Electricity: integrated resource plans: Department of Water Resources: procurement.

Pump hydroelectric facility eligibility is simplified. The Assembly version required the facility to either have been directly appropriated state funding before January 1, 2023, or be exempt from FERC licensing (in addition to the 500 MW cap). The Senate version removes both of those conditions, leaving only the 500 megawatt size limit as the sole eligibility requirement for Department of Water Resources procurement.

A new paragraph (a)(4)(5) requires the Commission, when requiring procurement (including ad hoc orders and programmatic requirements), to account for the ability of energy-only resources to achieve clean energy deployment rates, charge storage during off-peak periods, and increase resource diversity, and to enable energy-only resources to satisfy procurement requirements to the maximum extent feasible.

A new Section 1.5 is added as a coordination mechanism with AB 2369. It incorporates amendments proposed by both bills and becomes operative only if both are enacted by January 1, 2027, each amends Section 454.52, and AB 2476 is enacted after AB 2369. In that scenario, Section 1 of AB 2476 would not become operative.

Removed the requirement that a pump hydroelectric facility must have been directly appropriated funding by the state before January 1, 2023 in order for DWR to procure resources from it. Now any facility under 500 MW that is FERC-exempt qualifies, significantly expanding the pool of eligible facilities.

Removed a duplicated word ('separate, separate' changed to 'separate') in the nuclear powerplant reporting provision and removed redundant text ('twenty-first 21st century' changed to '21st century').

Fixed a grammar error in the legislative counsel's digest ('take specified actions' corrected to 'take takes specified actions').