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title: CESA partnering with CA Attorney General and Assemblymember Skinner to promote energy storage
description: Legislation eases development barriers to energy storage deployments in California, places energy storage on equal footing as other clean energy technologies.
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# [CESA partnering with CA Attorney General and Assemblymember Skinner to promote energy storage](https://storagealliance.org/news/partnering-to-promote-energy-storage)

 Written by [CESA](https://storagealliance.org/news/author/cesa) | Jun 18, 2024 9:15:16 PM

 

## Vital New Legislation Creates Green Jobs and Puts  California in Forefront of Future Smart Electric Grid  Attorney General Jerry Brown and Assemblymember Nancy Skinner  Introduce AB 2514 to Make the Smart Grid a Reality with California  Becoming Leader in Clean, Cost-Effective Energy Storage 

**PRESS RELEASE**

February 25, 2010

Berkeley, CA – Assemblymember Nancy Skinner (D-14), Chair,   
Committee on Natural Resources, working in partnership with California Attorney General   
Edmund G. Brown Jr., has introduced AB 2514 – new legislation that will create a smarter,   
cleaner electric grid, increase the use of renewable energy, provide Californians with   
significant savings by avoiding costly new power plants and transmission lines, and reduce   
air pollution. This transformative legislation will also create thousands of permanent new   
green-collar jobs.   
 AB 2514 will achieve these benefits by closing the gap between the United States and   
other nations in investments and deployments of energy storage, a booming “green”   
industry that represents a significant economic development opportunity for California.   
 By mandating that utilities incorporate energy storage capacity – 2.25% of daytime   
peak demand for power by 2014 and 5% of peak demand by 2020 – the bill will provide   
much-needed lower electricity costs to consumers. Greater use of energy storage will   
provide the State with a cleaner and less costly alternative to the high costs of generating   
and supplying primarily fossil fuel-based power for only part-time daytime peak demand for   
power.   
 “Energy storage is the future—it’s a fast-growing clean technology industry that will   
save the state money and reduce pollution,” said Attorney General Jerry Brown, the bill’s   
sponsor. “What’s even better is that this new technology could create 8,500 new jobs in   
California during the next decade.”   
 “We applaud Assemblymember Skinner and Attorney General Brown’s leadership in   
introducing this essential legislation. This bill will put California at the forefront of a growing   
global market that will spur economic development. Given major advances in energy   
storage, the industry is now ready to provide high-technology, affordable, reliable products   
for California’s utilities and consumers,” noted Janice Lin, Director of the California Energy   
Storage Alliance.   
 Currently, California uses fossil fuel-burning backup power plants, as well as coal-fired   
power imported from other states, to help meet its relentlessly growing demand for daytime   
peak power. This is costly, inefficient and harmful to California’s air quality. Wider scale   
deployment of clean, cost-effective energy storage will enable California to reduce pollution   
from greenhouse gases and smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) by reducing the need for   
fossil fuel-based peaking powerplants and imported coal-fired power. Further, energy   
storage will increase the value and use of intermittent renewable power such as wind and   
solar, which often relies on fossil fuel-based backup power. However, California is lagging   
behind other states in energy storage deployment. AB 2514 is available at:  
[www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab\_2501-2550/ab\_2514\_bill\_20100219\_introduced.pdf](http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2514_bill_20100219_introduced.pdf)

Contact: Janice Lin, Director   
California Energy Storage Alliance   
415.595.8301   
[jlin@storagealliance.org ](mailto:jlin@storagealliance.com)

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