CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 38Introduced by Senator LairdDecember 05, 2022 An act to relating to energy. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 38, as introduced, Laird. Battery storage facilities: safety systems.Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law requires the PUC to ensure that facilities needed to maintain the reliability of the electrical supply remain available and operational.Existing law establishes an Independent System Operator (ISO) as a nonprofit public benefit corporation and requires the ISO to ensure efficient use and reliable operation of the electrical transmission grid consistent with achieving planning and operating reserve criteria no less stringent than those established by the Western Electricity Coordinating Council and the North American Electric Reliability Council.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to address the need for better safety systems at battery storage facilities.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to address the need for better safety systems at battery storage facilities.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 38Introduced by Senator LairdDecember 05, 2022 An act to relating to energy. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 38, as introduced, Laird. Battery storage facilities: safety systems.Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law requires the PUC to ensure that facilities needed to maintain the reliability of the electrical supply remain available and operational.Existing law establishes an Independent System Operator (ISO) as a nonprofit public benefit corporation and requires the ISO to ensure efficient use and reliable operation of the electrical transmission grid consistent with achieving planning and operating reserve criteria no less stringent than those established by the Western Electricity Coordinating Council and the North American Electric Reliability Council.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to address the need for better safety systems at battery storage facilities.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 38
Introduced by Senator LairdDecember 05, 2022
Introduced by Senator Laird
December 05, 2022
An act to relating to energy.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 38, as introduced, Laird. Battery storage facilities: safety systems.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law requires the PUC to ensure that facilities needed to maintain the reliability of the electrical supply remain available and operational.Existing law establishes an Independent System Operator (ISO) as a nonprofit public benefit corporation and requires the ISO to ensure efficient use and reliable operation of the electrical transmission grid consistent with achieving planning and operating reserve criteria no less stringent than those established by the Western Electricity Coordinating Council and the North American Electric Reliability Council.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to address the need for better safety systems at battery storage facilities.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law requires the PUC to ensure that facilities needed to maintain the reliability of the electrical supply remain available and operational.
Existing law establishes an Independent System Operator (ISO) as a nonprofit public benefit corporation and requires the ISO to ensure efficient use and reliable operation of the electrical transmission grid consistent with achieving planning and operating reserve criteria no less stringent than those established by the Western Electricity Coordinating Council and the North American Electric Reliability Council.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to address the need for better safety systems at battery storage facilities.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to address the need for better safety systems at battery storage facilities.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to address the need for better safety systems at battery storage facilities.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to address the need for better safety systems at battery storage facilities.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to address the need for better safety systems at battery storage facilities.
### SECTION 1.