Electricity: emissions of greenhouse gases.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. The Public Utilities Act requires the Public Utilities Commission to review and accept, modify, or reject a procurement plan for each electrical corporation in accordance with specified elements, incentive mechanisms, and objectives. Existing law requires that in any long-term plan adopted by an electrical corporation, or in a procurement plan implemented by a local publicly owned electric utility, that the utility adopt a strategy applicable to both newly constructed or repowered generation owned and procured by the utility to achieve efficiency…