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Integrated Resource Planning

MCLI Recommendation: “States should evaluate new power projects based on their system-wide project costs and benefits, and should favor integrated planning approaches that compare the social costs and benefits of various power projects.”

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California IRP Proceedings on Climate Targets, Energy Mix

In February 2022, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) adopted a 35 million metric ton (MMT) 2032 electric sector greenhouse gas planning target, which is more stringent than the previous...
Example States and State Governments

Maine’s Integrated Grid Planning Legislation

In May 2022, Maine’s enacted LD 1959, requiring electric utilities to undertake an “integrated grid planning” process every five years, and for those plans to support the state’s goal of reducing gree...
Example States and State Governments

New York’s Community Risk and Resiliency Act of 2014

The Community Risk and Resiliency Act of 2014 requires the state to adopt official projections of future sea level rise, and it mandates that in many specified state programs, sea level rise and some ...
Resource Public Utilities

Report, Best Practices in Utility Integrated Resource Planning

The Regulatory Assistance Project prepared a 2013 report, Best Practices in Utility Integrated Resource Planning, which describes IRP requirements in three states, Arizona, Colorado, and Oregon, which...
Example Public Utilities

Mississippi IRP Process

In 2019, the Mississippi Public Service Commission adopted a formal integrated resource planning process that requires utilities to consider distributed energy resources and demand-side management (in...
Example States and State Governments

Colorado Order on Using Carbon Costs in Resource Plans

Colorado Rev. Stat. § 40-2-123(1)(b) allows the Colorado Public Utility Commission to consider the social costs of greenhouse gas emissions. The statute says that “[t]he commission may give considerat...
Example States and State Governments

Washington Administrative Code 480-90-238

The Washington Administrative Code 480-90-238 stipulates that when the PUC applies a Lowest Reasonable Cost test, it must consider, among other things, “the cost of risks associated with environmental...
Example States and State Governments

Minnesota Order on Cost of Carbon in Resource Planning

Minnesota Statute § 216B.2422 Subdivision(3)(a) directs the PUC to “quantify and establish a range of environmental costs associated with each method of electricity generation,” which utilities are di...
Example States and State Governments

California Proposed Decision on Carbon Costs in Integrated Resource Planning

California’s Public Utility Code § 701.1(c) gives the state’s Public Utilities Commission a mandate to include “a value for any costs and benefits to the environment,” when it is “calculating the cost...
Resource Public Utilities

Report, Opportunities for Valuing Climate Impacts in U.S. State Electricity Policy

The Institute for Policy Integrity’s 2019 report, Opportunities for Valuing Climate Impacts in U.S. State Electricity Policy, sheds light on where state regulators have been legislatively granted the ...
Example Public Utilities

PJM’s Grid of the Future Report

In May 2022, the PJM Interconnection released a roadmap for handling the various changes affecting its system, including the retirement of fossil-fueled generation, growth in renewable energy and stor...
Resource States and State Governments

Connecticut’s Performance-Based Regulation Order

In April 2023, the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) issued a Final Decision as part of its investigation into a Performance-Based Regulation (PBR) framework for the state’s ele...