Community Choice Aggregation Update

The Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) rulemaking (R.03-10-003) at the CPUC has almost completed its first phase dealing with customer responsibility surcharge and some other costs issues. Workshops were held, testimony filed, hearings convened and briefs submitted. A draft decision on Phase 1 could come at any time.

The ALJ and Assigned Commissioner are eager to start the second phase that will deal with implementation issues including customer noticing, switching protocols, operational protocols, billing and metering, scheduling, and discounts to low income customers. A schedule for the second phase, which may start before a decision is made on Phase 1, is also imminent.

Visit the LGC Community for updates on the CCA process at the CPUC.

The Community Choice Aggregation Pilot project of the LGC and Navigant Consulting continues to progress. Draft feasibility reports have been completed for 8 of the participating communities. The technical reports include four scenarios for the communities to consider that are combinations of two variables: the percentage of their portfolios that are renewable, and whether or not ownership of generation assets is included. Initial results indicate that public-sector ownership of generation assets reduces costs to a higher degree than the increase in cost of moving from 20% renewables in the CCA portfolio (required by law) to 40% renewables (the goal of this project).

Final costs and feasibilities will be calculated when the CPUC makes its decisions in this rulemaking and when the communities decide the kind of renewable mix and ownership scenario they prefer.

After a few communities have gone through the CPUC process of filing an implementation plan, LGC and Navigant will produce a guidebook and workshops to share what we have learned.

For questions about this Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) project, contact Pat Stoner at (916) 448-1198, ext 309, or pstoner@lgc.org.

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