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assumptions. (Opening Comments of California Environmental Justice Alliance and Sierra Club On Administrative Law Judge’s Ruling Seeking Comment on Staff Proposal on Process for Integrated Resource Planning, June 28, 2017; Sierra Club and CEJA commented that the Commission should improve its analysis of demand side resources. “A key improvement that will need to be made is, as PG&E recommends, “treating demand-side resources as candidate resources to the fullest extent possible.” Right now, distributed resources and locational benefits are not accounted for and not considered as ways to meet demand.” (Reply Comments of California Environmental Justice Alliance and Sierra Club on Administrative Law Judge’s Ruling Seeking Comment on Staff Proposal on Process for Integrated Resource Planning, p. 10, July 12, 2017) Sierra Club and CEJA also comment that the Commission should contained in the modeling. Many comments point to improvements that Commission staff intends to make for the next round of optimization analysis that will likely occur beginning in 2019. Commission staff plans to improve the modeling with the participation of parties as part of a public process, similar to this proceeding, where there are workshops and periodic informal work products.” (p. 51)) “For data updates, staff anticipates modifying assumptions for all resource types based, at least in part, on results from any relevant solicitations, including utility-scale resources and DERs… Staff also anticipates updating the transmission costs and potential, land-use information, system requirements, local capacity requirements, avoided GHG and other air pollutant emissions from other sectors, and avoided GHG emissions related to the gas transmission and distribution system.” (p. 51) “For model functionality updates, staff will explore the following issues…Including all DERs as candidate resources at appropriate levels of aggregation, including energy efficiency, shimmy demand response, BTM PV,
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