The California Public Utilities Commission May 30 approved lifting the direct access cap in investor-owned utility territories by 4,000 GWh....

The collapse of a California Public Utilities Commission plan to put a surcharge on text messages to subsidize telecommunications for...

While the massive Camp Fire in Butte County still smoldered, a class action lawsuit was filed by nearly two dozen...

California is on target to meet that state’s 33 percent renewable portfolio standard, according to a California Public Utilities Commission...

Energy regulators’ controversial vote last week to raise the fees on customers who’ve left investor-owned utilities for community energy programs...

A new law raises the cap on direct access providers by 4,000 GWh, or up to 15 percent of total...

Updated Oct. 18. To meet California’s ambitious 100 percent clean energy mandate, natural gas-fired space and water heaters need to...

Facing significant opposition in a shifting energy world, the California Public Utilities Commission Oct. 11 unanimously approved a decision that...

Gov. Jerry Brown Sept. 19 signed a bill to restore funds the California Public Utilities Commission cut from a closure...

Proposed restrictions on how much, and for how long, community aggregators and direct access customers are on the hook for...

In the final days of this legislative session, passage of the most significant state energy measures is in doubt. AB...

The California Public Utilities Commission issued a proposed decision Aug. 1 that attempts to resolve differences over how to allocate...

Before lawmakers went on their month-long summer break at the end of last week, they advanced a pile of energy...

As community choice aggregation, distributed generation, and interest by companies in making or purchasing their own power rise, California energy...

Legislation lifting the cap on the ability of large businesses and industries to be served by non-utility energy service providers...

Facing growing concerns about the cost of assuring resource adequacy for the state’s electric grid, the California Public Utilities Commission...

The California Public Utilities Commission Feb. 9 approved including community energy and independent retail suppliers in its Integrated Resource Planning...

California utility regulators ongoing struggle with how to create more customer choice in electricity was not alleviated during a workshop...

State energy policy stands “at a unique point in time” with the chief goal ahead being to figure out the...

Direct access has been somewhat of a dirty word since the 2000-01 energy crisis, which clobbered California’s private utilities and...