Section 743.1.

(a) Electrical corporations shall offer optional interruptible or curtailable service programs, using pricing incentives for participation in these programs. These pricing incentives shall be cost effective and may reflect the full range of costs avoided by the reductions in demand created by these programs, including the reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutant emissions from generating facilities that would have been required to operate but for these demand reductions, to the extent that these avoided costs from reduction in emissions can be quantified by the commission. The commission may determine these pricing incentives in a stand-alone proceeding or as part of a general rate case.

(b) The commission shall direct each public utility electrical corporation to continue its efforts to reduce the rates charged heavy industrial customers to a level competitive with other states, and to do so without shifting recovery of costs to other customer classes.

(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2015, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2015, deletes or extends that date.

(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 539, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2008. Repealed as of January 1, 2015, by its own provisions.)