In an initial report requested by industry groups, the Energy Division of the California Public Utilities Commission released the results of the January 13, 2012 Direct Access enrollment.   This enrollment represents the limited phase-in of direct access stemming from Senate Bill 695.  The results are eyepopping.

A lucky 141 customers jumped from utility service to receiving service from direct access providers, representing just over 1250 GWh of load.  By 9 AM, the utilities had already rejected 12,730 customers. Just 45 seconds into the enrollment period completing the final phase-in of direct access, the annual cap was already completed among all three large investor-owned utilities.  In PG&E's service territory, the cap was filled in 1 second.

However, it appears that both PG&E and SCE did not accept as much load as it should have.  PG&E only accepted load of 356 GWh, while having 392 GWh left of cap room.  Similarly, SCE only accepted load of 680 GWh, while having 1,027 GWh left of cap room.  SDG&E actually accepted slightly more than it should have: 220 GWh while only having 218 GWh of cap room left.

It is unclear how these discrepancies will play out.

Here's the chart from the Energy Division's initial report:

Results of the January 13, 2012 DA Enrollment

All load in annual GWh

Ln#

PG&E

SCE

SDG&E

1 No. of Accepted Customers

22

74

45

2 Accepted Load (annual GWh)

356

680

220

3 DA Load as of 3/31/2012

9,128

10,683

3,344

4 Overall 2013 Load Cap

9,520

11,710

3,562

5 Line 4 - Line 3

392

1,027

218

6 No. of Rejected Notices Before 9 AM

7,806

2,713

2,211

7 No. of Rejected Notices After 9 AM

13,059

15,521

402

8 Time to Fill Year 3 Cap (min/sec)

0/5

0/47

0/18

9 Time to Fill Year 4 Cap (min/sec)

< 0/1

0/45

0/6

10 No. of Accepted Customers - no DASR Y1

37

115

9

11 Accepted Load - no DASR Y1

128

581

17

12 No. of Accepted Customers to TBS Y2

38

78

2

13 Accepted Load to TBS Y2

55

208

1

14 No. of Accepted Customers to TBS Y3

18

29

3

15 Accepted Load to TBS Y3

37

162

1