WEDNESDAY AGGREGATE: CPUC Tests Appetite for Broader Flexible Connections

Good morning, the most consequential item in today’s aggregate is the CPUC’s push to expand flexible service connections, with comments due July 21. A new proposal from Commissioner Darcie Houck would move constrained circuits away from being automatic upgrade triggers and toward being managed service conditions. Under the proposal, customers could connect under defined operating limits while utilities, DERs and grid-edge tools manage capacity constraints.

Additionally, SoCalGas and PG&E are testing the exception process left over from the CPUC's 2022 gas-line subsidy decision, and PG&E requests a $26.6 million shareholder award for a natural gas procurement year the CPUC later investigated.