PART II: SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTION: Did the Intervenor substantially contribute to the final decision (see § 1802(j), § 1803(a), 1803.1(a) and D.98-04-059). Specific References to CPUC Discussion Intervenor’s Claimed Intervenor’s Contribution(s) Claimed Contribution(s) Summary D.18-02-018, p. 4, 9, 2 Verified In this Rulemaking, proceeding began with a great “This originally filed in deal of informal work by February 2016, the Commission staff and parties. proceeding began with a Commission staff circulated significant amount of informal working papers, conducted informal work such as webinars and workshops, and sought workshops, staff concept informal party comments over most papers, scenario of 2016 and the first half of 2017.” developments, modeling (p. 4) advisory groups, and September 19, 2017, an ALJ “On GHG emissions targets ruling was issued formally for IRP’s. Many parties incorporating the modeling results submitted informal into the record of the proceeding via comments including attachments to the ruling, and UCAN. A proposed seeking comment on a series of Reference System Plan questions embedded in the ruling. (RSP) was issued This September 19, 2017 ALJ ruling September 2017 and a represented the staff final decision setting the recommendation for the Reference requirements for LSE System Plan (RSP), proposed to be IRPs was issued adopted by the (p. 9) Commission.” February 2018. of this decision is to “The purpose of UCAN’s examination set requirements for all load-serving the issues focused on the entities (LSEs) under the jurisdiction best case scenarios for of the Commission to file Integrated the most flexible Resource Plans (IRPs) on or before Integrated Resource June 1, (p. 2) 2018.” Plans at the least cost to the Load Serving Entities (LSEs) that could simultaneously achieve State GHG reduction mandates but result in the lowest costs to utility ratepayers. Issues Verified
PART II: SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTION: Did the Intervenor substantially contribute to the final decision (see § 1802(j), § 1803(a), 1803.1(a) and D.98-04-059). Intervenor’s Claimed Contribution(s) Specific References to Intervenor’s Claimed Contribution(s) CPUC Discussion Summary In this Rulemaking, originally filed in February 2016, the proceeding began with a significant amount of informal work such as workshops, staff concept papers, scenario developments, modeling advisory groups, and GHG emissions targets for IRP’s. Many parties submitted informal comments including UCAN. A proposed Reference System Plan (RSP) was issued September 2017 and a final decision setting the requirements for LSE IRPs was issued February 2018. UCAN’s examination of the issues focused on the best case scenarios for the most flexible Integrated Resource Plans at the least cost to the Load Serving Entities (LSEs) that could simultaneously achieve State GHG reduction mandates but result in the lowest costs to utility ratepayers. D.18-02-018, p. 4, 9, 2 “This proceeding began with a great deal of informal work by Commission staff and parties. Commission staff circulated informal working papers, conducted webinars and workshops, and sought informal party comments over most of 2016 and the first half of 2017.” (p. 4) “On September 19, 2017, an ALJ ruling was issued formally incorporating the modeling results into the record of the proceeding via attachments to the ruling, and seeking comment on a series of questions embedded in the ruling. This September 19, 2017 ALJ ruling represented the staff recommendation for the Reference System Plan (RSP), proposed to be adopted by the Commission.” (p. 9) “The purpose of this decision is to set requirements for all load-serving entities (LSEs) under the jurisdiction of the Commission to file Integrated Resource Plans (IRPs) on or before June 1, 2018.” (p. 2) Verified Issues Verified
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