2. Background

In D.04-01-050 the Commission laid out the guidelines, policies, and principles that should guide each utility's long-term procurement plan filing as well as the requirements that all Load Serving Entities (LSEs) located in each utility's service territory should meet. As the decision states:

The utilities shall file by the end of March 2004 a working outline of their long-term plans that includes the level of detail and specific scenarios addressed in this decision, the means by which they will incorporate the resource adequacy framework developed through workshops, and a showing that the material provided in the public filing will allow for meaningful participation by all parties.
(Ordering Paragragh 1, p. 195)

The decision also states that:

The long-term plans should reflect the outcome of the workshops on reserve requirements. If that process is not concluded, the utilities should make their best estimate of the outcome of that process and estimate accordingly. (Finding of Fact 52, 0. 185.)