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2022 Policy Platform and
Legislative and Regulatory
Ad Hoc Committee
Melicia Charles, Director of Legislative and Regulatory Policy January 12, 2022
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2 Objectives
Requesting SVCE Board approval of:
1. SVCE’s 2022 Policy Platform
2. Creating an Ad Hoc Committee of the Board to Address Legislative and Regulatory Responses to Industry Transition (“Leg/Reg Ad Hoc Committee”); and
3. 2022 Focus Areas for the Leg/Reg Ad Hoc Committee
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3 2022 Policy Platform
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4 SVCE 2022 Policy Platform
Purpose:
• Articulate SVCE’s legislative and regulatory priorities for the 2022 legislative session • Allow SVCE staff to take positions on bills for SVCE without explicit Board approval • Guide optimal use of SVCE advocacy time and resources Policy Areas:
SVCE Customer
Welfare and the CCA
Model
Climate Mitigation and
Clean Energy
Technologies
CA Energy
Regulatory and
Market Structures
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5 SVCE Customer Welfare and the CCA
Model
1. CCA Procurement Autonomy
2. Right to Set Retail Generation Rates
3. Cost Shifts and Customer Indifference
4. Nonbypassable Charges
5. Affordability and Equity
6. CCA Operating Authority
What’s changed from 2021:
• CCA Operating Authority was added
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6 Climate Mitigation and Clean Energy
Technologies
1. Funding (to support climate mitigation
and clean energy)
2. Grid Resilience
3. Ability to Invest in Grid-Edge Resources
4. Fuel-Switching and Electrification
What’s changed from 2021:
• Funding was added
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7 California’s Energy Regulatory Requirements
and Market Structure
1. Creation/development towards an Open
Access Distribution Platform
2. CCAs as Providers of Last Resort and
Sole Providers
3. Restructuring of Investor-Owned Utilities
4. Residual Central Procurement Where It
Improves System Function
5. Grid Reliability
What’s changed from 2021:
• Grid Reliability was added
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8 2022 Legislative and
Regulatory Ad Hoc
Committee
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9 Leg/Reg Ad Hoc Committee
Purpose:
• Respond to industry transitions
• Increase engagement between SVCE Board and staff on
legislative issues
2022 Focus Areas:
1. Expansion of Direct Access
2. Reliability Planning and Procurement
3. Transparency and Accountability in Ratemaking
4. Public Safety Power Shutoffs & Wildfire Prevention
and Cost Recovery
5. Affordability and Equity
6. Decarbonization
What’s changed from 2021:
• Fuel switching and electrification was
removed
• Decarbonization was added
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10 Recommendations
1. Approve SVCE’s 2022 Policy Platform
2. Approve the Creation of the Leg/Reg Ad Hoc Committee; and
3. Approve 2022 Focus Areas for the Leg/Reg Ad Hoc Committee Item 5
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11 Questions?
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