The California Energy Commission approved its 2025 AB 209 Clean Energy Programs Annual Report at its Sept. 9 business meeting, directing staff to finalize the document, transmit it to the Legislature and post it on the agency website.
The adopted report covers five AB 209-related programs: Clean Hydrogen, Equitable Building Decarbonization, Food Production Investment, Industrial Decarbonization and Improvement of Grid Operations, and Offshore Wind Waterfront Facility Improvement. In the report, the commission says cumulative administrative, technical and scientific services spending reached $14,928,342 through Dec. 31, 2025.
The report says $442.18 million of the $495.9 million total project budget across those programs had been encumbered by the end of 2025. It shows the bulk of the funding in the Equitable Building Decarbonization program, which accounted for $359.25 million in encumbrances.
Other programs moved at different speeds. The report says the Clean Hydrogen Program remained unawarded after budget cuts reduced it to $4 million. It also says the Food Production Investment Program, Industrial Decarbonization and Improvement of Grid Operations Program and Offshore Wind Waterfront Facility Improvement Program all advanced through solicitations and awards in 2025.
The resolution adopted with the report also states that approval of the annual report is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act, and alternatively would qualify for the common-sense exemption.
Under the resolution, the executive director or designee is to finalize the report, forward it to lawmakers and make it publicly available.
