R-059-13 Renewables Portfolio Standards

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I Compliance Period Two: January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2016. 2 Target 25% Compliance Period Three: January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2020. 3 Target 33% Annually: Each calendar year starting with 2021. Target 33%. 4 5 SECTION 3: The Electric Utility Director shall assign all RPS -eligible resources procured by the Colton Electric Utility to their appropriate procurement content category in 6 accordance with the provisions of PUC §399.16. The Electric Utility Director may count all resources that meet the conditions of PUC §399.16(d) in full towards meeting the procurement 7 requirements. 8 Electricity produced from the following technologies constitute eligible resources: 9 biomass, bio gas from within California, solar thermal, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal, fuel cells using renewable fuels, hydroelectric generation, digester gas, , landfill gas, ocean wave, 10 ocean thermal, tidal current, renewable components of system sales from other parties, or 11 renewable distributed generation on the customer side of the meter. Facilities can be located anywhere in the interconnected transmission system located in the west. 12 SECTION 4: In order to fulfill unmet long-term generation resource needs, Colton 13 Electric Utility shall procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from eligible 14 renewable sources, including short-term purchases of renewable energy from California sources as defined by the CEC. 15 SECTION 5: Colton Electric Utility plans to be in full compliance with the goals of 16 SB X 12 (29% of its energy requirement from eligible renewable sources) by 2018 concurrent 17 with the closure of SJ3. 18 SECTION 6: Colton Electric Utility may delay timely compliance with the Renewable Energy Requirement Procurement Plan until there is a significant unmet energy 19 need, pursuant to PUC §399.30(c)(2), consistent with the requirements of PUC §399.15(b)(5). 20 SECTION 7 Colton Electric Utility will purchase energy from solar PV and wind 21 resources in 2014 to 2016, to increase its RPS percentage. In 2016/2017, Colton Electric Utility will enter into a long-term baseload purchase for energy from eligible renewable energy 22 resources to meet the unmet energy needs with the closure of SJ3 at the end of 2017. The 23 Colton Electric Utility will use least -cost resource planning criteria to meet any additional resource requirements that may include both renewable and non-renewable resources. 24 SECTION 8: The above -market costs of renewable energy for the Colton Electric 25 Utility may be subsidized by supplemental payments from the funds generated by the public 26 benefits charge that Colton Electric Utility adds as a surcharge to retail bills pursuant to the provisions of AB 1890. 27 SECTION 7: Colton Electric Utility is authorized to purchase the environmental 28 attributes or RECs from a renewable resource, without purchasing the associated energy, to