3. SCE/SoCal Gas Petition

On September 5, 2008, SCE and Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) filed a Petition for Modification of D.07-12-050. The SCE/SoCalGas Petition proposes to cancel the Lake Arrowhead Water Conservation Partnership (LAWCP) portion of the approved Water-Energy Pilot Program (Pilot). SCE/SoCalGas contend the LAWCP is no longer viable because the water partner for this program, the Lake Arrowhead Community Services District (LACSD), no longer supports the program due to staff resource and time constraints. LACSD also recently adopted an ordinance which significantly affects the program by limiting irrigation to three days a week, thus negatively impacting the technology being tested in the Pilot. In addition, the Petition claims that alternatives have been investigated but no viable alternative exists. No responses were filed to this Petition.

It is unfortunate that this program cannot go forward. D.07-12-050 found that "relying on the Energy Division's embedded energy and water calculator, only one program has a preliminary Total Resource Cost of 1 or above (the standard minimum threshold for finding that a proposed energy efficiency measure is cost beneficial). This is the SoCalGas portion of the Lake Arrowhead/SCE water conservation partnership. The SCE-funded electric aspect of this program has a cost-effectiveness value of 0.19 ... ." However, we agree that the circumstances do not allow it to continue.

We previously adopted $176,500 for the SCE portion and $150,000 for the SoCalGas portion of this program. We also included $91,000 total for evaluations. SCE requests that its portion be added to its Water Leak Detection program. SCE/SoCalGas' proposed changes to D.07-12-050 are reasonable. We will modify D.07-12-050 using SCE/SoCalGas' proposed changes.