COMMUNITY CHOICE AGGREGATION PILOT PROJECT
Publication Number: CEC-500-2008-091
Publication Date: April 2009
PIER Program Area: Renewable Energy Technologies
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Appendix A: Roadmap for Renewable Energy Development Procurement, publication # CEC-500-2008-091-APA.
( 70 pages, 2.0 megabytes )
Appendix B: Project Reports on California Public Utilities Commission Decisions on Community Choice Aggregation, publication # CEC-500-2008-091-APB.
( 43 pages, 744 kilobytes )
Appendix C: Sample Data Request Letters from Local Governments to Investor-Owned Utilities, publication # CEC-500-2008-091-APC.
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Appendix D: Key Assumptions Used in the Base Case Feasibility Reports, publication # CEC-500-2008-091-APD.
( 14 pages, 84 kilobytes )
Appendix E: Community Choice Aggregation Implementation Plan Template, publication # CEC-500-2008-091-APE.
( 66 pages, 1.9 megabytes )
Appendix F: Community Choice Aggregation Fact Sheet, publication # CEC-500-2006-082. Published August 2006, republished April 2009..
( 6 pages, 2.2 megabytes )
Appendix G: Community Choice Aggregation Guidebook, publication # CEC-500-2009-003.
( 100 pages, 718 kb )
Appendix H: Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland Business Plan, publication # CEC-500-2008-091-APH.
( 192 pages, 3.2 megabytes )
Abstract
Passage of the California Community Choice Aggregation legislation, Assembly Bill 117 (Migden, Chapter 836, Statutes of 2002), provides local governments with the ability to combine electricity loads within their communities and act on behalf of those customers to buy or choose electricity for them. In this pilot project, 12 California local governments evaluated the feasibility of implementing community choice aggregation programs through which a minimum renewable energy mix of 40 percent would be achieved, at least doubling the Renewables Portfolio Standard. Three groups of cities/counties went on to develop business plans through this program detailing how community choice aggregation programs for their regions would be organized, governed, funded, and operated to provide at least 50 percent renewable energy to participating customers.
Researchers developed a variety of analytical models, reports, and tools to assist other cities and counties in understanding and implementing Community Choice Aggregation.
Keywords: Community choice aggregation, CCA, electricity loads, renewable energy, Assembly Bill 117, AB 117