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WREF 2012 • Colorado RESA Reporting: Big Data, Many Stakeholders • Leslie Martel Baer
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Big Data with Many
Stakeholders
WREF 2012 • May 17 • Denver, Colorado USALeslie Martel Baer, MS, MA, Strategist
RESA Reporting in Colorado
May 17, 2012
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Many FunctionsRESA Reporting
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Fundamental FunctionsShow the IOU is Collecting RESA
funds appropriately
Distributing them to qualifying projects
Purchasing/selling RECs appropriately
Meeting the RES (generation projects)
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RESA & Ratepayers 2%—no more, no
less—is collected from retail customers
See your bill
RESA reports give aggregate picture
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I Want Cheap Clean Energy
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RESA & the IOUs Proof of RES
compliance Fiduciary
responsibility to investors
Express future intent through Compliance Plans
Would like reduced frequency
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RESA & Administrators,Policy Makers PUC
Ensures RES is metResponsible to
ratepayers○ Advisory Board:
provides information and guidance to the
○ Trial Staff: determine if reporting is accurate and if an audit is warranted
State Policy Makers
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RES & RE Business Looking for unused
capacity in programs How rapidly the
market responds to new programs and other changes
The extent of competition as measured by numbers of installations
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RESA & NGOs Industry trade
associations: working for members
Non-governmental organizations: furthering the “cause” of technologies
Monitor implementation of programs and accomplishment of the RES
RE market Program market impacts
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Process Fundamentals
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Xcel’s Monthly Process Pull data from
databases “Manually” sort
and filter Produce reports Process designed
for 34 MW of capacity
Now over 100 MW
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The Bad
The Process Needs to Be Modernized and Transparent
Up to 3-month lag in reporting
Lack of Automation
Audits are voluntary; PUC can call for audits if deemed necessary
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The Bad & The Good
The Process Needs to Be Modernized and Transparent
Some Effort is Underway for Modernization, Transparency
Up to 3-month lag in reporting
Lack of Automation
Audits are voluntary; PUC can call for audits if deemed necessary
All parties use same data set (Xcel, PUC, public)
Pursuing more automation with Community program
Xcel does conduct internal audits and it has caught errors this way
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Issues of Contention
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A Budgetary Shortfall Solar*Rewards
extremely popular Up-front
incentives caused high outflows
Issue resolvedSwitch to
performance based incentives
Legal agreement for a loan from Xcel
Series1
Doing OkayWhoopsGetting Back on Track
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RESA Rider Cap Set at 2% of retail
electricity Avoided costs
paid for under Electric Commodity Adjustment
Only incremental cost of RE is paid for by RESA
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Incremental Cost Calculation High gas prices =
wind credit to RESA
Low gas prices = wind charge to RESA
Comparison supposed to include new gas plant build out
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Stakeholders:Getting It or Getting Dumped?
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Big Data, Minimal Reporting Business, NGOs
may not be getting the details they want
Self-reported dataConsensus on trustLittle examination
outside Xcel More detail
coming More
accessibility?May 17, 2012
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Thank You!
Colorado Solar Energy Industries AssociationColorado Public Utilities CommissionXcel EnergyVote Solar
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Please Contact Mewith Questions
WREF 2012 • May 17 • Denver, Colorado USALeslie Martel Baer, MS, MA, [email protected]
RESA Reporting in Colorado
May 17, 2012