California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California SB1196: Small energization projects: electrical service connections.
Status: Chaptered, September 27, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend Section 931 of, and to add Section 934.5 to, the Public Utilities Code, relating to public utilities. public utilities Small energization projects: electrical service connections. The Powering Up Californians Act requires the Public Utilities Commission to determine the criteria for timely service for electrical customers to be energized, including, among other things, categories of timely electric service through energization, as specified…
From the chaptered text, September 27, 2026:
An act to amend Section 931 of, and to add Section 934.5 to, the Public Utilities Code, relating to public utilities. public utilities Small energization projects: electrical service connections. The Powering Up Californians Act requires the Public Utilities Commission to determine the criteria for timely service for electrical customers to be energized, including, among other things, categories of timely electric service through energization, as specified. The act requires the commission to establish reasonable average and maximum target energization time periods to ensure that work is completed in a manner that minimizes delay in meeting the date requested by an electrical customer to the greatest extent possible. This bill would require the commission, by September 30, 2027, in a new or existing proceeding, to establish timelines for electrical corporations to respond to and process requests to energize small energization projects, as provided. The bill would require the commission, in establishing the timelines for energization, to require electrical corporations to comply with certain requirements. Under existing law, a violation of an order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because the above-described provisions would be part of the act and a violation of a commission action implementing the bill’s requirements would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the …