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 03/19/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/20/26 - Introduced

 AB-2518 San Diego Gas and Electric Company: energization pilot program.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/27/2026 02:00 PM

AB2518:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 27, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 19, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2518

Introduced by Assembly Member Sharp-Collins
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Davies and Zbur)

February 20, 2026

An act to add and repeal Section 769.7 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to public utilities. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2518, as amended, Sharp-Collins.
 San Diego Gas and Electric Company: energization pilot program.

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory jurisdiction over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires each public utility to furnish and maintain adequate, efficient, just, and reasonable service, instrumentalities, equipment, and facilities, as are necessary to promote the safety, health, comfort, and convenience of its patrons, employees, and the public. Existing law prohibits a public utility from making or granting any preference or advantage to any corporation or person, as provided.

This bill would require, until January 1, 2032, San Diego Gas and Electric Company (SDGE) to energize an affordable housing development project within 40 business days from the date on which SDGE determines the project
 to be construction ready, as defined, and to prioritize the energization of affordable housing development projects over other residential energization projects under specified circumstances, construction-ready projects within specified timeframes, as provided.

Existing law requires the commission to establish annual reporting requirements for electrical corporations to report customer energization projects in order to evaluate the electrical corporation’s fulfillment of timely electrical service. Existing law requires the commission to require each electrical corporation to retain an independent third-party auditor to review the electrical corporation’s business practices and procedures for energizing new customers and how the electrical corporation is planning for demand growth, including new customer energizations. Existing law requires the
 third-party auditor to report to the commission on a biannual basis.

This bill would require, only until January 1, 2032, reporting on the energization of affordable housing development those construction-ready projects to be included in SDGE’s biannual energization reporting submitted to the commission.

Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.

Because the provisions of the bill would be part of the act and a violation of a commission action implementing the bill’s requirements 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.

Digest Key

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

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 769.7 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:

769.7.

 (a) For purposes of this section, all of the following definitions apply:

(1) “Affordable housing development project” development” means a project for the construction of a new structure, or the modification of an existing structure, if not less than 100 percent of the dwelling units in that structure, other than dwelling units that will be occupied by resident managers, are set aside and reserved for lower income households,
 as defined in Section 50079.5 of the Health and Safety Code, for not less than 55 years pursuant to a recorded affordability restriction.

(2) “Category one project” means a development project that is designed to protect, support, or advance the pu