This Renewables Portfolio Standard Verification and Compliance Methodology Report, Fourth Edition, describes the methods California Energy Commission (CEC) staff uses to accomplish the following:
Verify the eligibility of Renewables Portfolio Standard claims submitted by load-serving entities for each compliance period .
Transmit the CEC-approved Retail Sellers Verification Results Report to the California Public Utilities Commission.
Confirm the long-term and portfolio content category classification of claims submitted by local publicly owned electric utilities.
Calculate each local publicly owned electric utility’s procurement target requirement.
Approve each publicly owned electric utility’s Verification Results Report at a CEC business meeting.
Determine compliance of the procurement requirements for each compliance period of the Renewables Portfolio Standard for each local publicly owned electric utility.
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 CEC 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 CEC at a regularly scheduled business meeting to be used for compliance and enforcement activities.
