CaliforniaRegulators must improve how eligible resource groups count toward grid reliability
By June 30, 2028, California utility regulators must improve how eligible groups that supply power or cut demand can count toward grid reliability requirements.
What it does
By June 30, 2028, regulators must improve how eligible groups of energy resources count toward grid reliability needs. They must also suggest related changes to the grid operator.
Regulators must set conditions for power sent from customer sites to count toward a group's grid reliability value. They must prevent duplicate payment to net metering and net billing customers for exports made when called.
Electricity providers may list qualifying resource groups in their grid reliability plans and use them in purchases ordered by regulators. Each group must meet the rules for that plan or purchase.
Argument forIf resource groups qualify, counting their power or demand cuts could give electricity providers another way to meet grid reliability needs.
Argument againstCounting exported power could make it harder to check that a net metering or net billing customer is not paid twice for the same export.
More detail
The utility commission must improve existing ways resource groups qualify for grid reliability credit and send related recommendations to the grid operator. A group must contain more than one resource that can supply power or cut demand on the local grid when called. Groups must meet the qualifying criteria. The commission must work with the state energy agency and the grid operator. Both the improved qualification paths and the recommendations are due by June 30, 2028.
The utility commission must set conditions for electricity sent past a customer's meter to count toward a resource group's grid reliability value. This covers resources at customer sites that join a group. Regulators must prevent net metering and net billing customers from receiving both group compensation and utility bill credits for the same electricity exported when the group is called.
The utility commission must let covered electricity providers include eligible resource groups in grid reliability filings and purchases it orders. Covered providers are utilities, electric service providers, and community choice electricity programs. Each group must meet the energy requirements in the purchase order or the grid reliability rules. Purchases must follow the resource priorities in the state's energy plan.
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History
- 2026
- Sep 30Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 987, Statutes of 2026.Latest
- Sep 30Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Sep 2Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.To Governor
- Aug 27Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 6008.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.Major
- Vote recorded Unfinished Business SB913 Becker et al. Concurrence. Result: pass.Upper
- Aug 25In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- Vote recorded SB 913 Becker Senate Third Reading By Harabedian. Result: pass.Lower
- Aug 25Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 3. Page 6528.) Ordered to the Senate.Passed Assembly
- Aug 21Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 21Read third time and amended.Major
- Aug 21Assembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 17. Page 6296.)
- Aug 13Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- Aug 13From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (August 13).Minor
- Aug 13Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
- Aug 5August 5 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- Jun 29Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Major
- Jun 25From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 24).Major
- Jun 24
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 15From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.Major
- Jun 4Referred to Com. on U. & E.Minor
- May 27In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.Minor
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading SB913 Becker et al. Result: pass.Upper
- May 27Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4497.) Ordered to the Assembly.Passed Senate
- May 18Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- May 14Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.Major
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended. Result: pass.Upper
- May 14From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 4257.) (May 14).Major
- May 12Set for hearing May 14.
- May 11May 11 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- Vote recorded Placed on suspense file. Result: pass.Upper
- May 4Set for hearing May 11.
- Apr 29May 4 hearing postponed by committee.
- Apr 24Set for hearing May 4.
- Apr 20Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Apr 20Withdrawn from committee.Major
- Apr 16From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P., D.T., & C.P.Major
- Apr 13Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P., D.T., & C.P.Major
- Apr 9From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on P., D.T., & C.P. (Ayes 15. Noes 0. Page 3755.) (April 7).Major
- Apr 7
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection]. Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 25Set for hearing April 7.
- Mar 18Re-referred to Coms. on E., U & C. and P., D.T., & C.P.Minor
- Mar 11From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.Major
- Feb 11Referred to Com. on RLS.Minor
- Jan 28From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 27.
- Jan 27Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.Introduced
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