September 3, 2026 CPUC Voting Meeting Preview: GRC Overhaul, PG&E Capital Structure

At next week's CPUC voting meeting, the Commission is expected to launch a new rulemaking that would rewrite the General Rate Case framework. The proceeding would standardize utility filings, expand review of actual-versus-forecast spending, and bring more major cost requests into the GRC process.

Also before the Commission:

• Competing decisions on PG&E’s capital structure;
• Nearly $4 billion in new SDG&E debt authority;
• Approval of Google’s 250-MW San Jose data center interconnection;
• Changes to the Integration Capacity Analysis;
• Updates to the Avoided Cost Calculator;
• An expansion of SCE’s High-Fire-Threat District;
• A crude-pipeline rate increase, and
• A Clean Miles Standard decision that would continue to withhold penalties from Uber and Lyft for missing state emissions targets.

ODDS & ENDS: For those interested in my work elsewhere, I've created a page with links to my contributions at RTO Insider, Energy Central, LinkedIn and my personal Substack blog.

And, slightly off-topic, having recently driven through Los Angeles en route to Arizona, past Mulholland Drive and environs, Jean Baudrillard's America sprang to mind. I recommend the book, particularly its description of L.A.