BILL NUMBER: AB 802	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to amend Sections 454.55 and 454.56 of the Public Utilities
Code, relating to energy efficiency.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 802, as amended, Williams. Public utilities: energy efficiency
savings.
   Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), in
consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission (Energy Commission), to identify all
potentially achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings,
and to establish efficiency targets for electrical corporations to
achieve pursuant to their procurement plan. Existing law requires the
PUC, in consultation with the Energy Commission, to identify all
potentially achievable cost-effective natural gas efficiency savings
and to establish efficiency targets for gas corporations to achieve,
and requires that a gas corporation first meet, its unmet resource
needs through all available gas efficiency and demand reduction
resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible.
   This bill would require the PUC, in evaluating the
cost-effectiveness of those efficiency savings, to consider the total
energy savings to be the difference between the energy usage after
the installation of the energy efficiency measure funded by
ratepayer-funded incentives or rebates and the energy usage without
that energy efficiency measure.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to require electrical and gas corporations to satisfy the
state's energy requirements with energy efficiency measures when
procuring those measures is less expensive to the corporation than
procuring alternative electric or gas resources.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to
require that all applicable state and federal contractor
qualifications, licensing, certifications, and wages appropriate for
the work to be performed are followed for any energy efficiency
retrofit and installation project funded by  ratepayers, and
to require that the Public Utilities Commission not create additional
qualification, license, certification, or wage requirements.
  ratepayers.
  SEC. 2.  Section 454.55 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
   454.55.  (a) The commission, in consultation with the State Energy
Resources Conservation and Development Commission, shall identify
all potentially achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency
savings and establish efficiency targets for an electrical
corporation to achieve pursuant to Section 454.5.
   (b) In evaluating the cost-effectiveness of  electricty
  electricity  efficiency savings, the commission
shall consider the total electricity efficiency savings to be the
difference between the electrical usage resulting after the
installation of the energy efficiency measure funded by
ratepayer-funded incentives or rebates, and the electrical usage
without that energy efficiency measure, without regard to standards
prescribed pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 25402 of the
Public Resources Code.
  SEC. 3.  Section 454.56 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
   454.56.  (a) The commission, in consultation with the State Energy
Resources Conservation and Development Commission, shall identify
all potentially achievable cost-effective natural gas efficiency
savings and establish efficiency targets for the gas corporation to
achieve.
   (b) A gas corporation shall first meet its unmet resource needs
through all available natural gas efficiency and demand reduction
resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible.
   (c) In evaluating the cost-effectiveness of natural gas efficiency
savings, the commission shall consider the total natural gas
efficiency savings to be the difference between the natural gas usage
resulting after the installation of the energy efficiency measure
funded by ratepayer-funded incentives or rebates, and the natural gas
usage without that energy efficiency measure, without regard to
standards prescribed pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of Section
25402 of the Public Resources Code.