Official Summary Text
AB 1975, as amended, Schultz.
Electrical corporations:
distribution
grid utilization metric.
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, on or before December 31, 2027, to
establish
develop a
methodology for calculating
a
distribution
grid
utilization
metric that calculates electrical load as a percentage of rated capacity,
metric,
as specified. The bill would require each large electrical corporation,
each calendar quarter,
in a manner, frequency, and geographic scope determined by the commission,
to submit a publicly available report to the commission with the results of the large electrical corporation’s
distribution
grid utilization metric calculations, as specified. The bill would require the commission to
annually
establish
and periodically update, as appropriate,
a
minimum value for the grid utilization metric within
distribution grid utilization standard for
each large electrical
corporation’s distribution grid,
corporation
and
would require that
to ensure
the
distribution
grid utilization
metric minimum value increase annually, as provided.
standard
encourage
s, and does not inhibit, electrification.
The bill would
require
authorize
the commission to
establish
direct each large electrical corporation to implement programs, rate designs, or other incentives, or to establish
financial performance-based incentives or disincentives correlated with achieving the
distribution
grid utilization
metric minimum value, as specified, and would require each large electrical corporation, on or before July 31, 2028, to propose grid utilization programs to achieve the grid utilization metric minimum value,
standard,
as specified.
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-described provisions would be part of the act and a violation of a commission action implementing the bill’s requirements would be a crime, this 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.