A committee of unsecured creditors and Gov. Gavin Newsom are panning Pacific Gas & Electric's latest restructuring proposal that the utility filed earlier this month, with the committee calling it a "poison pill" that would not allow for competing restructuring proposals.
Southern California Edison reached agreements with 23 public entities to settle claims arising from three disasters in 2017 and 2018. The utility on Nov. 13 said the parties, which include cities, counties and special districts, reached the settlements in principle totaling $360 million afte… Read More
Southern California Gas Co., the Retirement Housing Foundation and the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power said they have completed a two-year, $1-million energy-efficiency project at Angelus Plaza in downtown Los Angeles. The efficiency upgrades are estimated to save more than $150,… Read More
A diverse collection of stakeholders in California's energy future recently agreed that new approaches and wide-ranging ideas will be needed to confront the challenges the state faces from wildfires and widespread power shut-offs. Read More
The West continues experiencing low amounts of wind generation, which is atypical for this time of year. Read More
State regulators launched an investigation into whether investor-owned utilities prioritized safety during public-safety power shut-offs last month, and in a separate order asked Pacific Gas & Electric why it shouldn't be sanctioned over the way it conducted its outages. Read More
The California Public Utilities Commission is considering new rules that would connect dairy, landfill and other biomethane point sources to the state's natural gas pipelines. But its proposal to blend biomethane with pipeline natural gas drew caution flags from the California Council on Sci… Read More
The California Energy Commission at its Nov. 13 meeting tabled a resolution that would have approved the Sacramento Municipal Utility District's controversial community solar program. Read More
The California Energy Commission memorialized Charles Warren and presented his family with a resolution in his honor at its Nov. 13 meeting. Warren passed away the week of Nov. 3. Read More
The California Independent System Operator is moving forward with enacting market-power mitigation on a systemwide basis, the result of an extensive deliberative process that has produced opposing viewpoints, even as the real work on the initiative begins. Read More
A committee of unsecured creditors and Gov. Gavin Newsom are panning Pacific Gas & Electric's latest restructuring proposal that the utility filed earlier this month, with the committee calling it a "poison pill" that would not allow for competing restructuring proposals. Read More
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali on Nov. 12 approved a motion to extend the deadline for wildfire victims to file their claims against Pacific Gas & Electric from Oct. 21 to Dec. 31. Read More
Nevada Irrigation District is offering to purchase Pacific Gas & Electric's electric distribution assets in NID's service area in order to correct "deferred maintenance immediately," the district said. But PG&E said it's not interested. Read More
Electrifying buildings across the state could create more than 100,000 construction jobs and 4,900 manufacturing jobs annually for 25 years, as well as offset job losses within the natural gas industry, a new report says. Read More
Both sides have promised to return to court if a ruling from the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission regarding whether the state's Energy Transition Act should apply to the abandonment, financing and replacement resources for the San Juan Generating Station doesn't go their way [19-00018… Read More
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer on Nov. 12 made clear that the nation would not back bonds that allow the Navajo Transitional Energy Co. to operate recently purchased coal mines in Wyoming and Montana. Read More
NV Energy has hired former Fire Marshal Mark Regan as the company's first-ever fire mitigation specialist. Regan will work as part of a team at Nevada's largest investor-owned utility to implement a natural disaster protection plan as required by Nevada's SB 329, signed into law by Gov. Stev… Read More
Energy Secretary nominee Dan Brouillette has promised to keep Bonneville Power Administration privatization proposals "off the table," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said at Brouillette's Nov. 14 confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Read More
