Electricity: resource adequacy requirements.

Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission, in consultation with the Independent System Operator, to establish resource adequacy requirements for all load-serving entities, defined as including electrical corporations, electric service providers, and community choice aggregators. Existing law requires the resource adequacy program to achieve certain objectives, including, among other objectives, maximizing the ability of community choice aggregators to determine the generation resources used to serve their customers. This bill would revise and recast the objectives of the resource adequacy program. The bill would require the commission to analyze, compile, and publish on its internet website an annual report on the compliance status of load-serving entities. Existing law requires the commission to determine and authorize the most efficient and equitable means for ensuring that community choice aggregators can determine the generation resources used to service their customers. This bill would additionally require the commission to determine and authorize the most efficient and equitable means for ensuring that electric service providers can determine the generation resources used to serve their customers. The bill would also require the Independent System Operator to ensure that the cost of backstop procurement and associated greenhouse gas attributes are equitably allocated. This bill would require the commission, in coordination with the Independent System Operator, in a new or existing proceeding, to develop a pilot program for aggregated customer-sited zero-emission distributed energy resources, as defined, to assess the value of potential energy exports from those resources for purposes of fulfilling the requirements of the resource adequacy program, as specified. The bill would exclude from participation in the pilot program customers taking service under a customer-generator tariff unless the customer is only compensated in a specified manner. The bill would authorize the commission to allocate certain funds to carry out the pilot program and would specify the resources eligible to participate in the pilot program, as provided. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 380 of the Public Utilities Code proposed by SB 1158 to be operative only if this bill and SB 1158 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. To the extent that certain provisions of this bill would require an order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission to implement, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating new crimes. 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.