Programs

  • Program 1 [2020]

    The Clean Power Campaign gives the public interest a seat at every table where important decisions are being made about energy.We believe policy matters. Public agencies at all levels help choose which energy resources and technologies receive public and private investment. These agencies also help choose how and where that energy is produced and distributed. These agencies also choose what a projects public-health and air-quality impacts are, and what it all winds up costing us in the end.CPC takes the fight to the utilities, oil companies, car companies and others to reduce the use of dirty fuels, require greater energy efficiency in appliances, vehicles, and buildings, and to generate more power from clean and renewable resources. We fight for stronger laws regulating emission of toxic air pollution and climate gases. We lobby the state Legislature, Governor, Air Resources Board, Public Utility Commission, California Energy Commission, California Independent System Operator, Local and regional air quality districts, city councils and wherever important decisions are being made about the environmental and public health attributes of the energy we use.
    Geographies
    Not indicated
    Dates
    Jan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
    Source
    990
    No causes provided
    No populations provided
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    $276.8K

  • Clean Power Campaign Advocacy

    CPC Program Accomplishments for 2023:The Clean Power Campaign gives the public interest a seat at every table where important decisions are being made about energy. We believe policy matters. Public agencies at all levels help choose which energy resources and technologies receive public and private investment. These agencies also help choose how and where that energy is produced and distributed. These agencies also choose what a projects public-health and air-quality impacts are, and what it all winds up costing us in the end.CPC takes the fight to the utilities, oil companies, car companies and others to reduce the use of dirty fuels, require greater energy efficiency in appliances, vehicles, and buildings, and to generate more power from clean and renewable resources. We fight for stronger laws regulating emission of toxic air pollution and climate gases. We lobby the state Legislature, Governor, Air Resources Board, Public Utility Commission, California Energy Commission, California IndependentSystem Operator, Local and regional air quality districts, city councils and wherever important decisions are being made about the environmental and public health attributes of the energy we use.CPC lobbied the state legislature for the passage of clean energy transmission infrastructure and western regional transmission organization legislation. CPC worked to bridge policy differences between clean energy developers, environmental and conservation non-profit organizations.CPC worked to Advance the following state clean energy transmission and western transmission organization legislation in the California Legislature.SB 619 (Padilla) - Expands the facilities eligible to be certified by the CEC to include electrical transmission lines carrying electricity from certain other facilities that are in the state, regardless of whether the electricity is carried to a point of junction with any interconnected electrical transmission system.SB 420 (Becker) - Requires the Governor to identify a lead agency to monitor clean energy and electrical transmission facility planning and deployment, and require that agency, in consultation with the Natural Resources Agency, to identify those electrical transmission facility projects necessary to maintain system reliability and to meet specified targets.AB 914 (Freidman) - Establishes a two-year time limit, from the date the application is submitted, for a lead state agency to complete California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review and approve or deny an application for an electrical infrastructure project.AB 538 (Holden) - Delegates to the California Energy Commission (CEC) the ability to authorize the transformation of the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) into a multistate regional transmission system.AB 1358 (Muratsuchi) - Requires the state energy agencies, as part of their joint report reviewing and evaluating the statewide 100% clean energy policy (SB 100, De Len, Chapter 312, Statutes of 2018), to develop a statewide transmission plan to facilitate the timely attainment of the SB 100 Policy and the California Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) program targets. CPC continued to support and advocate for the following legislation that focuses on accelerating the states 100% clean energy targets, in addition to legislative efforts to improve transmission planning, evaluate low-cost alternatives for transmission financing, and remove existing impediments that delay transmission upgrades and construction. In addition, a resolution on western grid regionalization.AB 2696 (E. Garcia) & SB 887 (Becker)Requires the CEC, in consultation with the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (IBank), the Governors Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz), the CAISO, and the CPUC, to conduct a study to review potential lower-cost ownership and alternative financing mechanisms for new transmission facilities needed to meet the states clean energy and climate targets.SB 1020 (Laird, Atkins, Caballero, Durazo)Revises state policy to include interim targets calling for eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources to supply:1)90 percent of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers by December 31, 20352)95 percent of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers by December 31, 20403)100 percent of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers by December 31, 2045, and 100 percent of electricity procured to serve all state agencies by December 31, 2030Requires each state agency to ensure that zero-carbon resources and eligible renewable energy resources supply 100 percent of electricity procured on its SB 1020 Page 3 behalf by December 31, 2030,Authorizes the CPUC and CEC, upon request of the CAISO, to disclose to the CAISO confidential information relating to power purchase agreements with electric generation and energy storage projects for purposes of transmission planning,Requires new procurement commitments made on behalf of a state agency by its LSE or POU after June 1, 2022, Establishes the Climate and Equity Trust Fund and authorizes disbursements from the trust fund to support direct credits on ratepayer bills, and direct rebates or incentives to market participants, technology vendors, technology installers, and end-use customers.SB 529 (Hertzberg)Provides that the extension, expansion, upgrade, or other modification of an existing electrical transmission facility does not require a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity requires or will require its construction.ACR 188 (Holden)This Assembly Concurrent Resolution requests that by February 2023 the CAISO, in consultation with the California balancing authorities (BAs), produce a report that summarizes recent relevant studies on the impacts of expanded regional cooperation on California and identifies key issues that will most effectively advance the states energy and environmental goals, including: Relevant updates to specified transmission development and resource diversity estimates, and discussion of regional transmission organizations in Colorado, Nevada, and other regional statesCollaboration between states on energy policies to maximize consumer savings while respecting state policy autonomyEngagement between neighboring states on the future of regional transmission organizations in the west.
    Geographies
    Not indicated
    Dates
    Jan 1, 2023 – Dec 31, 2023
    Source
    990
    No causes provided
    No populations provided
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    $183.2K