The Commission will give the applicant written notice of its determination. The Commission shall post all determinations regarding confidentiality on its website and may give other appropriate notice. If an applicant is authorized to file information confidentially in the context of a Commission proceeding, the applicant shall serve a copy of the determination on all persons listed on the service list for that proceeding.
Publication Date:
October 23, 2000
Effective Date:
October 23, 2000
Expiration Date:
March 22, 2001
Extension Through:
July 19, 2001
2. Rules adopted creating
ch. PSC 118, relating to the use of renewable resource credits.
Exemption from finding of emergency
1999 Wis. Act 9, section
9141 (2zt) (a) allows the Commission to promulgate an emergency rule creating an RRC trading program without making a finding of emergency.
Analysis prepared by the Public Service Commission
Statute interpreted: s.
196.378, Stats.
1999 Wis. Act 9 created a renewable portfolio standard, requiring electric providers to meet certain minimum percentages of their retail sales with renewable resources. The minimum percentage gradually increases as follows:
Year 2001: 0.5 percent of total retail electric sales.
Year 2003: 0.85 percent of total retail electric sales.
Year 2005: 1.2 percent of total retail electric sales.
Year 2007: 1.55 percent of total retail electric sales.
Year 2009: 1.9 percent of total retail electric sales.
Year 2011: 2.2 percent of total retail electric sales.
In lieu of providing renewable energy to its customers, an electric provider can purchase a renewable resource credit. Under s.
196.378 (3) (a), Stats., the Commission must “promulgate rules that establish requirements for the use of a renewable resource credit, including the amount of a renewable resource credit." This rule addresses the requirements and procedures for the use of renewable resource credits, during the interim period before the date when an identical permanent rule takes effect.
This rule establishes a renewable resource credits trading program and describes the minimum criteria for renewable facilities to be eligible for creation of credits in the trading program. The rule also describes the duties of a program administrator, who supervises and implements the trading program. The program administrator is required to create a trading account for participating electric providers and to award renewable resource credits to the account of an electric provider of energy, from a certified renewable facility, that exceeds its minimum requirement. The program administrator must retire renewable resource credits upon their use to satisfy an electric provider's minimum renewable energy requirement.
Publication Date:
April 7, 2001
Effective Date:
April 7, 2001
Expiration Date:
September 4, 2001
Finding of emergency
In order to preserve the health, safety, and welfare of Wisconsin residential, commercial and industrial ratepayers it is necessary to amend ch.
PSC 116 Wis. Adm. Code. Amending the definition of ``fuel" in s.
PSC 116.03 (4) and creating s.
PSC 116.04 (6) would allow investor-owned utilities the ability to incorporate the cost of voluntary curtailment into the cost of fuel to increase the reliability of electric service in Wisconsin for the summer of 2001 and beyond. This change would assist in implementing the requirement of
1999 Wis. Act 9, s.
196.192 (2) (a), Stats.
Publication Date:
May 19, 2001
Effective Date:
May 19, 2001
Expiration Date:
October 16, 2001
Hearing Date:
June 26, 2001
[See notice this Register]
