and emissions requirements to receive incentives. The bill would require a customer receiving incentives for a combined heat and power unit to adequately maintain and service the unit so that during operation, the unit continues to meet or exceed the efficiency and emissions requirements. The bill would require the commission to ensure that beginning January 1, 2008, no costs of the self-generation incentive program for distributed generation resources are recovered from residential customers. The bill would require the commission to provide an additional incentive of $0.50 per kilo watt hours from existing program funds for the installation of qualifying technologies that are manufactured in California by companies that maintain their principal place of business in California.

AB 1064 (Lieber) Changes to Self-Generation Incentive Program

This bill would make various changes to the Self Generation Incentive Program (SGIP). Among these, the bill would (1) except from the definition of a heat corporation, a person employing solar thermal distributed technology, as defined, for the production or generation of heat for its own use or the use of its tenants or for sale to a heat corporation or state or local public agency, (2) make waste gas, as defined, advanced solar thermal, fuel cell, and wind distributed generation technologies meeting certain requirements eligible for the SGIP. In addition, this bill would require the Energy Commission in consultation with the PUC and the CA Air Resources Board, on or before November 1, 2009, as part of the next integrated energy policy report, to evaluate past costs and benefits of providing ratepayer funded subsidies to natural gas and fossil fuel fired distributed generation through the self-generation incentive program and to evaluate the costs and benefits of providing ratepayer funded subsidies for ultraclean and low-emission distributed generation, including effects on air pollution, energy efficiency, and the electrical transmission and distribution system, and to include recommendations for certain program changes.

AB 2791 (Blakeslee) Eligibility under Waste Heat and Carbon Emissions Reduction Act

This bill would change the definition for eligibility of the existing Waste Heat and Carbon Emissions Reduction Act, which authorizes the PUC to require an electrical corporation to purchase excess electricity, to include customers of the electrical corporation that use a combined heat and power system with a generating capacity of not more than 20 megawatts that is in compliance with the act's requirements and that the customer either be a nonprofit organization that is exempt from taxation or be a federal, state, or local government facility. The bill would provide that an approval made by the Department of Finance for a state agency to purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire a combined heat and power facility financed through the pay-as-you-save program may not be made sooner than after a specified time written notification is provided to certain Members of the Legislature.

Electric Generation

SCR 64 (Calderon) Support for New electrical generation facilities

This measure would declare the support of the Legislature for measures to encourage the development of new electrical generating facilities throughout California.

AB 746 (Krekorian)Expedited Electric Generation Siting

This bill would, until January 1, 2012, establish a process for the expedited review of applications to construct and operate thermal powerplants that primarily utilize an eligible renewable energy resource, as defined, and related facilities

Electric Market Restructuring

SB 1536 (Dutton) Repeal of Power Exchange Language

This bill would: repeal the provisions creating the Power Exchange and repeal certain provisions pertaining to the prescribed functions of the Power Exchange; make conforming changes to existing law by deleting references to the Power Exchange; state that it does not preclude a reorganized Power Exchange from winding up its operations pursuant to a plan in bankruptcy and pursuant to orders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; delete certain references to facilities certified by the FERC as "exempt wholesale generators" pursuant to the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, and would instead reference the definition of that term in the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005. The bill also would replace the provision in the definition of a""public utility"" that provides that ownership, control, operation, or management of an electric plant used for sales into the Power Exchange does not make a corporation or person a public utility with a provision that ownership, control, operation, or management of an electric plant used for sales into a market established and operated by the Independent System Operator or any other wholesale electricity market does not make a corporation or person a public utility solely due to the ownership, participation, or sale.

Energy Efficiency

AB 625 (Levine) Funding for Efficiency Retrofits at CA's Colleges and Universities

This bill would provide that moneys and interest generated by an energy settlement agreement with The Williams Companies, Inc. and Williams Energy Marketing & Trading Company, received for energy efficiency retrofit of schools and public buildings, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be allocated to energy conservation projects and related educational services at the University of California, the California State University, or the California Community Colleges, pursuant to specified criteria. The bill would require the Department of Water Resources to report to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2009, and each July 1 thereafter, on all sums collected and expended for costs associated with siting and installation of certain generator units obtained through an energy settlement agreement with The Williams Companies, Inc. and Williams Energy Marketing & Trading Company.

AB 2309 (DeSaulnier) Residential Energy Audits

This bill would require the CA Public Utilities Commission to authorize an electric corporation to provide owner-requested energy efficiency audits for owner-occupied residential buildings built before January 1, 2006. Upon the completion of residential energy audit, the electric corporation would be required to make recommendations to the owner regarding cost-effective measures that the owner could take to increase the residential building's energy efficiency.

AB 2404 (Salas) Water Efficiency Programs

The CA Public Utilities Commission has authorized a pilot program for electrical corporations to work with local water agencies to promote efficiency. This bill would require the commission, by March 31 , 2010, to report to the Legislature on the results of the pilot programs, provide conclusions drawn from the pilot programs, and make recommendations as to whether the electrical and gas corporations would or could achieve cost-effective energy efficiency improvements through water conservation programs.

AB 2479 (Hancock) Contractors and Energy Efficiency Measures

This bill would make unlicensed contractors who fail to comply with specified building energy efficiency standards subject to a civil penalty of not less than $2,000. The bill also would specify that the failure of a licensee to comply with the building energy efficiency standards constitutes a cause for disciplinary action and specify that the failure of a licensee to obtain a building permit, in specified circumstances, shall be subject to a citation and a civil penalty of not less than $500. The bill also would require the Contractors' State License Board to compile data and to submit a report to the Legislature that includes the number of penalties assessed by the board against licensees and unlicensed contractors for failure to comply with these standards.

AB 2678 (Nunez) Energy Efficiency Home Audits at Time of Sale

This bill would require the Energy Commission, on or before July 1, 2010, to establish an ongoing proceeding to develop requirements for time of sale energy efficiency audits for residential and commercial buildings.

SB 332 (Corbett) Appliance Standards

This bill would require the commission, by March 1, 2010 , to develop a priority list of appliances for test procedures and efficiency standards. By July 1, 2010, the commission would be required to develop testing procedures for televisions and computer monitors in the active modes.

SB 1491 (McClintock) Prohibition on Programmable Thermostat Mandate

This bill would prohibit CBSC from adopting a building standard that mandates remotely programmable communicating thermostat devises controllable by an entity other than the utility customer. Voluntary installation will be permitted.

SB 1670 (Kehoe) Energy Efficiency and Carbon Reduction State Building Trust Fund of 2008

This bill, subject to voter approval at the November 4, 2008, statewide general election, would enact the Energy Efficiency and Carbon Reduction State Building Trust Fund of 2008 to authorize $2 billion of state general obligation bonds for implementing programs to reduce the energy purchased by state entities for state-owned and long-term leased buildings; to assist state entities in retrocommissioning and recommissioning state funded buildings with the goal of assuring energy and resource consuming equipment are installed and operated at optimal efficiency; and to assist schools in financing energy efficiency measures consistent with the Green Building Action Plan.

Green Building

AB 2916 (Nunez) Green Building Methods in State Facilities

This bill would require that all buildings owned by the state are operated and maintained in the most energy efficient manner. The bill would require that a proposal for funding infrastructure under the Governor's plan contain a description of the way in which the proposal would achieve energy efficiency and energy conservation consistent with set guidelines.

Green Jobs

AB 2224 (De La Torre) California Solar and Clean Energy Jobs Initiative

This bill would require the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to create the California Clean Energy Curriculum and Training Initiative of 2008 to establish standardized curriculum for use at schools and provide outreach, assistance, and guidance to schools on creating clean energy training programs, as provided. This bill would establish the California Clean Energy Curriculum and Training Initiative Subaccount within the Labor and Workforce Development Fund within the State Treasury. It also would require the CA Public Utilities Commission to order electrical corporations that have collected moneys for research, development, and demonstration that would be available for allocation by the CPUC pursuant to a specified provision to transfer those moneys to the subaccount. The moneys transferred to the subaccount would be available to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency for purposes of the initiative upon appropriation by the Legislature.

AB 2267 (Fuentes) Preference for Job Creating Energy Projects

This bill would require the State Air Resources Board, the Energy Commission, and the Public Utilities Commission to provide additional consideration, priority, or preference to projects that result in job creation and economic benefits in California in administering incentive programs for energy efficiency, including renewable energy, or the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

AB 2622 (Hayashi) Clean Technology Training

Existing law requires the Employment Training Panel (ETP) to establish a 3-year plan that is updated annually to maintain a system to continuously monitor economic and other data required under the plan. Existing law requires that each 3-year plan include the identification of specific industries, production and
quality control techniques, and regions of the state where employment
training funds would most benefit the state's economy and plans to
encourage training in these areas. This bill would additionally require each plan to consider new and emerging industries, such as clean technology.

AB 2855 (Hancock) Green Technology Partnership Academies

This bill would establish 2 new categories of partnership academies, the Green Technology Partnership Academies and the Goods Movement Partnership Academies. Commencing with the 2009-10 school year, the State Department of Education, in coordination with the Superintendent, would be required to issue grants for the establishment of 9 partnership academies dedicated to training young people in the emerging environmentally sound technologies related to the design and construction industries, and 4 partnership academies dedicated to training young people in goods movement occupational areas. The bill, in the event a school district applies to convert an existing school program to one of the new types of partnership academies and meets all the specified criteria for that new partnership academy, would authorize the department, in coordination with the Superintendent, to provide that academy with first-year implementation funds.

AB 3018 (Nunez) California Green Collar Jobs Act of 2008

This bill would set forth legislative findings and declarations relating to the state's green economy and the increasing demand for a highly skilled and well-trained green collar workforce, and would enact the California Green Collar Jobs Act of 2008 requiring the Secretary of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, in consultation with representatives from various public and private groups, to develop a comprehensive array of programs, strategies, and resources to address the workforce needs that accompany California's growing green economy and to establish, among other programs, green job training programs for eligible individuals.

SB 1672 (Steinberg) Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Career Technical Education, and Clean Technology Job Creation Bond Act of 201X

This bill, subject to voter approval at a future election, would enact the Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Career Technical Education, and Clean Technology Job Creation Bond Act of 2010 to authorize the issuance and sale of $2,250,000,000 in state general obligation bonds for specified purposes. The bill would create the Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Career Technical Education, and Clean Technology Job Creation Council comprising of 9 members. The council would be required to issue guidelines to implement the purposes of this act.

Liquefied Natural Gas

SB 412 (Simitian) Liquefied Natural Gas Evaluation

This bill would enact the Liquefied Natural Gas Project Evaluation Act and would require, upon the adoption of the integrated energy policy report on November
1, 2007, the Energy Commission, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission and the State Air Resources Board, to adopt and submit to the Legislature and the Governor, on or before July 1, 2008, the LNG Needs Evaluation Report of 2008.

Nuclear Energy

AB 2788 (DeVore) Nuclear Energy Certification Exemption

Existing law exempts facilities for which the Public Utilities Commission has issued a certificate of convenience and necessity or that a municipal utility has approved before January 7, 1975 from a requirement to obtain a certification from the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. This bill would additionally exempt an applicant for a nuclear fission thermal power plant capable of producing up to 2,000 megawatts of energy who is the first California entity to obtain an early site permit from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Rates and Tariffs

AB 1223 (Arambula) Net Energy Metering for Agricultural Customers

This bill would require that, for the purposes of determining whether an agricultural customer-generator using wind or solar generation was a net consumer or a net producer of electricity during a 12-month period, the electrical corporation shall aggregate the electrical load of the agricultural customer under the same ownership located on property adjacent or contiguous to the generation facility. The bill would further require that each aggregated account be billed and measured according to a time-of-use rate schedule.

AB 1428 (Galgiani) Net Metering for Manure-fueled Electricity

This bill would replace the existing pilot program for eligible biogas digester customer generators with a net energy metering program for eligible customer generators, as defined, that use agricultural residues, animal wastes, or animal renderings to generate electricity and that meet certain requirements. . These facilities include those generate electricity from biogas or other thermal decomposition of manure.

AB 1920 (Huffman) Net Metering - Compensation for Surplus generation

This bill would: replace the definition of "electric service provider" in existing law relative to private energy producers with a definition of "electric utility"; require the ratemaking authority for the electric utility to adopt, by July 1, 2009, a net surplus electricity compensation rate to compensate a net surplus customer-generator for net surplus electricity generated by an eligible customer-generator and delivered to the grid that is in excess of the amount of electricity that is delivered from the grid to the eligible customer-generator; require the electric utility to offer a standard contract or tariff to eligible customer-generators that includes this rate until the time that the total rated generating capacity used to generate net surplus exceeds 5% of the electric utility's aggregate customer peak demand.

SB 463 (Negrete Mcleod) Utility Purchase of Biogas Electricity

Under the bill, an electric service provider could enter into a purchase agreement with an eligible biogas digester customer-generator to purchase excess energy. The bill would impose a limit on the price for kilowatthours in a purchase agreement.

SB 1714 (Negrete McLeod) Renewable Electricity Feed In Tariffs

This bill would require: every electrical corporation on and after July 1, 2009, to file with the commission a standard tariff for the electricity generated by an electric generation facility with an effective capacity of not larger than 1.5 megawatts. It would require an electrical corporation to make the tariff available to any customer that owns and operates an electric generation facility within the service territory of the electrical corporation, upon request, on a first-come-first-served basis, until the combined statewide cumulative rated generating capacity of those electric generation facilities equals 500 megawatts. It would require the commission, in consultation with the Independent System Operator, to monitor and examine the impact on the transmission and distribution grid and any effects upon ratepayers resulting from electric generation facilities operating pursuant to these provisions; provide that the actual generating capacity of an electric generation facility counts toward meeting the electrical corporation's resource adequacy requirements; require a local publicly owned electric utility that sells electricity at retail, by July 1, 2009, to adopt and implement a tariff, meeting certain size, deliverability, and interconnection requirements. The bill would provide that a customer of an electrical corporation is not eligible to receive service pursuant to the tariff or contract approved by the commission pursuant to the bill's provisions if the customer has received any ratepayer-funded incentive for the electric generation facility, or if the customer participated in a commission approved net metering tariff or contract for the electric generation facility.

AB 1763 (Blakeslee) Residential Electricity and Gas Billing Information

This bill would require each electrical corporation and each gas corporation to disclose on the residential customer's billing statement specified information on usage and cost, and contact information for the Public Utilities Commission Consumer Affairs Branch, and to make available online to residential customers specified information on usage and energy conservation measures. The commission would be authorized to modify these requirements for an electrical corporation with less than 100,000 service connections and a gas corporation with less than 150,000 customers. The bill would make various findings and declarations on the need to, and benefits of, providing customers with information regarding their current and historic energy usage, the breakdown of the different costs of their usage, and specific recommendations of measures they can take to reduce their energy consumption.

Renewable Energy

AB 94 (Levine) Public Utilities code Definitions

This bill would: provide that the definitions contained in the Public Utilities Code and Public Utilities Act govern the construction of the code unless the provision or context otherwise requires; define the term "Energy Commission" as meaning the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission for purposes of the code, and would define the term "local publicly owned electric utility" within the act; delete references to facilities certified by the FERC as "exempt wholesale generators" pursuant to the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, and would instead reference the definition of that term in the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005; replace the provision in the definition of a "public utility" that provides that ownership, control, operation, or management of an electric plant used for sales into the Power Exchange does not make a corporation or person a public utility with a provision that ownership, control, operation, or management of an electric plant used for sales into a market established and operated by the Independent System Operator or any other wholesale electricity market does not make a corporation or person a public utility solely due to the ownership, participation, or sale; replace the definition of "electric service provider" in existing law relative to private energy producers with a definition of "electricity distribution utility or cooperative," which would not include local publicly owned electric utilities, for which there are separate provisions.

AB 2466 (Laird) Government Renewable Energy Producers

This bill would authorize a local government, as defined, to receive a bill credit for electricity supplied to the electric grid by an eligible renewable generating facility and requires the commission to adopt a rate tariff for the benefiting account.

AB 2789 (Blakeslee) Small Wind Energy Permitting

This bill would authorize a local agency to provide by ordinance, until for the installation of small wind energy systems in the jurisdiction outside an urbanized area, as defined, and establish a process for the issuance of a conditional use to impose conditions on the installation of these systems.

SB 411 (Simitian) Renewable Portfolio Standard Compliance Date

This bill would require a retail seller, subject to certain conditions, to increase its total procurement of eligible renewable energy resources so that at least 33% of its retail sales are procured from eligible renewable energy resources no later than December 31, 2020. This bill would incorporate additional changes to section 399.15 of the Public Utilities Code proposed by SB 1036, to be operative only if SB 1036 and this bill are enacted, both bills amend this section, and this bill is enacted after SB 1036.

SB 939 (Wiggins) Klamath River hydropower

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact the legislation necessary to implement a 26-party settlement agreement under the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission relicensing process for hydroelectric projects on the Klamath River.

SB 1754 (Kehoe) California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority

This bill would authorize the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority to purchase alternative source energy or projects for sale to a specified participating party and to make a loan to a participating party to purchase alternative source energy or projects

SB 1762 (Perata) Changes to the Renewable Portfolio Standard

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions that would reform elements of the renewables portfolio standard program relating to cost containment.

Smart Grid

SB 1438 (Padilla) Smart Grid Systems

This bill would require the CA Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), by July 11, 2010, and in consultation with the CA Energy Commission and the Independent System Operator (ISO), to develop a definition of an electrical "smart grid" that will achieve certain goals and to develop standards and protocols for the deployment of smart grid technologies and services that will improve overall efficiency, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of electrical system operations, planning, and maintenance. The bill would require each electrical corporation, by July 1, 2011, to develop and submit a smart grid deployment plan to the commission for approval and would authorize the CPUC to authorize an electrical corporation to recover reasonable costs of deploying smart grid technologies and services from ratepayers. The bill would authorize smart grid technologies and services to be
deployed in an incremental manner to maximize the benefit to ratepayers and to achieve the benefits of smart grid technology and would require the commission in consultation with the Energy Commission, the ISO, and the electrical corporations, at each step of deployment, to evaluate the impact of deployment on major initiatives and policies.

Solar Energy

AB 811 (Levine) Public Financing Districts for Energy Improvements

This bill would authorize a legislative body of any city to determine that it would be in the public interest to designate an area within which authorized city officials and free and willing property owners may enter into contractual assessments to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy efficiency improvements that are permanently fixed to real property, as specified. The bill would require the resolution of intention to include the kinds of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy efficiency improvements that may be financed as well as a statement specifying that it is in the public interest to finance those distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy efficiency improvements.

AB 1062 (Ma) Uniform Standards for Solar on Schools

This bill would require the Division of the State Architect in the Department of General Services, on or before January 1, 2010, in consultation with specified entities, to develop uniform criteria for precheck approval processes for solar design for a school facility that complies with the rules and regulations adopted by the department and the applicable requirements of the California Building Standards Code. The Department of General Services would be required to complete review of solar design plan application submitted by a school district that conforms with the standards within 45 days of the submission, and to act on corrected applications within 10 days of their submission for approval.

AB 1451 (Leno) Tax Exclusion for New Solar System Installations

This bill would modify the existing property tax exclusion for solar energy to specify that "the construction or addition of an active solar energy system" includes the construction of an active solar energy system in a new building in which the owner-builder incorporated an active solar energy system in the initial construction of the new building and the owner-builder does not intend to occupy or use the new building. This bill would provide this exclusion to the initial purchaser of the new building, but only if the owner-builder did not receive the exclusion for the same system and the initial purchaser purchased the new building prior to that building becoming subject to reassessment to the owner-builder, as provided. This bill would require the county assessor to reduce the base year value of these residences by the value of the active solar energy system, less the total amount of any rebates for the active solar energy system received by either the owner-builder or the initial purchaser of the new building, as specified. This bill would provide that the changes made by the bill apply beginning with the lien date or the 2008-09 fiscal year. This bill would also extend the active solar energy system exclusion from the definition of "newly constructed" through the 2015-16 fiscal year.

AB 1892 (Smyth) Solar Energy in Common Interest Developments

Existing law provides that any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, or other instrument affecting the transfer or sale of, or any interest in, real property that effectively prohibits or restricts the installation or use of a solar energy system is void and unenforceable, except as specified. This bill would apply the above provision regarding the unenforceability of prohibitions or restrictions relating to solar energy systems, in addition, to the governing documents of a common interest development.

AB 2180 (Lieu) Solar Energy Permitting

Existing law provides that whenever approval is required for the installation or use of a solar energy system, the application for approval shall be processed and approved by the appropriate approving entity in the same manner as an application for approval of an architectural modification to the property, and shall not be willfully avoided or delayed. This bill would require that an approval or denial of an application be in writing. The bill would also provide that an application shall be deemed approved unless it has been denied in writing within 45 days from the date of receipt of the application, unless the delay is the result of a reasonable request for additional information.

AB 2269 (Fuentes) Municipal Utility Solar Incentive Programs

This bill would authorize the electricity generated by a solar energy system to be sold to the municipal utility if specified requirements are met.

AB 2768 (Levine) Electrical Rate Options for Solar Installations

This bill would delete a provision that authorizes the CPUC to delay implementation of time-variant pricing for ratepayers with a solar energy system, until the effective date of the rates established in the next general rate case of the state's 3 largest electrical corporations. Instead delay this bill would require that a ratepayer who installs a solar energy system be given the option to take service under flat rate or time-variant pricing, if there is a flat rate pricing schedule for which the ratepayer would have qualified if the ratepayer had not installed the system.

AB 2804 (Hayashi) California Solar Initiative Program Changes

This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission's (PUC), in implementing the California Solar Initiative, to consult with the State Architect to determine the reasonable time period required for school districts to complete all necessary approvals for, and the installation of, solar energy systems. The bill would additionally require the commission to permit a school district to reserve incentives from the California Solar Initiative for the reasonable time required for the school district to complete all necessary approvals for, and to install, the solar system.

AB 2863 (Leno) Solar Electrical Generation

This bill would require the master-meter customer to charge each user a rate not to exceed the rate that would be applicable if the user were receiving gas or electricity, or both directly from the gas or electrical corporation. This bill would additionally create an exception from the definition of an "electrical corporation" for an independent solar energy producer, as defined, and meeting the requirements below, employing one or more photovoltaic generation system for the generation of electricity. This bill would require an independent solar energy producer contracting for the sale of electricity or the lease of a generation system to a person or common interest development association for use in a residence, to make certain disclosures to the buyer or lessee and to record a document that contains such notice of the contract. The rate charged may not exceed the rate charged by the independent solar energy producer or the electric utility's rate for an equivalent amount of electricity, whichever is lower.

SB 1460 (Wiggins) Solar on Apartment Buildings

This bill would require the commission, by July 1, 2009, to develop a program to facilitate the deployment of energy efficiency measures and solar energy projects for apartment buildings and similar rented residential complexes that are individually metered. The commission would be required to prepare and submit a report on the program to the Legislature, by that date. The bill would require the commission to ensure that the program is cost effective for utility customers and to consider, in developing the program, whether synergies exist between its energy efficiency program and the solar energy programs of the California Solar Initiative, that, in the determination of the commission, can make energy efficiency and solar
investments cost effective for utility customers in apartment buildings and similar rented residential complexes.

SB 324 (Migden) Community Choice Aggregation - Solar Energy

This bill would authorize a private energy producer to generate electricity not generated from conventional sources for a community choice aggregator. It also would authorize the City and County of San Francisco to elect to designate specific solar electricity generation facilities pursuant to the above-described authorization and would provide that the authorization does not limit the right of HHWP to sell electricity from a solar generation facility owned by the City and County of San Francisco when otherwise authorized by law.

SB 1399 (Simitian) Revisions to the CA Solar Shade Control Act

This bill would require the owner of property where the solar collector is to be installed to provide, prior to the its installation, a written notice by certified mail containing specified information to owners of affected property. The bill would, further, exempt trees and shrubs planted prior to the time of the installation of a solar collector and trees and shrubs that are subject to a local ordinance. The bill would redefine "solar collector" to be the above described device or structure on the roof of a building. The bill would provide that a local ordinance specifying the requirements for tree preservation or solar shade control would govern within the jurisdiction that adopted the ordinance. The bill would also make technical nonsubstantive changes.

SB 1512 (Wiggins) California Solar Initiative eligibility

This bill would instead require that the eligibility requirements for the California Solar Initiative established by the Energy Commission include requirements that the solar energy system is intended primarily to offset part or all of the consumer's own electricity demand and be located on, and is used to offset the consumer's own demand for electricity on, contiguous property owned or leased by the Consumer.

Other Bills Introduced but No Longer Active

These bills failed to pass out of their house of origin by the May 30th legislative deadline.

AJR 3 (Dymally) Low-income home energy assistance

This Assembly Joint Resolution would recommend that the U.S. Congress and President increase the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to $7 billion for 2007-2008. The Resolution also requests that the entire amount be distributed to the states.

AB 1776 (DeVore) Nuclear Energy Certification Change

This bill would repeal existing prohibitions on the certification of a new nuclear fission thermal power plant, and would, instead, prohibit the Energy Commission from certifying a site for a nuclear fission thermal power plant in seismically active areas or a nuclear fission thermal power plant using a once-through nuclear reactor cooling system with a nuclear coolant outflow that is within 5 miles of a designated coastal area of biological significance or is to a navigable water. The Energy Commission and other state agencies would be required to consider a dry cask storage system method approved by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission to be an appropriate method for storing spent nuclear fuel and associated material.

AB 1807 (Fuentes) Renewable Feed-in Tariffs

This bill would: require every electrical corporation to file with the commission a feed-in tariff for the electricity delivered to the grid that is generated by a renewable electric generation facility; require the commission to develop a methodology for determining a base rate to be paid for electricity that is generated by a renewable electric generation facility and to adjust the base rate to be paid in future years so that the base rate declines over time to reflect improvements in technology and operational practices; authorize an electrical corporation to make adjustments to the base rate to incentivize the generation of electricity to meet load within the electrical corporation's individual service territory, including generation of electricity to match peak demand and regional adjustments to match deliverability of electricity to load centers; the bill would also establish other requirements for the proposed feed-in tariff.

AB 1909 (Hayashi) Local Approval of Power Plant Certification

This bill would require the CA Energy Commission, for a proposed construction of a thermal powerplant and related facilities in a jurisdiction with a precertified thermal powerplant, to obtain the approval of the local governing body of the jurisdiction. The construction of a thermal powerplant and facilities related to the thermal powerplant that uses specified clean energies to generate electrical energy would be exempt from this requirement. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

AB 2003 (Saldana) Climate Protection and Energy Efficiency Bond Act of 2008

This bill, subject to voter approval at the November 4, 2008, statewide general election, would enact the Climate Protection and Energy Efficiency Bond Act of 2008. If adopted by the voters, the Act would: authorize the issuance and sale of $2,000,000,000 in state general obligation bonds for specified purposes, including expanding the development and use of solar, wind, and geothermal energy, fuel cells, and other energy generating technologies that would assist the state in meeting the greenhouse gas emission targets specified in the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006; low-income weatherization and other energy conservation and efficiency projects for low-income communities; and projects to improve the energy efficiency of state buildings and facilities and to install solar, wind, fuel cells, and other energy generating technologies that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with the operation of those buildings and facilities. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

AB 2030 (Lieu) Net Zero Energy New Homes

This bill would require the CA Energy Commission to adopt building design and construction standards, and energy and water conservation standards to require, and new nonresidential constructions commenced on or after January 1, 2030, to be zero net energy buildings. This bill would define the term "zero net energy building" and make a technical change by deleting an absolute statutory cross-reference.

AB 2112 (Saldana) Net Zero Energy Commercial Buildings

This bill would require the CA Energy Commission to adopt, in collaboration with specified parties, building design and construction standards, and energy and water conservation standards to require new residential constructions commenced on or after January 1, 2020, to be zero net energy buildings. This bill would define the term "zero net energy building" and make a technical change by deleting an obsolete statutory cross-reference.

AB 2153 (Krekorian) Energy and Water Conservation and Efficiency

This bill would require a residential or commercial construction project that is subject to CEQA and required by a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration or an environmental impact report to implement all feasible and cost-effective water efficiency measures. The project would be required to mitigate its projected annual water consumption, as specified. Affordable housing projects would be exempted from this mitigation requirement. The mitigation measures taken would be subject to review and approval by the lead agency.

AB 2240 (Tran) Use Fuel Tax Exemption for Biodiesel

The Use Fuel Tax Law imposes an excise tax for the use of fuel at a specified rate and provides specified exemptions from that tax. This bill would provide an exemption from that tax for biodiesel produced in this state with California feedstock and require the California Energy Commission to provide specified oversight and make a related annual report.

AB 2316 (Ruskin) GHG Reductions from Motor Vehicles

This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2010, to conduct a study and make recommendations to the Legislature the consolidation, improvement, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction contributions of existing vehicle retirement programs.

AB 2476 (Garcia) Competition in the Electric Generation Market

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to provisions of existing law that contain various legislative findings about competition in the electric generation market.

AB 2477 (Price) California Green Jobs Act of 2008

This bill would set forth legislative findings and declarations relating to green jobs and would enact the California Green Jobs Act requiring the Employment Development Department to establish green job training programs and a statewide database for identifying and tracking new jobs and the skills needed to expand the renewable energy and energy-efficient industries.

AB 2538 (Ruskin) Carbon Footprint Labeling for Consumer Products

This bill would enact the Carbon Labeling Act of 2008, which would require the California Air Resources Board to report to the legislature regarding the feasibility, cost-effectiveness, and potential design of carbon labels for consumer products.

AB 2596 (Jones) City and County GHG Emissions Levels and Trading

This bill would require the state board to quantify a baseline level of greenhouse gas emissions generated by land use and transportation activities in 2009 for each city and county with a population of at least 50,000. The state board would also be required to develop and make available to cities and countries a model that could be used to quantify the projected level of greenhouse gas emissions that will be generated from land use and transportation activities for each city and county.

AB 2625 (Strickland) Biodiesel Definition

This bill would define "biodiesel" and "biodiesel blends," and define "renewable diesel" and "renewable diesel blends," for determining how to apply restrictions and exemptions contained in existing law.

AB 2638 (Coto) Fee on Low Efficiency Passenger Motor Vehicles

This bill would require the State Board of Equalization to collect a fee on the sale or lease of a new passenger motor vehicle that, among other things, has a federal fuel economy rating of 15 miles per gallon or less. The bill would create the California Air Quality and Environmental Health Fund, and would continuously appropriate moneys in the fund to the CA Air Resources Board to finance projects and programs that will mitigate or prevent the air pollution harm caused by vehicles subject to the fee.

AB 2744 (Huffman) Motor Vehicle Fuel Fee: Metropolitan Transportation

Commission This bill would authorize the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to impose a fee not to exceed $0.10 on each gallon of motor vehicle fuel delivered into the fuel supply tank or tanks of a motor vehicle in the region, excluding motor vehicle fuel used to power aircraft, for a 25-year period. The bill also would require the commission to adopt a regional transportation/climate protection expenditure plan for the revenues derived from the fee, if it is imposed.

AB 2790 (Blakeslee) Biofuel Certification Program

This bill would require the CA Energy Commission, in collaboration with specified entities, to establish a voluntary certification program to establish environmental, economic, and social criteria for a biofuel qualifying as a California sustainable biofuel resource. The commission would be required to consider certain specified factors in developing the certification criteria.

AB 2792 (Blakeslee) Green Collar Apprenticeship Program

This bill would require the Director of the California Conservation Corps to develop a Green Collar Certification Program that would provide energy efficiency measures in residential and nonresidential buildings, prepare participants to enter the workforce, apply for apprenticeship program, or pursue higher education and provide post program placement for graduates of the program. A person who successfully completes the program receives a green collar certificate from the director.

AB 2830 (Nakanishi) Wind Energy Codes, Covenants, and Restrictions

This bill would provide that covenants, restrictions, or conditions that effectively prohibit or restrict the installation or use of a wind energy system are also void and unenforceable; provide that whenever approval is required for the installation or use of a wind energy system, the application for approval shall be processed and approved by the appropriate approving entity in the same manner as an application for approval of an architectural modification to the property, and shall not be willfully avoided or delayed. The bill also would specify that managing associations of a common interest development may impose reasonable provisions that (1) restrict installation of wind energy systems in common areas to those systems approved by the association, (2) require the owner of a separate interest to obtain the approval of the association for the installation of a wind energy system in a separate interest owned by another, (3) provide for the maintenance, repair, or replacement of roofs or other building components, and (4) require installers of wind energy systems to indemnify or reimburse the association or its members for loss or damage caused by the installation, maintenance, or use of the system.

AB 2864 (De Leon) Net Zero Energy Schools

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to encourage school districts to strive to achieve "grid neutrality" through investments in renewable energy components for new school construction projects. This bill would allow a portion of a grant for new construction or a modernization apportionment to be used for the costs of purchase and installation of renewable energy components,including solar panels, power systems, and photovoltaic (PV) systems. This bill would require the board to review the criteria for funding under the High Performance Schools Grant Program for new construction and modernization projects and the extent to which renewable energy technologies were included in the funded projects.

AB 2867 (De Leon) Green Building Ranking Mechanism for State Funding

This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development, for all new housing construction and rehabilitation programs administered by the department, to prioritize funding for housing projects that utilize sustainable building methods. If the department decides that a prioritization system is not feasible, the department would be required to report the basis of its decision to the Legislature.

AB 2924 (Smyth) California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program

This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to provision of existing law relating to the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program.

AB 2993 (Plescia) Renewable Energy Contracts: Water Districts

This bill would authorize a Metropolitan Water District, with the approval of its board of directors, to enter into design-build contracts, as defined, for the design, construction, fabrication, and installation of renewable energy projects, in accordance with specified provisions.

AB 3001 (Hancock) California Voluntary Carbon Offset Commission

This bill would create the Voluntary Carbon Offset Program Fund for voluntary contributions for the mitigation of climate change impacts. The moneys in the fund would be available, upon appropriation, for specified projects. The bill would require that moneys from the fund be directed to the California Conservation Corps and local conservation corps for specified projects.

AB 3023 (Levine) Hybrid Swimming Pool Heating Act

This bill would enact the Hybrid Swimming Pool Heating Act and would require all new and existing swimming pool gas customers to have a hybrid solar-gas swimming pool heating system for the swimming pool.

SB 1128 (Dutton) Revisions to Public Utilities Act

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantial amendments to § 201 of the Public Utilities Code.

SB 1278 (Maldonado) Green Neighborhood Grant Act

This bill would establish the Green Neighborhood Grant Act, administered by the CA Energy Commission, awarding up to 3 grants annually to private developers for residential development projects certified by the BII for complying with the CA Green Builder Program. The grant would reimburse developers 1.5% of total development cost, no more than one grant annually to a developer for a residential development project in a city with a population greater than $1 million. Money paid from the General Funds, appropriated by the legislature.

SB 1324 (Battin) Revision to Renewable Portfolio Standard Language

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to existing language defining the Renewables Portfolio Standards Program.

SB 1484 (Alquist) Tax Credits for Oil Production

This bill would disallow credits and deductions for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2011, allowed to taxpayers engaged in the business of oil production under existing Personal Income Tax and Corporation Tax Law . This bill would for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, allow a credit to a qualified taxpayer, as defined, equal to 50% of the taxpayer's qualified costs related to clean energy technology, as provided, up to $10,000,000.

SB 1485 (Kehoe) Revision to California Solar Initiative Language

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to Pub. Util. Code § 2851, legislation on the CPUC's implementation of the California Solar Initiative. It appears to be the same change as SB 1460.

SB 1493 (McClintock) Revisions to Solar Shade Control Act

Current law prohibits planting a tree or shrub that shades the solar collector on neighboring property during certain absorption periods, with an exemption for trees and shrubs that shadowed the collector at the time of installation or shade during 'off' times. This bill will exempt trees and shrubs that may eventually grow to cast a shadow on a neighboring installation if they were planted prior to the installation.

SB 1506 (Alquist) Self-Generation Incentive Program

This bill would prohibit the state board from crediting a manufacturer towards meeting any zero-emission vehicle production mandates created under the Zero-Emission Vehicle Program, adopted by the state board, for the production of vehicles that are not zero-emission vehicles.

SB 1644 (Kehoe) Revision to Renewable Portfolio Standard Language

This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to existing provisions of law related the Public Utilities Commission's responsibilities over procurement and renewable energy procurement plans, and certification of energy related infrastructure.

SB 1724 (Maldonado) Carbon Credits for Agricultural Activities

This bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend AB 32 to include provisions authorizing the state Air Resources Board to establish a system of carbon credits for agricultural activities.

SB 1728 (Torlakson) Energy Storage and Peak Demand

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations relating to energy conservation and efficiency, including, but not limited to, moving peak electricity demand from afternoon and early evening hours to night and early morning hours.

SB 1759 (Perata) Fossil Fuel and Renewable Energy

This bill would make specified legislative findings and declarations regarding the proposed construction of fossil-fuel electricity generating facilities and renewable energy resources.

SB 1761 (Perata) Water and Energy Efficiency for GHG Reductions

This bill would require the Department of Water Resources, upon the next revision of the California Water Plan, to include a chapter that describes the opportunities to promote water and energy efficiency and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in water operations and activities. It would require the department to comply with requirements of the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program in the procurement of electricity for the State Water Project and other state water operations overseen by the department; require the department to comply with any requirement that applies to electrical corporations and publicly owned utilities under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the State Water Project and other state water operations overseen by the department.

SB 1768 (Yee) Definition of Electrical Corporation

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to provisions of existing law related to the existing definition of an electrical corporation, which does not include a corporation or person employing cogeneration technology or producing power from other than a conventional power source for the generation of electricity solely for specified purposes.