STATE OF CALIFORNIA GRAY DAVIS, Governor

PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

505 VAN NESS AVENUE

SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102-3298

May 29, 2001

TO: PARTIES OF RECORD IN APPLICATION 00-11-037 ET AL.

This is the draft decision of Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Bytof. It will be on the Commission's agenda at the meeting on June 14, 2001. The Commission may act then, or it may postpone action until later.

When the Commission acts on the draft decision, it may adopt all or part of it as written, amend or modify it, or set it aside and prepare its own decision. Only when the Commission acts does the decision become binding on the parties.

Pursuant to Rule 77.7(f)(9), comments on the draft decision shall be filed by June 5, 2001 and reply comments shall be filed by June 11, 2001.

In addition to service by mail, parties should send comments in electronic form to those appearances and the state service list that provided an electronic mail address to the Commission, including ALJ Bytof at lrb@cpuc.ca.gov. Finally, comments must be served separately on the Assigned Commissioner, and for that purpose I suggest hand delivery, overnight mail, or other expeditious methods of service.

Lynn T. Carew, Chief

Administrative Law Judge

LTC:avs

Attachments

ALJ/LRB/avs DRAFT Item 7

6/14/2001

Decision DRAFT DECISION OF ALJ BYTOF (Mailed 5/29/2001)

BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Application of Pacific Gas and Electric Company for Approval of Year 2001 Energy Efficiency Programs, in Compliance with Ordering Paragraph 93 of Decision 00-07-017 (U 39 M).	Application 00-11-037 (Filed November 15, 2000)
Application of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY (U 338-E) for Approval of Program Year 2001 Energy Efficiency Program Plans, Budgets, and Performance Award Mechanism.	Application 00-11-043 (Filed November 15, 2000)
Compliance Application of Southern California Gas Company (U 904-G) for Approval of 2001 Energy Efficiency Programs.	Application 00-11-044 (Filed November 15, 2000)
Application of San Diego Gas & Electric Company (U 902-M) for Approval of 2001 Energy Efficiency Programs.	Application 00-11-045 (Filed November 15, 2000)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

OPINION 2

I. Background 2

II. Discussion 3

A. Edison's MA&E Plans, Studies, and Budgets 3

B. PG&E's MA&E Plans, Studies, and Budgets 6

C. SDG&E's MA&E Plans, Studies, and Budgets 8

D. SoCalGas' MA&E Plans, Studies and Budgets 9

E. CEC MA&E Study Plans 10

III. Flexible Budgets 11

IV. Comments on Draft Decision 12

Findings of Fact 13

Conclusions of Law 15

ORDER 16

Attachment A

OPINION

We approve utility-specific Market Assessment and Evaluation (MA&E) studies and budgets, including the proposed MA&E studies and budgets to be administered by the California Energy Commission (CEC), for program year (PY) 2001, for Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Southern California Edison Company (Edison), San Diego Gas and Electric Company (SDG&E), and Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas). This docket is closed.

I. Background

In Decision (D.) 01-01-060, we deferred approval of the studies and budgets for utility-specific studies and the proposed CEC studies because the studies had not been reviewed in a public process and were not sufficiently detailed to provide for review and evaluation. (Id., mimeo., at p. 16; Findings of Fact 14 and 15 at p. 38. See, also, Conclusion of Law 11 and Ordering Paragraph 4 at p. 41.) We ordered the utilities to present additional information on the proposed studies, including "a full description of the study plans, objectives, and budgets, and a discussion of the rationale and need for these particular studies."¹ (Id. at p. 16.)

After holding a publicly noticed workshop on February 21, 2001, the utilities submitted and served on the service list revised MA&E plans.² No comments have been received.