Electrical corporations: interconnection: Public Utilities Commission: transmission development monitor.

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires the commission, if it determines that the rules, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities, or service of a public utility, or the methods of manufacture, distribution, transmission, storage, or supply used by the public utility, are unjust, unreasonable, unsafe, improper, inadequate, or insufficient, to determine and fix the rules, practices, equipment, appliances, facilities, service, or methods to be observed, furnished, constructed, enforced, or employed. This bill would, within 180 days following the adoption of a transmission plan by the Independent System Operator through the transmission planning process, or a successor process, or within 180 days following the execution of a generator interconnection agreement, require each large electrical corporation, as defined, that is assigned or obligated to construct a project that requires approval by the commission to submit to the below-described transmission development monitor a project-specific schedule for the project, as provided. This bill would require the commission, on or before July 1, 2027, to establish a transmission development monitor within the commission. The bill would require the transmission development monitor to monitor and review certain information regarding transmission- and interconnection-related facilities submitted by the large electrical corporation, the large electrical corporation's progress on completing network upgrades following approval in a generator interconnection agreement or transmission plan approved by the Independent System Operator, the large electrical corporation's compliance with the above-described schedule submitted to the transmission development monitor, and the large electrical corporation's compliance with any remedial actions ordered by the commission, as specified. The bill would require the transmiss