Article 1 - General Provisions

California Public Resources Code — §§ 25660-25661.5

Sections (5)

Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 251, Sec. 12. (AB 209) Effective September 6, 2022.

For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:

(a)“Clean energy programs” means the programs described in Section 25660.4.

(b)“Emergency Load Reduction Program” means the Emergency Load Reduction Program established by the Public Utilities Commission in Decision 21-03-056 (March 25, 2021), Decision Directing Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Southern California Edison Company, and San Diego Gas and Electric Company to Take Actions to Prepare for Potential Extreme Weather in the Summers of 2021 and 2022.

(c)“Financial incentive” includes a contract, grant, loan, rebate, block grant, or other appropriate funding

mechanism.

(d)“Under-resourced community” has the same meaning as defined in Section 71130.

§ 25660.2

Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 251, Sec. 12. (AB 209) Effective September 6, 2022.

On or before March 1 , 2024, and annually thereafter by that date until all funds appropriated for purposes of this chapter have been encumbered, the commission shall publish on its internet website and report, as applicable, to the budget and relevant policy committees of the Legislature all of the following for each clean energy program:

(a)The amount of moneys expended for the program and balance of moneys remaining to be spent, including geographic distribution of those moneys.

(b)The amount of moneys expended on administrative, technical, or scientific services for the program.

(c)Quantitative estimates and qualitative

information on how moneys expended by the program are achieving the specific purposes of that program.

(d)Estimates of additional electrical generation or storage capacity at net peak hours or during critical grid conditions created, expanded, or otherwise made available as a direct result of the program.

(e)Estimated onsite reductions of the emissions of greenhouse gases and criteria air pollutants that occurred as a direct result of the program.

(f)A description of how the appropriated moneys were used for the program and industries receiving program funding.

§ 25660.4

Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 251, Sec. 12. (AB 209) Effective September 6, 2022.

This chapter only applies to the following programs or activities:

(a)The Industrial Grid Support and Decarbonization Program established pursuant to Section 25662.

(b)The Food Production Investment Program established pursuant to Section 25663.

(c)The Hydrogen Program established pursuant to Section 25664.2.

(d)The Equitable Building Decarbonization Program established pursuant to Section 25665.1.

(e)The program to support offshore wind infrastructure improvements established pursuant to Section

25666.

§ 25661

Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 251, Sec. 12. (AB 209) Effective September 6, 2022.

In implementing the clean energy programs, the commission may do both of the following:

(a)Contract for or use an interagency agreement to obtain technical, scientific, outreach, and administrative services. Administrative services may include, but are not limited to, providing outreach to eligible industries, identifying promising technologies, assessing market conditions needed to accelerate commercial traction of the technology, assisting with technical review of proposals and deliverables, identifying opportunities that provide significant benefits to the electrical grid, and performing benefits analysis. No more than 15 percent of the moneys appropriated for each program may be used for technical, scientific, outreach, or administrative services.

(b)Notwithstanding any other law, in its discretion, advance up to 25 percent of the clean energy program moneys allocated pursuant to this chapter to recipients of a financial incentive.

§ 25661.5

Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 20, Sec. 39. (AB 137) Effective June 30, 2025.

Of the moneys appropriated for the clean energy programs, the Climate Innovation Program established pursuant to Section 25625.2, the Carbon Removal Innovation Program established pursuant to Section 25688, and the Long-Duration Energy Storage Program established pursuant to Section 25641, the commission may use up to a total of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) for projects consistent with subdivision (f) of Section 63048.93 of the Government Code. The commission, in its sole discretion, shall determine how to allocate those moneys for those programs. The commission may transfer moneys, if necessary, from the source fund of the appropriation to the Climate Catalyst Revolving Fund created pursuant to Section 63048.95 of the Government Code.