Official Summary Text
AB 2369, as amended, Rogers.
Electricity: energy storage: energy-only resources.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires each electrical corporation, electric service provider, and community choice aggregator to maintain physical generating capacity and electrical demand response adequate to meet its load requirements, and requires that the generating capacity or electrical demand response be deliverable to locations and at times as may be necessary to maintain electrical service system reliability, local area reliability, and flexibility.
This bill would
additionally require each electrical corporation, electric service provider, and community choice aggregator to maintain energy storage adequate to meet its load requirements, as provided.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations.
Existing law requires the PUC, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), to provide transmission-focused guidance to the Independent System Operator (ISO) about resource portfolios of expected future renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources, as specified, to allow the ISO to identify and approve transmission facilities needed to interconnect resources and reliably serve the needs of load centers. In providing that guidance, existing law
requires the PUC and the Energy Commission to annually provide projections to support the Independent System Operator’s planning and approvals in its annual transmission planning process, as provided.
This bill would require the PUC and Energy Commission, as part of providing those projections, to also identify cost-effective opportunities to increase the reliability contribution or mitigate congestion of planned or existing energy-only resources through transmission capacity expansions.
The bill would require the PUC, in consultation with the ISO, on or before January 1, 2029, to develop a methodology for evaluating the contribution of energy-only resources to provide charging sufficiency for energy storage, as provided.
Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the
PUC is a crime.
Because the provisions of this bill would be a part of the act and a violation of a PUC action implementing its requirements 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.