An act to amend Section 21080.35 of the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality. AB 2966, as introduced, Alvarez. California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: solar energy systems.
Existing law prohibits new residential-type gas appliances that are equipped with a pilot light from being sold in the state 24 months after an intermittent ignition device has been demonstrated and certified by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission.
This bill would prohibit state agencies and local governments from adopting or enforcing a rule, regulation, resolution, or ordinance that directly or indirectly results in prohibiting the use of gas stoves in residential or nonresidential buildings.
The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
This bill would delete the requirement that an employment duty statement be included in a specified applicant’s or licensee’s information submitted to the board. The bill would also delete the provision that makes the failure to provide specified information to the board a cause for disciplinary action and punishable as a misdemeanor. The bill would state that “direct supervision or control” for these purposes to mean, among other things, supervising construction operations.
An act to amend Section 76004 of the Public Resources Code, relating to energy.
AB 2600, as introduced, Calderon. Energy: fluorinated refrigerants. Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to identify opportunities to assess the energy efficiency performance for low-global warming potential alternatives for current fluorinated-gas-based appliances and equipment. This bill would make non-substantive changes to this law.
Allows water heaters or appliances for comfort heating in manufactured homes or mobilehomes with fuel-gas-burning water heaters or fuel-gas appliances for comfort heating that are not specifically listed for use in a manufactured home or mobilehome. Includes clothes dryers. Provides that the act, including any regulation, rule, or bulletin adopted pursuant thereto, does not prohibit the installation of plumbing, heating, or air-conditioning systems for manufactured homes, mobilehomes, or multifamily manufactured homes from being located outside of the home if necessary to replace an existing fuel-gas-burning water heater.
Existing law imposes various limitations on emissions of air contaminants for the control of air pollution from vehicular and non-vehicular sources. Existing law requires a business entity that is marketing or selling voluntary carbon offsets, as defined, within the state to disclose on the business entity’s internet website specified information about the applicable carbon offset project.
This bill expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would clarify the law relating to voluntary carbon market disclosures.
Climate Pollution Reduction in Homes Initiative: grants.
Requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to specify criteria for which appliances, which may include water heaters, stoves and cooking appliances, home heating and cooling systems, refrigerators and freezers, and washers and dryers, are eligible to provide financial assistance to low-income households for the purchase of zero-carbon-emitting appliances.
Makes it unlawful for a person to certify or issue a voluntary carbon offset, to maintain on a registry a voluntary carbon offset, or to market, make available or offer for sale, or sell a voluntary carbon offset if the person knows or should know that the greenhouse gas reductions or greenhouse gas removal enhancements of the offset project related to the voluntary carbon offset are unlikely to be quantifiable, real, and additional.
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to encourage the balanced use of all sources of energy to meet the state’s needs. Existing law requires the commission to administer the Clean Transportation Program to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California’s fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state’s climate change policies.
This bill would require the commission, upon appropriation for the bill’s purpose, to establish an implement the Hard to Decarbonize Program to provide financial incentives for purchasing renewable propane, renewable hydrogen, or renewable dimethyl either to customers in heating dominant climate zones in California where combustion fuels will continue to be the lowest cost and most effective means for providing space and water heating to buildings, as provided.
Allows the department of planning for each county to approve a variance for the installation of solar water heater systems. Authorizes the department of planning for each county to impose and collect fees for the administration of the solar water heater system variances.
Amends the entity responsible for approving a variance for the installation of solar water heater systems from the Chief Energy Officer to the appropriate county planning department. Requires the fees collected by each county planning department to be deposited into the appropriate county planning department operating fund.
