Calif. PUC Opens 2013 Local Resource Adequacy Rulemaking

The California PUC opened Rulemaking 11-10-023 to establish local resource adequacy (RA) procurement obligations, and make other refinements to the RA program, for the 2013 compliance year.

The proceeding is the successor to Rulemaking 09-10-032.

Subject to refinements in a future scoping memo, potential modifications to be addressed in the new rulemaking include several previously deferred issues, including issues related to:

• Standard Capacity Product (SCP)

• Maximum Cumulative Capacity (MCC buckets)

• Adjustments to the coincidence adjustment

• Need for a non-generic capacity procurement requirement process to add resource operational characteristics such as regulation and ramping "load following" capabilities into the resource adequacy procurement requirements

• Modification to the system peak demand definition to exclude weekends and holidays from the hours used to calculate the qualifying capacity of combined heat and power resources

• Qualifying Capacity rules for dynamically scheduled and pseudo tie resources