By Kelley Downes On August 28, 2025, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued Decision 25-08-050 in Rulemaking 20-02-008 to approve a three-year, voluntary, technology-neutral, Home Broadband Pilot program. The program will allow eligible households to apply the California LifeLine Continue reading
By Azad Hassan Khanzadeh Faal On August 28, 2025, the California Public Utilities Commission (“the CPUC” or “commission”) adopted Rulemaking 25-04-010, which set out new long-term energy efficiency objectives for California’s investor-owned utilities regarding ratepayer-funded energy efficiency portfolios for 2026–2037. Continue reading
By Annika Kjos On August 28, 2025, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) published a final decision in Rulemaking 12-12-011, taking an important step towards transparency in how transportation services like Uber, Lyft, HopSkipDrive, and Nomad Transit operate. This decision Continue reading
By Wyatt Page On October 17, 2024, the CPUC adopted the proposed decision in R.21-06-017. Many of the proposed decision rulings were modified by the Commission final decision based on public feedback and feedback from utility companies. The energy grid Continue reading
By Wyatt Page On September 17, 2024, the California Public Utilities Commission issued D.24-09-020 to set statewide average and maximum energization target timelines for the three large IOUs: Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), San Diego Gas & Electric Company Continue reading
By Flávia Martini Andrade da Silva On May 10, 2024, Administrative Law Judge Thomas J. Glegola rejected the Pacific Bell Telephone Company, doing business as AT&T California (AT&T), requesting to withdraw as a carrier of last resort (COLR). In response, Continue reading
By Erol Kilic On February 15, 2024, pursuant to SB 598 (Hueso) (Chapter 362, Statutes of 2017), the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved a decision on Rulemaking 18-07-005, a pilot program to use community-based organizations (CBOs) to address service Continue reading
By Shiloh Wallack On September 15, 2022, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued a press release announcing it was taking action to “eliminate natural gas line subsidies for new natural gas hookups,” stating “[t]he first-in-the-nation action will reduce greenhouse Continue reading
By Justin Dalton On March 24, 2022, the Acting California State Auditor, Michael Tilden, released an audit finding that state officials are failing to hold California utility companies accountable for preventing fires started by those companies’ equipment. The Audit found Continue reading
By Benjamin L. Sheinman On April 7, 2022, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) voted 5–0 to approve D.22-04-035. This decision, proposed by Commissioner Rechtschaffen, revised the Commission’s Supplier Diversity Program, set forth in General Order (GO) 156, to incorporate Continue reading
