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The California Public Utilities Commission acted to correct a "serious omission" Thursday that it said had resulted in huge sums of money going to owners of rural homes, regardless of income, to provide battery backup for electric well pumps. The commission voted 4-1 to limit its Self-Generation Incentive Program’s (SGIP)...
A big part of $612 million intended to provide battery backup to homes in high fire-threat areas has been gobbled up by customers who use electricity to pump well water instead of helping the low-income and medically vulnerable residents it was meant for, the California Public Utilities Commission said Thursday.
A report on the causes of California’s August blackouts details for the first time the role that convergence bidding played in masking tight supply and contends that constrained transmission prevented much needed imports from reaching the state. The 107-page report to Gov. Gavin Newsom by CAISO, the California Public Utilities...
More than 8,000 wildfires have burned nearly 4 million acres in California this year, but there’s little indication that utility equipment played a role in starting major blazes. That differs markedly from the last three years, when equipment belonging to Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric was blamed...
Executives from Volvo and FedEx told the Edison Electric Institute last week they are fully committed to transitioning to electric trucks but need utilities’ help on rate structures and charging infrastructure. For "what we do, which is last-mile delivery … electricity is the most efficient energy source for a vehicle...
An advocacy group representing California’s community choice aggregators (CCAs) on Wednesday called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint an independent panel to review a pending joint agency report on the causes of the rolling blackouts that rocked the state in mid-August, leaving millions of residents without power during a record...
Four aging natural gas plants scheduled to retire in December will keep operating because of California’s anticipated capacity shortfall, state water officials decided Tuesday. The four members of the State Water Resources Control Board voted unanimously to reverse a prior board decision ordering the once-through-cooling (OTC) plants to cease operations...
An ugly feud between the members of the California Public Utilities Commission and its executive director, Alice Stebbins, played out in public Monday during an online hearing in which the commissioners unanimously voted to fire her. "A vote was taken to dismiss the executive director … effective Sept. 4," CPUC...
The California Public Utilities Committee on Thursday greenlit a major expansion of the largest utility-run electric vehicle charging program in the nation and approved contracts signed by investor-owned utilities to procure 1.2 GW of battery storage. The contracts were signed in response to a CPUC procurement order in 2019 intended...
Observers last week cited dependence on uncontracted imports, underperformance of natural gas and wind, and market manipulation as possible causes of California’s first rolling blackouts in nearly two decades, as a state regulator cautioned against drawing premature conclusions. "It is not helpful to speculate on the root cause until we...