Annual Compliance Filings for Retail Electricity Suppliers

Date of Annual Compliance Filing. For each Compliance Year, the Retail Electricity Supplier annually shall file an annual Compliance Filing with the Department no later than the first day of July, or the first Business Day thereafter, of the subsequent Compliance Year. (2) Contents of Annual Compliance Filing. For each Retail Electricity Product, the Filing shall document compliance with the provisions of 225 CMR 15.07 and 15.08 to the satisfaction of the Department and shall include, but not be limited to, the following: 225 CMR - 140.1 (a) Total Electrical Energy Sales to End-use Customers. Documentation of the total MWhs of electrical energy allocated by the Retail Electricity Supplier to End-use Customers in the Compliance Year. Such allocation is defined as the total quantity of the Supplier's Certificates Obligation that the Retail Electricity Supplier correctly allocated or should have allocated to all of the Retail Electricity Supplier's Massachusetts retail subaccounts in the NEPOOL GIS, in compliance with all relevant provisions of Part 4 of the NEPOOL GIS Operating Rules, or any successor rules, as specified in the Department's Guideline on the Determination of Sales to End-use Customer. (b) Electrical Energy Sales to End-use Customers by Product. Documentation of the total MWhs of each Retail Electricity Product allocated to End-use Customers in the Compliance Year, verified by an independent third-party satisfactory to the Department, consistent with the Guidelines. Such allocation is defined as the quantity of the Supplier's Certificates Obligation that the Retail Electricity Supplier correctly allocated or should have allocated to each of the Retail Electricity Supplier's Massachusetts retail subaccounts at the NEPOOL GIS, in compliance with all relevant provisions of Part 4 of the NEPOOL GIS Operating Rules, or any successor rules, as specified in the Department's Guideline on the Determination of Sales to End-use Customer. The Department shall keep product information confidential to the extent permitted by law. (c) Attributes Allocated from the Compliance Year. Documentation of the total MWhs of each Retail Electricity Product allocated to End-use Customers that were derived from both RPS Class II Renewable Generation and RPS Class II Waste Energy generation during the Compliance Year, and which may include electrical energy generated on End-use Customers' sides of retail meters in the ISO-NE Control Area or by Off-grid Generation Units in Massachusetts in the Compliance Year, shall be as follows: 1. For electrical energy transactions included in the ISO-NE Settlement Market System, the Compliance Filings shall include documentation from the NEPOOL GIS administrator of the Retail Electricity Supplier's ownership of GIS Certificates representing both RPS Class II Renewable Generation and RPS Class II Waste Energy generation during the Compliance Year. 2. For electrical energy transactions not included in the ISO-NE Settlement Market System, but for which the Retail Electricity Supplier has secured GIS Certificates from the NEPOOL GIS, the Compliance Filings shall include documentation from the NEPOOL GIS of the Retail Electricity Supplier's ownership of GIS Certificates representing both RPS Class II Renewable Generation and RPS Class II Waste Energy generation during the Compliance Year. (d) Attributes Allocated from Banked Compliance. Allocation by Retail Electricity Product of any quantity of Attributes banked from one or both of the two previous years pursuant to 225 CMR 15.08(2) that are used to demonstrate compliance in the current Compliance Year, except that banked RPS Class II Waste Energy Generation Attributes cannot be used for compliance with the RPS Class II Renewable Generation Minimum Standard and banked RPS Class II Renewable Generation Attributes cannot be used for compliance with the RPS Class II Waste Energy Generation Minimum Standard. (e) Alternative Compliance Credits. Allocation by Retail Electricity Product of any Alternative Compliance Credits claimed pursuant to 225 CMR 15.08(3), along with a copy of any ACP receipt(s). (f) Attributes Banked for Future Compliance. Identification of any quantity of RPS Class II Renewable Generation Attributes and of any RPS Class II Waste Energy Generation Attributes that the Retail Electricity Supplier anticipates claiming for purposes of Banked Compliance in subsequent years under the Banked Compliance provisions of 225 CMR 15.08(2), except that RPS Class II Waste Energy Generation Attributes that are in excess of the quantity of such Attributes needed for the RPS Class II Waste Energy Minimum in Compliance Years 2014 and 2015 cannot be used for Banked Compliance. (g) Exempt Contracts under the RPS Class II Renewable Generation Minimum Standard and the RPS Class II Waste Energy Minimum Standard. Identification of any contract for a specific term of years that was executed before January 1, 2009, and its terms including but not limited to, the execution and expiration dates of the contract and the annual volume of electrical energy supplied. 225 CMR - 140.2