Energy consumption: report.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law requires the commission to submit various reports to the Legislature, legislative committees, and the Governor, as specified. Existing law prohibits an electrical corporation or gas corporation from sharing, disclosing, or otherwise making accessible to any third party a customer's electrical or gas consumption data, as defined, except as specified, and requires those utilities to use reasonable security procedures and practices to protect a customer's unencrypted electrical and gas consumption data from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2022, and biennially thereafter, to report to the Legislature the extent to which advanced metering infrastructure, time-of-use rates, and customer education programs have contributed to reducing gas and electricity consumption. The bill would require the commission to require each electrical corporation and gas corporation to submit to the commission aggregate customer gas or electricity consumption data that does not include any individually identifiable customer information to assist the commission in preparing this report. Existing law makes any public utility and any corporation or person other than a public utility that violates any part of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or other requirement of the commission guilty of a crime. Because a violation of a commission-ordered requirement under this bill would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.