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 09/02/25 - Amended Senate
 07/17/25 - Amended Senate
 04/07/25 - Amended Assembly
 03/25/25 - Amended Assembly
 12/02/24 - Introduced

 AB-44 Energy: electrical demand forecasts.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 09/12/2025 02:00 PM

AB44:v94#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Enrolled
 September 12, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Senate
 September 09, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Assembly
 September 10, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 September 02, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 July 17, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 07, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 25, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 44

Introduced by Assembly Member Schultz

December 02, 2024

 An act to add Section 25403.6 to the Public Resources Code, relating to electricity. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 44, Schultz.
 Energy: electrical demand forecasts.

Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, at least every 2 years, to conduct assessments and forecasts of all aspects of energy industry supply, production, transportation, delivery and distribution, demand, and prices. Existing law authorizes the commission to require the submission of demand forecasts from electrical utilities, among other entities, to perform its assessments and forecasts. Existing law requires the commission to adopt an integrated energy policy report every 2 years.

This bill would require the commission, on or before December 1, 2026, and in consultation with load-serving entities and resource aggregators, to define and publicize methodologies for load modification protocols by which a load-serving entity may reduce or modify its electrical demand forecast upon aggregated
 system operation of behind-the-meter load modifying technologies and programmatic measures deemed to reliably reduce or modify the load-serving entity’s electrical demand, as specified.

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.

 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1) Decarbonization of California’s economy will require improved alignment between the operation of a renewable and greenhouse gas emission-free generation supply portfolio and increased demand flexibility.

(2) Reducing California’s reliance on generation from fossil fuels to maintain grid reliability will require incorporating flexible and automated demand management capabilities into the state’s reliability planning and market operations.

(3) Historically, the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission has included the load impact of demand-side management programs in the state’s electricity demand forecast for reliability planning purposes. This process, however, does not account for the ability of commercially available demand management tools to provide dispatchable, programmable, and automated load shifts in response to electrical system needs, thereby limiting the ability for these resources to fully support reliability planning through commercial operations to mitigate the consequences of extreme weather events and wholesale market volatility.

(4) In recent years, the Legislature has provided the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
 with authority to set load management standards to increase demand flexibility on the grid, develop plans and programs to support investments in clean energy resources, and increase electrical reliability through demand-side approaches. These policy and budgetary tools, in combination with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission’s responsibility to forecast electrical demand, can be synergized to support the integration of demand flexibility into the state’s reliability planning and wholesale capacity market.

(5) Successful commercialization of demand flexibility market products or services will require these resources to perform, so that the intended demand reduction or load shift can be relied on with a high degree of confidence by grid operators and electricity market
 participants alike.

(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to