PUCT Project 38578 - Amendments to Energy Efficiency Rules and Templates

Amendments to Energy Efficiency Rules and Templates

Staff Assigned
Katie Rich, Infrastructure and Reliability
512-936-7402
katie.rich@puc.texas.gov

Energy Efficiency Implementation Meetings

EEIP Meeting - November 27, 2012

Agenda

Presentations

Supporting Materials

Avoided Cost of Capacity

Pursuant to P.U.C. SUBST. R. 25.181(d)(2), Commission staff shall post a notice of a revised avoided cost of capacity by November 15 of each year, effective for the next program year. Based on the EIA data (http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/assumptions/pdf/electricity.pdf), using the base overnight cost of the advanced combustion turbine, the avoided cost of capacity is $80 per kW-year for all electric utilities.

Avoided Cost of Energy

Pursuant to §25.181(d)(3), by November 1 of each year ERCOT shall calculate the avoided cost of energy for the ERCOT region by determining the load-weighted average of the competitive load zone settlement point prices for the peak periods covering the two previous winter and summer peaks. ERCOT's calculation results in an avoided cost of energy of $0.104 per kWh for the 2013 program year.

Here are the results on a MWh basis:

	Summer	Winter	Both
LZ_HOUSTON	133.6065612	46.95347	101.9154486
LZ_NORTH	135.9699247	52.92385	104.2848481
LZ_SOUTH	129.380621	69.38437	106.98213
LZ_WEST	154.8106573	42.25954	108.1941171
Total	135.8511923	52.24262	104.2244362