The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Zero-Emission Vehicle Incentive

Feb 24, 2026 - (ZEVs typically cost several thousand dollars more to purchase than conventional vehicles). While the proposal attempts to magnify the potential effect of incentives by requiring manufacturers to provide a dollar ‑for ‑dollar match, the incentive amount likely still would be relatively small.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5140

The 2026-27 Budget: California Public Utilities Commission’s Implementation of AB 1207

Feb 10, 2026 - Absent such additional direction, the Legislature will largely be deferring to CPUC to make decisions about how to allocate this funding —which could total in the tens of billions of dollars over the next twenty years —to utility customers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5120

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Tax Credit Proposal

Feb 24, 2026 - The total value of this stack depends on various factors such as LCFS and RFS credit prices, as well as the feedstocks used, but cumulatively could total a  couple dollars per gallon for SAF producers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

The 2026-27 Budget: Cap-and-Invest Expenditure Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - For example, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in the Bay Area indicates that, consistent with the SB 125 plan it submitted to the Legislature, it programmed about $250 million of the anticipated funds which the Legislature has not yet appropriated for two Bay Area Rapid Transit expansion capital projects in order to help leverage billions of dollars in forthcoming federal support from the Capital Investment Grant Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

The 2026-27 Budget: Framework for Approaching the Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, and Agriculture Budget

Feb 10, 2026 - In the context of a budget deficit, every dollar of new spending essentially comes at the expense of a previously identified priority and requires finding a commensurate level of solution somewhere within the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116