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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...