AB 1293: Electricity: rates: proposed investments: data.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined, while local publicly owned electric utilities, as defined, are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility, and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable.

This bill would require local publicly owned electric utilities, when adjusting their rates, to collect and analyze data supporting their proposed investments in the electrical grid, and would require each electrical corporation with more than 100,000 customer accounts in California, as part of its general rate case application, to submit data, and an analysis of that data, supporting its proposed investments in the electrical grid to the commission. The bill would require local publicly owned electric utilities and these electrical corporations grid. The bill would require those utilities to make their that data and analyses analysis publicly available and, upon request, to electronically transfer their that data and analyses analysis to the requester. The bill would require that the data and analyses analysis be in a digital, machine-readable format.

By imposing additional duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because a violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing the requirements of the bill would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime.

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 specified reasons.