Health facilities: reliable alternative clean energy technologies.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law requires certain health facilities to test diesel backup generators in accordance with specified provisions. This bill would authorize health facilities, as defined, to use reliable alternative clean energy technologies as primary or backup power sources if the technology meets reliability requirements set forth by federal and state regulators. The bill would require the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to submit to the California Building Standards Commission building standards for the use of reliable alternative clean energy technologies for essential power systems, to be adopted in the California Building Standards Code.