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SB-1201 Electrical restructuring: BART.(2003-2004)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.
 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District provides essential public transit services that are funded by fares and taxes.
(b) The BART District has qualified under the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 as amended and supplemented as a preference entity for purposes of purchasing electricity from federal power marketing agencies (preference power).
(c) The BART system has been continuously served by preference power, a publicly owned electricity supply, since before electrical restructuring and before the energy crisis of 2000–01, pursuant to the terms and conditions established by the enactment of Senate Bill 184 (Chapter 681 of the Statutes of 1995).
(d) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this act, to authorize the BART District to receive electric service from another publicly owned supplier of electricity on the same terms authorized by Chapter 206 of the Statutes of 1998.

SEC. 2.

 Section 701.8 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:

701.8.
 (a) To ensure that electrical corporations  the commission regulated electric utilities  do not operate their transmission and distribution monopolies in a manner that impedes the ability of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART District) to reduce its electricity cost through the purchase and delivery of preference power, electrical corporations shall meet the requirements of this section.
(b) Any electrical corporation  electric utility regulated by the commission  that owns and operates transmission and distribution facilities that deliver electricity at one or more locations to the BART District’s system shall, upon request by the BART District, and without discrimination or delay, use the same facilities to do any or all of the following: deliver preference power purchased from a federal power marketing agency or its successor, or electricity purchased from a local publicly owned electric utility, as defined in Section 9604. 
(1) Deliver preference power purchased from a federal power marketing agency or its successor.
(2) Deliver electricity purchased from a local publicly owned electric utility.
(3) Deliver electricity generated by an eligible renewable energy resource.
(4) Deliver electricity purchased from an electrical corporation or marketer.
(5) Deliver electricity purchased through a market operated by the Independent System Operator.
(c) Where the BART District purchases electricity  electric power  at more than one location, at any voltage, from an electric utility under tariffs regulated by the commission, the utility shall bill the BART District for usage as though all the electricity purchased at transmission level voltages were metered by a single meter at one location and all the electricity purchased at subtransmission voltages were metered by a single meter at one location, provided that any billing for demand charges would be based on the coincident demand of transmission and distribution metering.
(d) If, on or after January 1, 1996, the BART District leases or has agreed to lease, as special facilities, utility plants for the purpose of receiving power at transmission level voltages, an electrical corporation  electric utility regulated by the commission  may not terminate the lease without concurrence from the BART District.
(e) When the BART District elects to have electricity delivered pursuant to subdivision (b), neither  Sections 365, 365.1,  365  and 366, and any commission regulations, orders, or tariffs, that implement direct transactions, are inapplicable, and  applicable, nor is  the BART District is not  an electricity supplier. Neither the commission, nor any electrical corporation electric utility  that delivers the electricity described in subdivision (b)  federal power or electricity purchased from a local publicly owned electric utility  to the BART District, shall require that an electricity supplier be designated as a condition of the delivery of that electricity. power. 
(f) The BART District may elect to obtain electricity  electric power  from the following multiple sources at the same time:
(1) Electricity  Electric power  delivered pursuant to subdivision (b).
(2) Electricity  Electric power  supplied by one or more direct transactions.
(3) Electricity from any electrical corporation  Electric power from any electric utility regulated by the commission  that owns and operates transmission and distribution facilities that deliver electricity at one or more locations to the BART District’s system.
(g) The BART District shall annually report to the Energy Commission the information for the previous calendar year required of retail electricity suppliers in Article 14 (commencing with Section 398.1) of Chapter 2.3, including all of the following:
(1) The kilowatthours purchased from specified sources, by generator and fuel type during the previous calendar year, consistent with meter data, including losses, reported to the system operator.
(2) The kilowatthours purchased from unspecified sources in California and from unspecified sources imported into California from other subregions within the Western Electricity Coordinating Council.
(3) The kilowatthours consumed by the BART District.
(h) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1) “Electricity from specified sources” or “purchases from specified sources” means electricity transactions that are traceable to a specific generation source by any auditable contract trail or equivalent, such as a tradable commodity system, that provides commercial verification that the electricity source claimed has been sold once, and only once, to an end user. The BART District may rely on annual data to determine whether a transaction meets this definition, rather than hour-by-hour matching of loads and resources.
(2) “Electricity from unspecified sources” or “purchases from unspecified sources” means electricity that is not traceable to a specific generation source by any auditable contract trail or equivalent, including a tradable commodity system, that provides commercial verification that the electricity source claimed has been sold once, and only once, to an end user.
(3) “Eligible renewable energy resources” means an eligible renewable energy resource pursuant to the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program (Article 16 (commencing with Section 399.11) of Chapter 2.3).
(4) “Marketer” has the same meaning as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 331.
(5) “System operator” has the same meaning as defined in Section 398.2.
SEC. 3.
 The Legislature finds and declares that, because of the unique circumstances applicable only to the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, a statute of general applicability cannot be enacted within the meaning of subdivision (b) of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution. Therefore, this special statute is necessary.
SEC. 4.
 No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.
SEC. 5.
 This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
In order to ensure the continued delivery of electricity to the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District at an affordable rate, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.