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Cal. Pub. Util. Code § 9615

RESTRUCTURING OF PUBLICLY OWNED ELECTRIC UTILITIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE RESTRUCTURING OF THE ELECTRICAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

Redline — January 1, 2011 → current.View current text →
Current — January 1, 2013
As of January 1, 2011
(a) Each local publicly owned electric utility, in procuring energy to serve the load of its retail end-use customers, shall first acquire all available energy efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible.
Each local publicly owned electric utility, in procuring energy to serve the load of its retail end-use customers, shall first acquire all available energy efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible.
(b) On or before June 1, 2007, and by June 1 of every third year thereafter, each local publicly owned electric utility shall identify all potentially achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings and shall establish annual targets for energy efficiency savings and demand reduction for the next 10-year period. A local publicly owned electric utility’s determination of potentially achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings shall be made without regard to previous minimum investments undertaken pursuant to Section 385. A local publicly owned electric utility shall treat investments made to achieve energy efficiency savings and demand reduction targets as procurement investments.
(c) Within 60 days of adopting annual targets pursuant to subdivision (b), each local publicly owned electric utility shall report those targets to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, and the basis for establishing those targets.
(d) Each local publicly owned electric utility shall report annually to its customers and to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. The report shall contain, but is not limited to, both of the following:
(1) Its investments in energy efficiency and demand reduction programs.
(2) A description of programs, expenditures, cost-effectiveness, and expected and actual energy efficiency savings and demand reduction results.
(e) Each local publicly owned electric utility shall also annually develop and submit to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission a report containing all of the following:
(1) The sources of funding for its investments in energy efficiency and demand reduction program investments.
(2) The methodologies and input assumptions used to determine cost-effectiveness.
(3) The results of an independent evaluation that measures and verifies the energy efficiency savings and reduction in energy demand achieved by its energy efficiency and demand reduction programs.
(f) The State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission shall include a summary of the information reported pursuant to subdivision (e) in the integrated energy policy report prepared pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 25300) of Division 15 of the Public Resources Code. The State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission shall also include, for each local publicly owned electric utility, a comparison of the local publicly owned electric utility’s annual targets established in accordance with this section, and the local publicly owned electric utility’s actual energy efficiency savings and demand reductions. If the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission determines that improvements can be made in either the level of a local publicly owned electric utility’s annual targets to achieve all cost-effective, reliable, and feasible energy savings and demand reductions and to enable the local publicly owned electric utilities, in the aggregate, to achieve statewide targets established pursuant to Section 25310, or in meeting each local publicly owned electric utility’s annual targets, the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission shall provide recommendations to the local publicly owned electric utility, the Legislature, and the Governor on those improvements.

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