1 These
estimates do not reflect the potential for distributed generation.
2 Source:
California Energy Commission.
3 The
PUC regulates investor-owned utilities. Municipal utilities (for example, Sacramento
Municipal Utility District) and irrigation districts (for example Imperial Irrigation
District) are self-regulating public agencies.
4 The
Biennial Resource Plan Update, I.89-07-004.
5 PUC
Decision (D.) 95-12-059.
6 Statutes
of 1996, Chapter 854, Brulte.
7 Competition
Transition Charge.
8 PUC
Decision (D.) 99-05-051.
9 The
ISO combines the control areas of PG&E, SCE and SDG&E; reserve margins are
calculated on an ISO-wide basis.
10 "Notice
to Market Participants", ISO, undated.
11 It
should be noted that in order to maintain a reliable transmission system the WSCC
developed Control Performance Standards that require each control area, such as the CAISO,
to monitor its frequency every ten minutes. The average for each six 10-minute periods
during the hour must be within specific limits as defined by the North American Electric
Reliability Council (NERC). For June 13th the CAISO had 29 Control Performance
Standards (CPS2) violations of which 17 were attributed to uninstructed deviations. The
CPS2 violations are still under investigation and could result in the WSCC assessing
monetary penalties to the CAISO. The CAISO will provide further information as it becomes
available.
12 PG&E's
previous all-time high peak load was 23,100 MW.
13 The
customers that were shed include commercial, industrial and residential customers.
14 The
rotating outage block system has undergone little analysis or review in decades, and is
ripe for revisiting. After being used for the first time ever on June 14, the system was
criticized as being potentially unfair to low-income neighborhoods (no evidence of such
unfairness was uncovered in a preliminary PUC staff analysis), and inefficient in its
operation. PG&E inadvertently blacked out at least one critical facility - the Good
Samaritan Hospital in San Jose.
15 This
estimate applies the wholesale spot price of energy, as published by the PX, to the total
volume of energy consumed by retail customers of the State's investor-owned utilities and
by consumers who have opted to buy their energy from third parties (electric service
providers or ESPs).
16 Utility
bills are comprised of a rate for transmission service, which is regulated solely by FERC,
and for distribution service, which is still regulated by the PUC and for
"generation" which is the rate that reflects the wholesale power market that has
been restructured.
17 Nantahala
Power & Light Co. v. Thornburg, 476 U.S. 953, at 970; 90 L.Ed.2d 943; 106 S.Ct.
2349 (1986)
18 Public
Utilities Code Section 739 and PUC Decision (D.) 89-09-043.
19 The
information refers to prices in the Power Exchange's Day-ahead market.
20 Source:
Electricity Oversight Board.
21 San
Francisco Chronicle, July 27, 2000, page A8.
22 The
federal appeals courts have not unanimously endorsed this approach.
23 The
resistance of the ISO and wholesale generators to disclosure of information about power
plant operation or market behavior may be unlawful to the CPUC or EOB. The Federal Power
Act explicitly provides that a state commission may examine the "books, accounts,
memoranda,, contracts, and records..." of an electric utility or an exempt wholesale
generator selling to an electric utility or an associate or affiliate of an exempt
wholesale generator, "...wherever located, if such an examination is required for the
effective discharge of the state commission's regulatory responsibilities affecting the
provision of electric service, subject to appropriate restrictions on subsequent
disclosure by the commission. 16 USC section 824(g). Any attempt to resist disclosure of
power plant operations data, including its relevance to market behavior, on the basis of
an ISO tariff provision approved by FERC is undermined by the Federal Power Act's
provision precluding commission jurisdiction over "facilities used for the generation
of electric energy...." 16 USC section 824(b)
24 Power
plant names and capacities confidential per ISO.
25 PUC
staff study.
26 Source:
City of Santa Clara
27 Source:
Independent System Operator
28 Southern
California Edison Company, et al., (1995) 70 FERC ¶ 61, 215, at p. 61,677.
29 "Digital
Economy 2000", US Department of Commerce June 2000
30 See,
for example, "Electricity Restructuring: Deregulation or Reregulation, February 2000,
by Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell.
31 PUC
staff study.
32 Ibid.
33 Public
Utility Regulatory Policy Act (PURPA) 16 U.S.C. §2601 et seq.
34 The
Public Benefit of California's Investment in Energy Efficiency, Mark Bernstein, Robert
Lempert, David Loughran, and David Ortiz, MR-1212.0-CEC, 2000.
35 Cal.
Pub. Res. Code §§ 21000 et. seq.
36 42
U.S.C. §§ 7401 et. seq.
37 Pub.
Res. Code §21080(b).
14 Cal. Code Reg. §15269.
38 Western
Mun. Water Dist. v. Superior Court,187 Cal.App.3d 1104 (1986), Castaic Lake Water Agency
v. City of Santa Clarita, 41 Cal.App.4th 1257 (1995).
39 Cal
Health and Safety Code, §§39002, 40001.
40 California
Almanac of Emissions and Air Quality, Air Resources Board (1999).
41 Market
Surveillance Committee Report, July 6, 2000.
42 See
"Electricity Restructuring: Deregulation or Re-regulation?" page 9, February
2000.
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