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San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) on Friday asked California regulators for approval to increase natural gas utility rates by $5.22 billion in the 2019-2021 period to cover a suite of safety-related enhancements to its extensive transmission pipeline and storage system, one of the nation’s largest.

A proposed decision (PD) issued Wednesday by a California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) administrative law judge (ALJ) supports Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) plans to close by 2025 the state’s last major nuclear generating plant.

As California elected officials made a plea Friday for $7.4 billion in federal assistance in the wake of the state’s unprecedented series of wildfires last month, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) and other major investor-owned utilities braced themselves for regulatory and legal brush fires that could burn them financially.

As a backdraft to anongoing investigationof utility infrastructure involvement in the Northern California wildfires, a still-incomplete attempt to map utility transmission lines is raising questions about how effective regulators and utilities have been in taking preventive action.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has opened a probe into whether infrastructure maintenance in Sonoma and Napa counties by Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. (PG&E) played a role in the wildfires.

California may be the nation’s second biggest consumer of natural gas after Texas, but it continues to burn fewer therms to produce megawatts, and that is a trend likely to continue.

California regulators on Thursday adopted tougher standards for natural gas utility delivery systems to tighten up prevention programs for identifying and plugging methane leaks.

Responding to strong customer demand, California regulators on Thursday revised the state’s Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP), carrying implications for natural gas-assisted onsite generation and helping to counter the effects of the continuing closure of the state’s largest underground gas storage facility.

California regulators have launched a proceeding to consider penalizing Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) for billing snafus that impacted potentially millions of customers between 2014 and 2016.