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 03/18/25 - Amended Assembly
 02/14/25 - Introduced

 AB-710 Electrical corporations: resiliency planning: microgrid projects.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/25/2026 09:00 PM

AB710:v94#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 25, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 11, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 May 21, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 January 07, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 18, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 710

Introduced by Assembly Member Irwin

February 14, 2025

An act to amend Section 8370 of, and to add Section 8373 to, the Public Utilities Code, relating to electricity. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 710, as amended, Irwin.
 Electrical corporations: resiliency planning: microgrid projects.

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires the PUC, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and the Independent System Operator, to take specified actions to facilitate the commercialization of microgrids for distribution customers of large electrical corporations, including developing microgrid service standards necessary to meet state and local permitting requirements and developing methods to reduce barriers for microgrid deployment without shifting costs between ratepayers. 

This bill would require a large electrical corporation, upon request, to collaborate with local governments, tribal governments, or community choice aggregators within its service
 area to identify critical circuits and microgrid projects. support resiliency planning, as provided. The bill would require large electrical corporations to provide local governments, tribal governments, and community choice aggregators with access to data, including electrical distribution equipment data, transmission and distribution circuit data, grid hardening plans, and other information requested by those entities to ensure that they are able to plan and develop microgrid projects collaboratively with the large electrical corporations. If a local government, tribal government, or community choice aggregator requests information relating to individual customers, customers’ personal information, or customers’ locations, the bill would require the large electrical corporation to provide the information on a confidential basis, and would require the local government, tribal government, or community choice aggregator to not use the information for any other purpose than planning and developing microgrid projects. The bill would require a local government, tribal government,
 or community choice aggregator that requests and accepts data to maintain the confidentiality of any information designated as confidential by the large electrical corporation. as directed by the commission, to support resiliency planning by local governments and tribal governments to ensure local governments, tribal governments, and community choice aggregators are able to plan potential microgrid projects to support critical facilities. The bill would authorize the commission to require large electrical corporations to share this information in aggregated and anonymized form to protect customer privacy and electrical grid security.

The bill would also include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.

Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.

This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

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

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