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Public Owned Utility Allowance Distribution

Extended Deadline for POU Notification of Allowance Distribution

Publicly owned utilities (POUs) and electrical cooperatives (Co-ops) participating in the Cap-and-Trade Program have until September 4th, 2012 to let ARB know how to distribute the 2013 vintage allowances which ARB will allocate to them on September 14th, 2012.  These allowances may be distributed into the POU’s and Co-op’s compliance accounts, limited use holding accounts, or compliance accounts of other entities with which the POU or Co-op may have generating contracts.  The purpose of these forms is to specify the number of allowances that ARB should place into these accounts.

Please view the Electric Distribution Utility Allowance Table to look up the amount of free allowances the utility will receive.  

This information is needed to complete the POU and Co-op Utility Allowance Distribution form for utilities to indicate how they wish to distribute their allowances.  

Entities to which utilities will want to distribute allowances must provide the information on the Recipient Confirmation form.

A POU or Co-op will only be eligible for direct allocation of allowances if it has complied with the requirements of the MRR and has obtained a positive or qualified positive emissions data verification statement, if required, for the prior year’s emissions data report pursuant to MRR.

If a POU is provided free allowances, but does not have a compliance obligation because it neither self-generates electricity nor imports electricity out of state, the POU does not have to participate in the Cap-and-Trade Program. The associated allowances will not be distributed and will remain in ARB’s allocation account.

These forms should be both submitted electronically and by mail (signed) no later than September 4th, 2012.  Please send the electronic version of this form to David Allgood (dallgood@arb.ca.gov, 916-445-8238).  Please mail the signed copy of this form to the following address: