Official Summary Text
AB 2612, as amended, Schultz.
Building standards: qualified plug-in photovoltaic systems.
Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. Existing law, the California Building Standards Law, establishes the California Building Standards Commission. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt building standards and to codify those standards in the California Building Standards Code. Existing law, the State Housing Law, establishes statewide construction and occupancy standards for buildings used for human habitation.
Existing law, until January 1, 2033, requires the commission and the department, commencing with the next triennial edition of the code adopted after January 1, 2023, to research and develop, and authorizes the commission and the department to propose for adoption by the commission, mandatory building standards for the
installation of electric vehicle charging stations in existing multifamily dwellings, hotels, motels, and nonresidential developments, as specified.
This bill would
require
authorize
the commission, commencing with the first triennial edition of the code adopted after June 1, 2031, to adopt, approve, codify, and publish
mandatory
building energy standards for
new construction
building electrical circuit features to enable a qualified plug-in photovoltaic system, as defined, to function as an energy source within
the electrical circuit of
a single-family residential
dwelling’s,
dwelling,
multiunit residential
dwelling’s,
dwelling,
or nonresidential
development’s electrical circuit,
development, that is constructed after that
edition is adopted,
as specified. The bill would, for purposes of that requirement, require the department to research, develop, and propose for adoption
mandatory
building standards for a qualified plug-in photovoltaic system to function as an energy source within
the electrical circuit of
a single-family residential
dwelling’s,
dwelling,
multiunit residential
dwelling’s,
dwelling,
or nonresidential
development’s electrical circuit.
development, as specified.
The bill would require the commission and the department, in satisfying those requirements, to, among other things, consult with certain interested parties and invite the participation of the public at large in the development of those building energy standards through open consensus-based processes.