2025 ABAL filed with the CPUC
Resource Innovations filed on Aug. 19, 2024, the 2025 Annual Budget Advice Letter (ABAL) on behalf of the CalMTA program. The ABAL was submitted to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for review and approval. The CPUC received one protest from CPUC’s Public Advocates Office on Sept. 6, 2024, on the grounds that the ABAL didn’t include sufficient detail and calculations to confirm the reasonableness of the budget request. Resource Innovations on behalf of CalMTA replied to the protest on Sept. 13, 2024, and filed on Sept. 16, 2024, a substitute sheet to add a missing footnote regarding FTE calculations to Budget Table 3 (page 5). CPUC Energy Division suspended the ABAL and will determine whether to approve the advice letter. Funding must be approved by Dec. 31, 2024, to allow for continued operation of CalMTA.
The documentation below includes the final ABAL and background on feedback received from the Market Transformation Advisory Board (MTAB) and resposes. The redlined documents below indicate the changes made from previous versions. All MTAB members recommended the budget except for Ky-An Tran of the Public Advocates Office.
2025 ABAL documents: