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These are topics that the CEC has identified that they would like to talk with us about. It looks like the meeting may occur on May 3 at 1 pm. I haven’t figured out yet the exact purpose of the meeting, but I think that they are getting ready to release another
solicitation and are trying to figure out what topics to put into it. If we think something is important, I don’t know if that means they WOULD put it in or would NOT. I think that if we say that we will be able to cover it, then they won’t put it in, but
if we say that it is an important area and outside of the scope of this project, then they might put it in to the next solicitation. Or, something like that - I’m not completely clear.
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This is the table from the spreadsheet I showed today. It seems many of these are already in your project scopes, to varying degree<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">Further define storage requirements for 8760 reliability modelling<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">Since storage is incremental to rate base, use optimization and make storage dependent variable to minimize impact to ratepayers of additional storage needed for SB100 implementation<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">Prioritized retirement schedule for current gas generation that optimizes EJ and least ratepayer impact<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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