The Agency’s Regulatory Program is responsible for advocacy, compliance, and litigation related to proceedings before state, federal, and regional regulatory agencies. Fundamental to this effort is ensuring a consistent and clear understanding of public power and local control in the various state regulatory agencies. Key areas of interest to public power systems include, but are not limited to: 1) shaping regulatory policies surrounding post-2020 goals for California’s greenhouse gas emission reduction program, and; 2) educating, reporting, and managing compliance activities related to energy efficiency, renewable resources, and greenhouse gas emissions. At the federal level, this area of the program promotes favorable transmission policies that prevent the imposition of unwarranted costs on consumers, and ensures that the implementation of reliability standards and cybersecurity requirements and processes do not impose an undue and unworkable burden on our state’s smaller utility systems.

KEY REGULATORY FILINGS
- NCPA Comments to CARB – 10/12/17 Cap-and-Trade Workshop (10/27/17)
- NCPA Comments to CARB – Proposed Cap-and-Trade Amendments Second 15-Day Package (4/28/17)
- NCPA Comments to CARB – Draft Scoping Plan Update (4/10/17)
- NCPA Comments to CARB – Proposed Cap-and-Trade Amendments First 15-Day Package (1/20/17)
- NCPA Comments to CARB – 120216 Scoping Plan Discussion Draft (12/16/16)
- NCPA Comments to CARB – 110716 Scoping Plan Workshop (11/21/16)
- NCPA Comments to CARB – 102116 Cap-and-Trade Workshop (11/4/16)
- NCPA Comments to CARB – Proposed Amendments to Cap-and-Trade Regulations (9/19/16)
- NCPA Comments to CARB – Scoping Plan 2030 Concept Paper (7/8/16)
- NCPA Comments to CARB – 022416 Cap-and-Trade and Mandatory Reporting Workshop (3/11/16)
- NCPA Comments to CARB – 121415 Clean Power Plan and Cap-and-Trade Workshop (1/11/16)
- NCPA Comments to CARB – Clean Power Plan White Paper (10/23/15)
- NCPA Comments to CARB – 100215 Cap-and-Trade Workshop (10/19/15)
- NCPA Comments to CARB – 100115 Scoping Plan 2030 Target Workshop (10/16/15)
- NCPA Comments to U.S. EPA – Clean Power Plan (11/25/14)
Joint Utility Group Comments
- California Utilities Cap and Trade Letter to Governor’s Office (5/22/17)
- Joint Utility Group Letter to CARB on Allowance Allocation (2/6/17)
- Joint Utility Group Letter to CARB – Allowance Allocation (12/9/16)
- Joint Utility Group Comments – Proposed Amendments to Cap-and-Trade Regulations (9/18/16)
- Joint Utility Group Comments – Clean Power Plan Guiding Principles (10/23/15)
- NCPA Comments to CEC – Proposed Amendments to RPS Enforcement Regulations Pre-rulemaking (9/9/16)
- NCPA Comments to CARB – Draft RPS Enforcement Regulations (3/11/16)
- NCPA Comments to CEC – 15-Day Proposed Amendments to RPS Enforcement Regulations (7/21/15)
- NCPA Comments to CEC – Proposed Amendments to RPS Enforcement Regulations (5/11/15)
- NCPA Comments to CEC – Draft 8th Edition of the RPS Eligibility Guidebook (2/17/15)
- NCPA Comments to CEC – Proposed Amendments to RPS Regulations (7/28/14)
Joint POU Comments