Bill Text: CA AB2008 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Reliable Energy Needs for Everyone in the West Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-02 - Coauthors revised. [AB2008 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2008-Amended.html
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Amended
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Assembly
March 06, 2024 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2008
| Introduced by Assembly Member Wallis |
January 31, 2024 |
An act to add Chapter 7.10 (commencing with Section 25698) to Division 15 of the Public Resources Code, relating to energy.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2008, as amended, Wallis.
Hard to Decarbonize Program. Reliable Energy Needs for Everyone in the West Program.
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to encourage the balanced use of all sources of energy to meet the state’s needs. Existing law requires the commission to administer the Clean Transportation Program to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California’s fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state’s climate change policies.
This bill would require the commission, upon appropriation by the Legislature for the bill’s purpose, to establish and implement the Hard to Decarbonize Program
Reliable Energy Needs for Everyone in the West Program to provide financial incentives for purchasing renewable propane, renewable hydrogen, or renewable dimethyl ether to customers in heating dominant climate zones in California where combustion fuels will continue to be the lowest cost and most effective means for providing space and water heating to buildings, as provided.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 7.10 (commencing with Section 25698) is added to Division 15 of the Public Resources Code, to read:
CHAPTER
7.10. Hard to Decarbonize Reliable Energy Needs for Everyone in the West Program
25698.
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:(a) “Eligible customer” means a customer in a hard-to-decarbonize climate zone.
(b) “Hard-to-decarbonize climate zone” means a heating dominant climate zone in California where combustion fuels will continue to be the lowest cost and most effective means for providing space and water heating to buildings.
(c) “Liquefied petroleum gas” has the same meaning as defined in Section 380 of the Vehicle Code.
(d) “Renewable DME” means dimethyl ether
derived from renewable feedstock.
(e) “Renewable hydrogen” means hydrogen derived through any of the following processes:
(1) Electrolysis of water or aqueous solution using renewable electricity.
(2) Catalytic cracking or steam methane reforming of biomethane.
(3) Thermochemical conversion of biomass, including the organic portion of municipal solid waste.
(f) (1) “Renewable propane” means a low-pressure liquefied gas comprised of propane derived from a nonpetroleum or renewable feedstock and other molecules derived from a nonpetroleum, biogenic, or renewable source,
feedstock, which may include renewable DME or renewable hydrogen.
(2) “Renewable propane” includes products such as biopropane, bioLPG, renewable LPG, or rLPG, if they satisfy the definition in paragraph (1).
25698.1.
The commission shall, upon appropriation for this purpose, establish and implement the(a) Renewable propane derived entirely from renewable feedstock.
(b) Renewable hydrogen produced for blending with propane, liquefied petroleum gas, or renewable propane.
(c) Renewable DME produced for blending with propane, liquefied petroleum gas, or renewable propane.
