This page last reviewed June 23, 2008
Program Design Technical Stakeholder Work Group Meetings
These meetings were held in order to provide interested stakeholders the opportunity to provide input concerning various elements of the program design that were considered as part of the AB 32 Scoping Plan.
June 3, 2008
The sixth meeting of the Program Design Technical Stakeholder Work Group will be held from 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm in the Sierra Hearing Room at the CalEPA building in Sacramento.The specific focus of this meeting will be to discuss reporting, verification and enforcement within the context of an emissions trading program.
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April 25, 2008
The fifth meeting of the Program Design Technical Stakeholder Work Group was held from 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm in the Sierra Hearing Room at the CalEPA building in Sacramento.The specific focus of this meeting was to discuss cost containment mechanisms within the context of an emissions trading program.
Meeting Materials:
Comments Received:
- AB32 Implementation Group
- APX: 1
- APX: 2
- California League of Food Processors
- Camco
- Climate Protection Campaign
- Division of Ratepayer Advocates
- Environmental Entrepreneurs
- EcoSecurities
- Environmental Defense Fund
- FPL Energy
- Ken Johnson
- Natural Resource Defense Council
- Pacific Gas and Electric
- Southern California Edison
- Sempra Energy
- United States Climate Action Partnership
- Western Power Trading Forum
- Western States Petroleum Association
April 4, 2008
The fourth meeting of the Program Design Technical Stakeholder Work Group was held from 9:00 pm to 12:30 pm in the Sierra Hearing Room at the CalEPA building in Sacramento.The specific focus of this meeting was on the issue of "offsets".
Meeting Materials:
Comments Received:
- EcoSecurities et al.
- AB 32 Implementation Group
- Bay Area Rapid Transit
- Business Council for Sustainable Energy
- California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance
- CAMCO
- Clean Technology
- California Manufacturers and Technology Association, California Chamber of Commerce
- California Municipal Utilities Association
- The Climate Trust
- CPUC Division of Ratepayer Advocates
- Environmental Entrepreneurs
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Independent Energy Producers Association
- Natural Resource Defense Council
- Offset Quality Initiative
- Pacific Gas and Electric
- Plumas County
- Renewable Energy Marketers Association
- Southern California Edison
- Sempra Energy
- Sierra Club
- American Lung Association, Coalition for Clean Air, Sierra Club of California
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- The Nature Conservancy
- The Nature Conservancy, Defenders of Wildlife, California Audubon
March 17, 2008
The third meeting of the Program Design Technical Stakeholder Work Group was held from 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm in the Coastal Hearing Room at the CalEPA building in Sacramento.The specific focus of this meeting was on examining the issue of allocation of allowances in a possible cap-and-trade system.
Meeting Materials:
Comments Received:
- Climate Protection Campaign
- Center for Resource Solutions
- Environment California:1
- Environment California:2
- Independent Energy Producers
- Ken Johnson:1
- Ken Johnson:2
- Statement of Support for Auctioning All Allowances
- Natural Resource Defense Council
- San Diego Gas and Electric
- Energy Producers and Users Coalition and Cogeneration Association of California
- Pacific Gas and Electric
- CPUC Division of Ratepayer Advocates
- Sacramento Municipal Utility District
- Modesto Irrigation District
- Northern California Power Agency
February 29, 2008
The second meeting of the Program Design Technical Stakeholder Work Group was held from 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm in the Sierra Hearing Room at the CalEPA building in Sacramento.The specific focus of this meeting was on addressing the questions of scope and point of regulation for a potential cap-and-trade emissions market.
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February 6, 2008
The first in an ongoing series of program design technical stakeholder meetings was held from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm in the Sierra Hearing Room at the CalEPA building in Sacramento.The specific focus of this meeting was on providing a description of the set of policy scenarios that are being developed for the initial round of modeling using Energy 2020 and E-DRAM.


