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Fresno County supervisors expected to reject pipeline claimsFresno BeeA photo from a report prepared for the California Public Utilities Commission shows the ruptured gas pipeline, excavated a few days after the April 17 explosion and fire at the Fresno County Sheriff’s Foundation shooting range. One person died and 12 … …read more From:: CPUC News … Read more

Investor-Owned Water Utilities Among “Stand Out” Conservation Leaders, State …Business Wire (press release)According to the CPUC press release announcing compliance with the Governor’s mandate, the larger water investor-owned water utilities (IOUs) must take steps to ensure that their respective water-use reduction targets can be achieved. Smaller IOUs with …CA investor-owned water utilities stepping up as … Read more

PG&E report counters lawyers’ contentions about buried pipelineFresno BeeA photo from a report prepared for the California Public Utilities Commission shows the ruptured gas pipeline, excavated a few days after the April 17 explosion and fire at the Fresno County Sheriff’s Foundation shooting range. One person died and 12 …State: Tractor front-loader caused fatal Fresno … Read more

Search Warrants Reportedly Executed In Probe Into San Onofre SettlementCBS LocalState agents have now executed search warrants at the San Francisco headquarters of the Public Utilities Commission, as well as at the Rosemead headquarters of Southern California Edison as reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune. The state Attorney …You wish we’d shut up, PeeveySan Diego … Read more

PUC reform bills too little, too late: Thomas EliasLA Daily NewsMichael Peevey, then president of the California Public Utilities Commission, listens to public comment during a meeting of the five-member commission in San Francisco in December 2014. Peevey retired at the end of the year. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu).PUC reform bills too little, too lateSan Diego … Read more

CPUC vote on electricity rates could hit Central Valley hardThe Bakersfield CalifornianThe proposals before the California Public Utilities Commission deal with fundamental issues such as how to structure incentives to promote conservation and whether to introduce a system in which consumers pay more or less money depending on what …and more …read more From:: CPUC … Read more

Utility regulators held post-Poland lunchU-T San DiegoThe regulator overseeing an investigation into the failure of the San Onofre nuclear plant met privately with then-California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey days after Peevey returned from a secret meeting about the matter in Poland.Confidential emails ought to jog the memorySan Diego Reader More Emails Surface On … Read more

California Public Utilities Commission holds public meeting tonightVentura County StarThe California Public Utilities Commission will hold a public meeting Wednesday night in Thousand Oaks on Southern California Edison’s proposed nine-mile, 66,000-volt subtransmission line from Moorpark to Newbury Park. At the meeting, the public will …Edison execs could get bonuses if rate changes are OK’dThe Desert … Read more

Calif. Assemblyman Rendon Seeks Day in Court For Public Utilities Commission …California NewswireAnthony Rendon SACRAMENTO, Calif. /California Newswire/ — Calif. Assemblyman Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) on Tuesday expanded his legislation to reform the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to ensure court review of CPUC decisions …and more …read more From:: CPUC News By Google News Zennie … Read more

CPUC rate plan is an indecent proposalU-T San DiegoBy month’s end, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) will choose between two starkly different proposals to overhaul how individuals and families pay for electricity. One proposal, backed by Commission President Michael Picker …Our Voice: Electricity rates must be fair, incentivizeThe Desert Sun all 3 news articles … Read more

Leno: ‘It’s Time for Reform’ At the California Public Utilities CommissionKQEDLeno’s starting with Senate Bill 660, legislation he co-sponsored to restructure the way business is handled at the California Public Utilities Commission. “They have lost their way – seriously lost their way,” Leno said of the agency, which oversees …and more …read more From:: CPUC … Read more

Utility schools regulators at co-sponsored eventU-T San DiegoDuring three hours of presentations and discussions at the University of California Berkeley, policy advisers to three California Public Utilities Commission members listened to such arguments. A panel of Edison officials and like-minded academics cast … …read more From:: CPUC News By Google News Zennie AbrahamZennie Abraham | … Read more

California Public Utilities Commission Approves California American Water …MarketWatchSACRAMENTO, Calif., Jun 15, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) — In a regularly scheduled meeting today, the California Public Utilities Commission approved California American Water’s request to acquire the Ox Bow Marina Mutual Water Company with a financial …and more …read more From:: CPUC News By Google News Zennie … Read more

California electric bill shock: Private firms charge way more than public …Los Angeles TimesEspecially for heavy users, bills are higher at the investor-owned utilities SDG&E, Edison and PG&E, overseen by the California Public Utilities Commission. The commission is required to make sure the rates are just and reasonable at the private … …read more From:: … Read more

Time for California to claim energy crisis refundsSan Francisco Chronicle (subscription)Fifteen years ago, greedy traders plunged California into the energy crisis with its first supplier-caused blackout. That crisis almost bankrupted California. As then-president of the California Public Utilities Commission, I immediately launched an … …read more From:: CPUC News By Google News Zennie AbrahamZennie Abraham … Read more

Bills show power rate disparitiesU-T San DiegoEspecially for heavy users, bills are higher at the investor-owned utilities SDG&E, Edison and PG&E, overseen by the California Public Utilities Commission. The commission is required to make sure the rates are just and reasonable at the private … …read more From:: CPUC News By Google News Zennie AbrahamZennie … Read more

CPUC to hang up audit for landlinesU-T San Diego… by some of California’s most vulnerable residents — would be delayed indefinitely under a proposal to be considered by regulators Thursday. The audit was ordered by the California Public Utilities Commission in 2013, after the agency found that AT … …read more From:: CPUC News By … Read more

No one fired in review of CPUCU-T San DiegoA monthslong internal review of tens of thousands of emails between utility regulators and the companies they oversee has resulted in disciplinary action against approximately two dozen managers at the California Public Utilities Commission. None of …PUC struggles to restore public trust over close ties to PG&ESan … Read more

Debate over California electricity rates rages onThe Desert SunTheir plan has the backing of Michael Picker, president of the California Public Utilities Commission. Florio, who also serves on the five-member commission, sees things differently. Under Florio’s alternate proposal, electricity rates would still rise … …read more From:: CPUC News By Google News Zennie AbrahamZennie Abraham … Read more

PUC managers won’t get fired for inappropriate emails to PG&EGreenfield Daily ReporterSAN FRANCISCO — The California Public Utilities Commission has taken corrective action against about two dozen managers who engaged in informal email communications with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. The San Francisco Chronicle reports …and more …read more From:: CPUC News By Google News … Read more

New California Homes Could Produce All Their Own Energy Within 5 Years …CBS LocalOriginally published in 2008 by the California Energy Commission, a subsidiary of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), the New Residential Zero Net Energy Action Plan could spark a revolution in home building. Cathy Fogel, a senior … …read more From:: CPUC … Read more

PUC won’t fire managers for ‘inappropriate’ e-mails to PG&ESFGateThe California Public Utilities Commission has taken “corrective action” against about two dozen managers who engaged in back-channel e-mail communications with Pacific Gas and Electric Co., but the discipline stopped short of suspensions or firings …and more …read more From:: CPUC News By Google News Zennie AbrahamZennie … Read more

Key CPUC reform gets unpluggedU-T San DiegoA bill aimed at reforming the California Public Utilities Commission passed the state Assembly this week and is headed to the Senate, although without a provision that would have allowed losing parties to challenge commission decisions in superior court.Calif. Public Utilities Commission Reform Legislation Passes Assembly – AB 825California … Read more

PUC bills: The problem isn’t a lack of rulesU-T San DiegoThe state Senate passed two bills this week prompted by the scandalous behavior of the California Public Utilities Commission. A measure by Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, would limit the power of the PUC president and ensure state courts make final … …read more From:: … Read more

California Lawmakers Push to Reform Utilities CommissionNatural Gas IntelligenceCalifornia state senators on Monday unanimously approved SB 48, which seeks to increase oversight of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and reduce the authority of its president following revelations that emerged from e-mails between …San Diego Gas and Electric urges CPUC to consider rate structure changesFierce … Read more

Utilities, regulators conspired to make public pay for California nuclear …World Socialist Web SiteAt the half-day evidentiary hearing held at the CPUC headquarters in San Francisco on May 14, 2014, SCE President Ronald Litzinger did not disclose the unreported meetings or any other exchanges although he was asked about ex-parte communications …and more …read more … Read more

Regulator: Carlsbad power plant approved for wrong reasonU-T San DiegoSan Diego utility customers are being forced to fund a new natural gas power plant on the Carlsbad coast for the wrong reason, according to the one member of the California Public Utilities Commission who voted against the project. In a 4-1 decision …Can SDG&E be … Read more

State Senate passes bill to reform CPUC in wake of problemsSFGateSACRAMENTO — California lawmakers passed a bill Monday aimed at reining in the power of the Public Utilities Commission president and increasing oversight of the embattled agency. SB48 by Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, would require utilities directors … …read more From:: CPUC News By … Read more

PUC’s Computer Tool Exposes Renewable Energy Bloated CostsBreitbart NewsThe Sierra Club is upset because the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) built a sophisticated and unbiased computer model to analyze the cost-effectiveness of new solar policy proposals. But despite all the Sierra Club’s political clout, the …and more …read more From:: CPUC News By Google News … Read more

CPUC judge had backchannel talkU-T San DiegoMelanie Darling, an administrative law judge with the California Public Utilities Commission, talked and emailed with Edison executive Russell Worden in December 2012, days after regulators opened an investigation into what happened at San Onofre. …read more From:: CPUC News By Google News Zennie AbrahamZennie Abraham | Zennie Abraham … Read more

CPUC has tapped another defense lawyerU-T San DiegoEven as a bill makes its way through the legislature reining in the California Public Utilities Commission for its hiring of criminal defense attorneys, lawmakers learned that the agency has done so more than once. The bill came in response to the … …read more From:: CPUC News … Read more

CA struggles to compute value of solarU-T San DiegoAn intricate computer model was commissioned last year by the California Public Utilities Commission to analyze the cost-effectiveness of new solar policy proposals. A recent test run of the giant equation found it to be painfully slow, with answers … …read more From:: CPUC News By Google … Read more

Arizona leads California on time-of-use electricity plansUSA TODAYUtilities turn first to their most cost-efficient generators, and as demand increases, turn on the less efficient (but often faster starting) generators in their fleet. The California Public Utilities Commission may require power companies to design … …read more From:: CPUC News By Google News Zennie AbrahamZennie Abraham … Read more

Parts of plan to redo electric bills ‘unreasonable’U-T San DiegoProposals by California’s major investor-owned utilities to add fixed fees to electricity bills and shift costs from large energy users toward lower-end customers were rebuffed Friday by a senior member of the California Public Utilities Commission … …read more From:: CPUC News By Google News Zennie … Read more

Grand jury probes PG&E’s relationship with state regulatorsSFGateA federal grand jury is probing potentially illegal ties between Pacific Gas and Electric Co. executives and regulators with the California Public Utilities Commission, The Chronicle has learned. The investigation is looking into “PG&E’s relationship …Federal grand jury probing PG&E-CPUC relationshipCentral Valley Business Times all 4 news articles … Read more