California Code of Regulations › Title 20 - Public Utilities and Energy › Division 2 - State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission › Chapter 3 - Data Collection › Article 5 - Electricity Generation Source Disclosure › Section 1391 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Asset-controlling supplier" means any entity that owns or
					 operates interconnected electricity generating facilities or serves as an
					 exclusive marketer for these facilities even though it does not own them, and
					 is assigned a supplier-specific identification number and greenhouse gas (GHG)
					 emissions factor by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for the wholesale
					 electricity procured from its system and imported into California.
"Balancing authority" means the responsible entity that
					 integrates resource plans ahead of time, maintains load-interchange generation
					 balance within a balancing authority area, and supports interconnection
					 frequency in real time.
"Biogenic fuels" means biomass, biowaste, or biomethane
					 from an eligible renewable generator.
"California balancing authority" is a balancing authority
					 with control over a balancing authority area primarily located in California. A
					 California balancing authority is responsible for the operation of the
					 transmission grid within its metered boundaries, which may extend beyond the
					 geographical boundaries of the State of California.
"Carbon dioxide equivalent" or
					 "CO2e" means the number of units of mass of
					 CO2 emissions with the same global warming potential as
					 one unit of another GHG when calculated using the individual global warming
					 potentials as specified in the "global warming potential" definition in title
					 17, California Code of Regulations, section
					 95102.
"Cogenerator" means a generating unit that produces
					 electric energy and useful thermal energy for industrial, commercial, or
					 heating and cooling purposes, through the sequential or simultaneous use of the
					 original fuel energy and waste heat recovery.
"Custom electricity portfolio" means an electricity
					 portfolio negotiated under private agreement specifically for one
					 non-residential entity that is not offered in the retail supplier's general
					 marketing materials and that has a discrete combination of resource
					 characteristics, including generator locations, fuel types, and emissions
					 rates.
"Delivered electricity" means electricity from a facility
					 or from specified system power of an asset-controlling supplier that has one of
					 the following three characteristics:
(1) has a first point of interconnection
				  within the metered boundaries of a California balancing authority or a first
				  point of interconnection with an electrical distribution system used to serve
				  end users within the metered boundaries of a California balancing authority
				  area;
(2) is scheduled into a
				  California balancing authority without substituting electricity from another
				  source; or
(3) is subject to an
				  agreement between a California balancing authority and the balancing authority
				  in which an eligible renewable energy resource is located, executed before the
				  product is generated, to dynamically transfer electricity from that eligible
				  renewable energy resource into the California balancing authority
				  area.
For purposes of this Article, behind-the-meter generation
					 serving onsite load is not delivered electricity.
For the purposes of this Article, a retail supplier that
					 serves retail customers in California and one or more other states may
					 demonstrate delivery to the balancing authority in which the retail supplier is
					 located for the purposes of satisfying the criteria of "delivered electricity."
					 "E-tag" means an electronic record that contains the details of a transaction
					 to transfer energy from a source point to a sink where the energy is scheduled
					 for transmission across one or more balancing authority area boundaries. For
					 purposes of this definition, "source point" refers to the generation source of
					 the energy, and "sink" refers to the balancing authority in which the electric
					 load is located.
"Electricity from unspecified sources of power" or
					 "unspecified power" means electricity that is not traceable to specific
					 generation sources by any auditable contract trail or equivalent, including a
					 tradable commodity system, that provides commercial verification that the
					 electricity source claimed has been sold once and only once to a retail
					 consumer.
"Electricity portfolio" means the electricity products that
					 a retail supplier offers to sell to consumers in California under terms and
					 conditions specific to an offer or to a tariff. It does not include the
					 provision of electric services on site, sold through an over-the-fence
					 transaction, as defined in Section
					 218
					 of the Public Utilities Code, or sold or transferred to an affiliate, as
					 defined in subdivision (a) of Section
					 372
					 of the Public Utilities Code. For the purposes of this Article, electricity
					 portfolio has the same meaning as "electricity offering" and "electric supply
					 portfolio" as those terms are used in Public Utilities Code section
					 398.4
					 and
					 398.5.
					 An electricity portfolio is distinguishable from other electricity portfolios
					 offered by the same retail supplier if it satisfies any of the following
					 criteria:
(1) Is marketed by the
				  retail supplier as a discrete portfolio;
(2) Has been given a discrete title or name
				  by the retail supplier;
(3) Has
				  been assigned a discrete fee or rate by the retail supplier;
(4) Contains a different proportion of fuel
				  types compared to other portfolios offered by the retail supplier; or
(5) Is marketed or offered by a third party
				  through the retail supplier's marketing materials.
"Eligible firmed-and-shaped product" has the following
					 meanings:
1) when applied to a local
				  publicly owned electric utility, it has the same meaning as the term "Portfolio
				  Content Category 2" as defined in section
				  3203(b);
2) when applied to an investor-owned utility,
				  community choice aggregator, or an electric service provider, it has the same
				  meaning as the term "Portfolio Content Category 2" as defined on page 3 in the
				  California Public Utilities Commission, Energy Division's Portfolio Content
				  Category Classification Review Process Handbook (October 2017), which is hereby
				  incorporated by reference. For the purposes of this Article, the term shall
				  apply to all products that meet the definitions specified above except for the
				  fact that they are the subject of an agreement executed prior to June 1,
				  2010.