“community” as customers within the same municipality or county, or within ten miles of the customer’s address. PG&E’s suggested definition is approved, but, as many parties pointed out in their comments, other definitions of community may be appropriate or necessary in order to fulfill the intent of SB 43. For example, community for purposes of the EJ Reservation a party could propose the definition of community be expanded to include shared interest communities located anywhere in the service territory. These additional definitions of community for purposes of siting ECR projects will be examined in Phase IV. We direct the IOUs to base their assessment of community interest on the following criteria: (a) documentation that community members have committed to enroll in 30% of the project’s capacity or documentation that community members have provided expressions of interest in the project sufficient to reach 51% subscription rate; and (b) a minimum of three separate subscribers to reflect the “shared” aspect of the program. We agree with CCSF that allowing institutional customers to guarantee subscription levels for new projects may be sufficient to establish community interest. In particular, if the guarantee is from a municipality working to develop ECR projects in its community, then this guarantee is a sufficient demonstration of community interest. PG&E argues that in addition each project must meet a 50% residential enrollment threshold. We agree with PG&E that it is important to ensure that residential customers have the opportunity to participate in ECR projects. We do not agree that the residential requirement is necessary or conducive to developing a successful ECR component of the GTSR Program. Therefore, we require that the IOUs ensure that at least at least one ECR project have a residential subscription of at least 50%.
“community” as customers within the same municipality or county, or within ten miles of the customer’s address. PG&E’s suggested definition is approved, but, as many parties pointed out in their comments, other definitions of community may be appropriate or necessary in order to fulfill the intent of SB 43. For example, community for purposes of the EJ Reservation a party could propose the definition of community be expanded to include shared interest communities located anywhere in the service territory. These additional definitions of community for purposes of siting ECR projects will be examined in Phase IV. We direct the IOUs to base their assessment of community interest on the following criteria: (a) documentation that community members have committed to enroll in 30% of the project’s capacity or documentation that community members have provided expressions of interest in the project sufficient to reach 51% subscription rate; and (b) a minimum of three separate subscribers to reflect the “shared” aspect of the program. We agree with CCSF that allowing institutional customers to guarantee subscription levels for new projects may be sufficient to establish community interest. In particular, if the guarantee is from a municipality working to develop ECR projects in its community, then this guarantee is a sufficient demonstration of community interest. PG&E argues that in addition each project must meet a 50% residential enrollment threshold. We agree with PG&E that it is important to ensure that residential customers have the opportunity to participate in ECR projects. We do not agree that the residential requirement is necessary or conducive to developing a successful ECR component of the GTSR Program. Therefore, we require that the IOUs ensure that at least at least one ECR project have a residential subscription of at least 50%.
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