ALJ/DMG/lil Date of Issuance 5/11/2009

Decision 09-05-018 May 7, 2009

BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Order Instituting Rulemaking to Examine the Commission's Post-2005 Energy Efficiency Policies, Programs, Evaluation, Measurement, and Verification, and Related Issues.

Rulemaking 06-04-010 (Filed April 13, 2006)

DECISION GRANTING INTERVENOR COMPENSATION TO
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL FOR
SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO DECISION 08-07-047 AND
PARTICIPATION IN THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY
PEER REVIEW GROUP PROCESS

This decision awards Natural Resources Defense Council $32,919.47 in compensation for its substantial contributions to Decision 08-07-047, and participation in the Energy Efficiency Advisory Groups. This represents a decrease of $7,621.25 or approximately 19% from the amount requested due to excessive hours and unproductive efforts. Today's award payment will be allocated to the affected utilities. This proceeding remains open to address remaining issues of the proceeding.

1. Background

The Commission opened this rulemaking to consider issues related to the design, delivery and management of utility energy efficiency programs. The proceeding consists of three parts defined in the Scoping Memo and Ruling of April 13, 2007, as follows: (1) updates of goals, policies, and rules for portfolio development; (2) handling the 2009-2011 portfolio filing, review, and authorization; and (3) treatment of longer-term issues involving strategies as they will be carried out beyond 2011 and in coordination with the Assembly Bill 32 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) implementation plan. Decision (D.) 08-07-047 adopted interim energy efficiency savings goals for 2012 through 2020, and defined energy efficiency savings goals for 2009 through 2011.

This proceeding has also encompassed ongoing activities related to the implementation of the 2006-2008 portfolios, including consideration of recommendations made by the utility peer review groups (PRGs) during 2006-2008, such as those included in the PRG reports filed with the utilities' compliance advice letters.

In terms of Natural Resources Defense Council's (NRDC) participation in this proceeding, we note that we have awarded NRDC compensation at the earlier stages of this proceeding, including PRGs, in D.08-06-018.

In the subject request for compensation, NRDC asserts it made contributions to both D.08-07-047 and the PRGs activities in the period of time between October 19, 2007, and July 31, 2008.¹

¹ Request, at 2.