N.M. Admin. Code § 17.9.572.19

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 23, December 10, 2024

Section 17.9.572.19 - ANNUAL RENEWABLE ENERGY PORTFOLIO REPORT

A. Concurrent with the filing of an annual renewable energy plan, each public utility shall file with the commission a report on its renewable energy generation or purchases of renewable energy during the prior plan year. This report shall:

(1) itemize all renewable energy generation or renewable energy certificate purchases and sales;

(2) list, and include copies of, all renewable energy certificates, including acquired, issued or retired certificates;

(3) document from WREGIS or its successor the renewable energy certificates acquired, sold, retired, transferred, or expired; such documentation shall include reports from WREGIS or its successor which allow the commission to determine, by fuel type, the number of RECs in each calendar year:

(a) acquired;

(b) sold;

(c) retired;

(d) transferred; and

(e) expired;

(4) describe the retirements made to meet renewable portfolio standard compliance based on actual retail sales and procurement costs, for the most recent reporting period including, the reductions, if any, to the RPS for:

(a) purchases by retail customers through an approved voluntary program; or

(b) due to the reasonable cost threshold;

(c) explain and demonstrate how the reduction was determined; and

(d) quantity of renewable energy certificates banked for future compliance use;

(5) describe and quantify the implementation of the voluntary renewable tariff requirements in 17.9.572.18 NMAC;

(6) present a full explanation of approved recovery mechanisms for approved annual renewable energy plan costs and a complete accounting of all collected and deferred amounts; and

(7) describe and tabulate the utility's compliance with its renewable portfolio standard for a given report year and describe how the compliance relates to the first year a new renewable portfolio standard becomes effective as established in Subsection A of Section 62-16-4 NMSA 1978 and Subsection A of 17.9.572.10 NMAC and describe how the compliance relates the first year of the next new renewable portfolio standard.

B. The report shall include the following to demonstrate compliance with the renewable portfolio standard:

(1) report year total utility renewable portfolio standard requirement in megawatt-hours;

(2) report year total utility renewable portfolio standard compliance in megawatt-hours;

(3) report year total utility renewable portfolio standard provided by eligible renewable energy resources in megawatt-hours listed by resource and totaled;

(4) percentage of report year total utility renewable portfolio standard megawatt-hours provided by eligible renewable energy resources; and

(5) report year kilowatt-hour generation by facility from coal-fired generating facilities allocated to New Mexico retail customers.

N.M. Admin. Code § 17.9.572.19

17.9.572.19 NMAC - Rp, 17.9.572.17 NMAC, 5-31-13, Adopted by New Mexico Register, Volume XXXII, Issue 09, May 4, 2021, eff. 5/4/2021, Adopted by New Mexico Register, Volume XXXIV, Issue 04, February 28, 2023, eff. 2/28/2023