CaliforniaElectrical corporations: resiliency planning: microgrid projects.
What it does
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires the PUC, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and the Independent System Operator, to take specified actions to facilitate the commercialization of microgrids for distribution customers of large electrical corporations, including developing microgrid service standards necessary to meet state and local permitting requirements and developing methods to reduce barriers for microgrid deployment without shifting costs between ratepayers.
More detail
This bill would require a large electrical corporation, upon request, to collaborate with local governments, tribal governments, or community choice aggregators within its service area to support resiliency planning, as provided. The bill would require large electrical corporations to provide local governments, tribal governments, and community choice aggregators with access to data, including electrical distribution equipment data, transmission and distribution circuit data, grid hardening plans, and other information as directed by the commission, to support resiliency planning by local governments and tribal governments to ensure local governments, tribal governments, and community choice aggregators are able to plan potential microgrid projects to support critical facilities. The bill would authorize the commission to require large electrical corporations to share this information in aggregated and anonymized form to protect customer privacy and electrical grid security.
Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the PUC is a crime.
Because the violation of a PUC action implementing the bill's requirements would be a crime, this 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.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Aug 13In committee: Held under submission.Latest
- Aug 3In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.Minor
- Vote recorded Placed on suspense file. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 29Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Jun 29Withdrawn from committee.Major
- Jun 26In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- Jun 25From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD.Major
- Jun 24From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 15Re-referred to Coms. on E., U & C. and JUD.Minor
- Jun 12Re-referred to Com. on RLS.Minor
- Jun 12Withdrawn from committee.Major
- Jun 11From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U & C.Major
- Jun 2In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- May 21From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U & C.Major
- May 6Referred to Com. on E., U & C.Minor
- Jan 27In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Jan 26Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 2. Page 3831.)Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded AB 710 Irwin Assembly Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 22Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 22From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (January 22).Minor
- Jan 22In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.Minor
- Jan 22Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3806.)
- Jan 15From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (January 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 8Re-referred to Com. on U. & E. pursuant to Assembly Rule 97.Minor
- Jan 7Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 3704.)Major
- Jan 6Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Jan 6From inactive file.
- Jan 5Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Irwin.
- 2025
- Sep 10Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Irwin.
- Sep 4Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Sep 4Withdrawn from committee.Major
- Sep 4Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 16. Page 2896.)
- Apr 1In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- Mar 26In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- Mar 19Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.Minor
- Mar 18From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended.Major
- Mar 3Referred to Com. on PUB. S.Minor
- Feb 15From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- Feb 14Read first time. To print.Introduced