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2012 California Energy-Related Legislation
2012 Bills Signed by Governor
California Energy Commission
AB 2227 (Bradford) Municipal Utility Energy Reporting To CEC
Existing law requires a local publicly owned electric utility to report various matter to its consumers and the California Energy Commission relative to energy efficiency, renewable energy resources, the California Solar Initiative, and energy source content. This bill would recast certain requirements relative to information about local publicly owned electric utilities that the Energy Commission is required to include in the integrated energy policy report.
California Public Utilities Commission
AB 2584 (Bradford) Electric And Natural Gas Utility Investigations
This bill would: (1) require every electrical corporation and gas corporation to cooperate fully with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) in an investigation into any major accident or any reportable incident regardless of pending litigation or other investigations, including, but not limited to, those that may be related to a PUC investigation; (2) require every electrical corporation and gas corporation to provide the CPUC, upon its request, immediate access to specified document; (3) require every electrical corporation and gas corporation to preserve any and all documents it collects as part of its own investigation related to the incident for at least 5 years; and (4) require any and all documents collected by an electrical corporation pursuant to these provisions be catalogued and preserved in an accessible manner for assessment by CPUC investigators as determined by the CPUC.
Clean Fuels
AB 523 (Valadao) Ethanol: Alternative And Renewable Fuel And Vehicle Technology Program
This bill would provide that on and after July 1, 2013, the eligibility for funding under the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program administered by the Energy Commission for the production of ethanol is limited to projects for the production of ethanol that are not derived from corn. This limitation would not apply to ethanol derived from corn stover, leaves, cobs, or other non-edible plant portions of the corn.
AB 2405 (Blumenfield) High Occupancy Toll Lanes
This bill would exempt, with specified exceptions applicable to passage on designated state highways, all of the low-emission and hybrid vehicles eligible to use HOV lanes under these provisions, including vehicles that meet the enhanced AT PZEV standards, from toll charges imposed on HOT lanes unless prohibited by federal law. The bill would exclude a toll imposed for passage on a toll road or toll highway, that is not an HOT lane, a toll imposed for crossing a state-owned bridge, or, until March 1, 2014, a toll imposed for passage in HOT lanes designated for State Highway Route 10 or 110, from this exemption. The bill would provide that these changes shall be known as the Choose Clean Cars Act of 2012.
AB 2583 (Blumenfield) Parking For Alternative Fuel Vehicles
This bill would: (1) require the Department of General Services (DGS) to encourage the alternatively fueled vehicles owned by the state to operate those vehicles using the alternative fuel for which the vehicle is designed; (2) require the development of commercial infrastructure for alternative fuel pumps and charging stations at or near state vehicle fueling or parking sites, and to work with other public agencies to incentivize and promote state employee operation of alternatively fueled vehicles through preferential or reduced-cost parking, access to charging, or other means; (3) require DGS and the Department of Transportation to develop and implement advanced technology vehicle parking incentive programs in specified public parking facilities of 50 spaces or more and specified park-and-ride lots to incentivize the purchase and use of alternatively fueled vehicles in the state.
SB 2502 (Blumenfield) Electric Vehicle Charging Station Disclosure And Labeling
This bill would require, as of July 1, 2013, the disclosure and labeling of the total amount charged by the seller for an electric vehicle charging station, which may include only the charges for the station device, any materials and wiring, and any installation services. The bill would also require a seller, as of July 1, 2013, before executing a conditional sale contract that includes a charge for an electric vehicle charging station, to provide the buyer with, and obtain the buyer's signature on, a written disclosure, in a specified manner, that includes a description and price of the electric vehicle charging station, any materials and wiring, and equipment installation services included in the total charge.
Energy Efficiency
AB 1124 (Skinner) Habitability Requirements And Energy Program Eligibility
Existing law requires that any building with a dwelling unit maintain certain characteristics in order to be tenantable, including the maintenance of adequate heating and hot water systems that conform to the standard of quality set by applicable law. This bill would require that these provisions would not be interpreted to prohibit a tenant or owner from qualifying for energy savings assistance programs for repair or replacement of heating or hot water systems.
Financing
SB 1268 (Pavley) Energy Conservation Assistance Act Of 1979 Extension
This bill would: (1) extend the Energy Conservation Assistance Act of 1979 to January 1, 2018; (2) include measures primarily intended to reduce peak electricity demand as "energy conservation measures" and any combination of units of local government below the state and special districts formed for the joint exercise of power as "units of local government" for the purposes of the act; (3) in regard to the timing of loan repayment under the act, provide that the loan repayments be made in accordance with a schedule established by the California Energy Commission (CEC); (4) require the CEC to take steps to solicit loan applications to encourage an equitable distribution of loans statewide, to award loans in specified regions, and to place an emphasis on offering these loans in disadvantaged communities; require any unexpended funds from the proceeds of revenue bonds sold for the purposes of the act remaining in the account on January 1, 2018, to remain in the account until all bond obligations have been satisfied and thereafter revert the remaining unexpended funds to the General Fund; (5) require unexpended funds from the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 remaining in the account on January 1, 2018, to revert to the Federal Trust Fund; (6) require the act to set the interest rates on the loans at not less than 1% per annum; (7) require the CEC to take steps to solicit loan applications to encourage an equitable distribution of loans statewide, to award loans in specified regions, and to place an emphasis on offering these loans in disadvantaged communities; (8) require unencumbered funds in the account on January 1, 2016, to be deposited in the Petroleum Violation Escrow Account.
Greenhouse Gas/Climate Change
AB 693 (Huffman) Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority
This bill would make inoperative on December 1, 2019, and would repeal as of January 1, 2020, a section of law that provides for the Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority (authority), which was formed to perform coordination and implementation activities within the boundaries of the County of Sonoma, in cooperation with local agencies that elect to participate, to assist those agencies in meeting their greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals.
AB 1532 (Pérez) Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund
This bill would: (1) prohibit the Governor's written findings on the proposed link between the state and another state, province, or country for purposes of a market-based compliance mechanism from being subject to judicial review; (2) require the moneys in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to be used for specified purposes; and (3) require the Department of Finance, in consultation with the state board and any other relevant state entity, to develop a 3-year investment plan and to submit that plan to the legislature no later than March 1, 2014, and annually thereafter, to the appropriate committees of the Legislature.
SB 1066 (Lieu) Coastal Resources And Climate Change
This bill would authorize the State Coastal Conservancy to address the impacts and potential impacts of climate change on resources within its jurisdiction, giving priority to projects that maximize public benefits.
SB 1076 (Emmerson) Tire Inflation Regulation For Greenhouse Gas Reduction
This bill, until January 1, 2018, would require a tire pressure gauge used to meet the requirements of this regulation to be accurate within a range of plus or minus 2 pounds per square inch of pressure (2 psi). It would, until January 1, 2018, authorize automotive service providers to meet the requirements of the regulation without checking and inflating a vehicle's tire if that tire is determined to be an unsafe tire.
Miscellaneous
SB 1409 (Pavley) Clean Energy Technologies And Projects With Armed Forces
This bill would: (1) require the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to identify those state agencies that develop and implement state energy and environmental policies that directly impact on the United States Department of Defense's energy security and military mission goals; (2) require those identified state agencies, when developing or implementing those state policies, to consider those direct impacts; and (3) require OPR to serve as a liaison to coordinate effective inclusion of the United States Department of Defense in the development and implementation of state energy and environmental policy.
Net Energy Metering
AB 2165 (Hill) Fuel Cell Eligibility Under Net Energy Metering
This bill would: (1) revise the definition of an eligible fuel-cell customer-generator to require that the customer be physically located within the service territory of the electrical corporation and receive bundled service, distribution service, or transmission service from the electrical corporation; (2) in place of the existing maximum megawatt limitations upon an electrical corporation's obligation to offer the tariff, would require the electrical corporation to make the tariff available until the total cumulative rated generating capacity of the eligible fuel cell electrical generating facilities receiving service pursuant to the tariff reaches a level equal to its proportionate share of a statewide limitation of 500 megawatts cumulative rated generation capacity; (3) authorize the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in order to continue the growth of the market for onsite electric generation using fuel cells, to review and incrementally raise this limitation on the total cumulative rated generating capacity of the eligible fuel cell electrical generating facilities receiving service pursuant to the tariff; (4) require the CPUC to authorize an electrical corporation to charge a customer a fee based on the cost to the utility associated with providing interconnection inspection services for that customer; (5) provide that no fuel cell electrical generating facility is eligible for the tariff unless it commences operation prior to January 1, 2015, unless this eligibility commencement date is extended by statute; and (6) provide that the tariff remains in effect for an eligible fuel cell electrical generating facility that commences operation pursuant to the tariff prior to January 1, 2015.
AB 2415 (Bradford) Net Energy Metering Study
This bill would: (1) require the CPUC to complete a study by June 30, 2013, to determine the extent to which each class of ratepayers and each region of the state receiving service under the net energy metering tariff is paying the full cost of the services provided to them by electrical corporations, the extent to which those customers pay their share of the costs of public purpose programs, and the benefits of net energy metering, and (2) require the CPUC to report the results of the study to the Legislature within 30 days of its completion; (3) state that nothing in the wind energy co-metering provisions precludes the use of advanced metering infrastructure devices.
SB 594 (Wolk) Aggregating Meters Under Net Energy Metering
This bill would: (1) authorize an eligible customer-generator with multiple meters to elect to aggregate the electrical load of the meters located on the property where the generation facility is located and on all property adjacent or contiguous to the property on which the generation facility is located, if those properties are solely owned, leased, or rented by the eligible customer-generator; (2) for an electric utility that is an electrical corporation, condition this authorization upon the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) making a determination that permitting eligible customer-generators to aggregate their load from multiple meters will not result in an increase in the expected revenue obligations of customers who are not eligible customer-generators; (3) for an electric utility that is a local publicly owned electric utility or electrical cooperative, the bill would condition this authorization upon the utility's ratemaking authority, making a determination that permitting aggregation will not result in an increase in the expected revenue obligations of customers who are not eligible customer-generators; and (4) prohibit an eligible customer-generator that chooses to aggregate from receiving net surplus electricity compensation and require the electric utility to retain kilowatthours.
SB 1207 (Fuller) CARE Program
This bill would: (1) authorize an electrical corporation to require proof of income eligibility for those CARE program participants whose electricity usage exceeds 400% of baseline usage; (2) authorize an electrical corporation to require a CARE program participant whose electricity usage exceeds 400% of baseline usage to participate in the Energy Savings Assistance Program (ESAP), which includes a residential energy assessment, and would authorize an electrical corporation to condition continued participation in the CARE program upon agreement to participate in ESAP if a participant's electricity usage exceeds 400% of baseline usage; (3) require an electrical corporation to require a CARE program participant whose electricity usage exceeds 600% of baseline usage to participate in ESAP, which includes a residential energy assessment; (4) authorize an electrical corporation to remove a CARE program participant from the program if, after the completion of a residential energy assessment, the program participant's monthly electricity usage exceeds 600% of baseline usage; (5) authorize a CARE program participant with electricity usage exceeding 600% of baseline usage to participate in an appeals process with the electrical corporation to determine whether the participant's usage levels are legitimate; and (6) prohibit a CARE program participant in a rental residence from being removed from the program in situations where the landlord is nonresponsive when contacted by the electrical corporation or does not provide for ESAP participation.
Renewable Energy
AB 1073 (Fuentes) CEQA Rules For Conversion Of Solar Thermal Plant To Photovoltaics
Existing law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission with the exclusive jurisdiction to certify thermal powerplants. Under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the certification of a thermal powerplant is a certified regulatory program and is therefore exempt from certain requirements of CEQA. A thermal powerplant does not include a solar photovoltaic electrical generating facility. However, existing law provides that the thermal powerplant certification process applies to owners of specified proposed solar thermal powerplants who are proposing to convert the proposed facility from solar thermal technology to solar photovoltaic technology if the proposed solar thermal powerplant project has been certified by the commission. Existing law provides that the thermal powerplant certification process does not apply to the proposed conversion if the certification of the proposed solar thermal powerplant was timely challenged. This bill would provide that the thermal powerplant certification process would apply to a proposed conversion of a solar thermal powerplant that was timely challenged if the challenge was subsequently dismissed by the California Supreme Court.
AB 1255 (Pérez) Renewable Energy Planning Grants For Counties
Existing law requires the California Energy Commission (CEC) to provide $7,000,000 in grants to qualified counties for the development or revision of rules and policies, including, but not limited to, general plan elements, zoning ordinances, and a natural community conservation plan as a plan participant, to facilitate the development of eligible renewable energy resources, and their associated electric transmission facilities, and the processing of permits for eligible renewable energy resources. This bill would authorize the CEC to award a grant to such a county if the county enters into a specified memorandum of understanding with the CEC in which the county agrees to participate in the development of the natural community conservation plan. The bill would additionally include the County of San Luis Obispo as a qualified county to receive the above grants.
AB 1900 (Gatto) Biogas Rules
Assessment (OEHHA), in consultation with the State Air Resources Board (CARB), the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, and the California Environmental Protection Agency, to compile a list of constituents of concern that could pose risks to human health and that are found in biogas at concentrations that significantly exceed the concentrations of those constituents in natural gas; (2) require OEHHA to determine the health protective levels for that list and would require the state board to identify realistic exposure scenarios and the health risks associated with those scenarios; (3) require CARB to determine the appropriate concentrations of those constituents; (4) provide that actions taken pursuant to the above-described requirements do not constitute regulations and are exempt from the Administrative Procedure Act; (5) require the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to adopt, by rule or order, (i) standards for biomethane that specify the concentrations of constituents of concern that are reasonably necessary to protect public health and ensure pipeline integrity and safety and (ii) requirements for monitoring, testing, reporting, and recordkeeping; (6) require a gas corporation to comply with those standards and requirements; (7) require the CPUC to require gas corporation tariffs to condition access to common carrier pipelines on the applicable customer meeting those standards and requirements; (8) prohibit a person and a gas corporation from knowingly engaging in specified transactions involving common carrier pipelines and biogas collected from a hazardous waste landfill; (9) require the Energy Commission (CEC) to hold public hearings to identify impediments that limit procurement of biomethane in California, including, but not limited to, impediments to interconnection (10) require the CEC to offer solutions to those impediments as part of the above-mentioned; (11) require the CPUC to adopt policies and programs that promote the in-state production and distribution of biomethane; (12) require the CPUC to adopt pipeline access rules that ensure that each gas corporation provides nondiscriminatory open access to its gas pipeline system to any party for the purposes of physically interconnecting with the gas pipeline system and effectuating the delivery of gas; (13) become operative only if this bill and AB 2196 of the 2011-12 Regular Session are both enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2013.
AB 2161 (Achadjian) Renewable Energy Planning By Counties
The California renewables portfolio standard program (RPS program) requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish the quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources, to be procured by each retail seller for specified compliance periods, sufficient to ensure that the procurement of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources achieves 20% of retail sales for the period January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2013, inclusive, 25% of retail sales by December 31, 2016, and 33% of retail sales by December 31, 2020, and in all subsequent years. The RPS program conditions certain eligibility requirements upon whether the contract for electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources was executed after June 1, 2010. This bill, for purposes of electric service providers only, would require specified restrictions on crediting eligible renewable energy resource electricity products to each compliance period to apply to contracts executed after January 13, 2011.
AB 2196 (Chesbro) Renewable Fuel Eligibility For Renewable Portfolio Standard
This bill would: (1) amend the Renewable Energy Resources Program's definition of a renewable electrical generation facility to provide that if the RPS program eligibility of a facility is based on the use of landfill gas, digester gas, or another renewable fuel delivered to the facility through a common carrier pipeline, the transaction for the procurement of that fuel, including the source of the fuel and delivery method, shall meet certain conditions; (2) impose certain requirements with respect to the eligibility of biomethane under the RPS program; (3) specify that certain biomethane procurement contracts executed by a retail seller or local publicly owned electric utility prior to March 29, 2012 count in full toward the RPS program's procurement requirements under the rules applicable to eligible renewable energy resources contracts at the time the procurement contracts were executed; (4) with respect to contracts executed prior to March 29, 2012, but subsequently extended or modified and with respect to contracts executed after that date, impose certain requirements on the RPS eligibility of biomethane; (5) with respect to biomethane that is used by an onsite generating facility, and biomethane that is used offsite and delivered to the generating facility through a dedicated pipeline, the bill would specify that the use of that biomethane counts towards the RPS program's procurement requirements if that use satisfies all applicable requirements established by the Energy Commission; (6) with respect to biomethane that is delivered to a generating facility through a common carrier pipeline, the bill would, among other things, require: (i) the biomethane to be injected into a common carrier pipeline that physically flows within California or toward the generating facility for which the biomethane was procured under the original contract; (ii) that the source of biomethane did not inject biomethane into a common carrier pipeline prior to March 29, 2012, or the source commenced injection of sufficient incremental quantities of biomethane after March 29, 2012, to satisfy the contract requirements; and (iii) that the seller or purchaser of the biomethane demonstrates that the capture and injection of biomethane into a common carrier pipeline directly results in at least one of 3 specified environmental benefits to California; (7) prohibit specified parties to a biomethane procurement contract from making representations asserting that the procurement contract results in greenhouse gas reductions unless the environmental attributes associated with the biomethane are transferred to the purchaser.
AB 2339 (Williams) Geothermal Heat Pump In CEC Integrated Energy Policy Report
This bill would require the California Energy Commission (CEC), in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission and other stakeholders, to evaluate and recommend policies and implementation strategies to overcome barriers to the deployment and use of geothermal heat pump and geothermal ground loop technologies. The CEC would be required to include those evaluations and recommendations in the integrated energy policy report that is required to be adopted for calendar year 2013.
SB 1122 (Rubio) Biomass And Biogas Projects
This bill would: (1) require the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), by June 1, 2013, to direct the electrical corporations to collectively procure at least 250 megawatts of cumulative rated generating capacity from developers of bioenergy projects that commence operation on or after June 1, 2013; (2) would require the CPUC, for each electrical corporation, to allocate shares of the additional 250 megawatts based on the ratio of each electrical corporation's peak demand compared to the total statewide peak demand; (3) require the CPUC to allocate those 250 megawatts to electrical corporations from specified categories of bioenergy project types, with specified portions of that 250 megawatts to be allocated from each category; (4) require the CPUC to encourage gas and electrical corporations to develop and offer programs and services to facilitate development of in-state biogas for a broad range of purposes; (5) authorize the CPUC, in consultation with specified state agencies, if it finds that the allocations of those 250 megawatts are not appropriate, to reallocate those 250 megawatts among those categories. (Signing Message)
SB 1128 (Padilla) Sales And Use Tax Exemption For Alternative Energy And Advanced Transportation Technology
By revising existing law pertainingg to the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority, this bill would: (1) require the authority to establish programs providing financial assistance to projects for renewable energy generation facilities, combined heat and power systems, facilities designed for the production of renewable fuels, distributed generation and energy storage technologies eligible under the self-generation incentive program as determined by the Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), and energy efficiency devices and technologies; (2) eliminate the $1 billion limitation on the amount of outstanding indebtedness the authority may incur to provide the financial assistance; (3) additionally authorize the authority, until July 1, 2016, to grant the above financial assistance to projects that promote the utilization of advanced manufacturing, as defined; (4) require the authority, until July 1, 2016, to study the efficacy and cost benefit of the sales and use tax exemption for advanced manufacturing projects; (5) require the authority, before January 1, 2017, to submit to the Legislature a report on the study; (6) require the authority, before January 1, 2015, to submit to the Legislature an interim report on the efficacy of granting the sales and use tax exemption for projects, and recommendations on changes that would increase the efficacy in creating jobs and whether the exemption should be expanded or narrowed; (7) require the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to consult with the Legislative Analyst's Office, among others, to review and identify efficient and cost-effective methods for the state to create jobs in advanced manufacturing;(8) require the authority, until January 1, 2021, to work with the University of California or the California State University to perform a peer review of the net benefits test used to evaluate applicants applying for the sales and use tax exemption; (9) instead prohibit the authority from granting, on an annual basis, a sales and use tax exemption for a project exceeding $100,000,000; and (10) instead apply the sales and use tax exemption to the lease or transfer of title of tangible property constituting a project to any participating party.
SB 1332 (Negrete McLeod) Municipal Utility Feed-In Tariffs
This bill would the move language related to existing requirement that Municipal Utilities offer feed-in tariffs to certain customers to that portion of the Public Utilities Code concerning the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program and would require that the tariff be adopted by July 1, 2013. This bill would additionally require the board to consider avoided costs for distribution and transmission system upgrades, whether the facility generates electricity in a manner that offsets peak demand on the distribution circuit, and all current and anticipated environmental and greenhouse gases reduction compliance costs
Solar Energy
AB 1801 (Campos) Solar Energy Permitting Costs
This bill would: (1) prohibit a city, county, or city and county from basing the calculation of the fee charged for a solar energy system on the valuation of the solar energy system, or any other factor not directly associated with the cost to issue the permit, or from basing the calculation of the fee on the valuation of the property or the improvement, materials, or labor costs associated with the improvement: (2) require the city, county, or city and county to separately identify each fee assessed on the applicant for the installation of a solar energy system on the invoice provided to the applicant; (3) express a legislative finding and declaration that oversight of permit fees for renewable energy systems is an issue of statewide concern and not a municipal affair and that, therefore, all cities, including charter cities, would be subject to the provisions of the bill.
AB 2249 (Buchanan) Solar Water Heating And Efficiency Act Of 2007
This bill would: (1) expand the definition of a solar water heating system to include a facility meeting the specified requirements and would qualify the exclusion from the definition of a solar water heating system as being limited to a single-family residential solar pool heating system; (2) delete the requirement that the CPUC evaluate data available from a specified pilot program before it makes a specified determination to design and implement a program of incentives for the installation of 200,000 solar water heating systems in homes and business throughout the state by 2017; (3) revise certain eligibility criteria as being applicable to installation of solar water heating systems at government, nonprofit, and educational sites and would require the CPUC to determine an appropriate division of funds between solar water heating systems that are and are not solar pool heating systems; (4) require the CPUC, not later than February 1, 2014, to complete a review of whether the rebate levels established by the CPUC will be sufficient to spur investment to reach the goals of the program and to report the results of the review to the Legislature; (5) require the CPUC to require a gas corporation or 3rd-party administrator to implement the changes made to the act by the bill not later than July 1, 2013.
SB 1222 (Leno) Permitting Of Distributed Solar Energy
This bill would require permit fees for rooftop solar energy systems by a city, county, city or county, or charter city to not exceed the estimated reasonable cost of providing the service for which the fee is charged, which cannot exceed $500 plus $15 per kilowatt for each kilowatt above 15kW for residential rooftop solar energy systems, and $1,000 plus $7 per kilowatt for each kilowatt between 51kW and 250kW, plus $5 for every kilowatt above 250kW, for commercial rooftop solar energy systems, unless certain conditions are met.
2012 Vetoed Bills
The following bills were vetoed by Governor Brown.
Transportation
SB 1537 (Kehoe) Transparent And Stable Rates For Renewable Energy
This bill would prohibit the CPUC from adopting any new demand charge, standby charge, customer charge, minimum monthly charge, interconnection charge, or other fixed charge that applies only to customers receiving electric service pursuant to a net energy metering contract or tariff. (Veto Message)
AB 2551 (Hueso) Renewable Energy Financing Districts
This bill would: (1) authorize a legislative body to establish an infrastructure financing district in a renewable energy zone area for the purpose of promoting renewable energy projects, and (2) exempt the creation of the district from the voter-approval requirement.
AB 1186 (Skinner) School Energy Efficiency
This bill would: (1) enact the School Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act; (2) create the School Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund as a special fund in the State Treasury; (3) make moneys in the School Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund available to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purposes of implementing the program; (4) state the intent of the Legislature that the California Energy Commission (CEC) administer the fund and implement the program in coordination with the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide grants to eligible institutions for building retrofits to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and reduce the demand for energy; (5) require the CEC to award grants through the Bright Schools Program; and (6) require the CEC, in consultation with the Superintendent, to establish a system to prioritize eligible institutions for grants. (Veto Message)
AB 796 (Blumenfield) Energy Loan Guarantees
This bill would (1) require the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority to establish the Clean Energy Economy and Jobs Incentive Program to provide financial assistance in the form of specified financing mechanisms to eligible California-based entities for the manufacturing of an eligible clean energy technology project; (2) establish the Clean Energy Economy and Jobs Incentive Program Fund in the State Treasury and would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, authorize the authority to expend moneys in the fund to implement the program; and (3) repeal the program on January 1, 2018.(Veto Message)
AB 796 (Blumenfield) Energy Loan Guarantees
This bill would (1) require the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority to establish the Clean Energy Economy and Jobs Incentive Program to provide financial assistance in the form of specified financing mechanisms to eligible California-based entities for the manufacturing of an eligible clean energy technology project; (2) establish the Clean Energy Economy and Jobs Incentive Program Fund in the State Treasury and would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, authorize the authority to expend moneys in the fund to implement the program; and (3) repeal the program on January 1, 2018.(Veto Message)
