BILL NUMBER: AB 802	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 28, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 1, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to amend Section 381.2 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 State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission (Energy Commission) to develop and implement a
comprehensive program to achieve greater energy savings in existing
residential and nonresidential building stock. Existing law requires
the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to investigate the ability of
electrical corporations and gas corporations to provide various
energy efficiency financing options to their customers for the
purposes of implementing the program developed by the Energy
Commission.
   This bill would require the PUC, by July 1, 2016, to authorize
electrical corporations and gas corporations to recover in rates the
reasonable costs of programs providing incentives or rebates or both
incentives and rebates to their customers to increase the energy
efficiency of existing buildings, as specified. The bill would
require the PUC to authorize electrical corporations and gas
corporations to count all energy savings achieved toward overall
energy efficiency goals or targets established by the PUC. The bill
would authorize the PUC to adjust the energy efficiency goals or
targets of electrical corporations and gas corporations to reflect
the energy savings achieved in meeting or exceeding energy efficiency
requirements in existing buildings.
   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.  Section 381.2 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   381.2.  (a) The commission shall investigate the ability of
electrical corporations and gas corporations to provide various
energy efficiency financing options to their customers for the
purposes of implementing the program developed pursuant to Section
25943 of the Public Resources Code.
   (b)  (1)    By July 1, 2016, the commission, in
a separate or existing proceeding, shall authorize electrical
corporations or gas corporations to recover in rates the reasonable
costs of programs that provide financial incentives or rebates or
both incentives and rebates to their customers to increase the energy
efficiency of existing buildings based on all estimated energy
savings and energy usage reductions, taking into consideration the
overall reduction in normalized metered energy consumption as a
measure of energy savings. Those programs shall include energy usage
reductions resulting from the installation of a measure or equipment
required for modifications to existing buildings to bring them into
conformity with, or exceed, the requirements of Title 24 of the
California Code of Regulations. The commission shall authorize an
electrical corporation and gas corporation to count all energy
savings achieved toward overall energy efficiency goals or targets
established by the commission. The commission may adjust the energy
efficiency goals or targets of an electrical corporation and gas
corporation to reflect the energy efficiency savings achieved in
meeting or exceeding the requirements of Title 24 of the California
Code of Regulations in existing buildings. 
   (2) The commission shall prioritize energy efficiency activities
consistent with Sections 454.55 and 454.56. 
   (c) In the report prepared pursuant to Section 384.2, the
commission shall include an assessment of each electrical corporation'
s and each gas corporation's implementation of the program developed
pursuant to Section 25943 of the Public Resources Code. 
   (d) This section does not require the commission to increase
funding for energy efficiency programs of electric corporations or
gas corporations that are recoverable in rates.