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CPUC Shakes Up Safety Unit in Wake of San Bruno Review

California regulators are looking for a new head of the state’s reorganized Consumer Protection and Safety Division (CPSD) in response to recommendations from an independent review panel that called for the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to change the way it oversees natural gas pipeline safety in the wake of last year’s devastating pipeline rupture in San Bruno, CA. The CPUC is looking nationwide for a new CPSD director.

July 26, 2011

Post-Chapter 11 Calpine Eyes Carbon-Conscious Future

Weeks after emerging from two years in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Calpine Corp. senior officials Friday talked bullishly about the reorganized independent power plant developer’s future in a carbon-conscious environment. They think the company can take advantage of shrinking reserve margins and are talking up California and Texas markets in which the company has the majority of its fleet of natural gas-fired power plants.

March 3, 2008

S&P Opines a Reorganized PG&E Possibly Would Receive an Investment Grade Rating

Four separate Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) entities could emerge from bankruptcy with BBB- ratings if all goes well with the company’s reorganization plan, Standard & Poor’s said Thursday. That means the bankruptcy court would have to approve the company’s plan to split itself into four units, and it would have to pass regulatory muster, meet certain financial conditions and be implemented within the expected time frame.

February 24, 2003