MONDAY AGGREGATE: Energization PD; SoCalGas AFR of Electrification Pilot; Wildfire Mitigation PD

Today’s roundup examines how California’s regulatory framework is reallocating energy-infrastructure risk across utilities, customers, and departed load.

• Utilities get potential energization pathways via tariff but connecting customers face interim load restrictions until upgrades arrive.
• SoCalGas challenges electrification mandates as procedurally defective.
• PG&E absorbs $363 million in disallowed vegetation management costs despite regulatory approval of its mitigation plans.
• Bundled customers and departed load face renewed PCIA cost battles.
• Gas curtailments gain formal priority structure with year-long implementation buffer.

Across these actions, risk is redistributed through tariffs, settlements, and procedural sequencing rather than resolved through new infrastructure investment.

ENERGIZATION

The CPUC issued a proposed decision in its Timely Energization docket (R.24-01-018) 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.

The PD formalizes a bridging mechanism (modeled largely on PG&E’s existing "Load Limiting Letter" practice) that allows customers to receive firm, near-term electrical service by adhering to a utility-defined Limited Load Profile until upstream upgrades are completed.