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AB-2590 Distributed generation: interconnection.(2011-2012)

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Amended  IN  Assembly  May 15, 2012
Amended  IN  Assembly  April 30, 2012

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2011–2012 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 2590

Introduced  by  Assembly Member Blumenfield

February 24, 2012

An act to add Section 2775.7 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to distributed generation.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 2590, as amended, Blumenfield. Distributed generation: interconnection.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to establish rules for all public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature.
This bill would require investor-owned electric utilities to post on their Internet Web sites any report required by a revision to the commission’s Electric Rule 21, if that revision is adopted after January 1, 2012. The bill would prohibit a report posted on Internet Web sites from including information proprietary to a developer applying for interconnection.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 2775.7 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:

2775.7.
 (a) An investor-owned electric utility shall post on its Internet Web site any report required by a revision to the commission’s Electric Rule 21, if that revision is adopted after January 1, 2012.
(b) A report posted on an investor-owned electric utility’s Internet Web site pursuant to subdivision (a) shall not include information proprietary to a developer applying for interconnection.

(b)

(c) This section shall not be construed to does not alter the commission’s authority under pursuant to Section 583.