At its Sept. 9 business meeting, the California Energy Commission approved the 2025 AB 209 Clean Energy Programs Annual Report and directed staff to finalize it, transmit it to the Legislature and post it publicly.
The report gives a year-end accounting of five AB 209 programs and says total project budgets reached $495.9 million, with $442.18 million encumbered and $53.72 million unencumbered as of Dec. 31, 2025. It also says administrative, technical and scientific services spending totaled $14,928,342 through the end of the year.
According to the report, the largest share of encumbered funding was in the Equitable Building Decarbonization program, which accounted for $359.25 million. The report says that program was preparing a statewide direct-install effort, a tribal direct-install program and the GoGreen Home financing component.
Other programs moved at uneven speeds. The Clean Hydrogen Program remained effectively stalled after budget cuts reduced it to $4 million and no federal cost-share awards were made, the report says. The Food Production Investment Program released a 2025 solicitation worth $10.5 million and later recommended six projects for funding. The Industrial Decarbonization and Improvement of Grid Operations Program awarded one $5.5 million project and repurposed $10 million after the U.S. Department of Energy canceled two federal cost-share awards. The Offshore Wind Waterfront Facility Improvement Program recommended and then approved five port-related awards totaling $42.8 million.
The resolution adopted by the commission said approval of the report is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act and, alternatively, would qualify for the common-sense exemption.
