II. Procedural History

This proceeding was opened in April 2004 to continue our implementation of the RPS program created by Senate Bill 1078, effective January 1, 2003. Decision (D.) 03-06-071, the first of our decisions setting parameters and requirements for the RPS program, was issued in R.01-10-024.

The Assigned Commissioner's Ruling and Scoping Memo Establishing Schedule for Phase Two of the Renewables Portfolio Standard Proceeding (Scoping Memo) (December 16, 2004) set a schedule for addressing a range of issues, including long term planning and the utilities' 2005 RPS solicitations. In D.04-12-048, issued in R.04-04-003, we found that the utilities' long-term procurement plans did not adequately address their 2010 renewable procurement goals. We instructed them to submit revised long-term RPS plans in this proceeding. In accordance with the scoping memo, the utilities filed long term plans and 2005 plans and draft requests for offers (RFOs) together. PG&E and SCE filed their short and long term RPS procurement plans, with redacted public versions and confidential versions filed with requests that they be kept under seal, on March 7, 2005. SDG&E filed its short and long term RPS procurement plan, with redacted public version and confidential version filed with a request that it be kept under seal, on April 15, 2005. Comments on the PG&E and SCE plans were filed April 7 and April 21, 2005; comments on the SDG&E plan and reply comments on the PG&E and SCE plans were filed on May 6, 2005. Reply comments on SDG&E's plan were filed May 13, 2005¹. In D.05-07-039, we approved with modifications the utilities' 2005 short-term procurement plans and RFOs.

This decision addresses the long-term plans, which we delayed in D.05-07-039 because certain information from SCE relevant to our discussion of the long-term plans was made publicly available too late to be included. The relevant information having been provided, we now turn to a review of long-term RPS planning.