Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 860 - PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION › Division 150 - Renewable Natural Gas › Section 860-150-0600 - Renewable Natural Gas Compliance Reports

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) A large natural gas utility or a small
			 natural gas utility that participates in the RNG program described in these
			 rules must file an annual compliance report for each year that the utility
			 participates in the program by making RNG purchases or qualified investments.
			 Each compliance report will cover a calendar year, beginning January 1 through
			 and including December 31. The first report is due on June 30 of the year
			 following the first compliance year, and then annually on June 30 thereafter
			 for as long as the utility continues to participate in the program.
(2) Each annual compliance report must
			 include but not be limited to:
(a) The total
			 volume of RNG acquired during the compliance year by type or source, including
			 the volume as a percentage of the gas utility's sales load delivered to retail
			 customers;
(b) A detailed
			 description of the natural gas utility's expenditures that year on RNG
			 purchases and on qualified investments;
(c) A summary of all transactions that year
			 involving RTCs purchased, acquired, sold, transferred, or retired to comply
			 with these rules;
(d) A list of all
			 RTCs that the utility owned and that expired during the compliance year before
			 the utility was able to retire them. The list must be accompanied by
			 information about the value and source of these expired RTCs as well as an
			 explanation for why the utility was not able to retire them prior to
			 expiration;
(e) The number of
			 unused, unexpired RTCs in the natural gas utility's possession at the end of
			 the compliance year, and the utility's plan to fully utilize these
			 certificates;
(f) The range of
			 carbon intensity values and the average intensity value associated with the
			 RTCs retired that year;
(g)
			 Detailed information about qualified investments made during the compliance
			 year, including but not limited to:
(A) The
			 name of the facility where the qualified investment was made;
(B) The location of the facility where the
			 qualified investment was made, including the city/town, county, and
			 state;
(C) The type of facility.
			 For example, the facility type includes but is not limited to a livestock
			 feeding operation, a wastewater treatment plant, a food waste processing
			 facility, a renewable-electricity-to-hydrogen, facility, and so
			 forth;
(D) The total quantity of
			 RNG produced by or procured from that facility during the compliance
			 year;
(E) The expected future
			 annual quantity of RNG to be produced by or procured from that
			 facility;
(F) The average RNG
			 output of the facility expressed in standard cubic feet per minute;
(G) The disposition of RNG produced by the
			 facility but delivered to non-retail utility customers or to non-Oregon
			 customers;
(H) The number and value
			 of RTCs acquired along with the RNG produced by the facility;
(I) An estimate of the carbon intensity for
			 RNG produced at the facility and using an appropriate pathway, pursuant to OAR
			 860-150-0050.