Quarterly electricity transactions verification training
This is a training session by DEQ's Courtney Herbolsheimer on verifying quarterly electricity transactions reporting for Oregon's Clean Fuels Program. The training covers registration requirements, fuel pathway codes, verification considerations, and specific challenges with electric vehicle chargers and forklifts.
Summary
The training begins with an overview of quarterly electricity transactions reporting in the Clean Fuels Program, emphasizing that it differs significantly from liquid fuel transactions verification. The process starts with Fuel Supply Equipment (FSE) registration, where DEQ staff review submissions to ensure the registering entity is eligible and equipment is operational. Unlike liquid fuel transactions, electricity reporting involves numerous distributed chargers with internal meters that last the device lifetime and aren't recalibrated. The training covers various fuel pathway codes including statewide electricity mix codes (ORELC), utility-specific codes, utility renewable energy products, and offsite renewable electricity pathways. Verification requires checking that chargers are in correct utility service areas and reviewing supplemental documentation like WREGIS REC retirement reports. The session addresses fuel applications, noting that electricity reporting contains more applications than other fuel types due to diverse energy economy ratios for different electric vehicles. Special attention is given to electric forklift reporting, which requires actual metered data and can involve complex setups including circuit meters, panel meters, aftermarket metering, or onboard forklift metering. The training emphasizes the importance of risk assessment and sampling due to the large number of distributed charging locations, and discusses challenges with aggregator verification where companies report on behalf of multiple entities.
Key Insights
- Courtney Herbolsheimer states that electricity transactions reporting tends to have significantly more FSEs associated with them than other types of reporting, since there are more EV chargers than other types of fuel supply equipment
- DEQ requires that all forklift reporting be based on actual metered data for how much electricity goes into forklifts, which has required fleet owners and operators to find ways to meter the data since many forklift chargers do not have onboard metering
- The speaker explains that electric meters are internal to their devices and are not easily able to be recalibrated like other meter types, making it harder to determine whether a meter has become inaccurate and leading to potential misreporting
- Herbolsheimer notes that there is significant risk of double-counting of forklift charging by rental forklift owners and forklift operators, since forklifts are commonly rented by warehouses and other fleet operators
- The trainer emphasizes that the number of EV chargers statewide precludes site visits to every potential location, requiring DEQ to mandate a robust and well-informed approach to risk assessment and sampling
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