approved the Power Charge Indifference Adjustment (PCIA) mechanism to allow recovery of potential abovemarket costs associated with departing load for market/”bundled” energy storage projects but denied a request for an extension of the PCIA mechanism for market/”bundled” energy storage contracts beyond 10 years. Finally, the CPUC approved the proposed utility CEPs, with modifications, and directed that these evaluation protocols be used in the December 2014 solicitation requirements and bid materials. Following the Prehearing Conference (PHC) held on May 20, 2015, the Assigned Commissioner and Administrative Law Judges issued a Scoping Memo and Ruling on June 6, 2015 (First Scoping Memo and Ruling). The First Scoping Memo and Ruling determined that the proceeding would be divided into two tracks. Track 1 was narrowly scoped to consider issues that required resolution prior to the commencement of the utilities’ 2016 energy procurement solicitations and were resolved in D.1601032. Among other issues, D.1601032 approved the utilities’ request for additional flexibility of energy storage targets between grid domains, allowing the utilities to satisfy some of their transmission and distribution domain targets through customerconnected projects, up to a “ceiling” of 200 percent of the existing customer domain targets; clarified that direct current (DC)based storage used as part of a DC microgrid is an eligible storage product for purposes of meeting the storage targets but found that Hydrogenbased powertogas option (P2G), when injected into the natural gas pipeline system, is ineligible to meet the storage targets established in D.1310040 and the requirements of AB 2514; and established that credit for SGIPfunded energy storage projects should be split evenly between an unbundled customer’s
approved the Power Charge Indifference Adjustment (PCIA) mechanism to allow recovery of potential abovemarket costs associated with departing load for market/”bundled” energy storage projects but denied a request for an extension of the PCIA mechanism for market/”bundled” energy storage contracts beyond 10 years. Finally, the CPUC approved the proposed utility CEPs, with modifications, and directed that these evaluation protocols be used in the December 2014 solicitation requirements and bid materials. Following the Prehearing Conference (PHC) held on May 20, 2015, the Assigned Commissioner and Administrative Law Judges issued a Scoping Memo and Ruling on June 6, 2015 (First Scoping Memo and Ruling). The First Scoping Memo and Ruling determined that the proceeding would be divided into two tracks. Track 1 was narrowly scoped to consider issues that required resolution prior to the commencement of the utilities’ 2016 energy procurement solicitations and were resolved in D.1601032. Among other issues, D.1601032 approved the utilities’ request for additional flexibility of energy storage targets between grid domains, allowing the utilities to satisfy some of their transmission and distribution domain targets through customerconnected projects, up to a “ceiling” of 200 percent of the existing customer domain targets; clarified that direct current (DC)based storage used as part of a DC microgrid is an eligible storage product for purposes of meeting the storage targets but found that Hydrogenbased powertogas option (P2G), when injected into the natural gas pipeline system, is ineligible to meet the storage targets established in D.1310040 and the requirements of AB 2514; and established that credit for SGIPfunded energy storage projects should be split evenly between an unbundled customer’s
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