California

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Californias Expedited Power PlantPermitting
ProcessesRoger JohnsonSiting Office Manager

• California Energy Commission
• March 15, 2001

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Topics

• Governor declares energy emergency
• Governors Executive Orders
• Expedited Permitting Processes
• Emergency Permit Review Status

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Governors Executive Orders

• 6 Executive Orders Issued February 8
• 1 Executive Order Issued March 7
• Focused on power plants
• Planning
• Siting
• Permitting
• Construction
• Operation

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Governors EOsLicensing

• Maintain 12-month AFC
• Maintain 6-month AFC
• Reestablish 4-month AFC
• Establish emergency permit process
• Establish 45-day amendment
• Establish 7-day amendment

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6-month AFC

• Purpose - Expedite clean projects
• Projects
• No public health or safety concerns
• Mitigated environmental impact
• No significant adverse energy system impact
• Comply with legal requirements
• Have a contract and skilled labor
• Address disproportionate impacts
• Control site
• Priority for superior projects

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4-month AFC

• Purpose - Peaking projects
• Data adequate by Dec. 31, 2001
• On line by Aug 2002
• Projects
• No public health or safety concerns
• Mitigated environmental impact
• No significant adverse energy system impact
• Comply with legal requirements
• Have a contract and skilled labor
• Address disproportionate impacts
• Control site

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Emergency Permit

• Who Qualifies?
• Peaker power plant
• On line by September 30, 2001
• ISO Summer Reliability Contract
• 50 MW or larger
• No fatal flaws

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Emergency Permit

• Length of CEC license
• Life of project if
• contract with CDWR or CAISO
• meets continuation criteria at end of contract
• meets BACT and has permanent air emission offsets
• compliance with all Energy Commission conditions
• site control, and
• project is a permanent facility.
• 3 years with option to recertify w/o contract

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Emergency Permit

• Purpose - Peaking projects
• Fatal Flaw Analysis
• No public health or safety concerns
• Mitigated environmental impact
• No significant adverse energy system impact
• Comply with legal requirements
• Have a contract and skilled labor
• Address disproportionate impacts
• Control site
• No or minimal linear facilities
• Exempt from CEQA requirements

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Emergency PermitSchedule
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Emergency PermittingStatus

• Executive Orders D22-D27 February 8
• Process defined February 27
• Executive Order D28 March 7
• First two applications filed March 8

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Emergency Power Plant Permits Under CEC Review
Note Intergen Wildflower projects were
previously known as Tejas 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
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More Information

• Energy Commission
• Roger Johnson [phone]
• Toll free Hot Line in CA [phone]
• www.energy.ca.gov/sitingcases/peakers
• Air Resources Board
• Michael Tollstrup [phone]
• www.arb.ca.gov/energy/energy.htm
• Department of Water Resources
• Viju Patel [phone]