California Public Utilities Code ARTICLE 6 - Requirements for the Public Utilities Commission

• Section 360.
  The commission shall ensure that existing, and if necessary, additional filings at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission request confirmation of the relevant provisions of this...
• Section 360.5.
  The commission shall determine that portion of each existing electrical corporation’s retail rate effective on January 5, 2001, that is equal to the difference between...
• Section 361.
  The commission shall ensure that any funds secured by the restructuring trusts established for the purposes of developing the Independent System Operator and the Power...
• Section 362.
  (a) In proceedings pursuant to Section 455.5, 851, or 854, the commission shall ensure that facilities needed to maintain the reliability of the electric supply remain...
• Section 363.
  (a) In order to ensure the continued safe and reliable operation of public utility electric generating facilities, the commission shall require in any proceeding under Section...
• Section 364.
  (a) The commission shall adopt inspection, maintenance, repair, and replacement standards, and shall, in a new proceeding, or new phase of an existing proceeding, to commence...
• Section 365.
  The actions of the commission pursuant to this chapter shall be consistent with the findings and declarations contained in Section 330. In addition, the commission...
• Section 365.1.
  (a) Except as expressly authorized by this section, and subject to the limitations in subdivisions (b) and (c), the right of retail end-use customers pursuant to...
• Section 365.2.
  The commission shall ensure that bundled retail customers of an electrical corporation do not experience any cost increases as a result of retail customers of...
• Section 365.5.
  Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the commission from exercising its authority to investigate a process for certification and regulation of the rates, charges, terms,...
• Section 366.
  (a) The commission shall take actions as needed to facilitate direct transactions between electricity suppliers and end-use customers. Customers shall be entitled to aggregate their electrical...
• Section 366.1.
  (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Department” means the Department of Water Resources with respect to its power program described...
• Section 366.2.
  (a) (1) Customers shall be entitled to aggregate their electric loads as members of their local community with community choice aggregators.(2) Customers may aggregate their loads through a...
• Section 366.3.
  Bundled retail customers of an electrical corporation shall not experience any cost increase as a result of the implementation of a community choice aggregator program....
• Section 366.5.
  (a) No change in the aggregator or supplier of electric power for any small commercial customer may be made until one of the following means of...
• Section 367.
  The commission shall identify and determine those costs and categories of costs for generation-related assets and obligations, consisting of generation facilities, generation-related regulatory assets, nuclear...
• Section 367.7.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to ensure that individual customers do not experience rate increases as a result of...
• Section 368.
  Each electrical corporation shall propose a cost recovery plan to the commission for the recovery of the uneconomic costs of an electrical corporation’s generation-related assets...
• Section 368.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the termination of the 10-percent rate reduction for residential and small commercial customers set forth in subdivision (a)...
• Section 369.
  The commission shall establish an effective mechanism that ensures recovery of transition costs referred to in Sections 367, 368, 375, and 376, and subject to...
• Section 370.
  The commission shall require, as a prerequisite for any consumer in California to engage in direct transactions permitted in Section 365, that beginning with the...
• Section 371.
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 372 and 374, the uneconomic costs provided in Sections 367, 368, 375, and 376 shall be applied to each customer...
• Section 372.
  (a) It is the policy of the state to encourage and support the development of cogeneration as an efficient, environmentally beneficial, competitive energy resource that will...
• Section 373.
  (a) Electrical corporations may apply to the commission for an order determining that the costs identified in Sections 367, 368, 375, and 376 not be collected...
• Section 374.
  (a) In recognition of statutory authority and past investments existing as of December 20, 1995, and subject to the firewall specified in subdivision (e) of Section...
• Section 374.5.
  Any electrical corporation serving agricultural customers that have multiple electric meters shall conduct research based on a statistically valid sample of those customers and meters...
• Section 375.
  (a) In order to mitigate potential negative impacts on utility personnel directly affected by electric industry restructuring, as described in Decision 95-12-063, as modified by Decision...
• Section 376.
  To the extent that the costs of programs to accommodate implementation of direct access, the Power Exchange, and the Independent System Operator, that have been...
• Section 377.
  The commission shall continue to regulate the facilities for the generation of electricity owned by any public utility prior to January 1, 1997, that are...
• Section 377.1.
  Section 377 does not apply to the four run-of-river hydroelectric project works located on the Truckee River, as referenced in Section 210(b)(17) of Public Law...
• Section 377.2.
  Notwithstanding Section 377, a facility for the generation of electricity, or an interest in a facility for the generation of electricity, that is located outside...
• Section 378.
  The commission shall authorize new optional rate schedules and tariffs, including new service offerings, that accurately reflect the loads, locations, conditions of service, cost of...
• Section 379.
  Nuclear decommissioning costs shall not be part of the costs described in Sections 367, 368, 375, and 376, but shall be recovered as a nonbypassable...
• Section 379.5.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on or before March 7, 2001, the commission, in consultation with the Independent System Operator, shall take all of...
• Section 379.6.
  (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that the self-generation incentive program increase deployment of distributed generation and energy storage systems to facilitate the integration...
• Section 379.8.
  (a) As used in this section, “advanced electrical distributed generation technology” means any electrical distributed generation technology that generates useful electricity and meets all of the...
• Section 380.
  (a) The commission, in consultation with the Independent System Operator, shall establish resource adequacy requirements for all load-serving entities.(b) In establishing resource adequacy requirements, the commission shall...
• Section 380.5.
  (a) In establishing a demand response program, the commission shall do all of the following:(1) Establish rules consistent with state and federal law for how and when...

Last modified: October 22, 2018