AB-2109

This bill would specify that the enhancement or increased efficiency of equipment occurring in the normal course of business includes industrial process heat recovery technology that meets prescribed requirements. The bill would prohibit nonbypassable or departing load surcharges from applying to a reduction in kilowatt-hours of electricity that an electrical corporation customer consumes from the electrical grid in a metered interval due to industrial process heat recovery technology that meets those prescribed requirements. The bill would also require the commission to minimize impacts to nonparticipating customers by prohibiting the costs directly attributable to the nonbypassable or departing load charges of customers using industrial process heat recovery technology from being paid by residential or small commercial customers, as defined.