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CPUC staff lays out programmatic Reliable and Clean Power Procurement proposal for LSEs
Summary
Commission staff presented a staff proposal to create a program that integrates reliability procurement and greenhouse‑gas reduction procurement for load‑serving entities (LSEs), replacing the prior ‘‘order‑by‑order’’ approach with a multi‑year, programmatic framework. Staff asked stakeholders for clarifying questions and opened a comment period.
California Public Utilities Commission staff on April 29 convened an Integrated Resource Planning workshop to present a staff proposal for a Reliable and Clean Power Procurement Program intended to give load‑serving entities (LSEs) a predictable, programmatic pathway to procure resources that meet both reliability and greenhouse‑gas (GHG) requirements.
“Today we’re going to spend some time… talking about 1 of the, in my opinion, biggest proposals that has come out of IRP,” said Nathan Barsick, Acting Program Manager, Electricity Planning and Market Design Branch, CPUC Energy Division, opening the workshop.
Staff said the RCPP proposal is intended to complement existing programs — resource adequacy (RA), the renewable portfolio standard (RPS) and the IRP planning track — and to address challenges with the commission’s recent ‘‘order‑by‑order’’ procurement decisions. Sina Sufiani, project manager for the staff proposal, summarized the aim: the proposal “wants to create a procurement framework that, when combined with the RA and RPS programs, it basically gives LSEs a tool to procure their share of reliability resources and GHG reduction resources at least cost.”
The staff package released on April 29 includes a ruling, Attachment A (the staff proposal), Attachment B (a technical slide summary) and Attachment C (a summary of comments from the 2022 options paper). Administrative Law Judge Julie Fitch granted a short extension for comments: written comments are due July 15 and replies are due August 5, staff said. Barsick also reminded participants that the workshop is being recorded and that the Webex Q&A transcript and written Q&A will be posted on the proceeding web page; staff cautioned that the Q&A is not a formal record for the proceeding.
The staff package contains two broad parts: a reliability procurement component (with two alternative options) and a greenhouse‑gas reduction component (a single proposed Clean Energy Standard option modeled on RPS processes). Staff said the two parts are intended to operate together as complementary tools to achieve both reliability and emissions objectives.
Staff invited stakeholders to submit clarifying questions during the workshop Q&A and signaled additional stakeholder engagement to follow. “We will be sending something out to the relevant service lists regarding guidance for future process in the next week or two,” Barsick told participants at the close of the workshop.
The proposal and related materials are available on the CPUC IRP docket page. The staff package includes many technical design items (need determination, allocation, compliance cadence, enforcement and interconnection and implementation details) that staff said would be refined through stakeholder comment and subsequent proceedings.
