AB 2083: Industrial facilities’ heat application equipment and process emissions.

The Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to adopt building design and construction standards and energy and water conservation standards for new residential and nonresidential buildings to reduce the wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, or unnecessary consumption of energy, including energy associated with the use of water. The act requires those standards to be cost effective when taken in their entirety and when amortized over the economic life of the structure compared with historic practice.

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years.

This bill would require the commission, on or before July 1, 2026, to evaluate opportunities to increase electrification of industrial heat processes to meet the states industrial emissions reduction goals, as provided. The bill would, as part of its the state boards next update to the scoping plan occurring on of or after January 1, 2025, require the state board to assess the potential for the state to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from the states industrial facilities heat application equipment and processes, as specified. The bill would require the state board to incorporate the commissions evaluation required by the bill into the assessment and to identify potential emission reductions associated with the recommendations provided in the commissions evaluation.