California Public Resources Code

§ 25704.5

PRC § 25704.5 Effective Sep 6, 2022Div. 15 · Ch. 8

Statute text

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

(1)Climate change has increased the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events and increasing levels of variable renewable energy resources necessitate planning for the net load, which is load minus variable renewables, peak in addition to peak load.

(2)There is a need to reassess how applicable authorities plan to have adequate resources to ensure reliability in all hours of the day. While certain capacity product requirements have been standardized through the Independent System Operator, such as local and flexible capacity obligations, and there have been discussions of increased or even minimum planning reserves margins, there is a need to consider modern metrics to assess the overall reliability performance of the Independent System Operator balancing authority area.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 251, Sec. 14. (AB 209) Effective September 6, 2022.