Tag: California utilities

February 2, 2021

The threat of power grid-sparked wildfires is forcing California utilities to invest billions of dollars in hardening and monitoring their grids and to institute grid blackouts affecting up to hundreds of thousands of customers to reduce the risk of live […]

June 15, 2020

California utilities have their work cut out for them this summer in light of several new requirements and deadlines issued by the CPUC. But the new orders could also open opportunities for community and residential storage projects. In a June […]

February 10, 2020

Wildfire mitigation has become a particular focus for California’s utilities, following destructive fires caused by their power lines in the last three years, which eventually pushed Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) into bankruptcy. PG&E, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) […]

April 10, 2019

California has aggressive environmental goals, but more renewable resource procurement by community aggregation groups has complicated the question of reliability for IOUs charged with delivering the energy. The proposed decision, issued March 18, noted that while IOU customers have “historically […]

November 12, 2018

Shares of California utility companies plunged Monday as deadly wildfires scorched thousands of acres and continued to threaten life and property. Pacific Gas & Electric shares tumbled as much as 27 percent, and Edison International fell nearly 12 percent. Both […]

December 4, 2017

California, the Golden State, is also the golden child of the renewable energy and climate change revolution. The state carved out ambitious renewables and climate goals in the past decade, and set in motion proceedings aimed at accommodating the growing […]

November 15, 2017

Its been 15 years since California regulators directed utilities to include renewables into their energy mix, and in that time, much progress has been made. The state is now targeting 50% renewable power by 2030 and could reach that much […]

October 17, 2017

California’s utilities are at the frontline of meeting renewable energy goals, but often they are not the ones leading the charge. “We are not the driver; that is the challenge for us,” Mark Irwin, director of contract origination at Southern […]

April 7, 2017

A number of public power agencies and public power utilities in California have asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to do something about the latest transmission rates proposed by investor-owned Pacific Gas & Electric Company, calling them “excessive.” On March […]