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The FIT Coalition’s mission is to identify and advocate for policies that will accelerate the deployment of cost-effective renewable energy. The FIT Coalition believes the right policies will result in a timely transition to renewable energy while yielding tremendous economic benefits, including new job creation, increased tax revenue, and the establishment of an economic foundation that will drive growth for decades.

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Assembly Bill 1106 - Renewable Energy Generation Facilities: Feed-in Tariffs

Introduced in to the California Legislature February 27, 2009

Sponsors: Assembly Members Fuentes and Ruskin

Current Status

  • AB1106 is currently in the Senate Appropriations Committee.  Join our mailing list for the latest updates.

Bill Summary

(based on the current version, amended 06/25/09)

For full details on the bill go tohttp://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html and search for AB1106.

AB1106 amends the Public Utilities Code, Section 399.20, and adds a new section to the Code, Section 399.21

Main Provisions

  • Existing Feed-in-Tariff program as described in 399.20 remains in effect until July 1, 2011
  • All electrical corporations must publish a feed-in tariff for renewable electricity generation
    • Does not cover local publicly-owned utilities
    • Corporations under 100K customers are excepted from FIT at the discretion of the CPUC
  • Projects are separated in to two tiers by project size: Tier 1 is up to 5MW, Tier 2 is over 5MW up to 10MW
    • Tier 1 Projects priced based on cost of production plus reasonable rate of return
      • Pricing is differentiated by technology
    • Tier 1 contracts are 25 years
    • Tier 2 Projects priced based on value of kwh generated, including Time of Day and other renewable energy attributes
    • Tier 2 contracts can be 10, 15, or 20 years
  • Rates are revisited every 2 years
  • Electricity counts towards the corporations RPS requirements and resource adequacy standards
  • Facility may switch from net metering to feed-in tariff

 

Missing REESA Provisions

The following provisions are recommended additions/amendments to AB1106 in order to create a successful FIT policy for California

  • The policy should include an annual cap of new generation capacity eligible for the feed-in tariff. Recommended that this cap be 2% of each corporations total annual delivered energy.
  • The policy should apply to publicly-owned utilities, not just the IOUs
  • The FIT Program should be phased in beginning July 1, 2010. Phasing can be done by technology, with solar coming first
  • The policy should address interconnection barriers by requiring utilities to publish capacity information and upgrade plans for distribution circuits
  • The policy should require one standard must-take contract across all corporations, rather than having each corporation implement their own
  • The policy should provide a 20 year contract as an option for both tiers and should be the minimum contract length
  • The policy should set a 2-year time limit for project deployment from the date of approval