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913.4
. (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (g) of Section 454.5 and
Section 583, no later than May 1 of each year, the commission shall
release to the Legislature the costs of all electricity procurement
contracts for eligible renewable energy resources, including
unbundled renewable energy credits, and all costs for utility-owned
generation approved by the commission. The first report shall include
all costs commencing January 1, 2003. Subsequent reports shall
include only costs for the preceding calendar year.
(1) For power purchase contracts, the commission shall release
costs in an aggregated form categorized according to the year the
procurement transaction was approved by the commission, the eligible
renewable energy resource type, including bundled renewable energy
credits, the average executed contract price, and average actual
recorded costs for each kilowatthour of production. Within each
renewable energy resource type, the commission shall provide
aggregated costs for different project size thresholds.
(2) For each utility-owned renewable generation project, the
commission shall release the costs forecast by the electrical
corporation at the time of initial approval and the actual recorded
costs for each kilowatthour of production during the preceding
calendar year.
(b) This section does not require the release of the terms of any
individual electricity procurement contracts for eligible renewable
energy resources, including unbundled renewable energy credits,
approved by the commission. The commission shall aggregate data to
the extent required to ensure protection of the confidentiality of
individual contract costs even if this aggregation requires grouping
contracts of different energy resource type. The commission shall not
be required to release the data in any year when there are fewer
than three contracts approved.
(c) The commission may combine the information required by this
section with the report prepared pursuant to Section 913.3.