CalCCA Policies

Procurement and Reliability

• Protect CCAs’ procurement autonomy
• Protect CCAs’ right to self-procure their customers’ portions of system reliability needs
• Encourage results-oriented policymaking over prescriptive procurement mandates

 Local Control

• Protect the authority of each of the CCAs’ Board of Directors as the primary governing body of a CCA
• Develop roles for state agencies that are complementary to rather than competitive with CCA Boards of Directors

 Non-Bypassable Charges

• Prevent new non-bypassable charges (NBCs) and phase out or eliminate existing NBCs
• Ensure that NBC inputs and methodologies are transparent and developed through public processes that allow for full stakeholder input
• Foster market certainty by maximizing year-to-year consistency and/or predictability of all NBCs

 Customer Indifference and Legacy Costs

• Protect indifference of all ratepayers to load migration between LSEs
• Increase the transparency and certainty of PCIA charges, and phase out unreasonable PCIA charges over a time period that addresses stranded costs
• Reform IOU procurement practices to minimize stranded load and mitigate CCA charges

 Grid Edge

• Protect CCAs’ right to develop and administer energy efficiency and integrated distributed energy resources
• Protect CCA customers’ right to select, install, and operate energy efficiency and behind-the-meter distributed energy resources
• Foster and develop integrated distributed energy resources as non-wires alternatives to expanding distribution infrastructure and centralized generation

 The Broader Landscape

• Support further CCA growth and formation
• Build energy market structures and regulatory paradigms that benefit all California ratepayers and facilitate affordability, reliability, decarbonization, and social equity

 Utilities Restructuring

• Support refocusing the utilities’ electric business on the safe management of wires infrastructure
• Support options for local governments to expand their electricity program offerings, including the option to serve as sole retail provider and provider of last resort and support local jurisdictions’ existing right to establish publicly-owned utilities
• Encourage establishment of a statewide public agency to serve bundled utility customers without a public power option until such time as a local agency option becomes available
• Support the operation of investor-owned utility distribution systems as transparent neutral, open-access platforms which facilitate the deployment of distributed energy resources and other demand-side management strategies
• Promote optimization and rebalancing of IOUs’ portfolio