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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Papan</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to add and repeal Section 25308.1 of the Public Resources Code, and to amend Sections 454.51 and 454.57 of, and to add Section 454.57.5 to, the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity. </ns0:Title>
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(1)
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Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), to provide transmission-focused guidance to the Independent System Operator (ISO) about resource portfolios of expected future renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources, including the allocation of those resources by region based on technical feasibility and commercial interest in each region to allow the ISO to identify and approve transmission facilities needed to interconnect resources and reliably serve the needs of load centers, as specified. On December 23, 2022, the PUC, the Energy Commission, and the ISO entered into a memorandum of understanding related to resource and transmission planning, transmission development and permitting, procurement, and interconnections to
achieve reliability and policy needs and to coordinate the timely development of resources, resource interconnections, and needed transmission infrastructure. Existing law requires the Energy Commission and the PUC, in coordination with the ISO, every 5 years, to review the memorandum of understanding and a related workplan to ensure the memorandum and workplan reflect the coordination that is needed to help meet the state’s energy goals.
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<html:p>This bill would require those entities, on or before January 1, 2028, to incorporate into an update of the memorandum and workplan any revisions as may be necessary to, among other things, ensure that the memorandum and workplan reflect the requirements of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Order 1920-A.</html:p>
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(2)
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Existing law vests the PUC with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires the PUC to identify a diverse and balanced portfolio of resources needed to ensure a reliable electricity supply that provides optimal integration of renewable energy and resource diversity in a cost-effective manner, as specified.
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<html:p>This bill would require that the portfolio provide optimal integration in a cost-effective and
risk-prudent manner, as specified.</html:p>
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(3)
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Existing law establishes the ISO as a nonprofit, public benefit corporation to ensure efficient use and reliable operation of the transmission grid and to manage the transmission grid and related energy markets, as provided. Existing law requires the PUC, in consultation with the Energy Commission, to provide transmission-focused guidance to the ISO about resource portfolios of expected future renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources and that includes the allocation of those resources by region based on technical feasibility and commercial interest in each region to allow the Independent System Operator to identify and approve transmission facilities needed to interconnect resources and reliably serve the needs of load centers, as specified. Existing law requires that the guidance include
projections each year to support planning and approvals by the ISO in its annual transmission planning process, including projections of resource portfolios and electricity demand by region for at least 15 years into the future, as specified. Existing law expresses the state policy that planning for new transmission facilities include consideration of the goal of increasing systemwide reliability and cost efficiency, among other state policy goals.
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<html:p>This bill would require that the guidance also include both sufficient infrastructure capacity to facilitate cost-effective procurement of
certain resources and improvements to resource diversity and competition by increasing interconnection capacity to specific locations that reflect resource availability, as specified. The bill would require the PUC to separately provide additional transmission-focused guidance to the ISO that is risk prudent and demonstrates satisfaction of specified requirements, including requesting the ISO to approve certain transmission projects and identifying any supplemental or accelerated transmission needs that are identified as risk prudent and improve adaptability, reduce risk, or support a competitive market for resource procurement. </html:p>
<html:p> The bill would remove the
requirement
that the projections be provided annually and would require the projections of resource portfolios and electricity demand by region to be for at least 20, rather than 15, years into the future. The bill would add to those state policy goals increasing systemwide adaptability and maintaining ratepayer affordability across a range of future uncertainties, as specified.</html:p>
<html:p>The bill would also require the PUC, beginning on or before January 1, 2028, to make available on its internet website all nonconfidential input and output data used in the integrated resource planning and transmission planning processes, as specified.</html:p>
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(4)
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Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the PUC is a crime.
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<html:p>Because certain provisions of this bill would be a part of the act and because a violation of a PUC action implementing its requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime.</html:p>
<html:p>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.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.</html:p>
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Section 25308.1 is added to the
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(a)
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On or before January 1, 2028, the commission and Public Utilities Commission, in coordination with the Independent System Operator, shall incorporate into an update of the Memorandum of Understanding Between the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the California Independent System Operator (ISO) Regarding Transmission and Resource Planning and Implementation (December 23, 2022) and the related workplan any revisions that may be necessary to do all of the following:
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(1)
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Ensure that the memorandum and workplan reflect the requirements of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Order 1920-A, as published in Volume 89 of the Federal Register, Number 97174. These revisions shall support the development of resource portfolios and approval of transmission facilities that are cost effective and risk prudent and equip the Independent System Operator with at least three portfolios that represent state policy needs in planning transmission in accordance with Order 1920-A.
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(2)
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Ensure that the commission provides load forecasts to support risk prudent planning by the Public Utilities Commission.
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(3)
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Introduce a mechanism for the Public Utilities Commission to provide guidance on any supplemental or accelerated transmission needs to improve system adaptability, reduce risk, or support competitive resource procurement.
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(b)
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For purposes of this section, “risk prudent” has the same meaning as set forth in Section 454.51 of the Public Utilities Code.
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(c)
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This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2029, and as of that date is repealed.
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Section 454.51 of the
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<html:p>The commission shall do all of the following:</html:p>
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(a)
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Identify a diverse and balanced portfolio of resources needed to ensure a reliable electricity supply that provides optimal integration of renewable energy and resource diversity in a cost-effective and risk-prudent manner. The portfolio shall be used by the commission to establish
integrated resource planning-based procurement requirements that rely on zero-carbon-emitting resources to the maximum extent reasonable and be designed to achieve the state policy specified in Section 454.53 and any statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit established pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 38500) of the Health and Safety Code) or any successor legislation.
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(b)
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Direct each electrical corporation to include, as part of its proposed procurement plan, a strategy for procuring best-fit and least-cost resources to satisfy the portfolio needs identified by the commission pursuant to subdivision (a).
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(c)
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Ensure that the net costs of any incremental renewable energy integration resources, or diverse
resources, procured by an electrical corporation to satisfy the need identified in subdivision (a) are allocated on a fully nonbypassable basis consistent with the treatment of costs identified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 365.1.
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(d)
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Permit community choice aggregators to submit proposals for satisfying their portion of the renewable integration and diverse resources need identified in subdivision (a). If the commission finds this need is best met through long-term procurement commitments for resources, community choice aggregators shall also be required to make long-term commitments for resources. The commission shall approve proposals pursuant to this subdivision if it finds all of the following:
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(1)
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The resources proposed by a community choice aggregator will
provide equivalent integration of renewable energy.
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(2)
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The resources proposed by a community choice aggregator will promote the efficient achievement of state energy policy objectives, including reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
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(3)
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Bundled customers of an electrical corporation will be indifferent to the approval of the community choice aggregator proposals.
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(e)
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Ensure that all costs resulting from nonperformance in satisfying the need in subdivision (a) or (d), as applicable, shall be borne by the load-serving entity, as defined in Section 380, that failed to perform.
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(f)
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For purposes
of this section, both of the following definitions apply:
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(1)
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“Planning uncertainties” means future uncertainties that may affect resource planning decisions, including, but not limited to, load growth, in-state and out-of-state resource availability, technology costs, and other factors.
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(2)
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“Risk prudent” means reflective of all of the following characteristics:
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(A)
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Achieving state objectives, including ensuring a reliable electricity supply that provides optimal integration of renewable energy and resource diversity in a cost-effective manner, across a range of plausible futures informed by planning uncertainties, and accounting for costs and risks associated with not achieving state objectives.
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(B)
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Accounting for and including characterization of the
ability of near-term decisions to improve adaptability in response to planning uncertainties. For purposes of this clause, “improve adaptability” includes, but is not limited to, planning sufficient resources and transmission facilities to accommodate planning uncertainties, to maintain a competitive market for resource procurement, account for development and interconnection delays, and improve preparation for other contingencies.
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(C)
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The ability of a risk-prudent plan to meet state objectives is not dependent on an assumption of perfect foresight reflective of predictions or forecasts that assign one specific value to planning uncertainties.
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Section 454.57 of the
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(a)
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This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Accelerating Renewable Energy Delivery Act.
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(b)
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The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
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(1)
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The commission, the Energy Commission, and the State Air Resources Board have jointly estimated that the state’s installed electrical generation may need a threefold increase in capacity to meet state carbon-free electricity policy targets.
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(2)
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Recordsetting renewable energy generation build rates are needed to meet the goals of the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program and the Senate Bill 100 (Chapter
312 of the Statutes of 2018) target of supplying 100 percent of retail sales of electricity from renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources. However, these build rates are not achievable without additional electrical transmission lines and facilities connecting new resources to consumers in the state’s load centers.
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(3)
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In recent years, California has seen problems in delivering renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources to customers, including problems caused by constraints on the transmission system. First, there are generation pockets where the total potential output from renewable energy generation exceeds the capacity of the transmission system to export that energy. Second, there are load pockets where there is insufficient transmission capacity to import the renewable energy resources and zero-carbon
resources that are available. Both types of constraints should be promptly fixed so that all available renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources can be delivered to customers.
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(4)
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Reducing the use of nonpreferred resources in disadvantaged communities has been a priority for those communities, and they would benefit from increased access to electricity from new renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources delivered to serve in-city loads.
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(5)
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New transmission facilities have many steps that must be accomplished before they are online and delivering electricity. Major new transmission lines can take more than a decade from initial planning to operation.
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(6)
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New transmission facilities should be planned
proactively to support delivery to load centers from expected locations for future renewable energy resource and zero-carbon resource development, where those locations are identified in the integrated resource planning process pursuant to Sections 454.52 and 9621 or as part of longer range planning processes pursuant to Section 454.53.
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(7)
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New transmission facilities should be designed to minimize the risk of transmission-triggered wildfires.
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(8)
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New transmission facilities should be designed to facilitate renewable energy transmission across California to better manage the variability of the electrical supply.
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(9)
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The Independent System Operator has issued a 20-Year Transmission Outlook that identifies
substantial additional transmission projects needed to integrate renewable energy resources and storage for retail suppliers within the Independent System Operator balancing authority. Given the scale of this challenge, there is an urgent need to prioritize and accelerate the substantial effort needed to build transmission projects with long development times.
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(c)
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Recognizing that the Independent System Operator’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission-approved tariff requires the Independent System Operator to plan and approve new transmission facilities needed to achieve the state’s goals, it is the intent of the Legislature that the Independent System Operator shall take notice of the state policies expressed in this section.
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(d)
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(1)
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In support of the
state’s policy to supply increasing amounts of electricity from renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources pursuant to Article 16 (commencing with Section 399.11) of Chapter 2.3 and Section 454.53, beginning as soon as possible and not later than March 31, 2024, the commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, shall provide transmission-focused guidance to the Independent System Operator about resource portfolios of expected future renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources. The guidance shall include all of the following:
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(A)
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The allocation of those resources by region based on technical feasibility and commercial interest in each region to allow the Independent System Operator to identify and approve transmission facilities needed to interconnect resources and reliably serve the needs of load centers.
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(B)
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Sufficient infrastructure capacity to facilitate cost-effective procurement of resources required pursuant to clause (i) of subparagraph (E) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 454.52. In determining if there is sufficient infrastructure, the commission shall consider the need to maintain a competitive market for resource procurement.
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(C)
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Improvements to resource diversity and competition by increasing interconnection capacity to specific locations that reflect resource availability as informed by stakeholder input, interconnection requests, and development in areas with limited deliverability, including projects pursuing merchant or energy-only interconnection.
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(2)
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The commission shall provide transmission-focused guidance to the Independent System Operator that is risk prudent and demonstrates satisfaction of all of the following requirements:
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(A)
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Using methods that endogenously account for planning uncertainties, including robust optimization and stochastic optimization, to evaluate candidate resource portfolios.
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(B)
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Stress testing near-term decisions in candidate resource portfolios, including, but not limited to, approval of transmission facilities with long lead times and resource procurement within the succeeding five years, to test the cost and reliability of the electrical system across a range of plausible futures informed by planning uncertainties, and in a public proceeding, examine the costs and risks of each portfolio.
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(C)
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Submitting at least three actionable resource portfolios derived from the candidate resource portfolios described in subparagraph (B) to the Independent System Operator, including at least one resource portfolio with a high
degree of adaptability to a range of plausible futures informed by planning uncertainties, to support the Independent System Operator’s compliance with the requirements of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Order 1920-A, as published in Volume 89 of the Federal Register, Number 97174.
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(D)
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Requesting the Independent System Operator to approve transmission projects that align with this guidance and are found to be reasonable in supporting any of the three actionable portfolios identified pursuant to subparagraph (C).
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(E)
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Identifying any supplemental or accelerated transmission needs, beyond the requirements of an individual resource portfolio, that are identified as risk prudent and improve adaptability, reduce risk, or support a competitive market for resource procurement.
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(e)
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In
providing the guidance described in subdivision (d), the commission and the Energy Commission shall provide projections, including from the integrated energy policy report prepared pursuant to Section 25302 of the Public Resources Code and the load-serving entities’ integrated resource plans prepared pursuant to Section 454.52, to support planning and approvals by the Independent System Operator in its transmission planning process, including by doing all of the following:
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(1)
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Providing projections of resource portfolios and electricity demand by region for at least 20 years into the future to ensure adequate lead time for the Independent System Operator to analyze and approve transmission development, and for the permitting and construction of the approved facilities, to meet the projections.
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(2)
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Providing load growth projections, including projected growth from building and transportation electrification, that are consistent with achieving the economywide greenhouse gas emissions reductions required pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 38500) of the Health and Safety Code).
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(3)
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Providing projections of new renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources consistent with the build rates necessary to achieve the targets established in Article 16 (commencing with Section 399.11) of Chapter 2.3 and Section 454.53.
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(4)
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(A)
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Providing resource projections that, combined with transmission capacity expansions, are expected to substantially reduce, no later than 2035, the need to
rely on nonpreferred resources in local capacity areas.
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(B)
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The resource projections in subparagraph (A) shall include consideration of cost-effective and feasible alternatives to transmission capacity expansions, including the use of energy
storage resources, renewable energy resources, or zero-carbon resources that are located within the local capacity areas.
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(5)
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Providing projections for offshore wind generation as identified by the SB 100 Joint Agency Report of the commission, the Energy Commission, and the State Air Resources Board, and informed by the strategic plan developed pursuant to Section 25991 of the Public Resources Code, to allow the Independent System Operator to identify and approve transmission facilities needed from offshore wind resource areas that would be sufficient to make offshore wind resources fully deliverable to load centers.
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(6)
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Providing projections for increases in imports of electricity into the state that reflect the expected development of renewable energy resources and
zero-carbon resources in other parts of the Western Interconnection for the purpose of delivering clean energy to California balancing authorities.
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(f)
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On or before January 15, 2023, the commission shall request the Independent System Operator to do both of the following:
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(1)
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Identify, based as much as possible on studies completed before January 1, 2023, by the Independent System Operator and projections provided before January 1, 2023, by the commission and the Energy Commission, the highest priority transmission facilities that are needed to allow for increased transmission capacity into local capacity areas to deliver renewable energy resources or zero-carbon resources that are expected to be developed by 2035 into those areas.
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(2)
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Consider whether to approve transmission projects identified pursuant to paragraph (1) as part of its 2022–23 transmission planning process.
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It is the policy of the state that new transmission facilities be built on a timely basis and in anticipation of new electrical generation that will be built to meet the state’s renewable energy resource and zero-carbon resource targets, with interim targets for transmission capacity additions that demonstrate adequate progress toward meeting these long-term transmission needs. The commission shall request that the Independent System Operator implement this policy by approving transmission projects needed based on a longer planning period supported by the guidance provided pursuant to subdivisions (d) and (e). The projects should be approved in time to be online when needed,
considering permitting and construction lead times.
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It is the policy of the state that planning for new transmission facilities considers the following goals:
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Minimizing the risk of wildfire.
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Increasing systemwide reliability, adaptability, and cost efficiency, including through the sharing of diverse electrical generation resources within California and with other parts of the Western Interconnection.
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Decreasing systemwide risk in a cost-effective and risk-prudent manner.
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Eliminating transmission constraints that prevent electrical generation resources from delivering to the wider electrical grid and that prevent importing energy into load pockets.
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Reducing interconnection delays.
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For purposes of this section, all of the following definitions apply:
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“Local capacity area” means a transmission constrained load pocket, as identified by the Independent System Operator, where local generation capacity is needed for reliability due to insufficient transmission capacity into the load pocket to meet electricity demand with electricity from outside of the load pocket.
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“Nonpreferred resources” means electrical generation resources that are not renewable energy resources or zero-carbon resources pursuant to Section 454.53.
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“Planning uncertainties” has the same meaning as set forth in Section 454.51 of the Public Utilities Code.
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“Risk prudent” has the
same meaning as set forth in Section 454.51 of the Public Utilities Code.
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No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII
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B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII
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B of the California Constitution.
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