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AB-1482 Electric vehicle charging infrastructure: local publicly owned electric utilities.(2023-2024)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 44272.9 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

44272.9.
 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the state rapidly deploy a complete, equitable, cost-effective, and future-proof electric vehicle charging infrastructure network to support the state’s climate change and transportation electrification goals.
(b) To advance the state policies set forth in Section 2848 of the Public Utilities Code, in providing financial assistance under the Clean Transportation Program or other programs for the installation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, the commission shall give preference to electric vehicle charging projects that have received permits from a local jurisdiction that has established expedited electric vehicle charging permitting processes pursuant to Sections 65850.7 and 65850.71 of the Government Code.

SEC. 2.

 Chapter 8.5 (commencing with Section 2848) is added to Part 2 of Division 1 of the Public Utilities Code, to read:

CHAPTER  8.5. Transportation Electrification
2848.
 (a) It is the policy of the state for electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities to do both of the following:
(1) Expedite service energization of electric vehicle charging infrastructure to support the state’s transportation electrification goals.
(2) Achieve an average service energization time of no more than 125 business days for projects installing electric vehicle charging infrastructure, as set forth in commission Resolution E-5247 (December 15, 2022), or the average service energization time established pursuant to subdivision (d).
(b) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) and consistent with commission Resolution E-5247, each electrical corporation and local publicly owned electric utility shall achieve a 125-business-day average service energization target starting from when a customer submits an application for service to the energization of an electric vehicle charging infrastructure project.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to any of the following:
(A) A project with an installed capacity of greater than 2 megawatts.
(B) A project that requires a substantial upstream capacity upgrade in addition to the electrical distribution infrastructure on the electrical corporation’s or the local publicly owned electric utility’s side of the customer’s meter, including poles, vaults, service drops, transformers, mounting pads, trenching, conduit, wire, cable, meters, other equipment as necessary, and associated engineering and civil construction work.
(C) A project that requires a substation upgrade.
(c) Consistent with commission Resolution E-5247, each local publicly owned electric utility shall do all of the following:
(1) List all projects that exceed the 125-business-day service energization target, the reasons for the delay for each project, and the number of days each project exceeded that target.
(2) List all projects that met the 125-business-day service energization target, the service energization time for each project, and the reasons and best practices that allowed each project to meet the target.
(3) List all projects specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) and the service energization time for each project.
(d) On or before December 31, 2024, and annually thereafter, each local publicly owned electric utility shall provide to the Energy Commission the information specified in subdivision (c).
(e) On or before June 30, 2025, and annually thereafter, the commission and the Energy Commission, in consultation with electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities, shall jointly host a public workshop to review and evaluate the information submitted under commission Resolution E-5247 or subdivision (c) and revise or establish, if needed, the average service energization time for projects, including projects specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b), to support the state’s transportation electrification goals.
SEC. 3.
 No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code.