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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today announced it has made its third round of awards for State broadband funds to local governments by providing $5.75 million in broadband technical assistance grants to 16 local governments to support efforts to close the digital divide. These are in addition to grants announced earlier this month. Eight …

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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today issued a $4.5 million Staff Citation to Southern California Edison (SCE) for a 2018 incident that resulted in a fatality. In January 2018, an SCE contract worker was fatally injured while attempting to transfer a de-energized 115 kV overhead conductor from a lattice transmission tower to a new …

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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) will hold a remote public forum to provide an opportunity to offer comment about Southern California Edison’s (SCE) and San Diego Gas & Electric’s (SDG&E) requests related to the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), as follows: WHEN: January 10, 2023, 5 p.m. WHERE: Remote access via webcast or …

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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today advanced the state’s deep decarbonization and ambitious transportation electrification goals by approving two decisions that contribute to California’s historic push to transform the transportation sector to zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). Transportation is responsible for more than half of the greenhouse gas emissions of the state. The California Air Resources …

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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today adopted two decisions to assess the feasibility and safety implications of utilizing clean renewable hydrogen as a decarbonization strategy for the natural gas system and hard-to-electrify industries. The CPUC allowed Southern California Gas Company to proceed with an initial phase of feasibility studies for the Angeles Link Project, …

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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in its ongoing commitment to help the state bridge the digital divide, today announced it has awarded approximately $1.398 million in California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) Broadband Public Housing Account grants to fund 19 public housing broadband projects from three applicants that will serve residents of 800 units. The …

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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in its ongoing commitment to help the state bridge the digital divide, today approved the environmental review and start of construction for a 300-mile fiber optic project in Northern California that includes a range of public benefits for anchor institutions and communities with insufficient broadband, and will provide fiber …

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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today issued a decision that modernizes the Net Energy Metering (NEM) solar tariff to promote grid reliability, incentivizes solar and battery storage, and controls electricity costs for all Californians. The decision has no impact on existing rooftop solar customers, maintaining their current compensation rates. “We are launching the solar …

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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today said that a jury verdict was reached yesterday in its favor in the case of Alice Stebbins v. California Public Utilities Commission, case number CGC-20-588148, in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Francisco. The jury found in favor of the CPUC and rejected …

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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today adopted a new framework to comprehensively review utility natural gas infrastructure investments in order to help the state transition away from natural gas-fueled technologies and avoid stranded assets in the gas system. Today’s decision requires utilities to seek CPUC approval of natural gas infrastructure projects of $75 million …

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