California continues to go all in on data center development, with Pacific Gas and Electric playing its role in the last quarter of 2025 by pushing gigawatts of projects through the investor-owned utility’s design and approval process.

FERC largely approved compliance filings by three California investor-owned utilities related to interconnection queue requirements.

FERC sided with San Francisco in the city’s dispute with PG&E over cost allocation provisions in a wholesale distribution contract, finding PG&E improperly required the city to bear the cost of system upgrades instead of allocating costs among all beneficiaries.

FERC approved PG&E’s request to recover more than $600,000 in costs for an abandoned battery plant in California.

California officials asked SCE to show humility in its approach to the January wildfires in Los Angeles and probed PG&E about its safety culture after the utility’s 2019 bankruptcy during an interagency briefing hosted by the California Public Utilities Commission .

A proposal to elevate the Western Energy Markets Governing Body’s authority over CAISO energy markets was unanimously approved by the Governing Body and ISO Board of Governors

The agency is working to focus the strategic objectives of its utility-funded Electric Program Investment Charge program to better support the state’s ambitious goals to decarbonize its economy.