Acronyms

AL	Advice Letter, a regulatory process to change a provision of the utility tariff
ALJ	Administrative Law Judge, assigned to a CPUC or FERC proceeding
APPR	Appropriations (Senate and Assembly Committees)
ARB	Air Resources Board (California)
B&F	Banking & Finance (Assembly Committee)
B & FR	Budget and Fiscal Review (Senate Committee)
BF & I	Banking, Finance, and Insurance (Senate Committee)
BP & CP	Business, Professions and Consumer Protection (Assembly Committee)
BP&ED	Business, Professions and Economic Development (Senate Committee)
BACT	Best Available Control Technology
BP&ED	Business Professions and Economic Development (Senate Committee)
CAEATFA	California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority
CAISO	California Independent System Operator
CAR	Climate Action Reserve
CARB	California Air Resources Board
CCA	Community Choice Aggregator
CCGT	Combined Cycle Gas Turbine
CCSE	California Center for Sustainable Energy (Formerly San Diego Regional Energy Office)
CEC	California Energy Commission
CEQA	California Environmental Quality Act
CHP	Combined Heat & Power
CLECA	California Large Energy Consumers Association
CO2E	Carbon dioxide equivalent (equivalent global warming potential)
COG	California Onsite Generation (this publication)
CPUC	California Public Utilities Commission
CRS	Customer Responsibility Surcharge (exit fee)
CRT	Climate Reserve Tonnes
CSI	California Solar Initiative
DER	Distributed Energy Resources
DG	Distributed Generation
DOE	Department of Energy (Federal)
DR	Demand Response
DRA	Division of Ratepayer Advocates (formerly ORA), representing small consumers
DRP	Demand Response Provider
ED	Education (Senate and Assembly Committees)
EPUC	Energy Producers and Users Coalition
EQ	Environmental Quality (Senate Committee)
ER&CA	Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments (Senate Committee)
ES&TM	Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials (Assembly Committee)
ESP	Energy Service Provider
EU&C	Energy, Utilities and Communications (Senate Committee)
F & A	Food and Agriculture (Senate Committee)
FERC	Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
GHG	Greenhouse Gases
Gov&F	Governance and Finance (Senate Committee)
GWP	Global Warming Potential
HEALTH	Health (Senate Committee)
IOU	Investor Owned Utility
ISO	(California) Independent System Operator
JED & E	Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy (Assembly Committee)
L&E	Labor and Employment (Assembly Committee)
L&IR	Labor and Industrial Relations (Senate Committee)
LGOV	Local Government (Senate and Assembly Committees)
LSE	Load Serving Entity, any entity that provides retail electricity service.
MDL	Municipal Departing Load
MPR	Market Price Referent
NatRes	Natural Resources (Assembly Committee)
NEM	Net Energy Metering
NR & W	Natural Resources and Water (Senate Committee)
NREL	National Renewable Energy Laboratory
OIR	Order Instituting Rulemaking
PBI	Performance Based Incentive
PD	Proposed Decision
PGC	Public Goods Charge
PIER	Public Interest Energy Research program implemented by CEC
PPA	Power Purchase Agreement
PUC	Public Utilities Commission (California)
PURPA	Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978
QF	Qualifying Facility under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA)
REC	Renewable Energy Credit
Rev&Tax	Revenue and Taxation (Senate and Assembly Committees)
RFO	Request for Offer
RLS	Rules (Senate and Assembly Committees)
RPS	Renewable Portfolio Standard
SGIP	Self Generation Incentive Program
SRAC	Payment by CA IOUs to QFs, based on short run avoided cost
T & H	Transportation and Housing (Senate Committee)
TCR	The Climate Registry
TREC	Tradable Renewable Energy Credit
U&C	Utilities and Commerce (Assembly Committee)
WCI	Western Climate Initiative
WP&W	Water Parks and Wildlife (Assembly Committee)
WREGIS	Western Region Energy Generation Information System