Section 9615.5.

(a) For purposes of this section, "comparative electricity usage disclosure program" means a program pursuant to which a local publicly owned electric utility discloses information to residential subscribers relative to the amount of electricity used by the metered residence compared to similar residences in the subscriber's geographical area.

(b) In order for the Energy Commission to evaluate potential cost-effective energy savings and demand reductions that can be achieved through behavioral change and to incorporate that information in establishing targets for statewide annual energy efficiency savings pursuant to Section 25310 of the Public Resources Code, on or before March 15, 2010, or within 90 days of having collected a year's worth of data, and each March 15, or one year from the last reporting date, thereafter, up to and including March 15, 2014, each local publicly owned electric utility having an active comparative electricity usage disclosure program shall report to the Energy Commission, in its annual report prepared pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 9615, the nature of the utility's program and the energy savings resulting from that program.

(c) The Energy Commission may request information from a local publicly owned electric utility that the Energy Commission determines is needed to evaluate the potentially achievable cost-effective electricity efficiency savings achievable through an expansion or statewide deployment of comparative electricity usage disclosure programs.

(d) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2015, and, as of January 1, 2016, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2016, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.

(Added by Stats. 2009, Ch. 352, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2010. Inoperative July 1, 2015. Repealed as of January 1, 2016, by its own provisions.)