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procurement from eligible renewable energy resources to 33 percent of total retail sales by
2020. The 33 percent standard is consistent with the RPS goal established in the Scoping
Plan (CARB 2008a). As interim measures, the Renewable Portfolio Standards require 20
percent of retail sales to be sourced from renewable energy by 2013 and 25 percent by 2016.
Initially, the Renewable Portfolio Standard provisions applied to investor-owned utilities,
community choice aggregators, and electric service providers. SBX1-2 added, for the first
time, publicly owned utilities to the entities subject to RPS (California 2011b).

Senate Bill 1

Senate Bill 1 of 2006 (SB 1) established the statewide California Solar Initiative, also required
the California Energy Commission (CEC) to implement regulations that require sellers of
production homes to offer a solar energy system option to all prospective homebuyers.
Besides offering solar as an option to prospective homebuyers, sellers of homes constructed
on land for which an application for a tentative subdivision map has been deemed complete
on or after January 1, 2011, must disclose to the prospective homebuyer the total installed
cost of the solar option, the estimated cost savings associated with the solar energy system
option, information about California solar energy system incentives, and information about
the Go Solar California website. Sellers of production homes affected by this law may opt for
the solar offset program rather than offer solar as an option to prospective homebuyers. The
solar offset program requires sellers to install a solar system elsewhere which is equivalent
to the aggregate capacity of solar that would have been installed in an affected subdivision if
20 percent of the buyers had opted for the solar option (California 2006d).

Assembly Bill 1109

Assembly Bill 1109 (AB 1109), the Lighting Efficiency and Toxic Reduction Act, requires the
establishment of minimum energy efficiency standards for all general purpose lights. The
standards are structured to reduce average statewide electrical energy consumption by not
less than 50 percent from the 2007 levels for indoor residential lighting and not less than
25 percent from the 2007 levels for indoor commercial and outdoor lighting by 2018
(California 2007b).

Senate Bill 350

Senate Bill (SB) 350. Signed October 7, 2015, is the Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act
of 2015. SB 350 is the implementation of some of the goals of EO B-30-15. The objectives of
SB 350 are

(1) To increase from 33 percent to 50 percent, the procurement of our electricity from
renewable sources.
(2) To double the energy efficiency savings in electricity and natural gas final end uses
of retail customers through energy efficiency and conservation (California
2015b).

Title 24 Energy Efficiency Standards

The Energy Efficiency Standards for Residential and Nonresidential Buildings (Title 24, Part
6 of the California Code of Regulations [CCR]) were established in 1978 in response to a

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