Rulemaking proceedings, etc. - plans must describe “LSE must be directed to ensure that policies and evaluation criteria there be no more new fossil fueled to apply in planning and power generation permitted and deciding when to retire, cancel, that existing plants are phased out or not renew contracts for as existing gas generation units base load.” (POC Comment On Proposed Reference System Plan that emit air pollutants that And Related Commission Policy impact disadvantaged Actions at p. 10; See also POC (Decision at communities.” Comment On Ruling Of Assigned p. 70.) Commissioner And Administrative Law Judge Requesting Comments both because of the “Finally, On Disadvantaged Communities clear nexus between natural gas And Other Aspects Of Senate generation and emissions in Bill 350 at pp. 2-4.) disadvantaged communities within the electric sector and and foremost, the policy because a portfolio that “First objective for this proceeding in includes new gas plant – particular the reduction of procurement would be greenhouse gases and improvement inconsistent with the portfolio of disadvantaged communities we are adopting in this decision – cannot be achieved without a phase (the Reference System out of fossil fuel power plants. Portfolio, discussed further in (POC Reply Comment On Section 8 below), we will Proposed Reference System Plan require that any LSE proposing And Related Commission Policy to develop new natural gas Actions at p. 3.) resources or re-contract with existing natural gas resources in decrease in the use of fossil fuel their IRP for a term of five “A power plants is the most important years or more, regardless of part of improving disadvantaged whether it is located in a communities and failure to disadvantaged community, sufficiently address the fossil fuel make a showing as to why power plant fleet is a failure to another lower-emitting or those suffering from the harm to preferably zero-emitting their health and quality of life that resource could not reasonably those living in the shadow of gas meet the need identified. . .” power plants (POC Reply (Decision at p. 70; See also suffer.” Comment On Proposed Reference Decision at Conclusion of Law System Plan And Related 8.)
Rulemaking proceedings, etc. - must be directed to ensure that there be no more new fossil fueled power generation permitted and that existing plants are phased out as base load.” (POC Comment On Proposed Reference System Plan And Related Commission Policy Actions at p. 10; See also POC Comment On Ruling Of Assigned Commissioner And Administrative Law Judge Requesting Comments On Disadvantaged Communities And Other Aspects Of Senate Bill 350 at pp. 2-4.) “First and foremost, the policy objective for this proceeding – in particular the reduction of greenhouse gases and improvement of disadvantaged communities – cannot be achieved without a phase out of fossil fuel power plants. (POC Reply Comment On Proposed Reference System Plan And Related Commission Policy Actions at p. 3.) “A decrease in the use of fossil fuel power plants is the most important part of improving disadvantaged communities and failure to sufficiently address the fossil fuel power plant fleet is a failure to those suffering from the harm to their health and quality of life that those living in the shadow of gas power plants suffer.” (POC Reply Comment On Proposed Reference System Plan And Related “LSE plans must describe policies and evaluation criteria to apply in planning and deciding when to retire, cancel, or not renew contracts for existing gas generation units that emit air pollutants that impact disadvantaged communities.” (Decision at p. 70.) “Finally, both because of the clear nexus between natural gas generation and emissions in disadvantaged communities within the electric sector and because a portfolio that includes new gas plant procurement would be inconsistent with the portfolio we are adopting in this decision (the Reference System Portfolio, discussed further in Section 8 below), we will require that any LSE proposing to develop new natural gas resources or re-contract with existing natural gas resources in their IRP for a term of five years or more, regardless of whether it is located in a disadvantaged community, make a showing as to why another lower-emitting or preferably zero-emitting resource could not reasonably meet the need identified. . .” (Decision at p. 70; See also Decision at Conclusion of Law 8.)
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