Gas corporations: zero-carbon and low-carbon hydrogen.

Existing law provides for the furnishing of utility services by public utilities, as defined, subject to the regulatory authority of the Public Utilities Commission, including the supplying of natural gas service by gas corporations. This bill would authorize the commission to authorize a gas corporation to procure zero-carbon hydrogen, as defined, or low-carbon hydrogen, as defined, to serve customers or for another purpose stated in an application filed by the gas corporation. The bill would authorize a gas corporation to recover in rates the reasonable cost of pipeline infrastructure developed to deliver and transport the zero-carbon or low-carbon hydrogen. The bill would require the gas corporation to deliver any of that hydrogen procured from producers to end users through the pipeline system. The bill would authorize the State Air Resources Board, the commission, and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to authorize the production of zero-carbon or low-carbon hydrogen for end uses. The bill would require zero-carbon or low-carbon hydrogen delivered to an electrical generating facility or end user through a common carrier pipeline or interstate pipeline to comply with specified requirements.