Official Summary Text
AB 2543, as amended, Ransom.
Emergency preparedness:
direct current fast charging
direct-current fast-charging
station sites.
Existing law establishes various duties and responsibilities of the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
(Energy Commission)
relating to energy usage in the state, including to carry out research and development into alternative sources of energy, improvements in energy generation, transmission, and siting, fuel substitution, and other topics related to energy supply, demand, public safety, ecology, and conservation that are of particular statewide importance, as provided.
Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, generally prescribes duties with regard to various types of emergencies and disasters, including requiring the Governor to coordinate the State Emergency Plan and those programs necessary
for the mitigation of the effects of an emergency in this state. Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to include in the State Hazard Mitigation Plan an evaluation of risks from specified causes of a long-term electrical outage and, based on that analysis, requires the plan to identify cost-effective and feasible measures to lessen risks from those hazards, including, hardening the critical infrastructure of electrical utilities.
This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2027,
the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in consultation with
the Office of Emergency
Services
Services, in consultation with the Energy Commission
and the Office of Energy
Infrastructure Safety, to
(A)
(1)
identify and evaluate emergency types during which operators of
fast charging
direct-current fast-charging
station sites should be required to maintain operations,
(B) determine direct current fast charging
(2) identify direct-current fast-charging
station sites that are important to maintain during each emergency type based on specified factors, and
(C)
(3)
develop recommendations on how long
power
energy
should be maintained during each emergency type and on requirements for station operators to ensure operability of
identified
station sites during each emergency type, as provided. The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2028, and annually thereafter, an operator of a
direct current fast charging
direct-current fast-charging
station site identified by the
commission
Office of Emergency Services
to submit an emergency management plan to the
commission
Office of Emergency Services
that considers options to be used during an emergency to maintain operations, as provided. The bill would require the
commission
Office of Emergency Services
to review the
emergency management
plans and consult with the
Office of Emergency Services and the
Office of Energy Infrastructure
Safety,
Safety and the Energy Commission,
as necessary.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission
(PUC)
with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Under existing law, the
commission
PUC
requires, as part of a general order,
an
electrical
corporations
corporation
to submit an annual report and emergency
response
and disaster preparedness
plan to the
commission.
PUC.
This bill would require an electrical corporation to consider electric vehicle charging stations in its annual report and emergency
response
and disaster preparedness
plan.
Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the
commission
PUC
is a crime.
Because
the
certain
provisions of this bill would be
a
part of the act and therefore a violation of the bill’s
requirements
requirements,
or
a violation
of a
commission
PUC
action implementing its
requirements
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.