California Public Utilities Code

§ 745

PUC § 745 Effective Jan 1, 2015Div. 1 · Part 1 · Ch. 4 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)For purposes of this section, “time-variant pricing” includes time-of-use rates, critical peak pricing, and real-time pricing, but does not include programs that provide customers with discounts from standard tariff rates as an incentive to reduce consumption at certain times, including peak time rebates.

(b)The commission may authorize an electrical corporation to offer residential customers the option of receiving service pursuant to time-variant pricing and to participate in other demand response programs. The commission shall not establish a mandatory or default time-variant pricing tariff for any residential customer except as authorized in subdivision (c).

(c)Beginning January 1, 2018, and subject to the commission making the findings required by subdivision (d), the commission may require or authorize an electrical corporation to employ default time-of-use rates for residential customers subject to all of the following:

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 625, Sec. 1. (SB 1090) Effective January 1, 2015.