AB 1761
Electricity: calculation methodology: data disclosure.
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Bill overview
This bill requires the California Public Utilities Commission to make data used in determining electricity charges publicly available. Specifically, it mandates that data related to calculation methodologies for customer charges – including costs associated with contracts, generation, and other resources – be accessible to load-serving entities and ratepayer advocates. The data must be disclosed publicly, except for sensitive market information, and must be provided concurrently with any proposals or decisions related to those charges.
Key provisions
- Requires the Public Utilities Commission to make data used in electricity charge calculations publicly available.
- Mandates disclosure of data related to contracts, electrical corporation-owned generation, and other resource costs.
- Requires electrical corporations to provide data to load-serving entities and ratepayer advocates.
- Specifies that data must be made available through public disclosure, with exceptions for market-sensitive information.
- Establishes requirements for data format and timing of disclosure.
- Defines ‘load-serving entity’ for the purpose of the bill.
- Clarifies the scope of charges subject to data disclosure.
Who is affected
- Electric utility customers
- Load-serving entities
- Ratepayer advocates
- The California Public Utilities Commission
- Electrical corporations
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| Amended IN Assembly March 19, 2026 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1761
| Introduced by Assembly Member Rogers (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bauer-Kahan, Boerner, Connolly, Petrie-Norris, and Ward) (Coauthor: Senator Arreguín) |
| February 09, 2026 |
An act to add Section 365.4 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1761, as amended, Rogers. Electricity: calculation methodology: data disclosure.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable.
This bill would require the commission to ensure that all data relied on in serving as a basis for any decision or ruling, ruling issued by the commission, or in any proposal or analysis provided by an electrical corporation, the commission’s staff, or any other party, commission staff, for the determination or application of a calculation methodology for any charge imposed on customers of a load-serving entity to recover the cost of contracts or resources owned by an electrical corporation or any value derived from that calculation costs associated with contracts, electrical corporation-owned generation, or any other resource or value included in that charge and any other charge derived from those costs, is made available to load-serving entities and ratepayer advocates on behalf of customers. The bill would require the commission to require an electrical corporation or other party, in submitting a proposal or analysis for the determination or application of a calculation methodology for any charge imposed on customers of a load-serving entity to recover costs associated with contracts, electrical corporation-owned generation, or any other resource or value included in that charge and any other charge derived from those costs, to make all data serving as a basis for that proposal or analysis available to load-serving entities and ratepayer advocates on behalf of customers. The bill would require that data to meet specified requirements, including that it is made through a public disclosure, except for market-sensitive data, as provided.
Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.
Because the above prohibition would be a part of the act, and because a violation of a commission action implementing the above prohibition would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YES
Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 365.4 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:
365.4.
(a) The commission shall ensure that all data relied on in serving as a basis for any decision or ruling, ruling issued by the commission, or in any proposal or analysis provided by an electrical corporation, the commission’s staff, or any other party, commission staff, for the determination or application of a calculation methodology for any charge imposed on customers of a load-serving entity, as defined in Section 380, entity to recover the cost of contracts or resources owned by an electrical corporation or any value derived from that calculation costs associated with contracts, electrical corporation-owned generation, or any other resource or value included in that charge and any other charge derived from those costs, is made available to load-serving entities and ratepayer advocates on behalf of customers.
(b) The commission shall require an electrical corporation or other party, in submitting a proposal or analysis for the determination or application of a calculation methodology for any charge imposed on customers of a load-serving entity to recover costs associated with contracts, electrical corporation-owned generation, or any other resource or value included in that charge and any other charge derived from those costs, to make all data serving as a basis for that proposal or analysis available to load-serving entities and ratepayer advocates on behalf of customers.(c) For purposes of subdivisions (a) and (b), a charge imposed on customers of a load-serving entity includes any charge determined or applied pursuant to subdivision (f), (g), or (h) of Section 366.2, and any other charge authorized by the commission to recover the costs of contracts or resources procured for the benefit of bundled customers, regardless of whether the charge is expressly enumerated in those subdivisions.
(b)
(d) Data provided pursuant to subdivision subdivisions (a) and (b) shall meet all of the following requirements:
(1) It shall be made through a public disclosure, except for market-sensitive data, which shall be made through disclosure to a nonmarket participant reviewing representative pursuant to the terms of a reasonable, commission-approved nondisclosure agreement.
(2) It shall be made available to load-serving entities and ratepayer advocates concurrent with any proposal or analyses from the electrical corporation, the commission’s staff, or any other party, or any commission adopted outcome. commission-adopted decision or ruling. This requirement may be met through adoption of data sharing practices mutually agreed to by parties at the outset of a proceeding.
(3) It shall be made available in native file format.
(e) A failure to comply with this section, or the identification of good faith errors, omissions, or inaccuracies in data disclosed pursuant to this section, shall not, by itself, invalidate, impair, stay, or otherwise affect the validity of any calculation methodology, charge, decision, or ruling adopted by the commission, unless the failure, good faith error, omission, or inaccuracy constitutes one or more of the grounds specified in Section 1757 or 1757.1.(f) For purposes of this section, “load-serving entity” has the same meaning as defined in Section 380.
SEC. 2.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.