Energy.

(1) The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. Existing law requires the state board, by July 1, 2025, to develop, in consultation with specified stakeholders, a framework for measuring and then reducing the average carbon intensity of the materials used in the construction of new buildings, including those for residential uses. Existing law requires the framework to include a comprehensive strategy for the state's building sector to achieve a 40% net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of building materials, as determined from a baseline calculated using data reported for the 2026 calendar year, as specified. Existing law requires the strategy to achieve this target as soon as possible, but no later than December 31, 2035, with an interim target of 20% net reduction by December 31, 2030. Existing law requires the state board, by July 1, 2029, to evaluate the feasibility and cost impact of achieving the interim target of 20% net reduction by December 31, 2030. This bill would extend the date by which the state board is required to develop the above-described framework from July 1, 2025, to December 31, 2026, and would require the framework to only measure the average carbon intensity of the materials used in the construction of new buildings, including those for residential uses. The bill would require the board to develop the comprehensive strategy for the state's building sector to achieve a 40% net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of building materials, by December 31, 2028. The bill would extend the date by which the state board is required to evaluate the feasibility and cost impact of achieving the interim target of 20% net reduction from July 1, 2029, to December 31, 2029. (2) Existing law requires an electric vehicle charging station that requires payment of a fee to allow a person desiring to use the station to pay by credit card or mobile technology. Existing law authorizes the State Air Resources Board to adopt interoperability billing standards for network roaming payment methods for electric vehicle charging stations, as provided. This bill would require an electric vehicle charging station that is newly installed or made publicly available to offer specified payment methods, as provided. The bill would authorize the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) , by regulation that is effective no earlier than January 1, 2028, to add or subtract from the payment methods required by the bill, as appropriate in light of changing technologies. The bill would vest the authority to implement and enforce those requirements on electric vehicle charging stations with the Energy Commission and would specify that the state board has the authority to enforce the requirements on electric vehicle charging stations until the commission adopts regulations implementing those requirements. (3) Existing law establishes the Energy Commission and requires the commission to be composed of 5 members. Existing law provides an annual salary for members of the Energy Commission, effective as of January 1, 1988, and prescribes a method by which it may be increased. This bill would, for the 2023–24, 2024–25, and 2025–26 fiscal years, provide for an additional increase of 5% to the annual compensation of the members of the Energy Commission. (4) Existing law establishes the self-generation incentive program to increase the deployment of distributed generation and energy storage systems to facilitate the integration of those resources into the electrical grid, improve efficiency and reliability of the distribution and transmission system, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, peak demand, and ratepayer costs. Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to require the administration of the program for distributed energy resources until January 1, 2026. Existing law requires the PUC, in consultation with the Energy Commission, to authorize, until January 1, 2026, the annual collection of a specified amount for purposes of the program. Existing law requires the PUC, in administering the program, to use funds appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of providing incentives to eligible residential customers, including those receiving service from a local publicly owned electric utility, and specifically requires the PUC to allocate 70% of those funds for incentives to eligible low-income residential customers who install either new behind-the-meter solar photovoltaic systems paired with energy storage systems or new energy storage systems and 30% of those funds for incentives to residential customers who install new behind-the-meter energy storage systems. This bill would instead require the PUC to allocate all of the funds appropriated by the Legislature to eligible low-income residential customers who install either behind-the-meter solar photovoltaic systems paired with energy storage systems or energy storage systems. Under existing law, a violation of an order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the PUC is a crime. Because a violation of an order or decision of the PUC implementing the allocation of funds would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (5) Existing law establishes the policy of the state that eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources supply 100% of electricity procured to serve all state agencies by December 31, 2035. Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to procure eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources to satisfy the state agency obligations imposed on the State Water Resources Development System, commonly known as the State Water Project, pursuant to that policy. Existing law authorizes the department to satisfy all or a portion of those obligations by installing zero-carbon resources or eligible renewable energy resources behind the meter on State Water Resources Development System property to service its load. This bill would additionally authorize the department to satisfy all or a portion of those obligations by connecting zero-carbon resources or eligible renewable energy resources behind the meter on State Water Resources Development System property to service its load. (6) Existing law authorizes the Department of Water Resources to reimburse an electrical corporation for the value of imported energy or import capacity products that were delivered or capable of being delivered between July 1, 2022, and on or before September 30, 2022, and were procured at above-market costs or in excess of procurement authorizations set by the PUC and above the requirements needed to serve its bundled customers in support of summer electric service reliability. Existing law establishes the Department of Water Resources Electricity Supply Reliability Reserve Fund and continuously appropriates the moneys in the fund to the department for, among other things, those reimbursements. This bill would additionally authorize the department to reimburse an electrical corporation for the value of imported energy or import capacity products delivered or capable of being delivered between October 1, 2022, and on or before October 31, 2023, and procured as described above. By expanding the purposes for which moneys in a continuously appropriated fund may be used, the bill would make an appropriation. (7) 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. (8) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.