April 9, 2026 CPUC Voting Meeting Results: Commission Launches Rate-Design Overhaul as Wildfire Costs, Data Centers, and Income Tiers Collide

The CPUC convened for its April 9 voting meeting. As we anticipated yesterday, three notable items were held by the Commission until its April 30 meeting:

• BIOMETHANE: A proposed decision modifying the CPUC's Renewable Gas Standard program under Senate Bill 1440;
• TRANSMISSION: A PD allowing PG&E to enter into a long-term investment arrangement with Citizens Energy Corporation; and
• ERRA COMPLIANCE: A PD approving SDG&E's 2023 Energy Resource Recovery Account compliance application.

Below are summaries and analyses of today's most substantive agenda items. The meeting oversaw the launch of a significant rate-design rulemaking, new compliance requirements for interconnection data, and an energy-storage investigation.