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Read. Follow. Verify.California Bill AB 1761 requires public disclosure of data behind utility nonbypassable charges
Record date · September 3, 2026
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What This Bill Would Do
Assembly Bill 1761 requires the Public Utilities Commission and participating parties to make all underlying data for nonbypassable electricity charge calculations publicly available to load-serving entities and . The disclosed data must exclude any personally identifiable information and protect market-sensitive details. This transparency measure ensures stakeholders can review the mathematical basis for utility cost-recovery fees.
and load-serving entities gain legal access to the underlying calculations and data used to determine nonbypassable electricity charges, affecting how utility costs are distributed across customer classes.
- The Public Utilities Commission regulates privately owned electric, natural gas, telecommunications, water, railroad, rail transit, and passenger transportation companies in California. context
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Public Utilities Commission
The commission must ensure that all data underlying its decisions, rulings, and staff analyses regarding nonbypassable charges is made available to ratepayer advocates and load-serving entities.
Ratepayer advocates
Advocates gain guaranteed access to the underlying data and proposals used to calculate nonbypassable electricity charges.
Electrical corporations
Electrical corporations submitting calculation proposals must make all supporting data available to load-serving entities and ratepayer advocates.
Key Facts
- The bill requires the Public Utilities Commission to ensure that all data serving as a basis for decisions, rulings, proposals, or staff analyses regarding nonbypassable charge calculation methodologies is made available to load-serving entities and ratepayer advocates.
- Electrical corporations, member associations, load-serving entities, and other submitting parties must make their underlying calculation data available to load-serving entities and ratepayer advocates.
- Disclosed data must exclude any information that can reasonably identify an individual, family, household, residence, or nonresidential customer.
- Data must be made available through public disclosure, with an exception for market-sensitive data.
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- Violations of the Public Utilities Act or commission orders implementing these provisions constitute a crime, creating a state-mandated local program.
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