Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to adopt, on a biennial basis, an integrated energy policy report that contains an overview of major energy trends and issues facing the state, including supply, demand, pricing, reliability, efficiency, and impacts on public health and safety, the economy, resources, and the environment. Existing law requires the report to present policy recommendations based on an in-depth and integrated analysis of the most current and pressing energy issues facing the state.
This bill would require the commission, on or before March 1, 2026, to designate a person, within the commission, to serve as the Senior Counselor on Industrial Policy and Clean Energy Development and would specify the senior counselor's duties. The bill would require the senior counselor, on or before March 1, 2026, to convene the Task Force on Equitable Clean Energy Supply Chains and Industrial Policy in California, as provided, and would specify the duties and responsibilities of the task force. The bill would require the task force, on or before June 1, 2027, to submit to the Legislature a report on, among other things, its recommendations on strategies that would maximize the impact of state funds on promoting certain clean energy industries. The bill would require the Senior Counselor on Infrastructure, upon the issuance of the report, but on or before January 1, 2028, to convene certain state agencies to develop a workplan to implement the recommendations made in the report. The bill would require the senior counselor to coordinate the implementation of the workplan and would require the senior counselor, on or before June 1, 2028, and annually thereafter, to submit to the Legislature a report documenting the progress on the implementation of the recommendations. The bill would establish in the State Treasury the Equitable Clean Energy Supply Chain and Industrial Policy Fund and would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, authorize the moneys in the fund be expended for the purposes of the bill.