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(a)The department shall retain title to all electricity sold by it to the retail end-use customers. The department shall be entitled to recover, as a revenue requirement, amounts and at the times necessary to enable it to comply with Section 80134, and shall advise the commission as the department determines to be appropriate.
(b)The revenue requirements may also include any advances made to the department hereunder or hereafter for purposes of this division, or from the Department of Water Resources Electric Power Fund, and General Fund moneys expended by the department pursuant to the Governor’s Emergency Proclamation dated January 17, 2001.
(c)
(1)For the purposes of this division and except as otherwise provided in this section, the Public Utility Commission’s authority as set forth
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(a)
The department shall retain title to all electricity sold by it to the retail end-use customers. The department shall be entitled to recover, as a revenue requirement, amounts and at the times necessary to enable it to comply with Section 80134, and shall advise the commission as the department determines to be appropriate.
(b)
The revenue requirements may also include any advances made to the department hereunder or hereafter for purposes of this division, or from the Department of Water Resources Electric Power Fund, and General Fund moneys expended by the department pursuant to the Governor’s Emergency Proclamation dated January 17, 2001.
(c)
(1)
For the purposes of this division and except as otherwise provided in this section, the Public Utility Commission’s authority as set forth in Section 451 of the Public Utilities Code shall apply, except any just and reasonable review under Section 451 shall be conducted and determined by the department. Prior to the execution of any modification of any contract for the purchase of electricity by the department pursuant to this division, on or after the effective date of this section, the department or the commission, as applicable, shall do the following:
(A)
The department shall notify the public of its intent to modify a contract and the opportunity to comment on the proposed modification.
(B)
At least 21 days after providing public notice, the department shall make a determination as to whether the proposed modifications are just and reasonable. The
determination shall include responses to any public comments.
(C)
No later than 70 days before the date of execution of the contract modification, the department shall provide a written report to the commission setting forth the justification for the determination that the proposed modification is just and reasonable, including documents, analysis, response to public comments, and other information relating to the determination.
(D)
Within 60 days of the date of receipt of the department’s written report, the commission shall review the report and make public its comments. If the commission in its comments recommends against the proposed modification, the department shall not execute the proposed contract modification.
(2)
This subdivision does not apply to the modification of a contract modified to settle litigation
to which the commission is a party.
(3)
This subdivision does not apply to the modification of a contract for the purchase of electricity that is generated from a facility owned by a public agency if the contract requires the public agency to sell electricity to the department at or below the public agency’s cost of that electricity.
(4)
This subdivision does not apply to the modification of a contract to address issues relating to billing, scheduling, delivery of electricity, and related contract matters arising out of the implementation by the Independent System Operator of its market redesign and technology upgrade program.
(5)
(A)
For purposes of this subdivision, the department proposes to “modify” a contract if there is any material change proposed in the terms of the contract.
(B)
A change to a contract is not material if it is only administrative in nature or the change in ratepayer value results in ratepayer savings, not to exceed twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) per year. For the purpose of making a determination that a change is only administrative in nature or results in ratepayer savings of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) or less per year, the executive director of the commission shall concur in writing with each of those determinations by the department.
(d)
The commission may enter into an agreement with the department with respect to charges under Section 451 for purposes of this division, and that agreement shall have the force and effect of a financing order adopted in accordance with Article 5.5 (commencing with Section 840) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 1 of the Public Utilities Code, as determined by the
commission.
(e)
The department shall have the same rights with respect to the payment by retail end-use customers for electricity sold by the department as do providers of electricity to the customers.