FRIDAY AGGREGATE: PG&E's CARD Filing; Rule 30; Rate Design

PG&E dominates today's roundup. The utility's 2027 Gas CARD application drew immediate, broad-based resistance from consumer advocates, generators, and large customers, not regarding rates but over the structure of the proceeding itself.

Meanwhile, an ALJ reopened the record on Rule 30 transmission-level service, reflecting CPUC discomfort with finalizing large-load cost allocation without better evidence on cost causation.

Elsewhere: a schedule is provided for the dynamic pricing track of PG&E's GRC Phase 2, Cal Advocates' distribution upgrade cost study enters the DER record, SoCalGas files for approval of interstate capacity contracts, and a group challenges the CPUC's December 2025 decision in the Diablo Canyon cost-recovery proceeding.

PG&E Natural Gas Rates

On January 7, a broad cross-section of stakeholders responded to PG&E’s 2027 Gas Cost Allocation and Rate Design (CARD) application (A.25-11-006), reflecting shared concern about both substance and process in what is the first-ever combined Gas Cost Allocation Proceeding and Gas Transmission & Storage case.