Renewables Portfolio Standard Verification and Compliance Methodology Report, Third Edition

This Renewables Portfolio Standard Verification and Compliance Methodology Report, Third Edition, describes the methods California Energy Commission (CEC) staff uses to accomplish the following:

• 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 (RPS)
• confirm the vintage and determine the portfolio content category classification of claims submitted by local publicly owned electric utilities’ (POU) eligible renewable energy
• confirm the retail sales for each POU and calculate each POU’s procurement requirements based on their retail sales, and
• determine whether each POU has met the procurement requirements for each compliance period of the RPS

For each compliance period, results from the application of the verification analyses covered in this report are issued separately for retail sellers and POUs. For retail sellers, a final verification report will be adopted by the CEC at a regularly scheduled business meeting and subsequently transmitted to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to be used for its compliance and enforcement activities. For each POU, verification results will be issued in separate reports that are also adopted by the CEC at a regularly scheduled business meeting to be used for compliance and enforcement activities.