Plain English Breakdown
The official text states 'as provided' for several requirements, meaning specific details may be in other sections of the full act not included here.
AB-2369: New Rules for Electricity Storage and Grid Planning
This law requires electricity providers to maintain energy storage systems adequate to meet their load needs, directs state agencies to find cost-effective transmission expansions for certain power sources, and sets a deadline to study how those resources can charge batteries.
What This Bill Does
- Requires electrical corporations, electric service providers, and community choice aggregators to maintain energy storage adequate to meet their load requirements.
- Asks the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) and Energy Commission to identify cost-effective opportunities to increase reliability or reduce congestion for planned or existing 'energy-only' resources through transmission capacity expansions.
- Requires the PUC, with help from the Independent System Operator (ISO), to develop a method by January 1, 2029, for evaluating how energy-only resources can provide charging sufficiency for energy storage.
Who It Names or Affects
- Electrical corporations
- Electric service providers
- Community choice aggregators
- The Public Utilities Commission (PUC)
- The State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
Terms To Know
- Energy storage
- Systems that save electricity for later use.
- Load requirements
- The amount of generating capacity or demand response needed to meet the needs of customers and maintain reliability.
- Energy-only resources
- Power sources that are planned or existing, which may need transmission expansions to improve their contribution to grid reliability.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill states energy storage must be 'adequate' but does not specify the exact amount required in this summary.
- The specific method for evaluating how resources charge batteries will only exist after it is developed by January 1, 2029.