August 13, 2026 CPUC Voting Meeting Preview: Competing Capital-Structure PDs Lead PG&E-Heavy Agenda
The CPUC’s August 13 voting meeting agenda is dominated by PG&E-related items spanning company finances, wildfire enforcement, large-load interconnection and gas infrastructure. The headline story involves competing proposed decisions that address PG&E’s request to exclude Kincade- and Dixie-related financing from its regulatory capital structure.
Elsewhere on the agenda, a $22 million settlement would end the CPUC’s Mosquito Fire investigation. Google’s 250-MW San Jose data center would receive approval for its interconnection agreement. PG&E would gain another $1 billion in short-term borrowing authority (half of what it requested). And another PD would let PG&E withdraw its Hinkley compressor-station application after it began construction under an emergency exemption.
The Commission will also consider:
- Establishing an annual approval cycle for utility programs funded with Low Carbon Fuel Standard proceeds;
- Extending utility arrearage-management plans;
- Overhauling electric-reliability reporting;
- Revising SoCalGas procurement rules;
- Approving SCE’s sale of a shuttered hydroelectric plant; and
- Allowing Sempra to reorganize its California utility holdings.