Energy.

(1) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. Decisions of the PUC adopted the California Solar Initiative. Existing law requires the PUC to undertake certain steps in implementing the California Solar Initiative. Existing law requires the governing body of a local publicly owned electric utility that sells electricity at retail to adopt, implement, and finance a solar initiative program for the purpose of investing in, and encouraging the increased installation of, residential and commercial solar energy systems. This bill would move the above-described requirements for local publicly owned electric utilities from an area of the Public Utilities Code pertaining to electrical restructuring, to the area of the code pertaining to the implementation of the California Solar Initiative. (2) Existing law requires a local publicly owned electric utility that sells electricity at retail to 75,000 or more customers to adopt and implement a tariff for electricity purchased from an electric generation facility meeting certain size, deliverability, and interconnection requirements and to consider certain factors. Existing law requires the local publicly owned electric utility to make the tariff available to owners and operators of an electric generation facility within the service territory of the utility, upon request, on a first-come-first-served basis, until the utility meets its proportionate share of a statewide cap of 750 megawatts cumulative rated generation capacity served under the feed-in tariffs adopted pursuant to the above-described requirements. Existing law provides that the electricity purchased from an electric generation facility counts toward meeting the local publicly owned electric utility's renewables portfolio standard annual procurement targets. This bill would move this requirement to that portion of the Public Utilities Code concerning the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program. The bill would make other technical and nonsubstantive changes. (3) The bill would make other conforming and corrective changes.