Confrontation

California Gas Utilities Seek to Shift Do-Good Costs

California’s so-called “public goods” charge paid by all customers of the state’s private-sector utilities is the focus of a confrontation between the natural gas utilities and the independent consumer unit at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). The head-knocking will come to a close at an oral argument the CPUC will hold Aug. 25.

August 14, 2008

CA Fights FERC For Control of ISO and PX

In a classic states’ rights confrontation, California ischallenging FERC jurisdiction over the operation of the state’s twononprofit organizations created to make electric restructuring runsmoothly, the Independent System Operator (ISO) overseeing thetransmission grid and the Power Exchange (PX) providing a wholesalespot electricity market. Two bills have been proposed in the statelegislature to change the status of the ISO and PX in directresponse to FERC jurisdictional questions.

March 15, 1999