Last week the Globe met with energy expert Jesus Arredondo and discussed the recent California Public Utilities Commission meeting that centered around themes and concepts raised in the CPUC White Paper, Utility Costs and Affordability of the Grid of the Future...
While 3.3 million Californians have unpaid utility bills totaling $1.25 billion due to “COVID pandemic impacts,” the California Public Utilities Commission at a meeting last week discussed their recent white paper exposing that since 2013, private utility bills have exceeded...
After the Public Utilities Commission denied three Investor Owned Utilities in California – Pacific Gas and Electric, San Diego Gas and Electric, and Southern California Edison – the cost of wildfire repayments in 2019, the utilities filed a lawsuit in the...
On Tuesday, Southern California Edison announced that it would be paying a $2.2 billion settlement over claims from the 2018 Woolsey Fire within the next 90 days. The Woolsey Fire burned nearly 100,000 acres of land in Los Angeles and...
In less than a year, three Orange County cities will be in the utility business. Fullerton, Costa Mesa, and Irvine have created a joint powers authority to purchase and distribute electricity to households and businesses in those cities, under what’s...
On Thursday, a redacted report by the Ventura County Fire Department on the 2018 Woolsey Fire has found that faulty Southern California Edison equipment was responsible for the wildfire two years ago. The Woolsey Fire, which had burnt nearly 100,000...
On Tuesday, the Silverado and Blue Ridge Fires in Orange County grew to over 20,000 acres combined, forcing more evacuations in the cities of Irvine, Yorba Linda, and others throughout the county. The Silverado Fire grew to over 11,000 acres...