ARTICLE 6. Requirements for the Public Utilities Commission

Article 6 added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 854, Sec. 10.

§§ 360–380.5 · 42 sections

§ 360 The commission shall ensure that existing, and if necessary, additional filings at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission request confirmation of the…
§ 360.5 The commission shall determine that portion of each existing electrical corporation’s retail rate effective on January 5, 2001, that is equal to the difference…
§ 361 The commission shall ensure that any funds secured by the restructuring trusts established for the purposes of developing the Independent System Operator and…
§ 362 (a) In proceedings pursuant to Section 455.5, 851, or 854, the commission shall ensure that facilities needed to maintain the reliability of the electric…
§ 363 (a) In order to ensure the continued safe and reliable operation of public utility electric generating facilities, the commission shall require in any…
§ 364 (a) The commission shall adopt inspection, maintenance, repair, and replacement standards, and shall, in a new proceeding, or new phase of an existing…
§ 365 The actions of the commission pursuant to this chapter shall be consistent with the findings and declarations contained in Section 330. In addition, the…
§ 365.1 (a) Except as expressly authorized by this section, and subject to the limitations in subdivisions (b) and (c), the right of retail end-use customers pursuant…
§ 365.2 The commission shall ensure that bundled retail customers of an electrical corporation do not experience any cost increases as a result of retail customers of…
§ 365.3 (a) The commission shall post, in a consolidated location on its internet website, each load-serving entity’s residential electric rate tariffs and programs to…
§ 365.5 Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the commission from exercising its authority to investigate a process for certification and regulation of the rates,…
§ 366 (a) The commission shall take actions as needed to facilitate direct transactions between electricity suppliers and end-use customers. Customers shall be…
§ 366.1 (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Department” means the Department of Water Resources with respect to its…
§ 366.2 (a) (1) Customers shall be entitled to aggregate their electrical loads as members of their local community with community choice aggregators. (2) Customers…
§ 366.3 Bundled retail customers of an electrical corporation shall not experience any cost increase as a result of the implementation of a community choice aggregator…
§ 366.5 (a) No change in the aggregator or supplier of electric power for any small commercial customer may be made until one of the following means of confirming the…
§ 367 The commission shall identify and determine those costs and categories of costs for generation-related assets and obligations, consisting of generation…
§ 367.7 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to ensure that individual customers do not experience rate increases as a result of the…
§ 368 Each electrical corporation shall propose a cost recovery plan to the commission for the recovery of the uneconomic costs of an electrical corporation’s…
§ 368.5 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the termination of the 10-percent rate reduction for residential and small commercial customers set forth…
§ 369 The commission shall establish an effective mechanism that ensures recovery of transition costs referred to in Sections 367, 368, 375, and 376, and subject to…
§ 369.5 (a) On or before December 31, 2026, the commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, shall develop a framework for assessing, tracking, and…
§ 370 The commission shall require, as a prerequisite for any consumer in California to engage in direct transactions permitted in Section 365, that beginning with…
§ 371 (a) Except as provided in Sections 372 and 374, the uneconomic costs provided in Sections 367, 368, 375, and 376 shall be applied to each customer based on the…
§ 372 (a) It is the policy of the state to encourage and support the development of cogeneration as an efficient, environmentally beneficial, competitive energy…
§ 373 (a) Electrical corporations may apply to the commission for an order determining that the costs identified in Sections 367, 368, 375, and 376 not be collected…
§ 374 (a) In recognition of statutory authority and past investments existing as of December 20, 1995, and subject to the firewall specified in subdivision (e) of…
§ 374.5 Any electrical corporation serving agricultural customers that have multiple electric meters shall conduct research based on a statistically valid sample of…
§ 375 (a) In order to mitigate potential negative impacts on utility personnel directly affected by electric industry restructuring, as described in Decision…
§ 376 To the extent that the costs of programs to accommodate implementation of direct access, the Power Exchange, and the Independent System Operator, that have…
§ 377 The commission shall continue to regulate the facilities for the generation of electricity owned by any public utility prior to January 1, 1997, that are…
§ 377.1 Section 377 does not apply to the four run-of-river hydroelectric project works located on the Truckee River, as referenced in Section 210(b)(17) of Public Law…
§ 377.2 Notwithstanding Section 377, a facility for the generation of electricity, or an interest in a facility for the generation of electricity, that is located…
§ 378 The commission shall authorize new optional rate schedules and tariffs, including new service offerings, that accurately reflect the loads, locations,…
§ 379 Nuclear decommissioning costs shall not be part of the costs described in Sections 367, 368, 375, and 376, but shall be recovered as a nonbypassable charge…
§ 379.5 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on or before March 7, 2001, the commission, in consultation with the Independent System Operator, shall take all of…
§ 379.6 (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that the self-generation incentive program increase deployment of distributed generation and energy storage systems…
§ 379.8 (a) As used in this section, “advanced electrical distributed generation technology” means any electrical distributed generation technology that generates…
§ 379.9 (a) In administering the self-generation incentive program pursuant to Section 379.6, the commission shall allocate at least 10 percent of the annual…
§ 379.10 (a) In administering the self-generation incentive program pursuant to Section 379.6, the commission shall use funds appropriated by the Legislature for the…
§ 380 (a) The commission, in consultation with the Independent System Operator, shall establish resource adequacy requirements for all load-serving entities. (b) In…
§ 380.5 (a) In establishing a demand response program, the commission shall do all of the following: (1) Establish rules consistent with state and federal law for how…