No worries - I'll let the reader decide who is lying here. 

First, let me fix your quoted section - no "..." needed at start unless you don't want reader to see full wording.

(2) “Firm zero-carbon resources” are electrical resources that can individually, or in combination, deliver zero-carbon electricity with high availability for the expected duration of multiday extreme or atypical weather events, including periods of low renewable energy generation, and facilitate integration of eligible renewable energy resources into the electrical grid and the transition to a zero-carbon electrical grid.

Second the below is the main focus of this bill - a report to be submitted in two years. This should have been 2022 as originally proposed but typical government crap.

25216.7.

 (a) On or before December 31, 2023, the commission, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission, Independent System Operator, and State Air Resources Board, shall submit to the Legislature an assessment of firm zero-carbon resources that support a clean, reliable, and resilient electrical grid in California and will achieve the policy described in Section 454.53 of the Public Utilities Code.

 

(1) Identify all available, commercially feasible and near-commercially feasible firm zero-carbon resources that could support a clean, reliable, and resilient electrical grid, and distinguish which resources are capable of addressing system reliability needs and local reliability needs, with an emphasis on reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases, toxic air contaminants, and criteria air pollutants.

(2) Evaluate the magnitude of potential needs for and role of firm zero-carbon resources using a reasonable range of resource cost and performance assumptions that reflect emerging technology trends in order to help integrate generation from eligible renewable energy resources into the electrical grid on a daily, multiday, and seasonal basis.

(3) Identify barriers to the development of firm zero-carbon resources and possible solutions to address those barriers, including pathways for additional procurement of those resources by load-serving entities, including joint procurements by electrical corporations, community choice aggregators, direct access customers, local publicly owned electric utilities, and other public entities, or a central procurement entity.

(4) Recommend changes to research and development projects, demonstration projects, and energy incentives to support the contributions of firm zero-carbon resources to the near-, mid-, and long-term reliability and resiliency of California’s electrical grid, consistent with California’s goals to reduce localized air pollutants and emissions of greenhouse gases, including early priority in disadvantaged communities.

(5) Evaluate the reliability of load-serving entities’ integrated resource plans under multiday extreme and atypical weather events, which shall include, at minimum, events with extended periods of low renewable energy generation and events that occur in all seasons at least as frequently as once per 10 years.

(6) Evaluate the use of energy storage to achieve the goals pursuant to this section.

When the  report ( the action required by this bill) is submitted at the end of 2023 we can can revisit and see who was right.  

In the meantime, I'm investing in geothermal.

Construction underway for Casa Diablo-IV geothermal plant, California

Construction is underway for the binary geothermal power project, Casa Diablo-IV (CD4) located in Mammoth Lakes, CA. Central Coast Community Energy (CCCE) and Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) will receive 14 MW of the project output through a contract signed with Ormat Technologies.  Construction was officially kicked off in May 2021.

The CD4 project will be the first new geothermal power plant built within the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) balancing authority in the last 30 years. The state recently ordered the procurement of at least 1,000 MW of zero carbon emitting generation resources with at least an 80% capacity factor by 2026 which includes new geothermal. The CD4 project is also using an innovative closed-loop binary process to eliminate the natural carbon emissions associated with flash steam geothermal energy production.

Thank you so much for that clarification.  What a move of rhetorical manipulation.
Bob, here is what I find so interesting.  Everyone talks about how we have the technology today to combat climate change, we only need to implement it.  That’s what GismoPower's technology is based on.  As much as everyone loves the idea of GismoPower, it’s less “sexy” than these new, “deep” technologies that require time, money and massive amounts of research.  What can we do to make the technology which is available TODAY implemented TODAY?  Answer: regulatory and policy change!  But HOW?  Anyone?