The California ISO has posted a Memorandum of Understanding between the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the California Independent System Operator (ISO) regarding Transmission and Resource Planning and Implementation.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is available on the Transmission Planning webpage.
The MOU provides a crucial cornerstone in reinforcing the cooperation and collaboration of the three parties in the timely development of resources needed to achieve the state’s clean energy goals reliably and economically, and focuses on:
- Establishing or reaffirming linkages between the CEC’s Integrated Energy Policy Report and SB 100 activities, the CPUC’s Integrated Resource Planning process and the ISO’s 20 Year transmission Outlook and annual transmission planning and approval process;
- Affirming the commitment to tighten linkages between planning, procurement direction, and the ISO interconnection process - and local planning - to the greatest extent possible; and,
- Folding the existing state agency and single forecast coordination into the MOU.
The Memorandum of Understanding supersedes and replaces the 2010 MOU between the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the California Independent System Operator (ISO) regarding the Revised ISO Transmission Planning Process.
The ISO anticipates that the MOU will provide invaluable guidance and direction in the planning and procurement proceedings and processes conducted by the three parties.
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