The following parties filed comments on the proposal: PG&E, SCE, SDG&E, the CCAs, ORA, Clean Coalition, and LSA. PG&E, SCE, SDG&E, and ORA filed reply comments. CalWEA did not comment directly on the proposal and instead offered their proposal for a Small Wind RAM Program. Utilities Subject to Pub. Util. Code § 399.17 RPS procurement requirements for multijurisdictional utilities and successors allow these utilities to meet their RPS procurement obligations without regard to the portfolio content category limitations in Pub. Util. Code § 399.16. Multijurisdictional utilities, i.e., PacifiCorp, also have the ability to use an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) prepared for regulatory agencies in other states to satisfy the annual RPS Procurement Plan requirement so long as the IRP complies with the requirements specified in Pub. Util. Code § 399.17(d). PacifiCorp prepares its IRP on a biennial schedule, filing its plan in odd numbered years. It files a supplement to this plan in even numbered years. As required by D.0805029, PacifiCorp must file and serve its IRP in Rulemaking (R.) 0605027 or its successor proceeding at the same time it files with the jurisdictions requiring the IRP, and an IRP Supplement within 30 days of filing its IRP. PacifiCorp filed its 2017 IRP on April 4, 2017, an Amendment to its 2017 IRP on April 11, 2017, and its year” supplement to its 2017 IRP on May “on 4, 2017. Liberty Utilities (Liberty), on the other hand, is not a multi-state utility and does not prepare an IRP. Therefore, we required that Liberty prepare an RPS Procurement Plan subject to the same requirements as a small utility under Pub. Util. Code § 399.18.
The following parties filed comments on the proposal: PG&E, SCE, SDG&E, the CCAs, ORA, Clean Coalition, and LSA. PG&E, SCE, SDG&E, and ORA filed reply comments. CalWEA did not comment directly on the proposal and instead offered their proposal for a Small Wind RAM Program. Utilities Subject to Pub. Util. Code § 399.17 RPS procurement requirements for multijurisdictional utilities and successors allow these utilities to meet their RPS procurement obligations without regard to the portfolio content category limitations in Pub. Util. Code § 399.16. Multijurisdictional utilities, i.e., PacifiCorp, also have the ability to use an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) prepared for regulatory agencies in other states to satisfy the annual RPS Procurement Plan requirement so long as the IRP complies with the requirements specified in Pub. Util. Code § 399.17(d). PacifiCorp prepares its IRP on a biennial schedule, filing its plan in odd numbered years. It files a supplement to this plan in even numbered years. As required by D.0805029, PacifiCorp must file and serve its IRP in Rulemaking (R.) 0605027 or its successor proceeding at the same time it files with the jurisdictions requiring the IRP, and an IRP Supplement within 30 days of filing its IRP. PacifiCorp filed its 2017 IRP on April 4, 2017, an Amendment to its 2017 IRP on April 11, 2017, and its “on year” supplement to its 2017 IRP on May 4, 2017. Liberty Utilities (Liberty), on the other hand, is not a multi-state utility and does not prepare an IRP. Therefore, we required that Liberty prepare an RPS Procurement Plan subject to the same requirements as a small utility under Pub. Util. Code § 399.18.
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