CA AB1536

Authorizes eligible customer-generators to participate in a resource adequacy distributed generation program by making at least 60 percent of their facility's generating capacity available to their load-serving entity.

Requires each responsible load-serving entity (electrical corporations, publicly owned utilities, electric service providers, and community choice aggregators) to develop standard offer contracts for purchasing electricity from eligible facilities at the load-serving entity's generation rate.

Eligible facilities must have generating capacity between 200 kilowatts and 20 megawatts, meet advanced distributed generation or renewable energy standards, and be strategically interconnected to optimize electricity delivery to load centers.

Physical generating capacity from eligible facilities counts toward resource adequacy requirements; participating customer-generators are exempt from standby and departing load charges but may face contractual penalties for failure to provide capacity when dispatched.

Requires load-serving entities to process applications for resource adequacy distributed generation services and interconnection agreements within 30 working days and make contracts available on their websites.