Requires utilities to share grid data for energization

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory jurisdiction over public utilities, including electrical corporations.

This bill would require each electrical corporation to provide distribution planning data, as defined, to development project applicants, energizing entities, as defined, and public entities in a timely and efficient manner. The bill would require the PUC to require each electrical corporation to develop and make publicly available uniform technical standards and requirements for the energization of electrical load on the distribution system and information about its distribution system interconnection queue necessary for the energization of electrical load. The bill would require each electrical corporation that has filed a wholesale distribution tariff with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to offer service under that tariff to the state, an agency, authority, or instrumentality of the state, or a political subdivision to transmit electricity that those public entities consume or sell directly to an ultimate consumer, as provided.

Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the PUC is a crime.

Because a violation of a PUC action implementing the bill would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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 a specified reason.