Renewables Portfolio Standard Verification Methodology Report
Publication Number
CEC-300-2018-007
Updated
January 28, 2019
Publication Year
2019
Publication Division
Renewable Energy (300)
Author(s)
Erica Chac, Theresa Daniels, Chris Metzker, Olga Romaso
Abstract
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.