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Addressing Electricity Debt Accumulated During the COVID-19 Pandemic R.21-02-014

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...

Helping Customers Decarbonize and Decrease Energy Use in Homes and Businesses (R.20-08-022)

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...

Arrearage Management Program to Help Customers Who Have Fallen Behind Due to Covid-19

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....

San Diego Community Power has Begun Serving Municipal Energy Users

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...

Could Increasing Capacity Threaten California’s Clean Energy Goals?

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...

What’s Being Done to Prevent California Blackouts in Extreme Weather Events?

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...
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