by ucan | Mar 5, 2021 | Energy
In February 2021, the Commission opened this rulemaking to consider whether to establish special relief programs for customers who could not pay their electricity bills during the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, the moratorium on service disconnections continues in...
by ucan | Mar 5, 2021 | Energy
For many years, the Commission has used ratepayer funding to encourage investments in energy efficiency, demand response, building decarbonization, distributed solar, energy storage, electric vehicles and charging stations at homes and businesses. This rulemaking will...
by ucan | Mar 2, 2021 | Energy
The number of Californians are falling behind on paying their utility bills is “extraordinarily frightening,” said a CPUC Commissioner. Per the Commission, more than 3.3 million residential customers have past-due bills with the amount surpassing the $1 billion mark....
by ucan | Mar 2, 2021 | Energy
San Diego Community Power (SDCP), a community choice aggregation program began serving municipal accounts – school districts, fire stations and libraries – on March 1st. SDCP plans to add an additional 72,000 commercial and industrial customers in June and is...
by ucan | Feb 24, 2021 | Energy
The CPUC direction to the state’s investor-owned utilities to contract for capacity — including additional capacity from existing power plants — that can serve peak and net peak demands during the summer, has environmental and renewables advocates in California...
by ucan | Feb 24, 2021 | Energy
In the aftermath of last August’s blackouts, that left nearly a half-million customers across the state without electricity, the CPUC directed the big three power companies to line up additional sources of energy for this summer. For excellent recaps, please...
