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By Jason Fordney Pacific Gas and Electric has signaled it will challenge a California administrative law judge’s recommendation that the utility be granted only about 10% of the $1.8 billion in recovery it requested for the retirement of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in San Luis Obispo County. The California...
By Jason Fordney California’s utilities are about 2,000 MW short of local resource adequacy (RA) requirements for 2018 according to CAISO, which has asked state regulators to restructure the RA program. In a Nov. 13 report, the ISO evaluated the 2018 resource adequacy plans of Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E),...
By Jason Fordney California electricity suppliers have met the state’s 25% renewable generation requirement, in many cases exceeding it substantially, state regulators said. The state’s three large investor-owned utilities have also signed contracts with renewable suppliers necessary to exceed the requirement that they meet 33% of customer energy demand with...
By Jason Fordney SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California regulators voted Thursday to extend the life of a state demand response pilot project, saying they hope it could lead to a permanent program to help meet the state’s clean energy goals. California PUC staff present their comments on the U.S. Department of...
By Robert Mullin FERC on Wednesday rejected an argument by the California Public Utilities Commission that it erred last year in allowing Pacific Gas and Electric to include a 50-basis-point ISO participation adder in the utility’s 2017 transmission rates proposal. The PUC filed its protest last November after FERC conditionally...
By Jason Fordney FERC last week approved Pacific Gas and Electric’s request to recover from its customers a portion of the costs of a $1.8 billion package of planned transmission improvements if the company is forced to abandon construction for reasons beyond its control. The commission approved abandonment cost recovery...
By Jason Fordney Southern California Gas Co.’s Aliso Canyon gas storage facility resumed injections Monday, despite Los Angeles County officials’ request that a state appeals court prevent the reopening. “SoCalGas must begin injections to comply with the [state’s] directive to maintain sufficient natural gas inventories at Aliso Canyon to support...
By Jason Fordney California officials Thursday cleared the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility to resume injections, even as momentum builds among lawmakers, regulators and the public to permanently close the site of the massive methane escape near Los Angeles. The methane leak caused by a broken pipe casing at...
By Jason Fordney SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California utilities and business groups are opposing a proposed state law that would increase the amount of publicly available data about electricity consumers, saying it presents a major risk to physical grid security. But environmental groups and others support the energy data transparency bill...
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