CA RPS Program Comments

CASA and the Bioenergy Association of California (BAC) submitted joint comments on 8-DEC-2014 regarding the proposed decision implementing CA SB 1122, filed November 18, 2014.

According to the submission, “BAC and CASA strongly support the proposed decision, with two critical exceptions [. . . .]

1.  The Proposed Decision incorrectly excludes gasification of eligible waste from
feedstock Category 1, ignoring the long-standing definition of “biogas” under the RPS
(which SB 1122 is a part of) and increasing the costs of SB 1122 to ratepayers; and
2.  The Proposed Decision confirms the appropriate definition of “affiliate” but does not
require the utilities to revise their tariffs to conform to that definition, which will make it
difficult or impossible to meet the minimum bidder requirements in feedstock
Categories 2 and 3.”. . . .

(see attached comments for further detail).

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Also, see http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/energy/Renewables/