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 01/05/26 - Amended Assembly
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 12/02/24 - Introduced

 AB-34 California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: local publicly owned electric utilities: large hydroelectric generation.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/13/2026 09:00 PM

AB34:v95#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Assembly Bill

 No. 34

 CHAPTER 67

An act to amend Section 399.30 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.

 [
 Approved by

 Governor
 July 13, 2026.

 Filed with

 Secretary of State
 July 13, 2026.
 ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 34, Patterson.
 California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program: local publicly owned electric utilities: large hydroelectric generation.

Under existing law, the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program requires retail sellers and local publicly owned electric utilities to procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources during certain compliance periods up to December 31, 2030. Existing law provides that a local publicly owned electric utility is not required to procure a certain amount of eligible renewable energy resources if, during a year within those compliance periods, the local publicly owned electric utility receives more than 40% of its retail sales from large hydroelectric generation under an ownership agreement or contract in effect as of January 1, 2018. Existing law authorizes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to establish
 appropriate multiyear compliance periods for local publicly owned electric utilities beyond December 31, 2030.

This bill would provide that the provision related to the procurement of eligible renewable energy resources by local publicly owned electric utilities also applies to the compliance periods established by the Energy Commission. 

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 399.30 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:

399.30.

 (a) (1) To fulfill unmet long-term generation resource needs, each local publicly owned electric utility shall adopt and implement a renewable energy resources procurement plan that requires the utility to procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources, including renewable energy credits, as a specified percentage of total kilowatthours sold to the utility’s retail end-use customers, each compliance period, to achieve the targets of subdivision (c).

(2) Beginning January 1, 2019, a local publicly owned electric utility subject to Section 9621 shall incorporate the renewable energy resources procurement plan required by this section as part of a broader integrated resource plan developed and adopted
 pursuant to Section 9621.

(b) The governing board shall implement procurement targets for a local publicly owned electric utility that require the utility to procure a minimum quantity of eligible renewable energy resources for each of the following compliance periods:

(1) January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2013, inclusive.

(2) January 1, 2014, to December 31, 2016, inclusive.

(3) January 1, 2017, to December 31, 2020, inclusive.

(4) January 1, 2021, to December 31, 2024, inclusive.

(5) January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2027, inclusive.

(6) January 1, 2028, to
 December 31, 2030, inclusive.

(c) The governing board of a local publicly owned electric utility shall ensure all of the following:

(1) The quantities of eligible renewable energy resources to be procured for the compliance period from January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2013, inclusive, are equal to an average of 20 percent of retail sales.

(2) The quantities of eligible renewable energy resources to be procured for all other compliance periods reflect reasonable progress in each of the intervening years sufficient to ensure that the procurement of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources achieves 25 percent of retail sales by December 31, 2016, 33 percent by December 31, 2020, 44 percent by December 31, 2024, 52 percent by Decembe