Procurement and Resource Adequacy

More History, continued

• Nov. 2, 2005: Proposed Decision Issued on Community Choice Aggregation and Workshop set.
• On Oct . 31, 2005, a Proposed Decision was issued on contract reallocation.
• Sept. 27, 2005: PUC issues proposed decision regarding Resource Adequacy
• Sept. 9, 2005: Commissioner Grueneich issued a scoping memo in A.05-06-003. SCE has asked permission to acquire up to 1500 MW of capacity through new power purchase agreements (PPAs).
• Sept. 8, 2005: ALJ ruling issued revising schedule for Phase 2 rebuttal testimony.
• Aug. 25, 2005: ALJ ruling issued regarding Capacity Markets staff white paper. Comments will be filed and served by September 9; reply comments will be filed and served by October 10.
• July 29, 2005: ALJ ruling issued which modifies interagency Confidentiality Agreement.
• June 10, 2005: ALJ ruling issued which provides Notice of Availability of Phase 2 Resource Adequacy Workshop Report and providing for comments. Comments are due July 8 and replies are due July 18.
• April 25, 2005: Incentive mechanism post-workshop comments were filed.
• April 2005: Resource adequacy workshops were held on April 21, 22 and 29.
• April 2005: Procurement incentive workshop report released for public comment.
• April 7, 2005: ALJ Ruling was issued. Additional resource adequacy workshops were scheduled, and the previously adopted Phase 2 schedule was rescinded and will be reset by future ruling.
• March 25, 2005: PG&E, SCE and SDG&E submitted compliance filings, as ordered by D.04-12-048. The utilities provided updated information to their short-term and long-term procurement plans.
• March 7-9, 2005: Procurement incentive workshops were held.
• Workshop Report,
• Appendix A,
• Appendices B-D and F,
• Schematic diagram,
• Appendix E  
• Jan. – Feb. 2005: Resource adequacy Phase II workshops were held.
• Dec. 16, 2004: The Commission adopted D.04-12-048. Decision adopts the utilities' long-term procurement plans that were filed in July 2004, allows for greater head-to-head competition and provides guidelines on all-source solicitations, resolves cost recovery issues, and begins integrating renewables procurement with general procurement.
• Oct. 28, 2004: The Commission adopted D.04-10-035. Resource adequacy Phase I decision.
• July 8, 2004: The Commission adopted D.04-07-028, indicating that reliability is not only the ISO's job. The decision clarifies and modifies prior orders to indicate that it is also a utility responsibility to procure all the resources necessary to meet its load, not only service area wide but also locally. In doing so, a utility must take into account not only cost but also transmission congestion and reliability.
• June 15, 2004: Resource adequacy workshop report released for public comment. Resource adequacy workshops were held on March 16; on April 6, 7, 12, 13, 14 and 26; and on May 5, 17, 18 and 26. The workshops addressed issues such as protocols for counting supply and demand resources, deliverability of resources to load, and load forecasting. The purpose of the report is to identify consensus agreements reached by workshop participants, identify issues where agreement does not exist, and set forth options to resolve those issues.
• June 9, 2004: The Commission issued D.04-06-011, on SDG&E's Grid Reliability RFP. This decision also closes R.01-10-024. This decision approves the five proposals that SDG&E presented to meet its short-term and long-term grid reliability needs. Among those five proposals includes approval for SDG&E to purchase the 550 MW Palomar plant (in 2006 when construction is complete) from its affiliate, Sempra Energy Resources; and sign a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement for 570 MW from Calpine's Otay Mesa plant.- Jan. 22, 2004 : The Commission adopted D.04-01-050. The decision addressed long-term procurement policy issues for PG&E, SCE and SDG&E. Major issues include resource adequacy and reserve requirements, market structure, financial capabilities, long-term planning assumptions and guidance, and confidentiality.