AB 2182 (Irwin) — the CLECA-sponsored bill restructuring California's industrial energy efficiency financing — passed the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee on a unanimous 17–0 vote on June 24, 2026, and has been re-referred to Senate Appropriations.
CLECA representatives testified at the hearing as the bill's sponsor, making the case that the existing efficiency program fails industrial customers: the charges are collected, but the projects don't happen. AB 2182 requires large electrical corporations to establish matching-grant programs for industrial decarbonization and efficiency projects, funded exclusively from the efficiency charges industrial customers pay, and measured against real existing-equipment baselines.
The bill has moved without a single no vote at any step — 18–0 in Assembly Utilities & Energy, 14–0 in Natural Resources, 15–0 in Appropriations, 72–0 on the Assembly floor — and has no registered opposition.
Track the bill on our legislation page or at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov.