Section 80714.
Cal. Water Code - WAT § 80714.
in effect(a)
(1)
Upon the submission of the report pursuant to subdivision (d) and on and before June 30, 2027, if the Department of Water Resources determines that resources it procured through the Electricity Supply Strategic Reliability Reserve Program were used in a given month to meet an identified reliability need, the executive director of the commission shall annually assess a capacity payment on each local publicly owned electric utility in the Independent System Operator balancing area that during that same month fails to meet its minimum planning reserve margin.
(2)
The annual capacity payment shall be remitted to the Local Publicly Owned Electric Utility Capacity Payment Account by a local publicly owned electric utility
that was assessed a capacity payment pursuant to paragraph (1) within 30 days of the executive director notifying the local publicly owned electric utility.
(b)
Upon the submission of the report pursuant to subdivision (d), the commission, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission, shall determine a capacity payment unit cost in kilowatt per month for local publicly owned electric utilities that is based on the monthly cost of the resources procured using moneys from the Department of Water Resources Electricity Supply Reliability Reserve Fund, including the Local Publicly Owned Electric Utility Capacity Payment Account, with the total costs weighted two-thirds for June through September and one-third for the remaining eight months, and this unit cost shall be multiplied by the amount of kilowatts that the local publicly owned electric utility was deficient in its minimum planning reserve margin during the same month the Electricity
Supply Strategic Reliability Reserve Program resources were used using the same resource counting conventions applied by the Public Utilities Commission pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 80713, after crediting the deficient local publicly owned electric utilities with their share of any reliability resources procured by other entities on their behalf. The commission may make any further adjustments to the capacity values of any nonperforming resources included in a local publicly owned electric utility’s portfolio when determining the amount of this deficiency. Any adjustments made by the commission shall align with any adjustments made by the Public Utilities Commission as authorized by subdivision (b) of Section 80713.
(c)
Upon the submission of the report pursuant to subdivision (d), the commission may adopt regulations to implement this section.
(d)
On or before January
31, 2024, the commission, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission, shall submit a report to the appropriate policy and budget committees of the Legislature that includes an assessment of whether each local publicly owned electric utility exceeded, met, or failed to meet its minimum planning reserve margin for 2023 and the system resource adequacy requirements from June 1, 2023, to September 30, 2023, inclusive, that the Public Utilities Commission established for load-serving entities pursuant to Section 380 of the Public Utilities Code and adopted in Public Utilities Commission Decision 22-06-050 (June 23, 2022) Decision Adopting Local Capacity Obligations for 2023–2025, Flexible Capacity Obligations for 2023, and Reform Track Framework.
(e)
For purposes of this section, “minimum planning reserve margin” means a local publicly owned electric utility’s planning reserve margin, as described in Section 9620 of the Public Utilities
Code, unless the local publicly owned electric utility revises that planning reserve margin based on recommendations from the commission pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 25704.5 of the Public Resources Code, in which case “minimum planning reserve margin” means the local publicly owned electric utility’s revised minimum planning reserve margin.
References
referencesCal. Public Utilities Code - PUC § 380.
referencesCal. Public Utilities Code - PUC § 9620.
referencesCal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 25704.5.
referencesCal. Water Code - WAT § 80713.
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