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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 200
Author: Leslie (R)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SENATE ENER., UTIL. & COM. COMMITTEE : 9-0, 6/21/05
AYES: Escutia, Morrow, Alarcon, Bowen, Campbell, Cox,
Dunn, Murray, Simitian
NO VOTE RECORDED: Battin, Kehoe
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 4/11/05 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Renewable energy resources: California
Renewables Portfolio Standard Program
SOURCE : Pacific Corporation
Sierra Pacific Power Company
DIGEST : This bill modifies the manner in which an
electrical corporation with fewer than 60,000 customers in
California that also served customers in other states must
meet California's Renewable Portfolio Standard.
ANALYSIS : Existing law, the "Renewables Portfolio
Standard" (RPS), requires each investor-owned utility (IOU)
to increase its existing level of renewable energy
resources by one percent of sales per year until renewable
energy resources account for 20 percent of its portfolio,
with a deadline of 2017 for achieving 20 percent. With
certain exceptions, renewable energy resources must be
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located within California to count toward RPS compliance.
This bill permits an IOU serving fewer than 60,000
customers in California that also serves customers in
another state (i.e. PacifiCorp and Sierra Pacific Power) to
count its out-of-state renewable resources toward its RPS
compliance.
Background
The RPS requires IOUs and certain other retail energy
providers, collectively referred to as "retail sellers," to
buy renewable electricity to the extent Public Goods Charge
funds are available to pay for any costs exceeding a market
price set by the California Public Utilities Commission
(CPUC).
Each IOU is required to increase its renewable procurement
each year by at least one percent of total sales, so that
20 percent of its sales are renewable energy resources by
December 31, 2017. With some exceptions, renewable energy
resources must be located in California to be counted
toward an IOU's RPS requirements.
There are two IOUs based in other states, but who have
small service areas in California and are subject to CPUC
regulation and the RPS law for their California operations.
Sierra Pacific Power is an electric utility which serves
most of northern Nevada and a small part of California
around Lake Tahoe. PacificCorp is an Oregon-based electric
utility which serves Del Norte and Siskiyou Counties in
Northern California.
According to the author's office, PacifiCorp and Sierra
Pacific need flexibility in meeting RPS requirements
because they procure a pool of resources for all of their
customers and do not procure specific resources for their
California customers. This bill allows PacifiCorp and
Sierra Pacific to count renewable resources in all of their
service territory towards the RPS provided the resources
meet other applicable criteria and aren't counted for
another state's RPS.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
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Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/21/05)
PacifiCorp (co-source)
Sierra Pacific Power Company (co-source)
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Aghazarian, Arambula, Baca, Bass, Benoit, Berg,
Bermudez, Blakeslee, Bogh, Calderon, Canciamilla, Chan,
Chavez, Chu, Cogdill, Cohn, Coto, Daucher, De La Torre,
DeVore, Dymally, Emmerson, Evans, Frommer, Garcia,
Goldberg, Hancock, Harman, Haynes, Shirley Horton,
Houston, Huff, Jones, Karnette, Keene, Klehs, Koretz, La
Malfa, La Suer, Laird, Leno, Leslie, Levine, Lieber, Liu,
Matthews, Maze, McCarthy, Montanez, Mountjoy, Mullin,
Nakanishi, Nation, Nava, Negrete McLeod, Niello, Oropeza,
Parra, Pavley, Plescia, Richman, Ridley-Thomas, Sharon
Runner, Ruskin, Saldana, Salinas, Spitzer, Strickland,
Torrico, Tran, Umberg, Vargas, Villines, Walters, Wolk,
Wyland, Yee, Nunez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Gordon, Jerome Horton
NC:do 6/23/05 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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