WILDFIRE MITIGATION: An SDG&E General Rate Case Track 2 decision that disallows $206.1 million in O&M costs and $242.5 million in capital expenditures, while approving $77.9 million in O&M and $945.5 million in capital as reasonable and necessary wildfire mitigation investments.
PROVIDER of LAST RESORT: A decision establishing a procedural framework for how non–investor-owned utilities may seek designation as a Provider of Last Resort (POLR) under Senate Bill 520, while declining to resolve hypothetical policy questions in the absence of a concrete applicant.
SCE ERRA COMPLIANCE: A decision authorizing recovery of $51.442 million in undercollected balances across five accounts, mainly driven by Emergency Load Reduction Program costs.
DATA CENTERS: Resolution E-5439 approves PG&E’s request to facilitate transmission upgrades needed to energize a new 90-MW Microsoft data center in San Jose.
MID-TERM RELIABILITY:Resolution E-5432 authorizes PG&E to execute a third amendment to its existing 300-MW lithium-ion battery contract with Nighthawk Energy Storage, a subsidiary of Arevon Energy. Separately, Resolution E-5437 approves PG&E's execution of a new Mid-Term Reliability contract with Balsam Project, LLC, a subsidiary of Aypa Power Development, for the 225-MW Dirac Battery Energy Storage System.
NATURAL GAS RESEARCH: Resolution G-3618 denies PG&E’s proposed Gas RD&D investment plans for 2024 and 2025, rejecting $16.4 million in requested funding and disallowing $7.2 million in cost recovery for RD&D expenses incurred in 2023–2024.
PURPA:Resolution E-5425 approves requests of PG&E and SDG&E to establish PURPA-compliant export tariffs for customer-generation facilities that lose access to Net Energy Metering or Net Billing Tariff due to prevailing wage violations under the Public Utilities Code.
UTILITY SITE ACCESS: A decision allows SCE to outsource and monetize telecommunications site access on utility property under General Order 69-C without filing a formal Section 851 application.
CRUDE OIL TRANSPORTATION:Resolution O-0100 authorizes San Pablo Bay Pipeline Company, LLC to recover $894,683 in retroactive charges for under-collected crude oil transportation rates from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2024, consistent with a 2025 Decision (D.25-06-044).
ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Resolution E-5442 certifies Peninsula Clean Energy Authority's request to renew and administer its Energy Efficiency FLEXmarket program for a new three-year term, from August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2028, under the "elect to administer" pathway.
HYDRO SALE: A decision approving SCE's application to sell the Lytle Creek and Fontana hydroelectric plants (3.45 MW combined) to Fontana Union Water Company.
SDG&E MISCELLANEOUS COSTS: Resolution E-5405 approves SDG&E’s request to recover non-officer compensation costs tied to the company's Vice President, People and Culture role, but reduces the request to $282,983 in O&M expenses for Test Year 2024 after cutting employee food service costs and disallowing professional membership expenses
COST of CAPITAL: Decision setting the authorized test-year 2026 cost of capital for PG&E, SoCalGas, SCE, and SDG&E, largely maintaining continuity with prior authorizations while rejecting utility requests for higher equity layers or structural adjustments.
LONG-TERM GAS PLANNING: Decision designating California’s initial set of priority neighborhood decarbonization zones pursuant to Senate Bill 1221, satisfying the statutory requirement to act by January 1, 2026. The decision identifies 151 census tracts across multiple counties as initial zones, focusing primarily on areas where there is demonstrated local government or community support and a concentration of foreseeable gas distribution replacement projects.
AFFORDABILITY:Decision updating and finalizing the CPUC’s affordability framework, narrowing mandatory affordability filings to General Rate Cases with revenue increases above one percent and closing the proceeding.
WOOLSEY FIRE:Decision adopting a comprehensive settlement resolving SCE's request to recover costs associated with the November 2018 Woolsey Fire, which burned roughly 97,000 acres, destroyed or damaged more than 2,000 structures, and led to thousands of claims against the utility.
2006 ERRA FORECASTS: For PG&E, the Commission adopts a 2026 gross ERRA-related revenue requirement of $4.51 billion, about 6% higher than 2025, while authorizing amortization of a sizable ERRA overcollection carried into year-end 2025. For SCE, the Commission approves a 2026 ERRA forecast revenue requirement of $4.69 billion, a 5% increase over 2025, reflecting updated fuel and purchased power costs, balancing account true-ups, greenhouse gas compliance costs, and revised portfolio assumptions.
PG&E TRANSMISSION: Decision approving PG&E’s request to recover $337.9 million in recorded balances from its Transmission Revenue Requirement Reclassification Memorandum Account, which reflect the transfer of certain costs from FERC to CPUC jurisdiction following FERC Opinion No. 572 and the Transmission Owner 18 settlement.
PG&E ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE:Decision approving a settlement between PG&E, Cal Advocates, TURN, and the Small Business Utility Advocates that resolves PG&E’s request to recover costs for its large-scale replacement of failing Gas Advanced Metering Infrastructure modules.
DISTRIBUTION PLANNING: Resolutions E-5413 and E-5414, establishing a coordinated upgrade to the investor-owned utilities' distribution planning framework by pairing a standardized pending loads construct with a formal scenario-planning methodology.
RPS PROGRAM: Decision approving, with modifications, the 2025 Renewables Portfolio Standard procurement plans filed by investor-owned utilities, small and multi-jurisdictional utilities, community choice aggregators, and electric service providers.
SELF-GENERATION INCENTIVE PROGRAM: Resolution E-5430, approving with modifications updates to the SGIP that are intended to strengthen third-party ownership consumer protections and revise how federal tax credits are accounted for after recent federal law changes.
SOCALGAS FINANCES: Decision authorizing SoCalGas to issue up to $3.3 billion in new debt, allowing a mix of secured and unsecured instruments and the use of standard hedging and derivative tools to manage interest-rate risk and financing costs.
ON-BILL FINANCING:Decision authorizing a modified Tariff On-Bill Financing Pilot proposed by SCE and rejecting Tariff On-Bill proposals submitted by SDG&E, SoCalGas, and Silicon Valley Clean Energy. The decision finds that SCE’s pilot is sufficiently narrow, implementable, and protective of customers to justify a limited test of tariff-based, meter-tied cost recovery for residential energy efficiency and electrification upgrades
IVANPAH SOLAR THERMAL FACILITY: Resolution E-5429, rejecting PG&E’s proposal to buy out and terminate its Power Purchase Agreements with Solar Partners II and VIII (the owners of the Ivanpah solar-thermal facility).
DIABLO CANYON 2026 REVENUE REQUIREMENT: Decision approving PG&E’s 2026 revenue requirement to support the continued operation of Diablo Canyon under Senate Bill 846, authorizing $382.233 million in net costs after accounting for market revenues. Costs are allocated among PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E customers through a non-bypassable charge.
SELF-GENERATION INCENTIVE PROGRAM: Decision establishing the full framework for shutting down the ratepayer-funded portion of the Self-Generation Incentive Program while implementing/defining the closeout process for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund–supported SGIP.
SDG&E PROCUREMENT COSTS:Decision approving SDG&E’s 2026 electric procurement revenue requirement, sales forecast, and greenhouse-gas related forecasts, adopting an updated total revenue requirement of $824.1 million, which is a major increase from the current $122.3 million authorization. This increase is driven by higher above-market portfolio costs reflected in SDG&E's Portfolio Allocation Balancing Account and updated market price benchmarks.
WILDFIRE FUND NON-BYPASSABLE CHARGE: Decision setting the 2026 Wildfire Fund Non-Bypassable Charge at $0.00591/kWh, which enables collection of $908.9 million over the 2026 calendar year.
TRANSPORTATION ELECTRIFICATION REPORTING: Decision revising how Transportation Electrification data is gathered and reported, streamlining numerous legacy reporting obligations into a single annual compliance report that will consolidate Senate Bill 350, Vehicle Grid Integration, electric vehicle cost/load, and other data.
MID-TERM RELIABILITY: Resolution E-5428, approving eight mid-term reliability contracts and one amendment submitted by SCE under its 2025 procurement plan. The portfolio includes solar-plus-storage projects in Kern and Riverside Counties and a solar project in Arizona, totaling about 498 megawatts, plus a 75-MW amendment to the Gateway battery facility in San Diego
CRUDE OIL TRANSPORTATION:Decision authorizing Crimson California Pipeline, LP to raise crude-oil transportation rates on its Southern System by 26.35%, retroactive to August 1, 2024, with interest.
DATA CENTERS: Resolution E-5420, approving (with modifications) PG&E’s request to construct and energize new transmission facilities (including a 115-kilovolt Ringwood substation) to serve STACK Infrastructure’s 90-megawatt data center in San Jose
NATURAL GAS CURTAILMENT PROCEDURES:Decision authorizing PG&E’s application to revise its natural gas curtailment procedures, which brings the company into alignment with procedures used by other major gas utilities.
CONDEMNATION of PG&E ASSETS:Decision pausing a long-running dispute between PG&E and the South San Joaquin Irrigation District over who should control local power lines in that area.
PROPERTY VALUATION of PG&E:Decision establishing the standards, appraisal methods, and filing requirements the CPUC will use to determine just compensation under California's eminent-domain process if the City and County of San Francisco condemns portions of PG&E’s electric system that serve San Francisco.
ENERGIZATION:Decision authorizing SDG&E to establish a new Electric Energization Memorandum Account to track incremental capital costs for customer energization projects under Senate Bill 410 (the Powering Up Californians Act).
NATURAL GAS LEAK ABATEMENT:Resolution G-3606, approving in part and denying in part SDG&E’s 2024 Natural Gas Leak Abatement Compliance Plan.
