Resiliency and Microgrids Events and Materials

Information Session: Introduction to the CPUC Equitable Resiliency Study – September 10, 2024

Public informational session with Lumen Energy Strategy, LLC (Lumen) and Spatial Informatics Group, LLC (SIG) - September 10, 2024 10 am–12 pm Pacific.

Information session topic: Launch of the CPUC Equitable Resiliency study, conducted by Lumen and SIG, with the study objective to develop and demonstrate a geo-spatial equitable resiliency index model that leverages existing data-driven tools and bridges gaps in current regulatory policies and practices to facilitate resilient, equitable, cost effective, and affordable, electricity grid infrastructure investments.

In this inaugural information session of a series, learn about the motivations and scope of the study; and provide feedback on data sources, analytical approach, and work plan.

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Workshop: R.19-09-009 Track 5 Proposals on a Multi-Property Microgrid Tariff – March 26, 2024

Public workshop in Track 5 of the Microgrids proceeding R.19-09-009 focusing on party proposals on a multi-property microgrid tariff - March 26, 2024 from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm.

Workshop topic: R.19-09-009 Track 5 Proposals on a Multi-Property Microgrid Tariff

The purpose of this workshop is to allow parties to present their proposals for a multi-property microgrid tariff, previously filed into the record of R.19-09-009, and to allow for questions and public comments. Proposals were presented by the Joint IOUs (PG&E, SCE, SDG&E), Applied Medical Resources, Clean Coalition, Green Power Institute, Microgrid Resources Coalition, PearlX, and Sunnova Community Microgrids California.

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Information Session: SCE and Sandia National Labs Final Report on ReNCAT/Social Burden Index Pilot Project - November 28, 2023

Public informational session with SCE and Sandia National Labs - November 28, 2023 from 9:30 am - 11:30 am.

Information Session Topic: SCE and Sandia National Labs Final Report on ReNCAT/Social Burden Index Pilot Project.

In July 2023, Sandia National Labs and Southern California Edison introduced their pilot partnership, a project integrating Sandia’s Resilience Node Cluster Analysis Tool (ReNCAT) with SCE’s Community Resilience Metric (CRM) and other utility data to examine relative levels of social burden during full electrical service and hypothetical outage conditions. Social burden (discussed in previous workshops) is defined in this context as an indicator of how hard people need to work to get their basic needs met. In this informational session, SCE and Sandia National Labs report out on their work having integrated utility infrastructure data along with SCE’s Community Resilience Metric into Sandia’s ReNCAT tool. The report includes geospatial depiction of social burden compared across full electrical service and hypothetical outage scenarios.

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Information Session: Resilience Standards and Grid Resilience Planning: Resilience Methodologies presented by Lumen Energy Strategy - November 8, 2023

Public informational session with Lumen Energy Strategy - November 8, 2023 from 9 am - 12 noon.

Information Session Topic: Resilience Standards and Grid Resilience Planning: Resilience Methodologies presented by Lumen Energy Strategy, a CEC EPIC awardee working on building a grid resiliency framework.

This informational session fucuses on “Resiliency Standards and Grid Resilience Planning – Resiliency Methodologies”. CPUC Staff to provide an overview of the current Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) process, and Lumen to facilitate discussions exploring potential opportunities for local authorities, community leaders, load-serving entities, and state regulators to integrate resiliency into the broader grid planning perspective, with a focus on IRP.

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Information Session: Resilience Planning and Evaluation - 4-Pillar Methodology Use Cases: SDG&E and Sonoma County Junior College District - October 19, 2023

Public informational session with SDG&E and Sonoma County Junior College District (SCJCD) - October 19, 2023 from 9 am - 12 noon.

Information Session Topic: Resiliency Planning and Evaluation - 4-Pillar Methodology Use Cases: SDG&E and SCJCD

Presentations by San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and Sonoma County Junior College District (SCJCD) will discuss how the 4-Pillar Methodology can be used for resiliency planning in two different use cases. SDG&E will demonstrate an in-front-of-the-meter utility use case application of the 4-Pillar Methodology as it applies to successive iterations of their Borrego Springs microgrid. Sonoma County Junior College District will demonstrate a behind-the-meter campus use case as it applies to their long-term resiliency planning including but not limited to their onsite microgrid.

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Information Session: Resilience Standards and Grid Resilience Planning: Resilience Metrics - Lumen Energy Strategy - September 5, 2023

Public informational session with Lumen Energy Strategy presenting on Resilience Metrics - September 5, 2023 from 10 am - 2:30 pm.

Information Session Topic: Lumen Energy Strategy, Resilience Standards and Grid Resilience Planning: Resilience Metrics

In this informational session, Lumen presented and facilitated discussions exploring resiliency metrics and how these metrics may be applied to integrating resiliency in a broader grid planning perspective by applying the concepts to the current Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) process. This workshop is intended to deepen stakeholder’s education, knowledge, and inquiry about the topic, as well as to provide them an opportunity to ask questions and provide input.

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Information Session: Grid Resilience Planning and Coordination Across Public Entities - Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL) - August 22, 2023

Public informational session discussing Lawrence Berkeley National Labs’ report on the DOE Technical Advisory project focused on creating a data schema for a bi-directional informational data exchange for resiliency priorities between Tribes, local jurisdictions and the utilities - August 22, 2023 from 10 am - 11:30 am.

Information Session Topic: Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Grid Resiliency Planning and Coordination Across Public Entities - Information Session

In this informational session, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs discuss the discovery and data collection work done and resulting data schema produced as part of this DOE Technical Advisory project that explored the feasibility of developing a format for a bi-directional informational exchange between Tribes, local jurisdictions, and the utilities to facilitate long term resiliency planning.

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Read the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs Report here.

Workshop: SCE and Sandia National Labs, ReNCAT Pilot Partnership Project Kickoff Information - July 26, 2023

SCE and Sandia National Labs, ReNCAT Pilot Partnership Project Kickoff Information Session” – July 26, 2023 from 10 am – 11 am.

Workshop topic: SCE and Sandia National Labs, ReNCAT Pilot Partnership Project Kickoff Information Session.

In this informational session, Southern California Edison (SCE) and Sandia National Labs describe their pilot partnership project running Sandia’s Resilience Node Cluster Analysis Tool (ReNCAT) with SCE’s Community Resilience Metric (CRM) and other utility data to examine evaluative levels of social burden during blue and black sky conditions. Social burden (discussed in previous workshops) is an indicator of how hard people are working to get their basic needs met during an electric power outage.

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Workshop: Resiliency Standards - Resiliency Definitions - March 21, 2023

The third workshop in Track 5 of the Microgrids proceeding R.19-09-009 focusing on “Resiliency Standards: Resiliency Definitions” – March 21, 2023 from 1pm - 4pm.

Workshop topic: Resiliency Definitions.

Lumen Energy Strategy, a CEC EPIC awardee working on building a grid resiliency framework, will be presenting and facilitating discussions exploring resiliency definitions and how these definitions may be applied to integrating resiliency in a broader grid planning perspective by applying the concepts to the current Integrative Resource Planning (IRP) process. This workshop is intended to deepen stakeholder’s education, knowledge, and inquiry about the topic, as well as to provide them an opportunity to ask questions and provide input.

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Workshop: Economic and Equity Impacts of Large Disruptions - Social Burden Index and ReNCAT - July 7, 2022

The second workshop in Track 5 of the Microgrids proceeding R.19-09-009 focusing on “Economic & Equity Impacts of Large Disruptions” - July 7, 2022 from 10 am – 12 pm.

Workshop topic: The Social Burden Index and the Resilience Node Cluster Analysis Tool (ReNCAT).

The presentations discuss the social burden metric (quantifying how hard people are working to get their needs met during power outages as measured by time and money), and Sandia National Laboratories’ tool that can generate that metric, the ReNCAT.

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Workshop: Economic and Equity Impacts of Large Disruptions - ICE Calculator and POET - May 10, 2022

The first workshop in Track 5 of the Microgrids proceeding R.19-09-009 focusing on “Economic & Equity Impacts of Large Disruptions” - May 10, 2022 from 2 pm – 4 pm.

Workshop topic: The Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) calculator and the Power Outage Economic Tool (POET).

Lawrence Berkeley National Labs is in the process of conducting an update of the ICE calculator, used by many utilities around the country to estimate value of lost load or value of service in General Rate Cases cases and other proceedings where value of service and/or customer outage impact is sought. The ICE calculator is intended to be a tool to estimate short-duration economic outage impacts on customers. The POET tool is currently being piloted to estimate long-duration economic outage impacts on customers. The presentations discuss the components behind the tools including the customer surveys reflecting willingness-to-pay, what is new in the updated version of the ICE 2.0 tool, what information gaps the POET tool aims to fill, and how it differs from the ICE calculator.

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RMWG Meeting - Interconnection - February 24, 2022

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on Interconnection - February 24, 2022 from 2 pm – 4 pm.

Meeting topic: Final Working Group Meeting on interconnection topics. Recap and recommendations.

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RMWG Meeting - Interconnection - January 6, 2022

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on Interconnection - January 6, 2022 from 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm.

Meeting topic: Working Group Meeting with presentations by stakeholders on the interconnection process from the perspective of the applicant.

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RMWG Meeting - Interconnection - December 16, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on Interconnection - December 16, 2021 from 1 pm - 3 pm.

Meeting topic: Working Group Meeting regarding approaches to control and DER integration. Ben Kroposki, director of the Power Systems Engineering Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), will present on autonomous energy grids (AEG) and the newly formed Universal Interoperability for Grid-Forming Inverters (UNIFI) Consortium.

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RMWG Meeting - Interconnection - November 18, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on Interconnection - November 18, 2021 from 2 pm - 4 pm.

Meeting topic: Interconnection - Scott Manson from Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories will present on the use of modern digital relays to address control and protection challenges in modern power systems, including microgrids.

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Workshop: Microgrid Incentive Program Draft Implementation Plan - October 26, 2021

Workshop - October 26, 2021 from 2 pm - 4:30 pm.

The purpose of this workshop is for the program administrators of the Microgrid Incentive Program (Pacific Gas & Electric Company, San Diego Gas & Electric Company, and Southern California Edison Company) to present elements of the draft implementation plan. The program administrators reported on the input that they received from the related summer public workshop series. Additionally, participants provided input on the direction of the draft implementation plan.

Please note that the draft implementation plan presented at this meeting is preliminary and will be subject to further review and input. Additionally, attendees’ input at this meeting is not part of the official record.

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RMWG Meeting - Interconnection - September 17, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on Interconnection - September 17, 2021 from 10 am - 12 pm.

Meeting topic: Interconnection - Presentations on utility experience integrating microgrids into their system and developer experience interconnecting front-of-the-meter resources.

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RMWG Meeting - Interconnection - August 27, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on Interconnection - August 27, 2021 from 2:15-4:30 pm.

Meeting topic: Interconnection - Discuss microgrid islanding study.

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RMWG Meeting - Interconnection - August 12, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on Interconnection - August 12, 2021 from 2-4 pm.

Meeting topic: Interconnection - Introduce and discuss interconnection and related issues as they specifically relate to microgrids.

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RMWG Meeting - Value of Resiliency - July 29, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on the Value of Resiliency – July 29, 2021 from 2-4 pm.

Meeting topic: Value of Resiliency – Discussion and reflection on information presented in prior meetings, and feedback for next steps.

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RMWG Meeting - Value of Resiliency - July 15, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on the Value of Resiliency – July 15, 2021 from 2-4 pm.

Meeting topic: Value of Resiliency - Tribal Resiliency Planning Perspectives.

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RMWG Meeting - Value of Resiliency - July 1, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on the Value of Resiliency – July 1, 2021 from 2-4 pm.

Meeting topic: Value of Resiliency Pillar 4: Resiliency Assessment Post-disruption.

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RMWG Meeting - Value of Resiliency - June 17, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on the Value of Resiliency - June 17, 2021 from 2-4 pm.

Meeting topic: Value of Resiliency Pillar 3: Resiliency Scorecard; Presentation from Sandia Labs on Resiliency Node Cluster Analysis Tool.

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RMWG Meeting - Value of Resiliency - June 3, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on the Value of Resiliency - June 3, 2021 from 2-4 pm.

Meeting topic: Value of Resiliency Pillar 2: Mitigation Measure Assessment, with presentation from Sandia Labs.

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RMWG Meeting - Value of Resiliency - May 19, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on the Value of Resiliency - May 19, 2021 from 2-4 pm.

Meeting topic: Value of Resiliency Pillar I: Baseline Assessment.

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RMWG Meeting - Value of Resiliency - May 12, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on the Value of Resiliency - May 12, 2021 from 3-4:30 pm.

Meeting topic: Presentation by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab on its Interruption Cost Estimator tool.

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RMWG Meeting - Value of Resiliency - May 5, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on the Value of Resiliency - May 5, 2021 from 2-4 pm.

Meeting topic: Initial staff presentation of a draft methodology to approach resiliency valuation, with opportunity to provide constructive feedback and input.

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RMWG Meeting - Multi-Property Tariff – April 27, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on the Multi-Property Tariff – April 27, 2021 from 2-4 pm.

Meeting topic: Tariff Proposal from Applied Medical Resources Corporation and recap of the multi-property tariff phase.

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RMWG Meeting - Multi-Property Tariff – April 19, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on the Multi-Property Tariff – April 19, 2021 from 2-4 pm.

Meeting topic: Tariff Proposals from Green Power Institute and Microgrid Resources Coalition.

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RMWG Meeting - Multi-Property Tariff – April 13, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on the Multi-Property Tariff – April 13, 2021 from 2-4 pm.

Meeting topic: Discuss how the Community Microgrid Enablement Tariff works looking at the specific example of the Redwood Coast Airport Microgrid (RCAM).

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RMWG Meeting - Multi-Property Tariff - March 22, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on the Multi-Property Tariff - March 22, 2021 from 2-4 pm.

Meeting topic: Examine ways in which microgrid customers and non-particpating ratepayers are protected (or not protected) from unjust or unreasonable rates. Present questions for the working group on how to develop protections in a multi-customer microgrid tariff.

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RMWG Meeting - Multi-Property Tariff - March 8, 2021

Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting focusing on the Multi-Property Tariff - March 8, 2021 from 2-4 pm.

Meeting topic: Provide a high-level overview of foundational safety elements to help inform working group members as they are developing their multi-property, multi-customer tariff proposals.

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RMWG Meeting - Multi-Property Tariff - February 22, 2021

Energy Division hosted a Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting on February 22, 2021 from 2-4 pm.

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RMWG Meeting - Standby Charges - February 19, 2021

Energy Division hosted a Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting on February 19, 2021 from 10 am - noon.

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RMWG Meeting #3 - February 9, 2021

Energy Division hosted a Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting on February 9, 2021 from 2-4 pm.

The purpose of the meeting was to review the preliminary RMWG schedule (originally shared on 1/15/2021), and to continue the discussion on the multi-property microgrid tariff topic. This will include a review of previous meetings, and a discussion of the following document: Multi-Property, Multi-Customer Microgrids Tariff Discussion Prompt and Questions.

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Letter to PG&E

In December 2020, CPUC Acting Executive Director Rachel Peterson sent a letter directing PG&E to meet with local Air Districts concerning the deployment of temporary generation during Public Safety Power Shutoff events. Read the letter here.

RMWG Kick-Off Meeting #2 - November 4, 2020

Energy Division hosted the second Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting

Agenda

Presentation

Working Group Scope FAQ

RMWG Kick-Off Meeting #1 - October 13, 2020

Energy Division hosted the first Resiliency and Microgrid Working Group (RMWG) meeting.

Working Group Draft Charter

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Presentation

Ruling and Proposal for Utility Temporary Generation - September 4, 2020

Assigned Commissioner Genevieve Shiroma and Administrative Law Judge Colin Rizzo issued a ruling requesting comment on utility temporary generation and alternatives to diesel for providing substation level power during transmission outages.

The ruling includes an attached proposal for an interim approach to minimizing emissions from temporary generation for 2021, and a process for transitioning to clean technologies and fuels in future years.

Ruling

Diesel Alternatives Workshop - August 25, 2020

Energy Division hosted a public workshop with stakeholders examining alternatives to diesel generation for the 2021 fire season and future PSPS events. The workshop focused on replacing substation-level generation used for PG&E's Temporary Generation Program.

The workshop was held via WebEx.

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Workshop 2 – August 5, 2020

Energy Division hosted a public workshop to present and discuss the Staff Proposal for Track 2 of the proceeding.

Workshop was held online via WebEx.

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Staff Proposal for Implementing SB 1339 and Concept Paper - July 23, 2020

Administrative Law Judge Colin Rizzo issued a ruling requesting comment on staff's proposal for facilitating the commercialization of microgrids pursuant to SB 1339.

Ruling

Track 1 Decision Issued - June 7, 2020

The commission voted to approved a decision for Track 1 of the proceeding. The decision adopted short term actions to accelerate microgrids deployment and related resiliency solutions.

Decision D.20-06-017

Letters to Utilities

In March 2020, CPUC Executive Director Alice Stebbins sent letters directing PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E to take steps to implement resiliency solutions. Read the letters here: