Support California CCA

CalCCA supports legislation and regulatory policies that protect and foster CCAs within the state. We promote competitive neutrality and a level playing field and we will support legislation and regulatory policies that support CCA autonomy in policy- and decision-making. We oppose legislation and regulatory policies that unfairly discriminate against CCAs or CCA customers, or reduce CCA policy- or decision-making autonomy.

Regulatory Compliance

CCAs, as load serving entities, engage with numerous state and federal agencies, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the California Energy Commission, the California Public Utilities Commission, and the California Air Resources Board, to ensure compliance with mandates related to the amount of renewable energy delivered to our customers, ensuring grid reliability and safety, and reporting on our procurement activities and power content. CCAs work cooperatively with all agencies having authority over our operations to ensure delivery of energy and energy-related programs in a safe and efficient manner. CCAs strive to be highly responsive and transparent in our efforts to deliver clean, affordable energy to our customers.

Current Platform Objectives for 2018

• Prevent new non-bypassable charges and phase out or eliminate existing non-bypassable charges
• Protect CCA procurement autonomy and local government oversight
• Protect CCA autonomy to administer energy efficiency and integrated distributed energy resources
• Increase transparency of inputs to PCIA and all non-bypassable charges, increase certainty of PCIA charges, and phase out unreasonable PCIA charges over a time period that equitably addresses stranded costs.
• Reform IOU procurement practices to minimize stranded load and mitigate CCE charges.

Key Legislation

AB 117 – Passed in 2002 in response to the California Electricity Crisis, AB 117 outlined the steps that must be taken to form a CCA, and laid out how CCAs would be regulated and coexist with the local investor-owned utility (IOU). Among many points, AB 117 mandated that a CCA become the default provider for residents and businesses in its service territory.

SB 790 – Created a code of conduct which IOUs must adhere to in regards to CCAs operating in their service area. Specifically, it prohibited utilities from marketing against CCAs except through a separate marketing division separated by a ‘firewall’ from the other operations of the utility. It was passed in response to several IOUs efforts to stem CCA growth.