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California regulators prod utilities to start drafting roadmap to 100% clean energy

October 25, 2018 / By Herman Trabish

Source: Utility Dive

California’s 44 electricity providers are updating their formal plans to meet the state’s new 60% renewables by 2030 mandate and its 100% clean energy by 2045 goal. Investor-owned utility (IOU)

PG&E seeks higher monthly bills for electricity transmission

October 18, 2018 / By George Avalos

Source: Enterprise Record

PG&E customers can expect higher monthly bills if federal regulators approve the embattled utility’s latest effort to raise rates for its customers, the company said Thursday. If approved by the

Marin-based energy aggregator decries state-approved fee hike

October 15, 2018 / By Richard Halstead

Source: Marin Independent Journal

An MCE official calls the California Public Utilities Commission’s decision last week to require customers to pay more in exit fees to investor-owned Pacific Gas & Electric Co. a flawed

Utilities Cut Power to Prevent Wildfires. But Who Wins When the Lights Go Out?

October 15, 2018 / By Ivan Penn

Source: The New York Times

LOS ANGELES — With devastating wildfires becoming more frequent in California, power companies have found themselves on the defensive. Their equipment has been singled out as a frequent culprit.

SDG&E to lobby utilities commission to eliminate ‘high usage charge’ to try to reduce customer bills

October 10, 2018 / By Rob Nikolewski

Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune

fter a summer of record temperatures that left many San Diego Gas & Electriccustomers with high electricity bills, the utility told the Union-Tribune on Wednesday that it plans to

Consumer groups want phone privacy rule changes

October 1, 2018 / By Michael Finney

Source: ABC 7 News

Consumer groups want phone companies to stop selling your information to private companies. The state has turned the request down once, years ago. Now these groups are asking again. It

California’s deadly wildfires prompt flurry of new laws

September 29, 2018 / By Guy Kovner

Source: The Press Democrat

Wildfires raged throughout California once again this year as state lawmakers worked to address the searing issues of California’s new No. 1 problem: How to cope with infernos killing scores

Is PG&E a threat?

September 27, 2018 / By Howard Hardee

Source: Chico News & Review

The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services recently hosted the annual California Day of Preparedness, an event in Old Sacramento State Historic Park encouraging residents to be ready for cataclysmic earthquakes,

Public Knowledge Urges Court Not To Hang Up On Consumers in FCC Lawsuit

September 26, 2018 / By Shiva Stella

Source: Public Knowledge

Today, Public Knowledge, joined by Greenlining Institute, The Utility Reform Network (TURN), and the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates (NASUCA), filed a petitioners’ brief in the U.S. Court

Does California Need a Catastrophic Fire Fund?

September 22, 2018 / By Hudson Sangree

Source: RTO Insider

Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday signed a legislative plan to help California utilities deal with the massive costs of wildfires sparked by power lines. But that measure’s proposal to let

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