Consistency with Potential Federal Programs

Morgan Stanley asserts that the deliverer approach is superior to other alternatives for dealing with imports because it "is the most consistent with a source-based approach for in-state resources, and is therefore superior to the others." WPTF believes similarly that a deliverer-based approach should be pursued on the grounds that it could be most easily adapted to the source-based approaches being considered at the federal level. Calpine states that both a source-based system and a deliverer approach likely would be consistent with expected regional and federal source-based systems. Powerex asserts that the deliverer approach is suitable as a model for a national or regional program and, if adopted by California, can be easily scaled and integrated with broader regional or national programs.