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(a)Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, on or before December 15, 2022, and quarterly thereafter, the commission and the Public Utilities Commission shall submit a joint Reliability Planning Assessment to the Legislature in accordance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(1)The assessment shall identify estimates for the electrical supply and demand balance, for the forward 5- and 10-year periods, under high-, medium-, and low-risk scenarios. The assessment shall identify loads and resources online and loads and resources expected by reliability year ending September 30.
(2)The assessment shall focus on the Independent System Operator system, with an
emphasis on the electrical demand, load, supply, or resource for load-serving entities subject to the Public
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(a)
Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, on or before December 15, 2022, and quarterly thereafter, the commission and the Public Utilities Commission shall submit a joint Reliability Planning Assessment to the Legislature in accordance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(1)
The assessment shall identify estimates for the electrical supply and demand balance, for the forward 5- and 10-year periods, under high-, medium-, and low-risk scenarios. The assessment shall identify loads and resources online and loads and resources expected by reliability year ending September 30.
(2)
The assessment shall focus on the Independent System Operator system, with an
emphasis on the electrical demand, load, supply, or resource for load-serving entities subject to the Public Utilities Commission’s jurisdiction. The assessment shall break down loads and resources by type of load-serving entity by year by transmission access charge area.
(3)
The assessment shall include information about imports, by amount, source if known, and other relevant factors, and transmission capacity for imports by date and transmission access area or balancing authority.
(4)
The commission shall provide an estimate for the loads and resources for the entities that are not subject to the Public Utilities Commission’s jurisdiction that are part of the Independent System Operator system supply and demand balance.
(5)
The assessment shall include prospective information on existing and expected resources,
including updates on the interconnection status for renewable projects and any delays in interconnection, and expected retirements for both system and local resources. This shall include updates based on actions taken directly by, or as a result of, the Tracking Energy Development Task Force. The assessment shall include an accompanying Gantt chart to track progress.
(6)
The assessment shall maintain confidentiality of market sensitive information.
(7)
The assessment shall rely upon the most recently available integrated energy policy report prepared pursuant to Section 25302 for the demand assessment.
(8)
The assessment shall report on any other significant delays or barriers affecting timely deployment of renewable energy and zero-carbon resources, including, but not limited to, supply chain disruptions, land use
restrictions, and permitting processes.
(9)
The assessment shall make recommendations to the Legislature on actions needed to resolve any delays or barriers reported in the assessment.
(10)
The assessment shall report on any regulatory barriers and challenges to increasing deployment of other preferred resources, including energy efficiency and demand response programs.
(b)
The commission shall continue to report on California energy resources that serve load in California in the energy almanac. The commission shall expand the energy almanac report to include storage resources that serve wholesale load. The commission shall report on energy resources that serve load in the Independent Systems Operator system, which is a subset of its current reporting of all California resources, and may include energy resources
located outside the state.