AB 1923 Summary

• Authorizes bioenergy electric generation facilities with effective capacity up to 5 megawatts to participate in the bioenergy feed-in tariff if they deliver no more than 3 megawatts to the grid at any time and comply with distribution access tariffs.

• Modifies interconnection requirements for bioenergy projects under the 250-megawatt bioenergy feed-in tariff allocation, allowing facilities connected to existing transmission lines to qualify alongside those optimizing deliverability to load centers.

• Establishes eligibility criteria for bioenergy projects using byproducts of sustainable forest management (50-megawatt allocation), including projects that are already interconnected or have completed interconnection studies.

• Deems eligible bioenergy forest management projects able to interconnect within required timeframes and allows them to submit new interconnection applications within 30 days of contract execution.

• Requires electrical corporations to collectively procure at least 250 megawatts from bioenergy projects with specific allocations: 110 megawatts for biogas, 90 megawatts for dairy and agricultural bioenergy, and 50 megawatts for sustainable forest management byproducts.