§ 1621. General Provisions.
20 CA ADC § 1621Barclays Official California Code of RegulationsEffective: April 1, 2023
Effective: April 1, 2023
20 CCR § 1621
§ 1621. General Provisions.
(a) Purpose. This article establishes electric load management standards pursuant to Section 25403.5 of the Public Resources Code. These standards establish cost-effective programs and rate structures which will encourage the use of electrical energy at off-peak hours and encourage the control of daily and seasonal peak loads to improve electric system equity, efficiency, and reliability, lessen or delay the need for new electrical capacity, and reduce fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, thereby lowering the long-term economic and environmental costs of meeting the State's electricity needs. These load management standards do not set rates. The standards instead require that entities subject to this article offer rates or programs structured according to the requirements established herein.
(b) Application. Except as set forth below, each of the standards in this article applies to the following electric utilities: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, San Diego Gas and Electric Company, Southern California Edison Company, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, and Sacramento Municipal Utility District. In addition, the standards set forth in subsections 1621 and 1623 of this article apply to any Large Community Choice Aggregators (CCA) operating within the service areas and receiving distribution services from the foregoing electric utilities. Large CCAs are not subject to subsections 1622, 1624, and 1625 of this article. Section 1621 subsections (d)-(g) and Section 1623 subsections (a), (b) and (d) do not apply to either the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District or to the Large CCAs. The standards set forth in Section 1623.1 apply to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District and to the Large CCAs. The Commission has found these standards to be technologically feasible and cost-effective when compared with the costs for new electrical capacity for the above-named electric utilities, and Large CCAs operating within the service areas of such electric utilities.
(6) “Customer class” means a broad group of customers used for rate design. Customer classes include but are not limited to residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural, but does not include street lighting. “Customer” or “customers” mean a customer or customers of a utility or Large CCA within a customer class.
(10) “Large Community Choice Aggregators” and “Large CCAs” mean the Clean Power Alliance of Southern California, East Bay Community Energy, Marin Clean Energy, Central Coast Community Energy, Silicon Valley Clean Energy Authority, San Jose Clean Energy, Peninsula Clean Energy Authority, Clean Power SF, Sonoma Clean Power Authority, San Diego Community Power, Pioneer Community Energy, Valley Clean Energy, and any community choice aggregator that provides in excess of 700 GWh of electricity to customers in any calendar year. For community choice aggregators that become subject to these regulations after their effective date, the effective date of their compliance obligations shall be April 1 of the year after they exceed the 700 GWh threshold.
(14) “Rate-approving body” means the California Public Utilities Commission in the case of investor-owned utilities, or the governing body of CCAs or publicly owned utilities. For purposes of this article, the Board of Water and Power Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles is the rate-approving body for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
(2) The Executive Director shall review the plans and either return them to the Large IOU for revision or submit them to the Commission for review and potential approval. The Executive Director may recommend, and the Commission may approve, a submittal on condition that the Large IOU make specified changes or additions to the submittal, within a reasonable period of time set by the Commission. A conditionally-approved plan shall not become effective until the Large IOU makes the specified changes or additions to the submittal under review. The Commission shall approve submittals which are consistent with these regulations and which show a good faith effort to plan to meet program goals for the standards. In reviewing a plan, the Executive Director and the Commission may request additional information consistent with Sections 1621 and 1623.
(3) All proposed plan revisions must be submitted to the Executive Director for review. The Executive Director may approve plan revisions that do not affect compliance with the requirements of Sections 1621 or 1623. The Executive Director shall submit all other plan revisions to the Commission for approval.
(1) Large IOUs may apply to the Executive Director for an exemption from the requirements of Sections 1621 and 1623 of this article, to delay compliance with its requirements, or to modify a load management standard compliance plan. The Commission may, by resolution, order a Large IOU to modify its approved load management standard plan. Upon such order by the Commission, a Large IOU shall submit an application to modify its plan within 90 days of the Commission's order.
(C) requiring timely compliance with the requirements of this article would not be technologically feasible or cost-effective for the Large IOU to implement. Applications for exemptions or delays may be supported by proposing pilot programs that demonstrate how and when a Large IOU will come into compliance with the requirements of this article.
(3) Applications for modifications shall demonstrate that despite the Large IOU's good faith efforts to implement its load management standard plan, the plan must be modified to provide a more technologically feasible, equitable, safe or cost-effective way to achieve the requirements of this article or the plan's goals.
(4) The Executive Director shall review applications for exemptions, delays, and modifications and make an initial determination of whether an application demonstrates the requirements of either subsection (2) or (3) above. The Executive Director shall then submit the application to the Commission with a recommendation of whether to approve or reject the application based on their initial determination. In reviewing these applications, the Executive Director and the Commission may request additional information or revisions of the application from a Large IOU consistent with Sections 1621 and 1623. If a Large IOU fails to provide information or revisions by a deadline established by the Executive Director or the Commission, the Commission may deny the application on that basis. The Commission may place conditions on its approval of plans or material plan revisions that are necessary to guarantee that the plan or plan revision will comply with Section 1621 and 1623 by a date certain.
In its rate applications, each Large IOU shall seek to recover the full costs associated with conducting each program required by this article from the class of customers which the program most directly affects. The Large IOU shall not be required to commence implementation of any program required by this article until the Large IOU's rate-approving body has approved the tariffs which are a part of any such program and a method for recovering the costs of the program. This does not affect any obligations Large IOUs have under Section 1623(b).
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Note: Authority cited: Sections 25213, 25218(e) and 25403.5, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 25132 and 25403.5, Public Resources Code.
History
1. New Article 5 (Sections 1621-1625) filed 6-8-79; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 79, No. 23).
2. Amendment of subsections (a), (b), (c)(9), (d) and (h)(3); new subsection (c)(10); and repealer of former subsection (j) filed 8-13-82; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 82, No. 33).
3. Amendment of section and Note filed 1-20-2023; operative 4-1-2023 (Register 2023, No. 3).
This database is current through 5/10/24 Register 2024, No. 19.
Cal. Admin. Code tit. 20, § 1621, 20 CA ADC § 1621
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