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Bill	Net energy metering: eligible fuel cell customer-generators.	Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. Existing law, relative to private energy producers, requires every electrical corporation to make available to an eligible fuel cell customer-generator, as defined, a standard contract or tariff for net energy metering on a first-come-first-served basis until the total cumulative rated generating capacity used by the eligible fuel cell customer-generators equals 45 megawatts within the service territory of the electrical corporation, for an electrical corporation with a peak demand above 10,000 megawatts, or equals 22.5 megawatts within the service territory of the electrical corporation, for an electrical corporation with a peak demand of 10,000 megawatts or below. Existing law additionally limits the combined statewide cumulative rated generating capacity used by the eligible fuel cell customer-generators in the service territories of all electrical corporations in the state to not more than 112.5 megawatts.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2165	California AB 2165 (20112012)	bill	Net energy metering: eligible fuel cell customer-generators.	enacted	Hill	8	25	7	2012-02-23	2012-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/5066b075-7e5d-4001-917d-79ad1c2967c3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2165	5f75282ee9b61326f30a9382c5bf7a6ef4c725d4497301cdd2776930736521d0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2165 (20112012) — Net energy metering: eligible fuel cell customer-generators.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. Existing law, relative to private energy producers, requires every electrical corporation to make available to an eligible fuel cell customer-generator, as defined, a standard contract or tariff for net energy metering on a first-come-first-served basis until the total cumulative rated generating capacity used by the eligible fuel cell customer-generators equals 45 megawatts within the service territory of the electrical corporation, for an electrical corporation with a peak demand above 10,000 megawatts, or equals 22.5 megawatts within the service territory of the electrical corporation, for an electrical corporation with a peak demand of 10,000 megawatts or below. Existing law additionally limits the combined statewide cumulative rated generating capacity used by the eligible fuel cell customer-generators in the service territories of all electrical corporations in the state to not more than 112.5 megawatts.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/23/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/23/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/07/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/27/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2165 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 11–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–5 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2165 Hill By Alquist — 27–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 2165 HILL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–19 (pass) · lower
• AB 2165 HILL Assembly Third Reading — 52–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hill — primary (person)
• Roger Hernández — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2012-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2012-03-08 Referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2012-04-19 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-23 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-03 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (May 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-07 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 18. Page 4780.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-10 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-24 Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2012-06-21 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (June 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-07-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 4904.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6488.)
• 2012-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 19. Page 6561.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 603, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5066b075-7e5d-4001-917d-79ad1c2967c3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).