TECHNOLOGICAL DIVERSITY Sample Clauses

TECHNOLOGICAL DIVERSITY. PG&E added a few Offers to its short list that proposed facilities using a different technology than those already on the short list or within the utility’s supply portfolio, but which fell below the viability cutoff used in screening projects. The reason cited was to provide greater portfolio diversity. Technological diversity of the renewable power supply portfolio is not precisely a criterion or preference stated in the solicitation materials. However, within the RPS Goals evaluation criterion is a review of the extent to which an Offer will accomplish or promote a broad set of social and environmental goals, including a goal to “Increase the diversity, reliability, public health, and environmental benefits of the energy mix”.21 Some would read this language, taken from the legislative objective stated for the RPS program, as a directive to diversify the state’s energy mix away from fossil-fueled generation sources such as coal and natural gas. To others this might be interpreted as a mandate to strengthen the robustness of the energy mix by seeking to employ a broader range of technologies for renewable generation. The latter interpretation would open up the opportunity to select 21 Pacific Gas and Electric Company, “Renewables Portfolio Standard: 2009 Solicitation Protocol”, June 29, 2009, page 28 lower-valued or lower-viability projects because they offer unique, different, or not-yet-fully- commercialized technologies that may benefit from demonstration at utility scale.
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TECHNOLOGICAL DIVERSITY. PG&E added a few Offers to its short list that proposed facilities using a different technology than those already on the short list or within the utility’s supply portfolio. The reason cited was to provide greater portfolio diversity. Technological diversity of the renewable power supply portfolio is not precisely a criterion or preference stated in the solicitation materials. However, within the RPS Goals evaluation criterion is a review of the extent to which an Offer will accomplish or promote a broad set of social and environmental goals, including a goal to “Increase the diversity, reliability, public health, and environmental benefits of the energy mix”.27 Some would read this language, taken from the legislative objectives stated for the RPS program, as a directive to diversity the state’s energy mix away from fossil-fueled generation sources such as coal and natural gas. To others this might be interpreted as a mandate to strengthen the robustness of the energy mix by seeking to employ a broader range of technologies for renewable generation. The latter interpretation would open up the opportunity to select lower-valued or lower-viability projects because they offer unique, different, or not-yet-fully- commercialized technologies that may benefit from demonstration at utility scale. Xxxxxx notes that the selection of these Offers for the short list might be viewed as an exercise in using appropriate business judgment regarding project viability while discounting 27 Pacific Gas and Electric Company, “Renewables Portfolio Standard: 2009 Solicitation Protocol”, June 29, 2009, page 28 the exact numerical scores from the Project Viability Calculator. Two of these Offers fell only slightly below the arbitrary cutoff score that PG&E used to screen for projects with acceptable vs. unacceptable project viability, while one Offer fell considerably below that cutoff. Xxxxxx notes that the use of the Calculator has a fair amount of noise or error in it. When the IE’s viability scores are compared to those of the PG&E team’s, the average of all scores was nearly the same, but the standard deviation of the difference between IE and utility scores on individual Offers was 13 points. This provides an indication of the standard error of the Calculator’s scores. The degree to which the two higher-ranked Offers fell below the cutoff point that PG&E used for screening was well within the estimated standard error of the evaluation. Also, Xxxxxx observes that all of th...
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