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COVID Yields $1B of Unpaid Energy Bills in Calif.

CPUC Pursues Effort to Help Ratepayers, Utilities Before Bills Come Due
Feb 15, 2021
Hudson Sangree
The California Public Utilities Commission is seeking ways to help the millions of utility customers who collectively owe more than $1.15 billion in past-due energy bills, largely because of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic downturn. The commission continued a moratorium on customers disconnections through June. But without additional action,...
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CPUC Triples Resource Projections for CAISO Tx Plan

Feb 11, 2021
Hudson Sangree
The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday approved a massive increase to its resource-needs projections, which CAISO will use in its transmission planning process for 2021/22, now underway. The 28 GW of generation and storage resources the commission now sees the state needing by 2031 is more than triple the...
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Calif. Governor Fills Seats on CAISO, CPUC, CEC

Feb 10, 2021
Hudson Sangree
Gov. Gavin Newsom named new members Tuesday to the three bodies that govern California energy policy — CAISO, the Public Utilities Commission and the Energy Commission — and reappointed a sitting member of the ISO’s Board of Governors. Newsom appointed former NERC Trustee Jan Schori to fill a seat on...
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PG&E Files Wildfire Plan Under Intense Scrutiny

Federal Judge Calls Utility a ‘Terror’ to Californians
Feb 8, 2021
Hudson Sangree
Pacific Gas and Electric submitted its latest wildfire prevention plan to the California Public Utilities Commission on Friday as it faces threats of more intensive oversight from the CPUC and a federal judge prior to this year’s fire season. PG&E said the key to its $3 billion 2021 Wildfire Mitigation...
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CPUC Slams SCE Over Power Shutoffs

Officials Say PSPS Shouldn’t Be Used as ‘First Resort’
Jan 28, 2021
Hudson Sangree
The California Public Utilities Commission and state emergency officials told Southern California Edison this week that it had mishandled its public safety power shutoffs (PSPS) in 2020 and needs to work quickly to improve its communications with customers and government agencies. CPUC President Marybel Batjer | CPUC "I called this...
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Calif. PUC Orders $200M Microgrid Incentive Program

Commission Hopes to Help Communities Most Vulnerable to PSPS
Jan 17, 2021
Hudson Sangree
The California Public Utilities Commission ordered the state’s investor-owned utilities to take steps to hasten the creation of microgrids Thursday, including establishing a $200 million incentive program for communities most at risk from public safety power shutoffs (PSPS). It was the latest in a series of measures the commission pushed...
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Summer Readiness Sought by CAISO, CPUC

RA Enhancements and Additional Procurement Among Efforts
Jan 11, 2021
Hudson Sangree
CAISO and the California Public Utilities Commission entered the new year trying to get ready for summer and avoid the shortfalls and rolling blackouts that plagued the state in August and September. The CPUC on Friday proposed ordering the state’s three big investor-owned utilities — Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern...
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CPUC's Randolph Named CARB Chair

Dec 9, 2020
Hudson Sangree
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday appointed Liane Randolph, a member of the state’s Public Utilities Commission, as the next chair of the California Air Resources Board. CARB oversees vehicle emissions, among other roles, and has battled with the Trump administration in recent years. Its policies have influenced manufacturing in...
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UPDATED: PG&E Gets $1.3B Rate Hike, Cancels Mass Blackouts

Dec 7, 2020
Hudson Sangree
Pacific Gas and Electric canceled forecasted blackouts Monday after saying it might shut off power to nearly 400,000 residents to prevent wildfires. The move would have been an extraordinary step in December, when fire season is normally over in the utility’s Northern California service territory. Over the weekend, Southern California...
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PG&E Faces ‘Enhanced Oversight’ by CPUC

Vegetation Maintenance Scrutinized by State Regulator, Federal Judge
Nov 29, 2020
Hudson Sangree
The California Public Utilities Commission might implement, for the first time, the strict regimen of oversight and enforcement that Pacific Gas and Electric agreed to last year as part of its bankruptcy plan, the commission’s president told the utility last week. The commission is concerned about alleged lapses in PG&E’s...
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