Renewables Portfolio Standard Verification Methodology Report, Second Edition

This Renewables Portfolio Standard Verification Methodology Report, Second Edition, describes
the methods California Energy Commission staff uses to accomplish the following:

1. verify the eligibility of claims for the procurement of renewable energy submitted by
   load-serving entities for each compliance period of California’s Renewables Portfolio
   Standard,
2. confirm the vintage and determine the portfolio content category classification of claims
   submitted by local publicly owned electric utilities’ eligible renewable energy,
3. confirm the retail sales for each publicly owned electric utility and calculate each
   publicly owned electric utilities’ procurement requirements based on their retail sales,
   and
4. determine whether each local publicly owned electric utility has met the procurement
   requirements for each compliance period of the Renewables Portfolio Standard.

For each compliance period, results from the application of the verification analyses covered in
this report are issued separately for retail sellers and local publicly owned electric utilities. For
retail sellers, a final verification report will be adopted by the Energy Commission at a regularly
scheduled business meeting and subsequently transmitted to the California Public Utilities
Commission to be used for its compliance and enforcement activities. For each local publicly
owned electric utility, verification results will be issued in separate reports that are also
adopted by the Energy Commission at a regularly scheduled business meeting to be used for
compliance and enforcement activities.