BILL NUMBER: AB 802	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 22, 2015
	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   incentives, rebates,
technical assistance, and support  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   incentives, rebates, technical
assistance, and support  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  
adoption  of a measure or  installation of  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.   Regulations,
as well as operational, behavioral, and retrocommissioning
activities.  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.