The updated naming convention for the Avoided Cost Calculator is reasonable. It is reasonable that all cost-effectiveness analysis should use the latest approved after-tax Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) for each utility as the discount rate. The updates to the Avoided Cost Calculator found reasonable in this resolution are adopted for use in demand-side distributed energy resource cost-effectiveness analyses. This Resolution is effective today. I certify that the foregoing resolution was duly introduced, passed and adopted at a conference of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California held on September 29, 2016, the following Commissioners voting favorably thereon: /s/TIMOTHY J. SULLIVAN_______ TIMOTHY J. SULLIVAN Executive Director MICHAEL PICKER President MICHEL PETER FLORIO CATHERINE J.K.SANDOVAL LIANE M. RANDOLPH Commissioners Commissioner J. Peterman, being necessarily absent, did not participate.
The updated naming convention for the Avoided Cost Calculator is reasonable. It is reasonable that all cost-effectiveness analysis should use the latest approved after-tax Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) for each utility as the discount rate. The updates to the Avoided Cost Calculator found reasonable in this resolution are adopted for use in demand-side distributed energy resource cost-effectiveness analyses. This Resolution is effective today. I certify that the foregoing resolution was duly introduced, passed and adopted at a conference of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California held on September 29, 2016, the following Commissioners voting favorably thereon: /s/TIMOTHY J. SULLIVAN_______ TIMOTHY J. SULLIVAN Executive Director MICHAEL PICKER President MICHEL PETER FLORIO CATHERINE J.K.SANDOVAL LIANE M. RANDOLPH Commissioners Commissioner J. Peterman, being necessarily absent, did not participate.
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