CaliforniaElectrical corporations: rates: smart meter infrastructure: dynamic rate option.
What it does
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. Existing law requires each electrical corporation to identify a separate rate component to fund certain programs that enhance system reliability and provide in-state benefits.
More detail
Existing law requires that the rate component be a nonbypassable element of the local distribution service.
This bill would require the commission to require a large electrical corporation, if the commission approves the large electrical corporation's request to upgrade its smart meter infrastructure relative to infrastructure in place on January 1, 2026, to offer eligible customer segments at least one dynamic rate option no later than 18 months after the upgraded smart meter infrastructure is anticipated to be placed into service, as specified. The bill would require the commission to ensure, in reviewing a request of a large electrical corporation to recover costs associated with upgrading its smart meter infrastructure, that specified conditions are met. The bill would also require the commission to ensure, among other things, the large electrical corporation makes the same time-varying distribution rates available to both bundled customers and unbundled customers located in the same geographic area, as specified.
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 the above provisions would be part of the act and a violation of a commission action implementing this 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.
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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
- Jul 2Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Major
- Jul 2From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (June 30).Major
- Jun 30
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 22In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- Jun 16From 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 3Referred to Com. on E., U & C.Minor
- May 27In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- May 26Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 6. Page 5298.)Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded AB 1787 Schultz Assembly Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- May 19Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5152.)Major
- May 18Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- May 14From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 14).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 15In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.Minor
- Mar 23Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Mar 19Read second time and amended.Major
- Mar 18From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (March 18).Major
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 3Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.Minor
- Mar 2From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended.Major
- Feb 23Referred to Com. on U. & E.Minor
- Feb 11From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
- Feb 10Read first time. To print.Introduced