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4.5 – Greenhouse Gas Emissions
<br />Draft Environmental Impact Report February 2021
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<br />EO S-21-09 and SBX1-2. EO S-21-09 (September 2009) directed CARB to adopt a regulation consistent with the
<br />goal of EO S-14-08 by July 31, 2010. CARB was further directed to work with the CPUC and CEC to ensure that the
<br />regulation builds on the RPS program and was applicable to investor-owned utilities, publicly owned utilities, direct
<br />access providers, and community choice providers. Under this order, CARB was to give the highest priority to those
<br />renewable resources that provide the greatest environmental benefits with the least environmental costs and
<br />impacts on public health, and can be developed the most quickly in support of reliable, efficient, cost-effective
<br />electricity system operations. On September 23, 2010, CARB initially approved regulations to implement a
<br />Renewable Electricity Standard. However, this regulation was not finalized because of subsequent legislation (SB
<br />X1-2, Simitian, statutes of 2011) signed by Governor Brown in April 2011.
<br />SB X1 2 expanded the RPS by establishing a renewable energy target of 20% of the total electricity sold to retail
<br />customers in California per year by December 31, 2013, and 33% by December 31, 2020, and in subsequent years.
<br />Under the bill, a renewable electrical generation facility is one that uses biomass, solar thermal, photovoltaic, wind,
<br />geothermal, fuel cells using renewable fuels, small hydroelectric generation (30 megawatts or less), digester gas,
<br />municipal solid waste conversion, landfill gas, ocean wave, ocean thermal, or tidal current, and that meets other
<br />specified requirements with respect to its location. SB X1-2 applies to all electricity retailers in the state, including
<br />publicly owned utilities, investor-owned utilities, electricity service providers, and community choice aggregators. All
<br />of these entities must meet the renewable energy goals previously listed.
<br />SB 350. SB 350 (October 2015) further expanded the RPS by establishing a goal of 50% of the total electricity sold
<br />to retail customers in California per year by December 31, 2030. In addition, SB 350 included the goal to double
<br />the energy efficiency savings in electricity and natural gas final end uses (e.g., heating, cooling, lighting, or class of
<br />energy uses on which an energy-efficiency program is focused) of retail customers through energy conservation and
<br />efficiency. The bill also requires the CPUC, in consultation with the CEC, to establish efficiency targets for electrical
<br />and gas corporations consistent with this goal.
<br />SB 100. SB 100 (2018) increased the standards set forth in SB 350, establishing that 44% of the total electricity
<br />sold to retail customers in California per year by December 31, 2024, 52% by December 31, 2027, and 60% by
<br />December 31, 2030, be secured from qualifying renewable energy sources. SB 100 states that it is the policy of
<br />the state that eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources supply 100% of the retail sales of
<br />electricity to California. This bill requires that the achievement of 100% zero-carbon electricity resources do not
<br />increase the carbon emissions elsewhere in the western grid and that the achievement not be achieved through
<br />resource shuffling.
<br />Mobile Sources
<br />AB 1493. AB 1493 (Pavley) (July 2002) was enacted in response to the transportation sector accounting for more
<br />than half of California’s CO2 emissions. AB 1493 required CARB to set GHG emission standards for passenger
<br />vehicles, light-duty trucks, and other vehicles determined by the state board to be vehicles that are primarily use d
<br />for noncommercial personal transportation in the state. The bill required that CARB set GHG emission standards
<br />for motor vehicles manufactured in 2009 and all subsequent model years. CARB adopted the standards in
<br />September 2004. The first phase (2009–2012) standards were estimated to result in a reduction of approximately
<br />22% of GHG emissions compared to the emissions from the 2002 fleet, and the mid-term (2013–2016) standards
<br />were estimated to result in a reduction of approximately 30%.
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