RESOURCE ADEQUACY: A decision sets CAISO's recommended Local Capacity Requirements at 23,618 MW for 2027, 24,545 MW for 2028, and 25,480 MW for 2029. The decision also adopts CAISO's 2027 Flexible Capacity Requirements, which reach their system-wide maximum in March at 30,378 MW, with the CPUC-jurisdictional share at 29,063 MW.
SENATE BILL 1221: Adecision establishes the application process for Senate Bill 1221 neighborhood decarbonization pilots.
CUSTOMER-SITED SOLAR: A decision declines to expand the Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing program to new-construction, under-construction, or master-metered affordable multifamily properties.
DEMAND RESPONSE: Five demand-response resolutions approve targeted enrollment and AutoDR changes while rejecting larger mid-cycle incentive and program-design revisions.
Resolution E-5456 gives SCE approval to let customers enroll directly in its Capacity Bidding Program Elect, with SCE acting as aggregator.
Resolution E-5444 denies SDG&E approval for a new residential Capacity Bidding Program.
Resolution E-5450 gives PG&E partial approval for changes to its Automated Response Technology program.
Resolution E-5453 approves, with modifications, a joint PG&E and SCE request to update their Automated Demand Response Technology Incentive Program guidelines.
LOW-INCOME SUBSIDIES: A decision authorizes 2027 bridge-year budgets for the four major investor-owned utilities' income-qualified programs (CARE, FERA and ESA) while leaving broader disputes for the 2028-2033 full-cycle applications pending.
TRANSMISSION/INFRASTRUCTURE PERMITTING: A decision grants PG&E a permit to construct the Moraga-Oakland X 115-kV Rebuild Project, which would replace four circuits built between 1908 and 1931 that serve about 200,000 customers, including the Port of Oakland.
NATURAL GAS/RATE RECOVERY: A decision approves a settlement authorizing SDG&E to recover $6.985 million recorded in its Transmission Integrity Management Program Balancing Account for 2019-2023.
UTILITY SAFETY: A decision approves SoCalGas's "Revised Safety Culture Improvement Plan" as a foundation for implementation, while explicitly declining to find the plan's specific interventions adequate or effective.
UTILITY-OWNED GENERATION: Resolution E-5467 approves SDG&E's Membership Interest Purchase Agreement to acquire Westside Canal Phase 2a from RWE for $267.9 million, with RWE retained for operations and maintenance under a 10-year services agreement. The project is a 119 MW, four-hour lithium-ion storage facility in Imperial Valley.
SHARED RENEWABLES: A decision implements the California Shared Renewables Portfolio in a form far more limited than community solar advocates sought. A $33 million state appropriation reverted to the General Fund in June 2025, and the EPA terminated California's Solar for All award in August 2025, eliminating the external funding that a 2024 decision (D.24-05-065) assumed would make the program workable.
REMAT PROGRAM: Resolution E-5457 updates fixed avoided-cost prices for the CPUC's Renewable Market Adjusting Tariff program, the feed-in tariff for renewable generators of 3 MW or less.
CORE TRANSPORT AGENTS: Resolution G-3621 reaffirms the CPUC's 2026 annual fee structure for registered Core Transport Agents, keeping the base fee at $5,000 while applying variable fees only to CTAs that generated consumer-protection costs in 2025.
GAS SYSTEM RELIABILITY: A decision approves a full settlement between PG&E and TURN resolving PG&E's updated Peak Day Supply Standard for winters 2024-2025 through 2026-2027.
WOOLSEY FIRE: A decision authorizes SCE to issue approximately $1.951 billion in Recovery Bonds to refinance costs arising from the 2018 Woolsey Fire.
DIABLO CANYON: A decision partially grants a petition to modify a 2024 decision. The sole modification: for purposes of the 115% statutory threshold under the Public Utilities Code, the CPUC will use the final RA Market Price Benchmark rather than the forecast benchmark when evaluating whether Diablo Canyon costs remain insulated from further reasonableness review.
CRUDE OIL TRANSPORTATION: A decision authorizes a 10% rate increase for Crimson California Pipeline L.P.'s Southern California crude oil system.
BIOMETHANE: A decision rebuilds the CPUC's Renewable Gas Standard around a hard cap on what ratepayers can be charged, not the volume targets that drove the original program.
HYDROGEN: A decision denies SoCalGas's request to recover $266 million from natural gas ratepayers to fund Phase 2 front-end engineering and design work for the Angeles Link hydrogen pipeline project.
TRANSMISSION: A decision conditionally authorizes PG&E to lease transmission "entitlements" to a Citizens Energy subsidiary.
GENERAL RATE CASE: A decision resolves SCE's 2024 rate-design case. The decision approves nine of 10 settlements that parties negotiated and rejects the tenth, a Vehicle-to-Grid rate proposal.
CLIMATE CREDIT: A decision orders interim, timing-only changes to the residential Climate Credit.
ERRA COMPLIANCE: A decision approves SDG&E's 2023 ERRA compliance application.
DISTRIBUTED GENERATION: Resolution E-5436 raises the DGStats budget from $990,000 to $2.6 million per three-year cycle and delegates annual inflation adjustment to Energy Division.
RATE DESIGN: A new rulemaking provides the forum for a major reset of electricity rates.
INTEGRATION CAPACITY ANALYSIS:Resolution E-5440 approves remediation plans submitted by PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E to fix accuracy, transparency, and usability problems in their ICA tools.
ERRA COMPLIANCE: A decision approves SDG&E's 2023 Energy Resource Recovery Account compliance application.
ENERGY STORAGE INVESTIGATION: A new investigation provides a forum to learn more about how long PG&E's Elkhorn Energy Storage System has been out of service.
A decision granting SCE a CPCN to construct the Alberhill System Project, a new 1,120 MVA 500/115 kV substation and associated transmission infrastructure in western Riverside County, at a cost cap of $481.7 million in 2023 dollars.
CLIMATE CREDIT: A decision pausing the spring 2026 residential electric Climate Credit for PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E customers.
FLEX ALERTS: A decision extending California's Flex Alert paid media campaign through December 31, 2026, with a $15 million budget.
PROVIDER OF LAST RESORT:Resolution E-5411, denying SDG&E's request to preemptively establish a memorandum account to track incremental costs from a potential mass return of customers to Provider of Last Resort service.
UTILITY FINANCES: A decision authorizing SCE to issue up to $9.85 billion in debt and $1.155 billion in preferred equity, $525 million less than originally requested after SCE voluntarily reconciled its forecast to its 2025 General Rate Case final decision.
EV LOAD MANAGEMENT:Resolution E-5452, approving SCE's ORCHARD program, a utility-orchestrated EV charging scheme funded by $22.9 million in Low Carbon Fuel Standard holdback revenue.
RISK ASSESSMENT AND MITIGATION: A decision closing PG&E's 2024 RAMP (A.24-05-008), the front-end risk framework for its Test Year 2027 General Rate Case.
SGIP: A decision denying ENGIE North America’s petition to modify a 2021 CPUC decision (D.21-06-005), which sought an exemption for wastewater treatment plants from the SGIP requirement that biogas used in internal combustion engines meet a 96% methane standard.
PETROLEUM PIPELINES: A decision approving Shell California Pipeline Company LLC's request to withdraw its Carson-to-LAX and Carson-to-Van Nuys petroleum pipelines from common carrier service and, upon satisfaction of specified conditions, terminate Shell California's status as a public utility entirely.
CRUDE OIL TRANSPORTATION: A decision approving Crimson California's request to withdraw the southern segment of the Seal Beach Pipeline from public utility service.
INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLANNING: A decision ordering California load-serving entities to undertake a new tranche of electric resource procurement for reliability during 2029–2032 while also transmitting recommended resource portfolios to the CAISO for the 2026–2027 transmission planning cycle.
NATURAL GAS PRICE SPIKES: A decision in Investigation 23-03-008 concluding that the extraordinary spike in California natural gas prices during winter 2022–2023 resulted primarily from severe market conditions rather than misconduct by regulated utilities.
EPIC: A decision adopting a comprehensive set of strategic objectives to guide the Electric Program Investment Charge Program’s 2026–2030 investment cycle, continuing the state’s ratepayer-funded energy innovation efforts while refining governance and accountability.
VEHICLE-to-EVERYTHING PILOT: Resolution E-5434 approving, with modifications, PG&E’s request to adjust its Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Microgrid Pilot #3, which is designed to test how bidirectional electric vehicles can support community microgrids during outages.
MID-TERM RELIABILITY:Resolution E-5446 approving two SDG&E mid-term reliability contracts with Golden Fields Solar VI, LLC (Clearway) for standalone battery storage projects totaling 92 MW of nameplate capacity, consisting of a 44 MW four-hour system and a 48 MW eight-hour system expected to begin deliveries on June 1, 2027. Both are 15-year power purchase tolling agreements.
SELF-GENERATION INCENTIVE PROGRAM: A decision denying Bloom Energy Corp.’s 2024 Petition for Modification of a 2011 decision (D.11-09-015), which governs aspects of the Self-Generation Incentive Program. Bloom sought to increase the program’s annual export cap from 25% to 50% of a project’s net generation, arguing that advancements in its fuel cell technology and evolving SGIP policies now justify greater exports to the grid.
ENERGIZATION: A decision in R.24-01-018 directing PG&E and SCE to establish a standardized, tariffed “Standard Offer” Flexible Service Connection to accelerate energization for customers facing distribution capacity constraints.
WILDFIRE COST RECOVERY: A decision granting partial approval of PG&E’s request to recover recorded costs related to wildfire mitigation, vegetation management, catastrophic events, and several programs, primarily incurred in 2022. The decision authorizes recovery of $1.607 billion, largely reflecting wildfire mitigation activities, emergency storm response, and mandated program compliance, while denying $172.5 million in vegetation management costs.
NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT: A decision partially granting SoCalGas interim recovery of costs recorded in its Distribution Integrity Management Program Balancing Account for the 2019–2023 period. The decision authorizes $35.5 million, equal to 60% of a $59.1 million request, to be recovered over a 12-month period through interim rates. All interim collections are subject to refund with interest.
CLEAN ENERGY CONTRACTS: Resolution E-5445, which approves SCE’s request to enter into 10 clean energy contracts resulting from its 2024 Clean Energy Request for Offers. The approved portfolio totals 2,093 MW of nameplate capacity across 10 contracts and four projects.
UNION ISLAND PIPELINE: A decision dismissing without prejudice California Resources Production Corporation's application seeking a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to operate the Union Island natural gas pipeline as a public utility.
CRUDE OIL TRANSPORTATION:Resolution O-0098, which approves San Pablo Bay Pipeline Company and Crimson California Pipeline’s request for emergency, interim rate relief on the SPB-KLM intrastate crude oil pipeline system. And separately, Resolution O-0099 which approves Phillips 66 Pipeline LLC's request to withdraw utility service on crude oil pipeline Lines 100, 200, 300, and 400 and to cancel its tariff, marking Phillips 66's complete exit from California crude pipeline utility operations.
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.