Maine PUC Uses SCC in Guidance Document on Value of Solar

UMaine Internal Guidance April 2015

  • Application

    PUC reference materials

  • Date

    April 2015

  • Details

    Maine’s Public Utilities Commission used the IWG’s estimate to make this calculation for carbon emissions in a study on the value of distributed solar resources. 1 This study is referred to in some of Maine’s net metering proceedings. 2

  • SCC Value(s)

    IWG SCC (3% discount rate) minus RGGI carbon allowance costs. 3

  • Reference

    Value of Solar Study

  • Legal Authority

    Maine enacted the Act to Support Solar Energy Development in Maine during its 2014 legislative session. 4   Section 1 of the Act states that it is “in the public interest to develop renewable energy resources, including solar energy, in a manner that protects and improves the health and well-being of the citizens and natural environment of the State while also providing economic benefits to communities, ratepayers and the overall economy of the State.” 5 Section 2 of the Act instructs the Public Utilities Commission to determine the value of distributed solar energy generation in the State, including “the value of the reduced environmental impacts of the energy.” 6

  1.  See Maine Public Utilities Commission, Maine Distributed Solar Valuation Study 35 (2015) (hereinafter “Maine Solar Study”), available here. ↩︎
  2.  Maine Public Utilities Commission. Docket No. 2016-00222. Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Sept 2016) at 4. ↩︎
  3.  See Maine Solar Study. ↩︎
  4.  Maine P.L ch. 562 (Apr. 24, 2014) (codified in part at 35‐A M.R.S.A. §§ 3471‐3474). ↩︎
  5.  Id. at § 3472(1). ↩︎
  6.  Id. at Sec. 2(1). ↩︎

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