ENERGY

• AB 1775 (Muratsuchi) Prohibits the State Lands Commission (SLC) or a local trustee from entering into any new lease authorizing new construction of oil-and-gas-related infrastructure upon tidelands and submerged lands within state waters associated with Pacific Outer Continental Shelf (POCS) leases issued after January 1, 2018.

An act to add Section 6245 to the Public Resources Code, relating to state lands.

• AB 3187 (Grayson) This bill requires the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) open a proceeding not later than July 1, 2019 to consider options to promote the in-state production and distribution of biomethane.

An act to amend Section 784.2 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to gas corporations.

• AB 3232 (Friedman) Requires the California Energy Commission (CEC) to develop a plan to ensure that all new residential and nonresidential buildings be zero-emission buildings and a strategy to achieve a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by the state’s residential and nonresidential building stock by 2030.

An act to add Section 25403 to the Public Resources Code, relating to energy.

• SB 100 (De León) This bill establishes the 100 Percent Clean Energy Act of 2017 which increases the Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) requirement from 50 percent by 2030 to 60 percent, and creates the policy of planning to meet all of the state’s retail electricity supply with a mix of RPS-eligible and zero-carbon resources by December 31, 2045, for a total of 100 percent clean energy.

An act to amend Sections 399.11, 399.15, and 399.30 of, and to add Section 454.53 to, the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.

• SB 465 (Jackson) This bill expands, until January 1, 2029, Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing to allow cities and counties in very high fire hazard severity zones to authorize contractual assessments for property owners to finance wildfire safety improvements.

An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 22003.5 of the Financial Code, to amend, repeal, and add Section 53313.5 and 53355.7 of the Government Code, to amend, repeal, and add Sections 5898.16, 5898.17, 5902, 5913, and 5954 of, and to add and repeal Section 5899.4 of, the Streets and Highways Code, relating to the Property Assessed Clean Energy program.

• SB 700 (Wiener) This bill extends the sunset date for the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) by five years, requires the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to adopt requirements for storage systems to ensure that they reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and prohibits generation technologies using non-renewable fuels from obtaining SGIP incentives as of January 1, 2020.

An act to amend Section 379.6 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.

• SB 782 (Skinner) This bill expands the types of buildings covered by the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) Building Energy Benchmarking Program to include cottage-style buildings and requires utilities to accept a customer’s electronic signature as consent to obtain access to the customer’s energy use data.

An act to amend Section 25402.10 of the Public Resources Code, and to amend Section 8380 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.

• SB 1087 (Roth) This bill clarifies, corrects, and cleans up provisions of AB 1284 (Dababneh, Chapter 475, Statutes of 2017) relating to the PACE program.

An act to amend Sections 22105, 22680, 22681, 22682, 22684, 22685, 22687, 22688, 22689, 22690, 22693, 22694, and 22716 of, and to add Section 22690.5 to, the Financial Code, and to amend Section 5940 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to the Property Assessed Clean Energy program.

• SB 1131 (Hertzberg) This bill requires the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to authorize investor-owned utilities (IOUs) incentives for customized industrial, agricultural, commercial, residential, and public sector energy efficiency projects based on nationally recognized measurement and verification standards and establishes new requirements and timelines for the CPUC’s review of these projects.

An act to amend Section 381.2 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.

• SB 1135 (Bradford) This bill codifies the requirements of an existing low-income electric rate discount program, known as the Family Electric Rate Assistance (FERA) program, for the state’s three largest electrical corporations and increase the program discount from 12 percent to18 percent line-item discount on a customer’s electric utility bill.

An act to add Section 739.12 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.

• SB 1369 (Skinner) This bill requires California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Air Resources Board (ARB), and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to consider green electrolytic hydrogen, as defined, an eligible form of energy storage, and consider other potential uses of green electrolytic hydrogen.

An act to amend Section 400 of, and to add Sections 400.2 and 400.3 to, the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.

• SB 1374 (Hueso) This bill deletes outdated reporting requirements for the integrated energy policy report (IEPR).

An act to amend Sections 25301, 25302, 25303, 25304, and 25401.2 of, to amend and repeal Section 25303.5 of, and to repeal Sections 25305.5 and 25307 of, the Public Resources Code, relating to energy.

• SB 1440 (Hueso) This bill requires the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in consultation with the California Air Resources Board (ARB) consider adopting specific biomethane procurement targets or goals for each corporation, as specified. This bill requires the CPUC, if the CPUC adopts those targets or goals, to take certain actions in regards to the development of the targets or goals and the procurement of the biomethane to meet those targets or goals.

An act to add Article 10 (commencing with Section 650) to Chapter 3 of Part 1 of Division 1 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.

• SB 1477 (Stern) This bill requires the California Energy Commission (CEC) to develop a statewide market transformation initiative to transform the state’s market for low-emission space and water heating equipment for new and existing residential and nonresidential buildings and to develop an incentive program to fund near-zero emission technology for new residential and commercial buildings.

An act to amend Section 910.4 of, to add Section 748.6 to, and to add Article 12 (commencing with Section 921) and Article 13 (commencing with Section 922) to Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 1 of, the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.