Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI) Phase 1A - DRAFT REPORT
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Publication Number: RETI-1000-2008-001-D
Abstract:
California was among the first states to enact a renewable portfolio standard and currently has one of the most aggressive portfolio requirements in the country. California has adopted an RPS requiring that 20 percent of electric energy be generated from renewable resources by 2010 (2013 with flexible compliance).1 The Governor and the state’s Energy Action Plan have endorsed a further goal of 33 percent renewables by 2020, in part, as a strategy for meeting the greenhouse gas emission reduction requirements of AB 32.2 Meeting these RPS goals will require a substantial amount of new transmission development, as most large-scale renewable resources are located in remote areas rather than near the state’s major load centers. The Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI) is a statewide initiative designed to identify and quantify the renewable resources that can provide cost-effective energy to meet the RPS requirements, and also to identify the transmission investments necessary to ensure delivery of that energy to California consumers. RETI brings together renewable transmission and generation stakeholders in a process to identify, plan, and establish a rigorous analytical basis for regulatory approvals of the next major transmission projects needed to access renewable resources in California and adjacent areas. RETI is divided into three discrete phases. Phase 1 is designed to provide a project level screening and ranking of potential renewable resource zones and to broadly identify transmission requirements to access these zones. Phase 2 will examine generation and transmission in more detail and will develop conceptual transmission plans to the highest-ranking zones. Phase 3 is intended to support transmission projects and to establish the basis for regulatory approvals of specific transmission projects. Phase 1 has been sub-divided into two tasks, with Phase 1A defining the resource assessment methodology, detailing study assumptions, and identifying resources to be considered in the project-level analysis (this report). Phase 1B will utilize this methodology to aggregate the identified renewable energy resources into Competitive Renewable Energy Zones (or “CREZ”). transmission owners in developing detailed plans of service for commercially viable
Author(s): Black & Veatch Corporation Commission Division: Non-CEC Document On Line (1000)
Office/Program: External Agency
PIER Program Area:
Date Report Completed: March 2008
Date On Line:
03/15/2008
Acrobat PDF File Size: 256 pages,
4,200 kilobytes**
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