Renewables Portfolio Standard 2006 Procurement Verification - Commission Final Report
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Publication Number: CEC-300-2009-006-CMF Abstract: This Renewables Portfolio Standard 2006 Procurement Verification Final Commission Report presents the California Energy Commission's findings on the amount of renewable energy procured by select retail sellers of electricity under California's Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS). This report presents RPS procurement verification findings for 11 retail sellers, which includes investor?owned utilities (large and multi?jurisdictional utilities), and electric service providers from 2001 and 2003 through 2006, as claimed by the retail sellers. The findings are based on the Energy Commission's Interim Tracking System, which relies on self?reported procurement and generation data that is verified by Energy Commission staff to the extent possible. The report lists all of the eligible and ineligible procurement claims made by the various reporting entities. The vast majority of the procurement claims were from RPScertified facilities with sufficient generation to cover the total procurement amounts claimed. In the draft staff version of this report, there were some procurement claims identified as ineligible; most of these were for generation from facilities that were not RPS?certified. Additionally, there were procurement claims that did not include the renewable energy credits and were, therefore, determined to be ineligible for the RPS. All retail sellers who were found to have ineligible procurement claims revised their RPS filings with the exception of Southern California Edison Company's Mountain View procurement claims. The Energy Commission is responsible for preventing double?counting; consequently, in addition to the claims not including the renewable energy credits, another reason these procurement claims were not allowed for the RPS was to prevent double?counting. Without evidence to the contrary, the Energy Commission finds that the procurement claim amounts listed in this report as eligible toward the RPS to count toward meeting the retail sellers' RPS obligations. Keywords: Renewables Portfolio Standard, RPS, Renewable Energy Credits, RECs, renewable attributes, annual procurement target, initial baseline procurement amount, incremental procurement target, certification, Incremental Geothermal, verification, generation, investorowned utilities, electric service providers, multi?jurisdictional utilities, community choice aggregators, Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System, WREGIS Author(s): Gina Barkalow, Lorraine Gonzalez, Theresa Daniels Commission Division: Renewables Program (300) Office/Program: Renewables Portfolio Standard PIER Program Area: Date Report Completed: August 2010 Date On Line: 08/18/2010 Acrobat PDF File Size: 184 pages, 1,200 kilobytes** |
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