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Stakeholders press utilities on ICA ‘alignment’ with interconnection outcomes; utilities propose tracking and tool changes
Summary
Stakeholders at the CPUC workshop said ICA results are often misaligned with the formal generation interconnection and load energization outcomes and asked utilities to track discrepancies. Utilities said ICA is accurate to the CPUC methodology but not yet aligned for some use cases and proposed tracking and tool development to close the gap.
Stakeholders at a California Public Utilities Commission workshop pressed Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas & Electric to measure how well Integrated Capacity Analysis results align with results from formal interconnection and energization studies.
Multiple commenters — including representatives identified in the transcript as “Skye,” “Anthony” and Brian Lydic — described cases where published ICA zero‑capacity results did not match the outcome of engineering studies or interconnection filings. “How do you expect someone to use the ICA if it is meant to be used alongside traditional methods?” a stakeholder asked SCE, pressing the company for guidance about practical use by developers.
Utilities responded with a common theme: the utilities said ICA results are “accurate” in the sense that they reflect the CPUC‑adopted methodology and best available inputs, but outcomes can be misaligned with interconnection or energization outcomes because of differences in…
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