Electricity: customer renewable energy subscription program.
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Fiscal committee
No
Appropriation
No
Current location
Passed
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Where this bill stands in the legislative process.
- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Overview
This bill aims to expand and improve California’s customer renewable energy subscription programs. It revises existing rules to prioritize participation by low-income customers, provide bill credits based on avoided costs for participating community renewable energy generators, and establish guidelines for these generators, such as limiting their capacity and focusing on load-modifying resources. The bill also requires the Energy Commission to evaluate the potential of these generators to impact the electricity grid and the PUC to establish a mechanism to determine if they qualify as load modifying resources.
Key provisions
- Prioritizes low-income customer participation in renewable energy subscriptions.
- Provides bill credits to subscribers based on avoided costs of community renewable energy generators.
- Limits community renewable energy generators to a maximum capacity of 5 megawatts of generation and 5 megawatts of energy storage.
- Caps the total program capacity at 4 gigawatts or ends enrollment after 7 years.
- Requires the Energy Commission to evaluate load-modifying potential of generators.
- Mandates the PUC to establish a mechanism to determine load-modifying resource status.
- Requires generators to be sited within the same local reliability area as subscribers.
- Requires quarterly reporting on program operations and outcomes.
Who is affected
- Electricity consumers
- Low-income customers
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