Because all demand response programs must follow the principle established by D.16-09-056, the Utilities should consider incorporating supply-side programs in their pilot plans. Because designing pilot programs achieving the test objectives stated in the Proposal and listed in this Decision will lead to economic benefits and help the Commission and the parties learn more about customers from disadvantaged communities and their needs, we find them reasonable. Goal of the pilots should not be to compare third and utility performances, but to test the pilot design objectives. In order to show compliance with the requirements listed in the Proposal and guidance provided in this Decision, the Utilities should include the following in their Pilot Plan to be submitted with their Advice Letter: Target location (which disadvantaged communities in a local capacity area); strategy to target residential and small commercial customers in disadvantaged communities; the amount and form of economic benefit for the participating customer, and third party, including the amount of capacity payments and how they would be allocated; if and how the proposed pilot will be bid into the CAISO market, e.g., as part of an existing program if it is not large enough to meet the CAISO requirements for aggregation size by sub-LAP; theory of the pilot intervention, e.g., a logic model, and how it would meet the purpose and goal adopted in this Decision; how the Utilities are coordinating with the Disadvantaged Communities Advisory Group; if and how the Utilities are coordinating with each other in their proposed ideas and building off past and current pilots; how to track cost-effectiveness for the purpose of informing future programs; justification for choice of third party or Utility; and explanation for how the third parties would gain the necessary data for the pilots.
Because all demand response programs must follow the principle established by D.16-09-056, the Utilities should consider incorporating supply-side programs in their pilot plans. Because designing pilot programs achieving the test objectives stated in the Proposal and listed in this Decision will lead to economic benefits and help the Commission and the parties learn more about customers from disadvantaged communities and their needs, we find them reasonable. Goal of the pilots should not be to compare third and utility performances, but to test the pilot design objectives. In order to show compliance with the requirements listed in the Proposal and guidance provided in this Decision, the Utilities should include the following in their Pilot Plan to be submitted with their Advice Letter: Target location (which disadvantaged communities in a local capacity area); strategy to target residential and small commercial customers in disadvantaged communities; the amount and form of economic benefit for the participating customer, and third party, including the amount of capacity payments and how they would be allocated; if and how the proposed pilot will be bid into the CAISO market, e.g., as part of an existing program if it is not large enough to meet the CAISO requirements for aggregation size by sub-LAP; theory of the pilot intervention, e.g., a logic model, and how it would meet the purpose and goal adopted in this Decision; how the Utilities are coordinating with the Disadvantaged Communities Advisory Group; if and how the Utilities are coordinating with each other in their proposed ideas and building off past and current pilots; how to track cost-effectiveness for the purpose of informing future programs; justification for choice of third party or Utility; and explanation for how the third parties would gain the necessary data for the pilots.
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