California Public Utilities Code

§ 922

PUC § 922 Effective Jan 1, 2019Div. 1 · Part 1 · Ch. 4 · Art. 13

Statute text

(a)(1) The commission shall develop and supervise the administration of the Technology and Equipment for Clean Heating (TECH) Initiative, a statewide market development initiative, to require gas corporations to advance the state’s market for low-emission space and water heating equipment for new and existing residential buildings through upstream market development, consumer education, contractor and vendor training, and the provision of upstream and midstream incentives to install low-emission space and water heating equipment in existing and new buildings, with technologies identified pursuant to subdivision (b).

(2)The commission may determine whether each gas corporation or a third party, including the Energy Commission, shall administer the TECH Initiative.

(b)As a part of the TECH Initiative, the commission shall identify and target key low-emission space and water heating equipment technologies that are in an early stage of market development and would assist the state in achieving the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal for 2030 and other long-term greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals established by the Legislature. In identifying and targeting these technologies, the commission shall give consideration to technologies that have the greatest potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in California and that improve the health and safety of, and energy affordability for, low-income households.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 378, Sec. 5. (SB 1477) Effective January 1, 2019.