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Senate approves AB 825 to pursue a Western electricity market, lawmakers cite potential $1 billion annual savings
Summary
The Senate passed AB 825 (filed as HB 25 on the daily file) to authorize California to join a voluntary Western electricity market if participating states meet safeguards, with supporters citing reliability and roughly $1 billion in annual savings; the measure passed unanimously on the floor vote shown in the transcript.
The California State Senate on Saturday unanimously approved AB 825, a bill designed to enable California to participate in a voluntary Western-wide electricity market if specified consumer-protection and oversight conditions are met.
Sen. Becker, presenting the bill, said experts told lawmakers the biggest step the West could take to advance clean energy is to form a broader electricity market and that AB 825 contains safeguards to protect state authority over procurement, environmental and reliability…
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