BILL NUMBER: SB 984	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 18, 2005
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 4, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Senator McClintock

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2005

   An act to amend Section 25305 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to powerplants.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 984, as amended, McClintock.  Greenhouse gas emissions
reductions: powerplants.
   Existing law establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation
and Development Commission (Energy Commission), and requires the
Energy Commission, among other things, to analyze the social,
economic, and environmental consequences of trends in the consumption
of energy. Existing law requires the Energy Commission to perform
assessments to address public interest energy strategies. The
assessments must include identification of emerging trends in energy
efficiency in various sectors of the state's economy, identification
of emerging trends in the renewable energy industry, identification
of emerging trends in energy research, development, and demonstration
activities, and identification of progress in reducing greenhouse
gas emissions and addressing the effects of climate change.
   This bill would also require  an assessment of 
identification and comparative analysis of the life-cycle costs and
environmental impacts of existing and proposed  major 
electric generation technologies, including fossil, nuclear,
renewable, and hydroelectric technologies. The bill would require
that the analysis be based on a survey of available data from
government, academic, industry, and public sources.
   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 25305 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   25305.
   The commission shall rely upon forecasting and assessments
performed in accordance with Sections 25301 to 25304, inclusive, as
the basis for analyzing the success of and developing policy
recommendations for public interest energy strategies. Public
interest energy strategies include, but are not limited to, achieving
energy efficiency and energy conservation; implementing load
management; pursuing research, development, demonstration, and
commercialization of new technologies; promoting renewable generation
technologies; reducing statewide greenhouse gas emissions and
addressing the impacts of climate change on California; stimulating
California's energy-related business activities to contribute to the
state's economy; and protecting and enhancing the environment.
Additional assessments to address public interest energy strategies
shall include, but are not limited to, all of the following:
   (a) Identification of emerging trends in energy efficiency in the
residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, and transportation
sectors of the state's economy, including, but not limited to,
evaluation of additional achievable energy efficiency measures and
technologies. Identification of policies that would permit fuller
realization of the potential for energy efficiency, either through
direct programmatic actions or facilitation of the market.
   (b) Identification of emerging trends in the renewable energy
industry. In addition, the commission shall evaluate progress in
ensuring the operation of existing facilities, and the development of
new and emerging, in-state renewable resources.
   (c) Identification of emerging trends in energy research,
development, and demonstration activities that advance science or
technology to produce public benefits.
   (d) Identification of progress in reducing statewide greenhouse
gas emissions and addressing the effects of climate change on
California.
   (e) Identification and comparative analysis of the life-cycle
costs and environmental impacts of existing and proposed  major
 electric generation technologies, including fossil, nuclear,
renewable, and hydroelectric technologies. The analysis shall be
based on a survey of available data from government, academic,
industry, and public sources and shall include a comparison of each
of the following aspects of the various technologies:
   (1) Production of fuel and other raw materials.
   (2) Project construction.
   (3) Energy  costs   production  .

   (4) Operating emissions, including greenhouse gases and water
discharge.  
   (4) Operating emissions, including, but not limited to, both of
the following:  
   (A) A comparison of water discharge to that of state-of-the-art
fossil technologies.  
   (B) A comparison of greenhouse gases emitted by technologies that
do not emit carbon dioxide directly, to state-of-the-art fossil
technologies. 
   (5) Transportation, storage, and disposal of waste products  ,
including decommissioning costs and disposal of obsolete components
 .
   (6) Feasible methods to reduce costs and environmental impacts.