either (1) a negotiated price reduction specific to the project; or (2) the application of only” TOD factors in place of “energy factors until such time as the project is deemed fully “FCDS” deliverable. Economic Curtailment The issue of curtailment is a result of the operational characteristics of the facilities within the renewable market (both those procured pursuant to the RPS program, as well as customer-side facilities). These resources are typically intermittent, which results in generation profiles that do not necessarily sync with load. SDG&E states it does not have a robust set of data with which to perform a detailed economic curtailment analysis at this time because (i) SDG&E does not have the right to curtail the majority of its facilities and the number of such facilities has evolved over time, and (ii) the CAISO’s revisions have been in effect for a little over one year and economic curtailments have only recently begun. However, SDG&E believes that economic curtailment analysis will be possible in the future as contracts are amended to include economic curtailment rights, the updated contracts (attached as Appendices 6, 7, and 11.A to SDG&E’s 2015 RPS Plan) which includes economic curtailment rights is used in further contracting, and as the passage of time yields a more complete set of data. SDG&E anticipates that this data could, for example, potentially be used to forecast curtailment, inform how SDG&E bids energy into the CAISO, and/or enhance the LCBF calculation. Expiring Contracts Appendix 4 to SDG&E’s 2015 RPS Plan lists the contracts in SDG&E’s portfolio, as of June 2015, that will be expiring in the next 10 years.
either (1) a negotiated price reduction specific to the project; or (2) the application of “energy only” TOD factors in place of “FCDS” factors until such time as the project is deemed fully deliverable. Economic Curtailment The issue of curtailment is a result of the operational characteristics of the facilities within the renewable market (both those procured pursuant to the RPS program, as well as customer-side facilities). These resources are typically intermittent, which results in generation profiles that do not necessarily sync with load. SDG&E states it does not have a robust set of data with which to perform a detailed economic curtailment analysis at this time because (i) SDG&E does not have the right to curtail the majority of its facilities and the number of such facilities has evolved over time, and (ii) the CAISO’s revisions have been in effect for a little over one year and economic curtailments have only recently begun. However, SDG&E believes that economic curtailment analysis will be possible in the future as contracts are amended to include economic curtailment rights, the updated contracts (attached as Appendices 6, 7, and 11.A to SDG&E’s 2015 RPS Plan) which includes economic curtailment rights is used in further contracting, and as the passage of time yields a more complete set of data. SDG&E anticipates that this data could, for example, potentially be used to forecast curtailment, inform how SDG&E bids energy into the CAISO, and/or enhance the LCBF calculation. Expiring Contracts Appendix 4 to SDG&E’s 2015 RPS Plan lists the contracts in SDG&E’s portfolio, as of June 2015, that will be expiring in the next 10 years.