2. Procedural Background

The Assigned Commissioner's Ruling and Scoping Memo (Scoping Memo), issued on December 23, 2009, identified the issues to be considered in Phase 1 of this proceeding as well as the procedure and schedule for their consideration. Two broad categories of issues were established. The first category, local resource adequacy (RA) issues, pertains to the California Independent System Operator's (CAISO) 2011 local capacity requirements (LCR) study as well as this Commission's establishment of local procurement obligations for 2011 based on the LCR study. The second category, program refinement issues, pertains to various proposals to modify the RA program. Included in the second category was the issue of establishing a local true-up methodology.

Decision (D.) 10-06-036 adopted the CAISO's 2011 LCR study as well as local procurement obligations for 2011 based on the LCR study. The decision also adopted various refinements to the RA program. The issue of local true-up for RA was deferred to a later decision.