Calif. Draft Would Adopt Lottery Process to Assign Open Space Under Direct Access Cap

A California PUC agenda (draft) decision would adopt joint parties' recommendations for institution of a lottery process to assign any unsubscribed direct access load, and to require annual reporting of direct access migration and the lottery process.

Details of the proposed lottery process can be reviewed in Matters' July story

The lottery process, which is to be conducted annually, would replace the previously used first-come, first-served Notice of Intent periods.

In brief, under an annual lottery process, each utility would run a "randomizer" tool (Microsoft Access or some other tool agreed-upon by all parties) to assign a random number to each customer's Notice of Intent submission to take any available direct access space.

The Notices of Intent would then be ordered in sequence by their randomly assigned number and accepted for direct access service, subject to space under the established Overall Load Cap. Remaining Notices of Intent will be placed on a Wait List in the order assigned by randomizer, and will be maintained on that Wait List for the subsequent calendar year until the next annual enrollment period commences.

The draft would adopt the proposed lottery process and reporting requirements without substantive changes. See prior story for more details

Docket: R. 07-05-025