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Stakeholders, Utility Unite in Face-Off with Regulators Over Arizona Just Energy Transition
Arizona Public Service (APS) raised the national standard for a Just Energy Transition with its $144.45 million settlement with affected...
News Roundup: New Renewable Peak, East Bay Home Electrification Launched
California hit a new renewable energy peak of nearly 98%. This new record of nonfossil resources flowing into the grid...
Solutions on the Legislative Table to Shift Rate Hikes Away from Utility Customers
The urgency of finding strategies to tamp down continually rising utility bills was the focus of an Assembly energy committee...
GUEST JUICE: Smart Solar Reform is within California’s Grasp
by V. John White and Ed Smeloff New appointments by the Governor to the California Public Utilities Commission create an...
JUICE: Reduce Utility Profit on Infrastructure to Address Skyrocketing Bills
California regulators have ignored a strategy that’s long been within reach to control ratepayer monthly bills: reducing the double-digit return...
State Utility Regulators Pitch Electricity Affordability Criteria, Ponder Blue Sky Proposals
Regulatory affordability criteria to help control the state’s skyrocketing electricity rates were the starting point of a Feb. 28 California...
Energy Department Backs Community Solar
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced Tuesday that her agency has launched three initiatives to help drive significant new installations...
New CPUC Chief Faces Barrage of Anger Over Solar Rooftop Pay Changes
Alice Reynolds’ first meeting as the new president of the California Public Utilities Commission was dominated by three hours of...
CPUC Proposes Big Changes to Rooftop Solar Payments and Charges
A firestorm of controversy followed the just-released proposed decision from the California Public Utilities Commission that would make big revisions...
Shorts
The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Willie Phillips as the fifth member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission the evening of...
Pilots to curb disconnections, diesel backups soar, billion$ for EVs
The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously approves investor-owned utility pilots to reduce the number of poor customers who have their...
New CPUC Rulemakings Aim to Reduce Disconnections and Increase Utility Safety
The California Public Utilities Commission voted to launch a pilot project to curb power disconnections at struggling customers’ homes as...
CPUC Narrowly Approves Protections for Rooftop Solar Owners
On an unusual 3-2 vote, the California Public Utilities Commission voted to better protect struggling, elderly and non-English speaking ratepayers...
SCE Wins $7.7 Billion Rate Case
The California Public Utilities Commission approved a 19% increase in Southern California Edison's triennial rate case. Its revenue requirement will...
Saving Energy Continues to Be the Best Deal in Town
Saving a kilowatt has long been known to be the best kilowatt. Now an analysis by the Lawrence Berkeley National...
Rising natural gas costs, Court upholds gas ban, Oxnard mega battery
The push to building electrification to slash greenhouse gas emissions is raising concerns that the shrinking base of gas customers...
Will the Shrinking Ratepayer Base be Protected from Gas Utilities’ Sunk Costs?
The move to decarbonize buildings is prompting questions about how gas utilities and their customers will fare in an increasingly...
Struggling Communities Land $20M for Emissions-Free Transportation
Local clean energy transportation projects in 21 polluted, disadvantaged communities across the state were awarded $20 million in grants June...
Calls to Do Away with Subsidies for Natural Gas Hook Ups
Eliminating subsidies for natural gas pipeline connections to new homes in California is critical to slashing greenhouse gas emissions, advocates...
Power shutoffs, PG&E fined for shutoff, Ratepayer assistance
The California Public Utilities Commission tightens utility safety protocols to limit the number and reach of shutoffs this year. Regulators...