CPUC Potentially Clears Path for PG&E Data Center Interconnection Facility; Defers Cost Recovery Fights

The CPUC issued Draft Resolution E-5447, which approves PG&E's Advice Letter 7653-E, authorizing a non-standard Engineering, Procurement, and Construction agreement with STACK Infrastructure for construction of the 115 kV Ringwood Switching Station in San Jose.

The agreement was executed in May 2023, meaning this infrastructure has been in the pipeline for nearly three years before reaching a potential CPUC approval.

TLDR: Draft Resolution E-5447, which is tentatively scheduled for consideration on March 19, approves STACK Infrastructure's build-and-transfer of a switching station for its 90 MW San Jose data center, but limits the decision strictly to construction terms (cost recovery and rate base fights are punted to FERC, where the draft resolution's aside on rate base credits hints at how they'll be resolved).