WEDNESDAY AGGREGATE: Resolution SPD-37 Disputes; Zonal Electrification Lessons; Responses to PG&E/Stanpac Filing
Today's roundup includes the following items.
- A summary of parties' responses to a recent joint application for rehearing challenging Resolution SPD-37, which revised the CPUC’s Senate Bill 884 undergrounding framework.
- PG&E's "Lessons Learned" report summarizing its experience with the proposed zonal electrification project at California State University Monterey Bay, which was ultimately withdrawn after extensive litigation and delay.
- An amended scoping memo in PG&E’s 2027 General Rate Case that incorporates implementation questions arising from Senate Bill 254, which changed how wildfire mitigation memorandum accounts may be used and reviewed.
- A summary of parties' responses to PG&E and Standard Pacific Gas Line Incorporated's recent joint application, which seeks approval for a multi-part transaction that would transfer substantially all of Stanpac’s remaining gas transmission pipeline assets to PG&E.
- Responses of PG&E and SCE to parallel applications for rehearing submitted by CalCCA that challenge the CPUC’s December approval of 2026 ERRA Forecast decisions for PG&E and SCE (D.25-12-027 and D.25-12-028, respectively).
A common theme is that intervenors are forcing the Commission to define the evidentiary and procedural standards required before utilities book significant costs, whether for wildfire, undergrounding, decarbonization, or legacy asset restructuring.
More detail is provided below.