California Code of Regulations › Title 20 - Public Utilities and Energy › Division 2 - State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission › Chapter 4 - Energy Conservation › Article 5 - Load Management Standards › Section 1621 - General Provisions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(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.
(c) Definitions. In this article, the
				  following definitions apply:
(1) "Building
				  type" means the classification of a non-residential building in accordance with
				  California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Part 2, Chapter 3 of the California
				  Building Code.
(2) "Community
				  choice aggregators" or "CCAs" means entities as defined in Public Utilities
				  Code section
				  331.1.
(3) "Central air conditioner" means any
				  residential electric air conditioner which delivers cooled air through ducts to
				  rooms.
(4) "Commercial customers"
				  means those customers of a utility or CCA who run any business described in
				  Standard Industrial Classification Groups 40 through 86, and 89 through 99, and
				  which do not treat sewage or manufacture goods or provide other
				  process-oriented services.
(A) "Large
				  commercial customers" are those businesses whose demand for electricity equals
				  or exceeds 500 kilowatts.
(B)
				  "Small commercial customers" are those businesses whose demand for electricity
				  is less than 500 kilowatts.
(5) "Conditioned Space" means an enclosed
				  space within a building that is directly conditioned or indirectly conditioned,
				  consistent with California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Part 6, section
				  100.1(b).
(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.
(7) "Greenhouse gas" or "GHG" has the same
				  meaning as in California Code of Regulations, Title 17, section
				  95802.
(8) "Large Investor-Owned Utilities" and
				  "Large IOUs" mean the San Diego Gas and Electric Company, the Southern
				  California Edison Company, and the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
(9) "Large Publicly-Owned Utilities" and
				  "Large POUs" mean the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the
				  Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
(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.
(11) "Load
				  management tariff" means a tariff with time-dependent values that vary
				  according to the time of day to encourage off-peak electricity use and
				  reductions in peak electricity use.
(12) "Marginal cost" or "locational marginal
				  cost" means the change in current and future electric system cost that is
				  caused by a change in electricity supply and demand during a specified time
				  interval at a specified location.
(13) "Rate Identification Number" or "RIN"
				  means the unique identifier established by the Commission for an electricity
				  rate.
(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.
(15)
				  "Residential" means any family dwelling within the utility's or CCA's service
				  area which uses electricity for noncommercial purposes as defined in the
				  utility's or CCA's terms and conditions of service.
(16) "Service area" means any contiguous
				  geographic area serviced by the same electric utility or CCA.
(17) "Tariff" means a pricing schedule or
				  rate plan that a utility or CCA offers to their customers specifying the
				  components of the customer's electricity bill.
(18) "Time-dependent rate" means a rate that
				  can vary depending on the time of day to encourage off-peak electricity use and
				  reductions in peak electricity use. Time-of-use, hourly, and sub-hourly rates
				  are time-dependent rates.
(19)
				  "Time-of-use rate" means a rate with predefined prices that vary according to
				  the time of day, the season, and/or the day type (weekday, weekend, or
				  holiday).
(20) "Utility" means
				  those electric utilities to which the sections of this article apply, as
				  specified in subsection (b).
(21)
				  "Water heater" means any residential electric water heater except those which
				  provide hot water to heat space or those which operate within electric
				  dishwashers.