California Assembly Bill 2750
Session 20232024
Electricity: procurement: generation from biomass.
Became Law
Became Law on Sep 25, 2024
Origin Chamber
Assembly
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Bill Number
2750
State
California
Session
20232024
James Gallagher
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Motion Text
AB 2750 Gallagher Concurrence in Senate Amendments
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Summary
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law requires electrical corporations, in addition to other requirements to procure generating capacity from bioenergy projects, to collectively procure, by December 1, 2023, their proportionate share of 125 megawatts of cumulative rated generating capacity from bioenergy projects that commenced operations before June 1, 2013, and that use certain feedstocks.
This bill would extend that procurement deadline to July 1, 2025.
Existing law requires electrical corporations, local publicly owned electric utilities, and community choice aggregators with contracts to procure electricity generated from biomass that expire on or before December 31, 2028, to seek to amend the contracts or to seek approval for new contracts that include expiration dates 5 years later than the expiration dates in the contracts that were operative in 2022. Existing law specifies that this requirement does not apply to biomass facilities located in federal severe or extreme nonattainment areas for particulate matter or ozone.
This bill would require those entities to seek to amend the contracts or seek approval for new contracts to include expiration dates at least 5 years later, rather than expiration dates 5 years later, than the expiration dates in the contracts that were operative in 2022. The bill would specify that this contracting requirement applies to a biomass facility located in an area that voluntarily opts for severe or extreme nonattainment status for particulate matter or ozone but the air district has determined that the continued operation of the facility does not impede the air district's ability to meet its applicable attainment deadline.
This bill would prohibit the extension of a contract between an electrical corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, or community choice aggregator and a biomass generator that is located in the Sacramento federal ozone nonattainment area unless the biomass generator first obtains a letter or certificate from the air district with jurisdiction over the biomass generator that states that the Sacramento federal ozone nonattainment area voluntarily opted to be classified in one or more federal standards in a severe or extreme nonattainment zone and that the continued operation of the facility does not impede the air district's ability to meet its applicable requirements.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Sacramento federal ozone nonattainment area.
This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 399.20.3 of the Public Utilities Code proposed by AB 2276 to be operative only if this bill and AB 2276 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
Under existing law a violation of the Public Utilities Act or an order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.
Because a provision of this bill would be a part of the act, and a violation of a commission action implementing the bill's requirements 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.
02/15/24 - Introduced
February 15, 2024
03/18/24 - Amended Assembly
March 18, 2024
04/04/24 - Amended Assembly
April 4, 2024
08/15/24 - Amended Senate
August 15, 2024
09/04/24 - Enrolled
September 4, 2024
09/25/24 - Chaptered
September 25, 2024
04/16/24- Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy
April 16, 2024
05/06/24- Assembly Appropriations
May 6, 2024
05/09/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS
May 9, 2024
06/14/24- Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications
June 14, 2024
06/28/24- Senate Appropriations
June 28, 2024
08/15/24- Senate Appropriations
August 15, 2024
08/19/24- Sen. Floor Analyses
August 19, 2024
08/30/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS
August 30, 2024
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09/25/2024
California State Legislature
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 575, Statutes of 2024.
09/25/2024
California State Legislature
Approved by the Governor.
09/11/2024
California State Legislature
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
08/30/2024
Assembly
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 1.).
08/30/2024
Assembly
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
08/29/2024
Senate
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 3.).
08/19/2024
Senate
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
08/15/2024
Senate
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
08/15/2024
Senate
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15).
07/01/2024
Senate
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
06/18/2024
Senate
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
05/29/2024
Senate
Referred to Com. on E., U. & C.
05/21/2024
Senate
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
05/20/2024
Assembly
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 0. Page 5318.)
05/09/2024
Assembly
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
05/08/2024
Assembly
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 8).
04/18/2024
Assembly
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
04/08/2024
Assembly
Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.
04/04/2024
Assembly
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended.
03/19/2024
Assembly
Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.
03/18/2024
Assembly
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended.
03/18/2024
Assembly
Referred to Com. on U. & E.
02/16/2024
Assembly
From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
02/15/2024
Assembly
Read first time. To print.
Sources
Record Created
Feb 16, 2024 9:21:48 PM
Record Updated
Oct 3, 2024 12:30:12 PM