Section 80825

(a) If the department has executed an agreement with the commission pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 80821, the department may recover its costs, as a revenue requirement, in the amounts sufficient and at the times necessary to fund the revenue requirement established pursuant to Section 80842, and shall advise the commission and each voluntarily participating local publicly owned electric utility, as the department determines to be appropriate and subject to the terms of the agreement.

(b) For purposes of this division and except as otherwise provided in subdivision (a), the commission’s authority as set forth in Section 451 of the Public Utilities Code shall apply.