PSC Opens Proceeding To Consider Whether Non-Utility "Energy Companies" Are Meeting & Advancing Jurisdiction's Climate Goals

Welcomes New Proposals From Companies To Implement Climate Goals

November 19, 2020

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The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia opened a new proceeding (Formal Case No. 1167), "to consider whether and to what extent utility or energy companies under our purview are meeting and advancing the District of Columbia to achieve its energy and climate goals and then take action, where necessary, to guide the companies in the right direction."

The PSC noted that the D.C. code provides that, "In supervising and regulating utility or energy companies, the Commission shall consider the public safety, the economy of the District, the conservation of natural resources, and the preservation of environmental quality, including effects on global climate change and the District's public climate commitments."

The term "energy companies" is not specifically defined in that section of the code, but given that the term is in addition to the term "utility," it ostensibly includes non-utility companies

"This new proceeding could include the development of a comprehensive plan for how utility or energy companies can help the District achieve its 2032/2050 goals and satisfy the directives of the Clean Energy Act," the PSC said

"Any new proposals to implement the District of Columbia’s climate goals filed by the Commission’s regulated utility or energy companies for Commission approval, that are not required to be filed in other existing Commission proceedings, shall be filed in this proceeding," the PSC said

"To the extent that the regulated utilities seek approval of new proposals that would assist the District in meeting and advancing its climate goals that are not required to be filed in other existing Commission proceedings, these proposals are to be filed in this proceeding. Any new proposal shall contain, at a minimum, the following information: a detailed description of the proposal; an explanation of how the proposal would accomplish and advance the District of Columbia’s climate change goals; and a rigorous cost-benefit analysis (using the Commission approved methodology) along with detailed descriptions of costs and a proposed recovery methodology. The proposal must also describe how it meets the metrics that will be developed in GD-2019-04-M and if applicable, Formal Case No. 1160. The Commission will then investigate the proposal, permit comments, and if warranted, hearings, to evaluate and make a determination on the proposal. To facilitate review of any proposals, the Commission moves the Climate Business Plan and the comments and reply comments that it received on the Climate Business Plan in Formal Case No. 1142 into the new proceeding, since these comments present extensive information that may be beneficial to the Commission in its review of these new proposals," the PSC said

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