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 3201 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions apply to this chapter:
(a) "Annual procurement target" means the
				amount of procurement that a POU must meet for a particular year for the
				purposes of calculating historic carryover.
(b) "Balancing authority" means a balancing
				authority as defined in Public Utilities Code section
				399.12(b).
(c) "Balancing authority area" means a
				balancing authority area as defined in Public Utilities Code section
				399.12(c).
(d) "Baseline" means the initial RPS
				procurement of a POU that will form the basis of that POU's annual procurement
				targets.
(e) "Bundled" means an
				electricity product that, when procured by the POU claiming the electricity
				product to satisfy its RPS procurement requirements, includes both the
				electricity and the associated renewable energy credits from an eligible
				renewable energy resource. For example, if the POU claiming an electricity
				product owns the associated eligible renewable energy resource, then all
				electricity products, including those associated with electricity consumed
				onsite, may be considered bundled electricity products.
(f) "California balancing authority" means a
				balancing authority primarily located in California with more than 50 percent
				of its end-use electric load physically located within the political boundaries
				of California. This includes balancing authority areas operated by the
				California Independent System Operator Corporation, Los Angeles Department of
				Water and Power, Balancing Authority of Northern California, Imperial
				Irrigation District, and Turlock Irrigation District.
(g) "Commission" means the State Energy
				Resources Conservation and Development Commission, commonly known as the
				California Energy Commission.
(h)
				"Compliance period" means the compliance period as defined in Public Utilities
				Code section
				399.30(b)
				or the compliance period established by the Commission pursuant to Public
				Utilities Code section
				399.30(c).
(i) "Compliance report" means the report that
				each POU files with the Commission following the end of a compliance period as
				specified in section
				3207.
(j) "Contract end date" means the last date
				that a POU is deemed to have procured electricity products from the
				counterparty to the contract. For example, if a contract requires the
				counterparty to supply the POU with electricity products from July 1, 2020,
				through January 1, 2025, the contract end date is January 1, 2025.
(k) "Contract execution date" means the date
				that a contract is signed or approved through other action by the last party to
				sign the contract or approve it through other action.
(l) "Contract start date" means the first
				date after the contract is executed that a POU is deemed to have procured
				electricity products from the counterparty to the contract. For example, if a
				contract is executed on January 1, 2020, and requires the counterparty to
				supply the POU with electricity products starting on July 1, 2020, the contract
				start date is July 1, 2020.
(m)
				"Electricity product" means either:
(1)
				Electricity and the associated renewable energy credit generated by an eligible
				renewable energy resource.
(2) An
				unbundled renewable energy credit.