Utilities are at the epicenter of public battles between the California PUC and its critics over wildfires, public safety and ethics.

State regulators and transmission customers of Southern California Edison urged FERC to reject the utility’s requested rate hike for 2018.

A CAISO report suggests that California’s utilities are about 2,000 MW short of the capacity needed to comply with 2018 local resource adequacy requirements

California electricity suppliers have met the state’s 25% renewable generation requirement, in many cases exceeding it substantially, the PUC says.

Edison International says its grid will help California meet its clean energy goals, but infrastructure and market improvements are still needed.

CAISO and Pacific Gas and Electric have asked FERC to reconsider its decision last month to approve only some of the utility’s requested transmission rate incentives.

Calpine, PG&E and Southern California Edison released their second-quarter earnings results last week.

California utilities and business groups are opposing a state bill that would increase the amount of publicly available data about electricity consumers.

Californians who receive electricity from a community choice aggregator could face higher costs under a plan proposed by three investor-owned utilities.

CAISO is considering approval of two low-cost transmission upgrade projects using an accelerated procedure that bypasses the usual stakeholder process.