10.9.20 - CPUC Public Comments on Inclusive Financing

Comments Filed in California Public Utilities Commission’s Order Instituting Rulemaking to Investigate Inclusive Financing!

• You may remember PAYS Pal’s 8.21.20 Newsletter about the California Public Utilities Commission’s new Proposed Decision on an Order Instituting Rulemaking (OIR) to Investigate and Design Clean Energy Financing Options for Electricity and Natural Gas Customers. 

• Backstory: The California Energy Efficiency Action Plan recommended that the CPUC adopt inclusive financing. Rather than working to approve inclusive financing for renewables, energy efficiency, transportation, building electrification, and community storage in various separate dockets, the inclusive financing rulemaking was introduced as single proceeding for all distributed resources and assigned to an administrative law judge.

• On August 27th, the CPUC voted to adopt the OIR which started a 30 day clock for comments. These comments have now been filed! See below the list of filed comments that have been made public thus far. Many of these advocate for TOB but our list starts with two of the strongest (the remainder are not in any particular order):

  • Comments by The Greenlining Institute and Green For All present the arguments for inclusive solutions from the perspective of champions for equity and racial justice!

  • VEIC’s comments present the arguments for tariffed on-bill investment from the vantage point of industry partners seeking a larger addressable market for building electrification upgrades!

  • Carbon Free Palo Alto (CFPA):

  • The California Low-Income Consumer Coalition (“CLICC”)

  • EAST BAY COMMUNITY ENERGY AND PENINSULA CLEAN ENERGY AUTHORITY

  • Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

  • FUELCELL ENERGY, INC.

  • THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL ENERGY NETWORK

  • THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT SUSTAINABLE ENERGY COALITION

  • MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC US

  • THE CALIFORNIA ENERGY STORAGE ALLIANCE

  • NATIONAL FUEL CELL RESEARCH CENTER

  • The National Consumer Law Center

  • OHMCONNECT, INC.

  • THE PUBLIC ADVOCATE'S OFFICE

  • PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY (U 39 M)

  • THE PROTECT OUR COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION

  • RECURVE ANALYTICS, INC.

  • JOINT OPENING COMMENTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY (U 338-E) AND SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY (U 902-E)

  • SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY (U 904 G)

  • THE ENERGY COALITION

  • THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK

  • THE UTILITY CONSUMERS’ ACTION NETWORK

  • Small business Utility Advocates

  • National Diversity Coalition

  • Clean Coalition

  • Enovity

  • NRDC

  • CA Efficiency + Demand Management Council