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Bills Pass that Move the Needle on Non Fossil Energy Pass
The Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee approved several bills from the Senate that seek affordable clean energy, acceleration of transmission...
Legislation to Cut Carbon & Ratepayer Bills Pass
The Senate Energy, Utilities, & Communications Committee approved half a dozen bills that aim to reduce ratepayers’ financial burdens and...
Guest Juice: Will Raising Electricity’s Fixed Charges Incentivize Electrification?
California has aggressive goals for electrifying transportation and buildings to help mitigate the impacts of the climate crisis. But the...
Gas & Electricity Costs Rise More, High Heat, Fires and Tight Supplies Likely
Californians are getting hit by continually soaring electric and gas utility bills, including from rising gas prices, escalating transmission costs,...
SoCalGas Seeks 21% Revenue Increase
Despite rising concerns from ratepayer advocates, policymakers, and lawmakers about continually escalating utility bills as inflation worsens, Southern California Gas...
SDG&E Seeks 19% Revenue Hike Â
San Diego Gas & Electric is asking state utility regulators to approve an 18.7% rate increase over its 2023 rates...
Net Energy Metering Proceeding Extended to Allow More Input
Updated May 11 After months of delay, a regulatory proposal released May 9 reopens the record on the controversial proceeding...
Sempra Energy and SoCalGas Earnings Drop, SDG&E’s Rise
The parent corporation of San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Gas May 5 reported lower quarterly earnings of...
Edison’s First Generation Battery Storing Wind Energy Put to Rest
Once the largest battery grid storage project, Southern California Edison’s 8 megawatt, 32 MW-hour pilot located at its large Tehachapi...
JUICE: A Diablo Nuclear Power Plant Extension Faces High Hurdles
Rumblings about extending the life of Pacific Gas & Electric’s aging Diablo Nuclear Power Plant past the date its federal...
Edison International Earnings Fall
Edison International’s first quarter earnings fell to $84 million, or $0.22 per share, compared to net income of $259 million,...
PG&E Corp Earnings More than Triple
Pacific Gas & Electric’s parent corporation reported considerably higher earnings for the first quarter of this year of $475 million,...
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...
Lawmakers Move to Advance Zero-Net Carbon Power, Better Public Information
Legislation driving clean energy, lowering utility bills, and better informing citizens of projects and carbon emissions cleared the Senate energy...
Guest Juice: Guidelines For Better Net Metering; Protecting All Electricity Customers And The Climate
By Guest AuthorsAhmad Faruqui, Richard McCann, Fereidoon Sioshansi Authors Ahmad Faruqui, Richard McCann and Fereidoon Sioshansi respond to Professor Severin...
Federal Regulators Propose Giving States More Say in Regional Transmission
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved 4-1 a proposed rulemaking that would give California and other states a larger role...
U.S. Solar Trade Investigation Raises Specter of Major Solar Energy Downturn
The Commerce Department April 1 moved to open an investigation of the merits of a trade complaint filed by a...
Regulators Okay Community-Based Pilot to Reduce Utility Bill Debt
California’s investor-owned energy utilities will launch a pilot project with community-based organizations to develop a model management program to help...
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...
Federal Regulators Lower PG&E Rate of Return to 9.3%
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected on a 4-1 vote Pacific Gas & Electric’s request to earn a 13.3% profit...