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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...

By Jason Fordney The growth of distributed energy resources on the California grid will require new approaches and better coordination between system operators to avoid problems, state officials heard last week at a California Energy Commission workshop. Representatives from utilities, DER companies and others advised members of the CEC and...

By Jason Fordney California regulators last week advanced on a plan to study the potential for eliminating the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility. The move came as Southern California Gas reiterated warnings about the impact of gas shortages on grid reliability this summer. The state’s Public Utilities Commission issued...

By Robert Mullin Californians who receive their electricity service from one of the state’s growing number of community choice aggregators (CCAs) could face higher costs under a plan being proposed by the state’s three investor-owned utilities. The proposal — filed jointly by Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison and...