(a) In developing the rules and procedures specified in this section and in Section 9507, the Energy Commission shall seek to minimize the reporting burden and cost of reporting that it imposes on local publicly owned electric utilities.
(b) A local publicly owned electric utility shall annually submit to the Energy Commission documentation regarding eligible renewable energy resources procurement contracts that it executed during the prior year, as follows:
(1) A description of the eligible renewable energy resource, including the duration of the contract or electricity purchase agreement.
(2) A description and identification of the electrical generating facility providing the eligible renewable energy resource under the contract.
(3) An estimate of the percentage increase in the utility’s total retail sales of electricity from eligible renewable energy resources that will result from the contract.
(c) A local publicly owned electric utility shall annually submit to the Energy Commission documentation regarding the utility’s progress toward attaining the renewables portfolio standard established pursuant to Section 399.30.
(d) A local publicly owned electric utility shall, on an annual basis, make available to the Legislature and the Energy Commission information relating to the utility’s solar initiative program established pursuant to Section 2854, including the rated generating capacity of installed solar energy systems receiving monetary incentives through the utility’s program, the total number of solar energy systems installed, the total number of applications for the utility’s program, the amount of monetary incentives awarded, and the contribution toward the program goals of the California Solar Initiative (Article 1 (commencing with Section 2851) of Chapter 9 of Part 2 of Division 1).
(e) For the purposes of this section, “eligible renewable energy resource,” “renewables portfolio standard,” and “procure” have the same meanings as these terms have in the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program (Article 16 (commencing with Section 399.11) of Chapter 2.3 of Part 1 of Division 1).
(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 677, Sec. 8. (SB 1393) Effective January 1, 2017.)