The 2025–2026 Investment Plan Update for the Clean Transportation Program guides the allocation of program funding for Fiscal Year 2025–2026 and the reallocation of funds from previous fiscal years. Program funding, recently reauthorized in 2023 through Assembly Bill 126 (Reyes, Chapter 319, Statutes of 2023), plus the proposed reallocated funds totals $326.9 million in Fiscal Years 2025–2026 through 2027–2028. The plan also includes $38 million in supplemental Greenhouse Gas Reduction Funds made available in Fiscal Year 2025–2026. In total, the plan discusses $364.9 million in funding. The California Energy Commission (CEC) reviews the proposed allocations of program funding annually.
This 2025–2026 Investment Plan Update is the seventeenth plan in the history of the program and reflects laws, executive orders, regulations, and other funding programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, petroleum dependence, and criteria pollution emissions for all Californians. The Investment Plan establishes funding allocations based on identified needs and opportunities, including a focus on zero-emission vehicle infrastructure. Program priorities are determined with input from interested and affected groups, the Disadvantaged Communities Advisory Group, the Clean Transportation Program Advisory Committee, and CEC reports and analyses. These priorities are consistent with the program goal “to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California’s fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state’s climate change policies.”
This staff draft report is the next step in developing the 2025–2026 Investment Plan Update, following a guiding principles document published spring 2025. Before adopting the report at a CEC business meeting, the CEC expects to release a Lead Commissioner report, as well as convene advisory committee meetings and conduct outreach and engagement with other interested and affected groups.
This report will be available on the 2025–2026 Investment Plan Update webpage. Members of the public can request a hard copy by calling 916-269-9595.
