California Code of Regulations › Title 20 - Public Utilities and Energy › Division 2 - State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission › Chapter 13 - Enforcement Procedures for the Renewables Portfolio Standard for Local Publicly Owned Electric Utilities › Section 3203 - Portfolio Content Categories

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
				Portfolio Content Category 1
(1) Portfolio
				Content Category 1 electricity products must be procured bundled to be
				classified as Portfolio Content Category 1, and the POU may not resell the
				underlying electricity from the electricity product back to the eligible
				renewable energy resource from which the electricity product was procured. The
				electricity products must be generated by an eligible renewable energy resource
				that is interconnected to a transmission network within the WECC service
				territory. For purposes of this section
				3203, the first point of
				interconnection to the WECC transmission grid is the substation or other
				facility where generation tie lines from the eligible renewable energy resource
				interconnect to the network transmission grid. Portfolio Content Category 1
				electricity products must also meet one of the following criteria:
(A) Electricity products must be generated by
				an eligible renewable energy resource that has its first point of
				interconnection within the metered boundaries of a California balancing
				authority area.
(B) Electricity
				products must be generated by an eligible renewable energy resource that has
				its first point of interconnection to an electricity distribution system used
				to serve end users within the metered boundaries of a California balancing
				authority area. For purposes of this section
				3203, the first point of
				interconnection to an electricity distribution system is within the service
				area boundaries of a utility distribution company.
(C) Electricity products from the eligible
				renewable energy resource with a first point of interconnection outside the
				metered boundaries of a California balancing authority must be scheduled into a
				California balancing authority without substituting electricity from another
				source. For purposes of this section
				3203, electricity generated by the
				eligible renewable energy resource must be scheduled into a California
				balancing authority on an hourly or subhourly basis, and the POU's governing
				board or other authority, as delegated by the POU governing board, must have
				approved an agreement, before the electricity is generated, to schedule the
				electricity from the eligible renewable energy resource into the California
				balancing authority on an hourly or subhourly basis. If there is a difference
				between the amount of electricity generated within an hour and the amount of
				electricity scheduled into a California balancing authority within that same
				hour, only the lesser of the two amounts shall be classified as Portfolio
				Content Category 1.
(D) Electricity
				products must be subject to an agreement between a California balancing
				authority and the balancing authority in which the eligible renewable energy
				resource is located, executed before the product is generated, to dynamically
				transfer electricity from the eligible renewable energy resource into the
				California balancing authority area. For purposes of this section
				3203, electricity generated by the
				eligible renewable energy resource shall be scheduled into a California
				balancing authority area on an hourly or subhourly basis.