Pursuant to PUC § 399.16(b)-(c), as implemented by the Energy Commission’s RPS Regulations, electricity products associated with contracts or ownership agreements that were executed after June 1, 2010 must be classified into the following three PCCs:

PCC1: Electricity products that are procured as bundled and that are associated with an eligible renewable energy resource that either: (1) has its first point on interconnection within a California balancing authority ("BA"); (2) has its first point of interconnection to a distribution system used to serve end users within a California BA; (3) is scheduled into a California BA without substituting electricity from another source; or (4) is dynamically transferred into a California BA.

PCC2: Electricity products that are procured as bundled and that are associated with an eligible renewable energy resource that is located within the WECC but outside of a California BA, and for which the renewable energy is matched with an equal amount of incremental energy that is scheduled into a California BA.

PCC3: All electricity products that are associated with eligible renewable energy resources, but that do not meet the definition of PCC1 or PCC2.

Pursuant to PUC § 399.16(c), as implemented by the Energy Commission’s RPS Regulations, the following portfolio balance requirements are applicable to all electricity products that are credited towards the RPS Procurement Quantity Requirements that are associated with contracts or ownership agreements executed after June 1, 2010: