WEDNESDAY AGGREGATE: Stanpac Transaction Scrutiny; Wildfire Cost Challenge; SDG&E ERRA Dispute

Today's update focuses on:

• Natural Gas Transmission Assets: A joint prehearing conference statement for PG&E’s application to acquire Stanpac’s gas transmission pipeline assets and related interests. Cal Advocates is attempting to reframe the proposed transaction as needing a full reasonableness review under the Public Utilities Code, rather than a narrower approval focused on whether the asset transfer and agreements meet certain statutory requirements.
• Wildfire Mitigation Costs: A Protect Our Communities Foundation application for rehearing of a CPUC decision from January (D.26-01-021), which addressed SDG&E's request to recover wildfire mitigation memorandum account costs. Protect Our Communities Foundation argues the CPUC committed multiple legal and procedural errors that unlawfully allowed recovery of unjustified expenses.
• SDG&E ERRA Compliance: A joint meet-and-confer report in SDG&E’s 2024 Energy Resource Recovery Account compliance application (A.25-06-002), which shows this case moving toward a technical dispute over SDG&E’s Resource Adequacy accounting and cost allocation practices rather than broad procurement prudence challenges.