Existing law authorizes a community choice aggregator to aggregate the electrical load of interested electricity consumers within its boundaries and requires a community choice aggregator to file an implementation plan with the Public Utilities Commission, to register with the commission, and to enter into an operating service agreement with an electrical corporation.

This bill would authorize a community choice aggregator to develop, finance, construct, operate, lease, purchase, and maintain electrical transmission lines, and any substations, or other works, facilities, improvements, and property necessary or convenient for the operation of those electrical transmission lines, regardless of whether the electrical transmission lines are used for the purpose of conveying electricity to the customers of the community choice aggregator.

Under existing law, a violation of an order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.