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 |