Table 1 - Procurement-Related Dockets

Docket	Proceeding Number(s)
1. Procurement	R.06-02-013 and its successor
2. Climate Change/Emissions Performance Standard	R.06-04-009
3. Energy Efficiency	R.06-04-010 and its successor
4. Demand Response and Advanced Metering	A.05-06-006 et al., R.07-01-041 and its successor
5. Dynamic Pricing	A.06-03-005
6. Renewable Portfolio Standard	R.06-02-012, R.06-05-027 and successors
7. Avoided Cost and Qualifying Facility Pricing	R.04-04-025
8. Distributed Generation	R.06-03-004 and its successor
9. Transmission and Renewable Energy Transmission	I.05-09-005 and its successor
10. Confidentiality	R.05-06-040
11. Direct Access	R.07-05-025 and its successor
12. Community Choice Aggregation	R.03-10-003 and its successor
13. Resource Adequacy Requirements	R.05-12-013 and its successor
14. Planning Reserve Margin	Forthcoming rulemaking per Nov. 19, 2007 ACR of R.05-12-013
15. Liquefied Natural Gas	R.07-11-001
16. Other procurement-related Rulemakings not yet issued

Consequently, the policies we will consider in this proceeding will address issues that impact one or more of five goals we have identified for the LTPP process as it relates to the other proceedings:

1. Ensure the IOUs' plans meet their forecast load and balance the costs, benefits and price risks¹¹ of various policy directives (e.g., EAP, reliability);

2. Develop policies so that each IOU can meet its forecast load and obtain procurement authority for new and existing resources to meet system and bundled forecast load, with sufficient lead time to enable efficient procurement of new resources;

3. Coordinate between the various generation cost¹² policy proceedings (e.g., EE, DR, renewable portfolio standards) and to ensure that they are consistent and coherent;

4. Establish procurement rules that (a) shall be followed to ensure recovery of generation costs¹³ in rates and (b) address issues of regulatory and/or market failure related to generation issues; and

5. Serve as the forum for comparing resource alternatives against each other, in terms of uniform criteria such as cost, risk, reliability, and environmental impact, in order to optimize California's electric resource portfolio.

Further, the policies we focus on will be consistent with four guiding principles of the Commission's LTPP program oversight: (a) ensuring reliability, (b) ensuring the lowest reasonable rates by continuing to encourage the development of functional competitive markets (or other market structures), (c) adhering to the EAP loading order, and (d) anticipating AB 32 constraints on IOU electricity portfolios.

¹¹ Pub. Util. Code § 454.5(b)(1) specifies that procurement plans are to include an assessment of the price risk associated with the portfolio.

¹² In this context, "generation cost" is used to mean energy/electric service that is not distribution or transmission.

¹³ Id.