Requires businesses that produce specified amounts of organic waste to comply with organic waste recycling procedures in order to reduce the amount of organic waste in landfills.
Analyzes the structure and implementation of organic waste bans and presents examples from states and cities with existing or proposed waste bans, and offers a toolkit to evaluate options for developing similar policies.
Requires utilities to reduce customers’ fossil fuel use through either electrification, efficiency, fuel switching, or storage. Requirement is 2% of a utility’s annual sales starting in 2017 and increasing by 0.67% annually, reaching 12% in 2032.
Expands the scope of electric energy efficiency to include measures designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the use of expanded electricity consumption while minimizing ratepayer costs.
Enables utilities to offer customers on-bill financing agreements to finance measures such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy storage devices, and fuel-switching systems,
Reviews state-level efforts promoting electrification of space and water heating as a building decarbonization tool.
Law and policy options including enhanced regulatory authority over drilling, heightened scrutiny in environmental reviews, statewide drilling setbacks, and more.
Large generators of food scraps must donate excess edible food and recycle all remaining food scraps if they are within 25 miles of an organics recycler.
Requires the CPUC to develop regulations, standards, and guidelines by December 1, 2020, to facilitate the commercialization of microgrids for customers of large electric utilities.