THURSDAY BRIEFING: Competing RNG Cost-Allocation PDs; Direct Access Denial

In today's briefing:

California’s largest gas customers could soon be assigned most of the above-market costs of the Renewable Gas Standard, even though the size of those costs remains unknown.

Competing proposed decisions at the CPUC agree on how the costs should be calculated but divide over when noncore customers should begin paying them. President John Reynolds’ alternate proposed decision would allocate costs to all customers immediately. Commissioner Darcie Houck’s PD would keep costs with core customers while the CPUC considers whether industrial exemptions are needed to prevent emissions leakage.

Today’s briefing also examines two SoCalGas PDs: one would disallow $92.4952 million in Transmission Integrity Management Program costs, while the other would deny $24.9 million in additional Customer Information System funding.

Other items on our radar include the CPUC's proposed denial of a petition to reopen Direct Access and implementation of a surcharge exemption for industrial heat-recovery systems.

For more background on the DA issue, please see CRI's May 15, 2026 LinkedIn newsletter.