California Assembly Bill AB802 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 802AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 20, 2015 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 7, 2015 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Williams FEBRUARY 26, 2015 An act to amend Sections 454.55 and 454.56 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy efficiency. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 802, as amended, Williams. Public utilities: energy efficiency savings. Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), to identify all potentially achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings, and to establish efficiency targets for electrical corporations to achieve pursuant to their procurement plan. Existing law requires the PUC, in consultation with the Energy Commission, to identify all potentially achievable cost-effective natural gas efficiency savings and to establish efficiency targets for gas corporations to achieve, and requires that a gas corporation first meet, its unmet resource needs through all available gas efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible. This bill would require the PUC, in evaluating the cost-effectiveness of those efficiency savings, to consider the total energy savings to be the difference between the energy usage after the installation of the energy efficiency measure funded by ratepayer-funded incentives or rebates and the energy usage without that energy efficiency measure. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to require electrical and gas corporations to satisfy the state's energy requirements with energy efficiency measures when procuring those measures is less expensive to the corporation than procuring alternative electric or gas resources. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to require that all applicable state and federal contractor qualifications, licensing, certifications, and wages appropriate for the work to be performed are followed for any energy efficiency retrofit and installation project funded by  ratepayers, and to require that the Public Utilities Commission not create additional qualification, license, certification, or wage requirements.   ratepayers. SEC. 2. Section 454.55 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read: 454.55. (a) The commission, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, shall identify all potentially achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings and establish efficiency targets for an electrical corporation to achieve pursuant to Section 454.5. (b) In evaluating the cost-effectiveness of  electricty   electricity  efficiency savings, the commission shall consider the total electricity efficiency savings to be the difference between the electrical usage resulting after the installation of the energy efficiency measure funded by ratepayer-funded incentives or rebates, and the electrical usage without that energy efficiency measure, without regard to standards prescribed pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 25402 of the Public Resources Code. SEC. 3. Section 454.56 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read: 454.56. (a) The commission, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, shall identify all potentially achievable cost-effective natural gas efficiency savings and establish efficiency targets for the gas corporation to achieve. (b) A gas corporation shall first meet its unmet resource needs through all available natural gas efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible. (c) In evaluating the cost-effectiveness of natural gas efficiency savings, the commission shall consider the total natural gas efficiency savings to be the difference between the natural gas usage resulting after the installation of the energy efficiency measure funded by ratepayer-funded incentives or rebates, and the natural gas usage without that energy efficiency measure, without regard to standards prescribed pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 25402 of the Public Resources Code.