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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