How will PG&E address assumptions made in the Transmission Ranking Cost Report which are no longer valid; e.g., projects in queue that have dropped out?
First, the Transmission Ranking Cost Report (TRCR), as directed by the CPUC, is to be used exclusively for the purposes of providing information for developers to structure and submit their bids and for PG&E to rank the bids and develop a short list. The application of any bid adder to a project under the TRCR process does not determine the projects actual responsibility for transmission upgrade costs. Successful bidders must complete the CA ISO Generation Interconnection Process. It is in that process that the Network Upgrades costs would be determined. Changes in assumptions are addressed in that process for individual generation projects. Solely for the purpose of rank ordering bids in accordance with their least-cost best-fit results, the CPUC has provided the following direction to account for the capacity represented by projects that have dropped out of the CAISO queue: • “Before undertaking the second ranking of RPS bids, each subject utility shall adjust its transmission cost e
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