California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)

SAN FRANCISCO, April 15, 2021 – The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today placed Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) into the first step of an enhanced oversight and enforcement process based on the company’s failure to sufficiently prioritize clearing vegetation on its highest-risk power lines as part of its wildfire mitigation work in 2020. […]

SAN FRANCISCO, November 5, 2020 – The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today is taking further action to promote public safety and ensure maximum compliance with CPUC rules, statutes, and other requirements through adoption of a new Enforcement Policy. Today’s action builds on the CPUC’s existing enforcement tools and processes with the goal of better […]

SAN FRANCISCO, October 8, 2020 – The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in its ongoing efforts to improve access to affordable communications services for all Californians during this pandemic year, today have taken steps to increase access to broadband services to meet the needs of the California Universal Telephone Service Program (California LifeLine). Amid the […]

SAN FRANCISCO, June 11, 2020 – The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today required large electric investor-owned utilities to accelerate deployment of microgrids and resiliency projects to minimize the impacts of wildfire-caused power outages and Public Safety Power Shut-off (PSPS) events. Under today’s Decision, utilities must streamline and expedite interconnection processes for microgrids, resiliency, and […]

SAN FRANCISCO, May 7, 2020 – The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today imposed $1.937 billion in penalties against Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), the largest penalty ever assessed by the CPUC, for the utility’s role in the catastrophic 2017 and 2018 wildfires.  Resolving this investigation is an important step for PG&E to emerge […]

SAN FRANCISCO, May 4, 2020 – The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) released its annual report on the Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) program, showing contract prices reached a historic low in 2019.  In its 2020 Padilla Report to the Governor and the Legislature regarding the costs of all electricity procurement contracts for eligible renewable energy […]

SAN FRANCISCO, March 17, 2020 – The California Public Utilities Commission’s (CPUC) Executive Director today determined that energy, water, sewer, and communications companies under CPUC jurisdiction should halt customer disconnections for non-payment as a result of the State of Emergency called by Gov. Gavin Newsom due to COVID-19. “In these unsettling and unprecedented times, many […]

SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, 2020 – The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today ordered electric utilities to conduct in-language outreach before, during, and after a wildfire to communities with limited English proficiency. The decision requires the utilities to go beyond what is required in statute to ensure communities are properly informed and empowered with critical […]

SAN FRANCISCO, March 6, 2020 – California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) President Marybel Batjer today issued proposals for maintaining resilient and dependable communications networks during catastrophic events that will better aid emergency responders and ensure the public’s ability to reliably communicate and receive critical information. CPUC President Batjer’s  Assigned Commissioner’s Ruling solicits responses from parties […]

SAN FRANCISCO, February 27, 2020 – The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today issued an Administrative Law Judge Decision imposing $2.137 billion in penalties against Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), the largest penalty ever assessed by the CPUC, for the utility’s role in the catastrophic 2017 and 2018 wildfires.  If PG&E agrees to the […]

SAN FRANCISCO, February 18, 2020 – The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today issued the following statement from CPUC President Marybel Batjer regarding proposals issued for comment in the CPUC’s proceeding to consider the ratemaking and other implications of Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) proposed bankruptcy plan:  “Today, as the assigned Commissioner in the […]

SAN FRANCISCO, February 5, 2020 – The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in ongoing actions to help utilities mitigate the risks of wildfires, today issued a proposal that, if approved by the CPUC’s Commissioners, would require utilities to conduct outreach to the public before, during, and after a wildfire in all languages prevalent in their […]

SAN FRANCISCO, January 30, 2020 – The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in ongoing actions to help utilities prepare for and minimize the impacts of Public Safety Power Shut-offs (PSPS), today issued for public comment a series of proposed additional guidelines that utilities would be required to follow prior to the 2020 wildfire season, if […]

SAN FRANCISCO, January 22, 2020 – The state’s Wildfire Safety Advisory Board held its inaugural meeting yesterday in Sacramento to discuss the group’s priorities and other administrative responsibilities. At the meeting, the Board designated two members to serve as Chair and Vice Chair of the Wildfire Safety Advisory Board, as follows: Marcie Edwards as Chair: […]

SAN FRANCISCO, January 16, 2020 – The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in its ongoing efforts to strengthen community wildfire resiliency throughout the state, today established new budgets and modified incentives of more than $1 billion to fund the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) for the next critical fire season and subsequent years. Today’s decision approves […]