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California
Air Resources Board (CARB or Board) staff invites you to participate in a
public workshop on Friday, March 2, 2018, to discuss Senate Bill 350 (SB 350) and
establishing greenhouse gas emissions reductions planning targets as part of
the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) process.
DATE: March 2, 2018
TIME: 1:00 p.m.
LOCATION: California Environmental Protection Agency
Air Resources Board | Sierra Hearing Room
1001 I Street Sacramento, California 95814
Purpose of Workshop
This workshop will commence CARB’s public
process to establish greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions planning targets
as part of the IRP process pursuant to SB 350. The work undertaken to implement SB 350 is a
joint agency effort between CARB, the California Public Utilities Commission
(CPUC) and the California Energy Commission (CEC). The workshop will include discussion on establishing
GHG planning targets for the electric sector and retail electricity providers
for use in IRPs, as required under SB 350. CPUC and CEC will present on the status of
their IRP processes and recommended approaches to GHG planning target
setting. CARB will present how the work
already completed by CPUC and CEC will be utilized in development of a proposal
for setting the electricity sector and individual retail electricity provider
GHG planning targets for use in IRPs that would be subject to CARB Board
approval.
Following
the workshop, stakeholders will have an opportunity to provide written comments
during a comment period, which will conclude at 5:00 p.m. Pacific time on March
23, 2018.
A
copy of the presentation for the workshop will be available on CARB's IRP webpage prior to the workshop.
All
interested stakeholders are invited to attend.
A live webcast of the workshop will be available. Remote participants will be able to submit e-mail
questions during the workshop at an address provided in the presentation.
Special Accommodation Request
Consistent with California Government Code Section 7296.2, special accommodation or language needs may be provided for any of the following:
- An interpreter to be available at the meeting;
- Documents made available in an alternate format or another language;
- A disability-related reasonable accommodation.
To request these special accommodations or language needs, please contact Rachel Gold at (916) 327-1517 or rachel.gold@arb.ca.gov as soon as possible, but no later than 7 business days before the workshop. TTY/TDD/Speech to Speech users may dial 711 for the California Relay Service.
Background
In October 2015, Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. signed SB 350 into law. SB 350
requires load-serving entities under the jurisdiction of the CPUC and
qualifying publicly owned utilities (jointly, retail electricity providers) to
develop IRPs that meet GHG emission reduction planning targets established by CARB
in coordination with CPUC and CEC. The GHG targets are to be developed for the
electric sector as a whole and for each retail electricity provider.
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