BSI intervened into the 2015 Entergy New Orleans (ENO) Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) process. This was done at the level of the City of New Orleans as the utility regulator. The UD-08-02 docket was purposefully started in June 2014, with the hope that the process would be complete within a year or so. In fact, it ended in January 2017 without having created an acceptable IRP product.
The first opportunity for BSI to officially submit its views came at the end of August 2015. The long form is over 80 pages and has a rich set of footnotes. An executive summary was also submitted.
During the time that BSI worked to compose and perfect its first IRP intervention document, Customer Lowered Electricity Price (CLEP) hatched. BSI realized at that time that an IRP could not be calculated and conceived of CLEP as a remedy for a failed process which nevertheless had a laudable goal. CLEP's first published description was put here. BSI also gave a talk on CLEP four times in the first half of 2016: at the Joint Engineering Society Conference of Louisiana in January 2016, RESNET national conference, Electric Power Expo and for the Sierra Club in Abita Springs.
In mid summer, 2016, BSI submitted 3 CLEP pilot proposals: A pure CLEP pilot, a CLEP battery Pilot and a CLEP Community Solar Pilot.
As the 2015 ENO IRP process was drawing to a close at the end of 2016, ENO starting making it clear that it was now going to make public what it was really trying to make happen all along: convince the City Council that it needed to build a 200 MW peaking plant and the best place to put it was in New Orleans at the site of the recently decommissioned 750 MW Michoud Plant of various gas-fired electricity generators. Although the city council's advisers pushed to have that issue resolved in a separate docket, that process seemed to go nowhere until ENO admitted that the had "made some mistakes about the need for the generator".
At the end of 2016, BSI filed a series of letters into the docket and with the council-members to restate the importance and competence of CLEP to more cost-effectively resolve the problem otherwise "solved" by construction of a new generator.
At the end of January 2017, the council decided that the 2015 ENO IRP process was a failure and immediately created docket UD -17-01 with the goal of redefining the purpose and process of future IRP work. A few days into that docket's existence and months before any other submission, BSI made its contribution. BSI asserted that IRP work should proceed by a construct already in use by New York and California, but not named. BSI called it Integrated Resource Planning by Market Based Acquisition (IRPbMBA). BSI's motion promoted IRPbMBA as the prototype approach to tuture IRP work in New Orleans.
In the end of April, the Council's advisers submitted a report on IRP process and invited a 30-day window for comments by the utility and intervenors. BSI filed its rebuttal on May 22, 2017.
The first opportunity for BSI to officially submit its views came at the end of August 2015. The long form is over 80 pages and has a rich set of footnotes. An executive summary was also submitted.
During the time that BSI worked to compose and perfect its first IRP intervention document, Customer Lowered Electricity Price (CLEP) hatched. BSI realized at that time that an IRP could not be calculated and conceived of CLEP as a remedy for a failed process which nevertheless had a laudable goal. CLEP's first published description was put here. BSI also gave a talk on CLEP four times in the first half of 2016: at the Joint Engineering Society Conference of Louisiana in January 2016, RESNET national conference, Electric Power Expo and for the Sierra Club in Abita Springs.
In mid summer, 2016, BSI submitted 3 CLEP pilot proposals: A pure CLEP pilot, a CLEP battery Pilot and a CLEP Community Solar Pilot.
As the 2015 ENO IRP process was drawing to a close at the end of 2016, ENO starting making it clear that it was now going to make public what it was really trying to make happen all along: convince the City Council that it needed to build a 200 MW peaking plant and the best place to put it was in New Orleans at the site of the recently decommissioned 750 MW Michoud Plant of various gas-fired electricity generators. Although the city council's advisers pushed to have that issue resolved in a separate docket, that process seemed to go nowhere until ENO admitted that the had "made some mistakes about the need for the generator".
At the end of 2016, BSI filed a series of letters into the docket and with the council-members to restate the importance and competence of CLEP to more cost-effectively resolve the problem otherwise "solved" by construction of a new generator.
At the end of January 2017, the council decided that the 2015 ENO IRP process was a failure and immediately created docket UD -17-01 with the goal of redefining the purpose and process of future IRP work. A few days into that docket's existence and months before any other submission, BSI made its contribution. BSI asserted that IRP work should proceed by a construct already in use by New York and California, but not named. BSI called it Integrated Resource Planning by Market Based Acquisition (IRPbMBA). BSI's motion promoted IRPbMBA as the prototype approach to tuture IRP work in New Orleans.
In the end of April, the Council's advisers submitted a report on IRP process and invited a 30-day window for comments by the utility and intervenors. BSI filed its rebuttal on May 22, 2017.