California Public Utilities Code 933 – It is the policy of the state that each electrical corporation does …
It is the policy of the state that each electrical corporation does all of the following:
(a) Upgrade the state’s electrical distribution systems as needed and in time to achieve the state’s decarbonization goals and implement federal, state, regional, and local air quality and decarbonization standards, plans, and regulations.
Terms Used In California Public Utilities Code 933
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Public Utilities Code 17
(b) Comply with its obligation to serve, as provided in Section 451, by conducting sufficient advance planning, engineering, and construction of increased distribution system capacity so that customers can be energized without substantial delay.
(c) Promptly energize new customers, including by ensuring that new housing, new businesses, new electric equipment in buildings, and new charging for light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty vehicles and off-road vehicles, vessels, trains, and equipment can be used without delay caused by a failure of the electrical corporation to implement energization projects.
(d) Promptly upgrade service when needed by customers.
(e) Recruit, train, and retain an adequately sized and qualified workforce to carry out the planning, engineering, and construction of electrical distribution systems needed to promptly serve customers seeking energization and service upgrades without sacrificing other necessary activities of the workforce.
(Added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 394, Sec. 1. (SB 410) Effective January 1, 2024.)