Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee, Wednesday, April 8, 2026

8 April 2026

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Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee Mi., 8. Apr. 2026 California State Assembly

37:06 - 38:42

Redner 1

Good afternoon. Good afternoon, and welcome. I would like to convene today's hearing of the Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy. Before we move to the agenda, I have a couple of housekeeping announcements to make. First, as is customary, I will maintain decorum throughout today's hearing.

In order to hear as much from the public within the limits of our time, we will not permit disruptions that impede the orderly conduct of legislative proceedings. Any individual who is disruptive may be removed from the room. Today, we have 21 measures on the agenda. 10 of those are on consent. For each measure, we will welcome two witnesses on both the support and opposition side, and each witness will have two minutes each.

As a reminder, primary witnesses in support must be those accompanying the author or who otherwise have registered a support position with the committee, and the primary witnesses in opposition must have their opposition registered with the committee. All other support and opposition can be stated at the standing mic when called upon. And at that time, please simply state your name, affiliation, and position. With that, I think we do not have a quorum, so we will go ahead and proceed as a subcommittee. And we've got a couple of authors on the committee, so I think we're gonna jump to file item number 11, assembly member Erwin.

Do you wanna get us started, kick off the proceedings?

38:48 - 38:49

Redner 2

2182.

38:49 - 38:59

Redner 1

2182. Yeah. We've got a lot we've got a lot of items from miss Erwin today. Excellent. We'll start with file item 11 a B2182.

39:18 - 41:07

Redner 3

I I thought I was going last. So Is it on? Hello? Can you yeah? Okay.

Well, good afternoon, colleagues. As you may know, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from industrial facilities is one of the greatest challenges we face in reaching our climate goals. One of the tools that we have available is to deploy industrial upgrades to cleaner technologies for industrial upgrades cleaner technologies is the energy efficient efficiency program overseen by the CPUC. However, the current program excludes many promising industrial upgrade projects. As a result, large industrial facilities are struggling to effectively invest in cleaner technologies despite their potential to deliver deliver significant emission reductions.

I will be accepting the committee's amendments to a b twenty one eighty two, will which restructure the industrial energy efficiency program in the following ways. Number one, shift the program administration from the CPUC to GOBIS, which has a strong record of efficiently implementing the energy focused incentive programs. Number two, assess project benefits based on the performance of existing equipment rather than a hypothetical baseline. Then only use funds paid in the program by industrial facilities themselves, ensuring that no incentives for the facilities are subsidized by other customers. AB 21 a 82 will realign the industrial energy efficiency program with the realities of the industrial decision making, reduce administration costs, encourage timely investments in decarbonization projects, and support industrial emissions reductions in California.

With me today to testify is Bill Girald, director of energy and sustainability for Cal Portland.

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