WEDNESDAY AGGREGATE: FERC Large-Load Order Enters PG&E Tariff Case as CPUC Delays Google Vote

Large loads lead Wednesday’s aggregate. FERC has landed squarely in PG&E’s transmission-level tariff case, forcing the CPUC to consider how its rules for data centers and other enormous customers would fit within a CAISO-wide regime.

Also Wednesday: a draft resolution would put the CPUC’s Energy Division in charge of distribution-equity modeling, and a proposed decision would reject SCE’s bid to remove 61 areas from the state’s fire-threat map. Elsewhere, PG&E rate talks accelerate, and the major gas utilities move to widen eligibility for biomethane procurement.

Two voting-meeting updates:

• The Commission has delayed action on Draft Resolution E-5455, which addresses PG&E’s agreement to energize Google’s 250 MW San Jose data center. The item moves from the CPUC’s August 13 voting meeting to September 3; and
• The CPUC has also delayed action on two competing PDs that address PG&E’s request to exclude Kincade- and Dixie-related financing from its regulatory capital structure. More information on those items is available here. Like Draft Resolution E-5455, both PDs tentatively move to the September 3 agenda.