Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 225 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY RESOURCES › Title 225 CMR 15.00 - Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard - Class II › Section 15.08 - Compliance Procedures for Retail Electricity Suppliers

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(1)
Standard
			 Compliance
. Each Retail Electricity Supplier shall be deemed to be
			 in compliance with
			 225 CMR
			 15.00 if the information provided in the Compliance
			 Filing submitted pursuant to
			 225
			 CMR 15.09 is true and accurate and
			 demonstrates compliance with
			 225
			 CMR 15.07. A Retail Electricity Supplier
			 shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Department that RPS Class II
			 Renewable Generation Attributes and RPS Class II Waste Energy Generation
			 Attributes used for compliance have not otherwise been, nor will be, sold,
			 retired, claimed, used or represented as part of electrical energy output or
			 sales, or used to satisfy obligations in jurisdictions other than
			 Massachusetts.
(2)
Banked Compliance
. A Retail Electricity Supplier may
			 use RPS Class II Renewable Generation Attributes and RPS Class II Waste Energy
			 Generation Attributes produced in one Compliance Year for compliance over the
			 course of the following two subsequent Compliance Years, subject to the
			 limitations in
			 225
			 CMR 15.08(2)  and provided
			 that the Retail Electricity Supplier is in compliance with
			 225 CMR
			 15.00 for all previous Compliance Years. In addition,
			 the Retail Electricity Supplier shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the
			 Department that such Attributes:
(a) were in
			 excess of the RPS Class II Renewable Generation Attributes and RPS Class II
			 Waste Energy Generation Attributes needed for compliance in the Compliance Year
			 in which they were generated, and that such excess Attributes have not
			 previously been used for compliance with
			 225 CMR
			 15.00;
(b)
			 do not exceed 30% of the RPS Class II Renewable Generation Attributes and 30%
			 of the RPS Class II Waste Energy Generation Attributes needed by the Retail
			 Electricity Supplier for compliance with the RPS Class II Renewable Generation
			 Minimum Standard, and RPS Class II Waste Energy Minimum Standard in the year
			 they were generated, subject to
			 225
			 CMR 15.09(2)(d)  and subject
			 to the following limitations:
1. In Compliance
			 Years 2014 and 2015 no excess RPS Class II Waste Energy Generation Attributes
			 shall be available as Banked Compliance; and
2. Commencing with Compliance Year 2016,
			 bankable excess RPS Class II Waste Energy Generation Attributes shall not
			 exceed 5% of the RPS Class II Waste Energy Generation Attributes needed by the
			 Retail Electricity Supplier for compliance with the RPS Class II Waste Energy
			 Minimum Standard in the year they were generated.
(c) were produced during the Compliance Year
			 in which they are claimed as excess by the generation of electrical energy sold
			 to End-use Customers in the ISO-NE Control Area, by the generation of
			 electrical energy on End-use Customers' sides of retail meters in the ISO-NE
			 Control Area, or by the generation of electrical energy from Off-grid
			 Generation Units in Massachusetts; and
(d) have not otherwise been, nor will be,
			 sold, retired, claimed or represented as part of electrical energy output or
			 sales, or used to satisfy obligations in jurisdictions other than
			 Massachusetts.