Electricity: interconnections.
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No
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
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Overview
This bill directs the California Independent System Operator (ISO) to integrate surplus interconnection service considerations into its long-term transmission planning and enhance transparency around these opportunities. It also requires electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities with significant demand to evaluate and consider surplus interconnection options for their integrated resource plans. Furthermore, the bill updates requirements for load-serving entities’ integrated resource plans, emphasizing renewable energy procurement and grid reliability, and clarifies the role of local publicly owned utilities in achieving these goals.
Key provisions
- Requires the ISO to integrate surplus interconnection service considerations into long-term transmission planning.
- Mandates electrical corporations and local publicly owned utilities to evaluate and consider surplus interconnection service options in their integrated resource plans.
- Updates requirements for load-serving entities’ integrated resource plans, including a 60% renewable energy target by 2030.
- Requires utilities to use available grid infrastructure through surplus interconnection service.
- Modifies Section 9621 to require local publicly owned utilities with over 700 gigawatt-hours of demand to update their integrated resource plans every five years.
- Addresses the role of Diablo Canyon power plant in future planning.
- Includes provisions for transportation electrification in integrated resource plans.
- Clarifies the definition of ‘surplus interconnection service’.
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