Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 225 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY RESOURCES › Title 225 CMR 21.00 - Clean Peak Energy Portfolio Standard (CPS) › Section 21.09 - Annual Compliance Filings for Retail Electricity Suppliers

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(1)
Date of Annual Compliance
			 Filing
. For each Compliance Year, the Retail Electricity Supplier
			 annually shall file an annual Compliance Filing with the Department no later
			 than the first day of July, or the first Business Day thereafter, of the
			 subsequent Compliance Year.
(2)
Contents of Annual Compliance Filing
. For each Retail
			 Electricity Product, the Filing shall document compliance with the provisions
			 of 225 CMR 21.07 and 21.08 to the satisfaction of the Department and shall
			 include, but not be limited to, the following:
(a)
Total Electrical Energy Sales
			 to End-use Customers
. Documentation of the total MWhs of
			 electrical energy allocated by the Retail Electricity Supplier to End-use
			 Customers in the Compliance Year.
(b)
Electrical Energy Sales to
			 End-use Customers by Product
. Documentation of the total MWhs of
			 each Retail Electricity Product allocated to End-use Customers in the
			 Compliance Year, verified by an independent third party satisfactory to the
			 Department, consistent with the Guidelines. Such allocation is defined as the
			 quantity of the Retail Electric Supplier's certificates obligation that the
			 Retail Electric Supplier correctly allocated or should have allocated to each
			 of the Retail Electric Supplier's Massachusetts retail subaccounts at the
			 NEPOOL GIS, in compliance with all relevant provisions of Part 4 of the NEPOOL
			 GIS Operating Rules, or any successor rules, as specified in the Guideline on
			 the Determination of Sales to End-use Customers. The Department shall keep
			 product information confidential to the extent permitted by law.
(c)
Clean Peak Energy
			 Certificates Allocated from the Compliance Year
. Documentation of
			 the total MWhs of each Retail Electricity Product allocated to End-use
			 Customers that were derived from Clean Peak Resource generation during the
			 Compliance Year.
(d)
Clean Peak Energy Certificates Allocated from Banked
			 Compliance
. Allocation by Retail Electricity Product of any
			 quantity of Clean Peak Resource Generation Attributes banked from previous
			 years pursuant to 225 CMR 21.08(2) that are used to demonstrate compliance with
			 the CPS Minimum Standard in the current Compliance Year;
(e) Alternative Compliance Credits.
			 Allocation by Retail Electricity Product of any Alternative Compliance Credits
			 claimed pursuant to 225 CMR 21.08(3)(a), along with a copy of any Alternative
			 Compliance Payment receipt(s); and
(f)
Attributes Banked for Future
			 Compliance
. Identification of any quantity of Attributes from
			 Clean Peak Resource Generation, that the Retail Electricity Supplier
			 anticipates claiming for purposes of Banked Compliance in subsequent years
			 under the Banked Compliance provisions of 225 CMR 21.08(2).
(g)
Exempt Contracts under
			 Minimum Standard
. Identification of any contract for a specific
			 term of years that was executed before January 1, 2020, and its terms
			 including, but not limited to, the execution and expiration dates of the
			 contract and the annual volume of electrical energy supplied.