Draft Decision On Energy Efficiency Administration

On November 29^th, 2004 the Draft Decision in R.01-08-028 on Administrative Structure for Energy Efficiency was released by the CPUC. The draft decision was issued by Commissioner Susan Kennedy and ALG Meg Gottstein. An electronic copy can be viewed and downloaded at:

http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUBLISHED/COMMENT_DECISION/41750.htm

The Draft Decision's Conclusions of Law:

1. Returning IOUs to the lead role in program choice and portfolio management will best meet California's goals for integrated resource procurement.

2. With the quality control measures adopted in this decision, the IOUs can both select and sponsor programs without bias.

3. In order to ensure the necessary independence of portfolio and program-related EM&V, EM&V studies should be managed and contracted for under the two-tiered EM&V administrative structure adopted by this decision.

4. For the reasons discussed in this decision, it is reasonable and appropriate to ban affiliate transactions between IOU administrators and program implementers.

5. As discussed in this decision, the Energy Efficiency Policy Rules should be updated as soon as practicable.

6. Our interpretation of "administrator" for purposes of AB 117, as articulated in D.03-07-034 and reiterated in this decision, is consistent with the competing interests articulated in Section 381.1 as well as the requirements for handling ratepayer money. Nothing in today's decision prevents the Commission from modifying the process for allocating PGC funds to Community Choice Aggregators in the future, or revisiting the question of whether CCA customers should be relieved of their responsibility for energy efficiency PGC and procurement surcharges if the CCA elects to take over these functions.

Draft Decision 41750

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