February 5, 2026 CPUC Voting Meeting Preview: Flexible Service Connections; PG&E Wildfire Recovery Costs; SoCalGas Distribution Integrity

The CPUC will convene on February 5 for its second voting meeting of the year. Items currently scheduled for consideration include:

• A proposed decision in the Commission's Timely Energization rulemaking that directs PG&E and SCE to establish a standardized, tariffed Standard Offer "Flexible Service Connection" to accelerate customer energization when distribution-level capacity constraints would otherwise delay service.
• A PD authorizing PG&E to recover a $1.416 billion revenue requirement, which includes costs incurred primarily in 2022 related to wildfire mitigation, vegetation management, catastrophic events, and a set of customer-protection and policy-driven memorandum accounts.
• A PD granting SoCalGas partial interim rate recovery for costs recorded in its Distribution Integrity Management Program Balancing Account between 2019 and 2023. The PD authorizes SoCalGas to recover $35.5 million on an interim basis, representing 60% of the $59.1 million requested, for a 12-month period, subject to refund with interest pending a final reasonableness determination.
• A draft resolution approving SCE's request to enter into 10 clean energy resource contracts resulting from its 2024 Clean Energy Request for Offers. This portfolio totals 2,093 MW of nameplate capacity across four projects, including large single-axis solar PV facilities and paired, co-located four-hour lithium-ion battery storage systems in California and Nevada.
• A PD which has been bounced repeatedly from consideration at recent CPUC voting meetings, denying a request of California Resources Production Corporation for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to operate the 35-mile Union Island natural gas pipeline as a public utility gas corporation.
• A draft resolution approving emergency interim rate relief for Crimson Pipeline's SPB-KLM system. The draft resolution approves an interim rate increase effective August 1, 2025, with authority to allow retroactive collection subject to refund.
• A draft resolution approving 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 and concluding an uncontested Tier 3 advice letter process.

Additional details are available below.