California Tax Expenditures Programs: Sales and Use Taxes Part 1

California Tax Expenditures Programs: Sales and Use Taxes Part 1 3,264 Description This program exempts from taxation the sale or transfer of gas, electricity, water (including steam), and geothermal brines or other heat sources delivered through mains, lines, or pipes.
https://lao.ca.gov/1999/tax_expenditure_299/tep_299_salestax1.html

The 2025-26 Budget: California Military Department—STARBASE Classroom Building

Feb 20, 2025 - Department of Defense-authorized educational program designed to provide elementary- and secondary-aged students with supplemental education in the fields of science, technology, engineering, art and design, and mathematics (STEAM).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4976

California's Tax System: A Primer, Chapter 3

Largest SUT Tax Expenditure Programs 1998-99(In Millions) Gas, electricity, water, steam, and heat $2,482 Candy, gum, and confectionery products 165 74 SUT Rates Vary by County The SUT rates in California differ by county, and range from 7 percent to 8.25 percent, depending on whether a county chooses to levy optional taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/2001/tax_primer/0101_taxprimer_chapter3.html

The 2016-17 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 22, 2016 - The project also included the construction of a new thermal energy storage tank, new cooling towers, and a new steam turbine distributed generation system. The project is now essentially complete, and the administration estimates that there will be an estimated project savings of $2.7  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3362

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - First, marrying Opportunity Zone benefits with affordable housing financing could complicate an already complex process which often involves multiple funding steams and complicated legal arrangements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

^[PDF] A proposed statutory initiative prohibiting the generation of nuclear power in California.

Summary of Fiscal Effects We estimate that this measure could have the following major fiscal effects:  Potential impacts on state and local finances in the form of decreased revenues and increased costs due to possible electricity price increases and state liabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2015/150466.pdf

A proposed statutory initiative prohibiting the generation of nuclear power in California. [Ballot]

Oct 14, 2015 - Summary of Fiscal Effects We estimate that this measure could have the following major fiscal effects: Potential impacts on state and local finances in the form of decreased revenues and increased costs due to possible electricity price increases and state liabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-055

Proposal for 18 Positions in Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources

Mar 9, 2012 - During the 2010-11 budget year, the Legislature approved a request by the administration for 17 positions that were intended to enhance and strengthen the regulatory oversight of new technologies including shallow thermal diatomite injection wells, hydraulic fracturing, steam injection, and CO 2 injection wells.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/569

^[PDF] This report has been prepared in response to the requirement set

Nearly 80 years ago, an American engineer demonstrated that a 65-horsepower solar steam engine could pump 6,000 gallons of water per hour from the Nile River for irrigation purposes. This system converted solar energy into mechanical energy through the use of mirrors focused on boiler pipes, which produced steam to drive an irrigation pump.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/1985/05_85_an_analysis_of_californias_tax_credit_for_solar_powered_irrigation_pumping_systems%20.pdf

LAO Analysis of the 1998-99 Budget Bill Capital Outlay Departmental Issues 2

It generates steam (which it sells to the hospital) and electricity (which it sells to electricity uti lities in southern California). The state is contractually committed to purchase steam from this plant.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/cap_outlay_depts2_anl98.html