settlement agreement, 2, Response of Public Interest, Automaker, those contributions were and Labor Groups to Motions to numerous. Throughout filed by NRDC Consolidate Proceedings, the settlement process, on April 27, 2015. NRDC led a coalition comprised of the Greenlining Institute, Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund, Plug In America, the Coalition of California Utility Employees, Honda Motor Company, General Motors, and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. NRDC’s leadership and coordination of this broad and diverse coalition streamlined the settlement negotiation process and facilitated a near all-party settlement because the coalition negotiated as a block, providing collective, based demands and unified edits to settlement documents. Verified (B) Utility role in August 29, NRDC Comments, 2014: “The transportation Commission should consider an increased electrification investments role for utilities in PEV infrastructure and charging deployment for the reasons detailed in infrastructure ownership Section II. The role of the utilities should be to accelerate efficient transportation Throughout the course of electrification that minimizes adverse this proceeding, NRDC impacts to the electrical grid and maximizes has been a constant voice benefits to the body of utility customers, as in support of an increased well as facilitating progress toward other role for utility activity to clean energy goals adopted by both the accelerate transportation Commission and the state of California. and for the evaluation of NRDC recommends the Commission avoid utility proposals on a attempting to define abstract concepts such case-specific basis. as or to consider the “market failures” NRDC argued that the question of utility ownership in a theoretical Commission’s previous sense. Whether or not they include utility requirement of a ownership of charging infrastructure or demonstration of a
settlement agreement, those contributions were numerous. Throughout the settlement process, NRDC led a coalition comprised of the Greenlining Institute, Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund, Plug In America, the Coalition of California Utility Employees, Honda Motor Company, General Motors, and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. NRDC’s leadership and coordination of this broad and diverse coalition streamlined the settlement negotiation process and facilitated a near all-party settlement because the coalition negotiated as a block, providing collective, demands and unified edits to settlement documents. 2, Response of Public Interest, Automaker, and Labor Groups to Motions to Consolidate Proceedings, filed by NRDC on April 27, 2015. (B) Utility role in transportation electrification investments and charging infrastructure ownership Throughout the course of this proceeding, NRDC has been a constant voice in support of an increased role for utility activity to accelerate transportation and for the evaluation of utility proposals on a case-specific basis. NRDC argued that the Commission’s previous requirement of a demonstration of a NRDC Comments, August 29, 2014: “The Commission should consider an increased role for utilities in PEV infrastructure deployment for the reasons detailed in Section II. The role of the utilities should be to accelerate efficient transportation electrification that minimizes adverse impacts to the electrical grid and maximizes benefits to the body of utility customers, as well as facilitating progress toward other clean energy goals adopted by both the Commission and the state of California. NRDC recommends the Commission avoid attempting to define abstract concepts such as “market failures” or to consider the question of utility ownership in a theoretical sense. Whether or not they include utility ownership of charging infrastructure or based Verified
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