CPUC to Vote on PD Addressing PCIA Components and ESPs' Data Access

Several parties submitted comments on the PD, including The Utility Reform Network (“TURN”), Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”), California Community Choice Association (“CalCCA”), Southern California Edison Company (“SCE”), the Public Advocates Office at the CPUC (“Cal Advocates”), Shell Energy North America (“Shell Energy”), and the Alliance for Retail Energy Markets and Direct Access Customer Coalition (collectively, “AReM/DACC”).

In its comments, CalCCA states that it supports the PD, with the following limited comments and requested modifications:

1. The PD’s adoption of a minimum volume-based threshold of 1,000 gigawatt-hours for setting the GHG-Free MPB rather than a threshold based on the number of contracts entered into strikes a reasonable balance between the positions of the parties;
2. The Commission should require PG&E and SCE to file their Tier 1 Advice Letter indicating their election between the GHG-Free MPB or GHG-Free allocations for 2024 within 30 (rather than 60) days of the effective date of the final Decision to allow CCAs adequate time to plan for 2024; and
3. The final Decision should direct parties to the proper proceedings to address:

• Vintaging changes when an investor-owned utility (“IOU”) procurement contract is amended, renewed, or extended, which is the subject of a September 9, 2022 Motion filed by CalCCA in this proceeding; and
• The urgent need for a permanent framework to credit the Portfolio Allocation Balancing Account when IOUs use banked Renewable Energy Certificates for renewables portfolio standard compliance.

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