Posts Tagged ‘CPUC’Lawmakers text while discussing lack of broadband for poorTuesday, March 12th, 2013 March 12, 2013 By Katy Grimes Click-click-click went lawmakers' smart phones as they texted Monday while seeming to listen to four hours of hearings on expanding broadband Internet services to poor people. At the same hearing, representatives from AT&T, Verizon, and the California Cable a... PG&E misleads on rate increasesTuesday, November 27th, 2012 Editor's Note: This is Part 2 of two. Part 1 is here. Nov. 27, 2012 By Katy Grimes PG&E has openly misled about rate increases. In February 2011, PG&E announced the utility expected its electric rate to remain steady into 2011. Then it was revealed that PG&E's 2011-2013 Genera... Lax CPUC oversight lets PG&E gouge ratepayersMonday, November 26th, 2012Editor's note: This is Part 1 of two. Part 2 is here. Nov. 26, 2012 By Katy Grimes As the price of natural gas has fallen to a decade low, utility ratepayers wouldn’t know it. Utility costs continue to explode. Given the low cost of natural gas, Pacific Gas & Electric’s lates... State promotes renewable energy at all costsFriday, June 15th, 2012June 15, 2012 By Joseph Perkins The California Public Utilities Commission routinely rubber stamps renewable energy projects without discussion. But that was not the case this past Thursday, when Commissioner Michael Florio objected to a solar project that came before the state agency. It w... Chino Hills Wins Battle Against SCEThursday, November 10th, 2011Katy Grimes: The city of Chino Hills has won an important battle. I just received word that Southern California Edison has been ordered by the California Public Utility Commission to provide alternatives to their Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project in Chino Hills. SCE has until January 10 to p... PG&E Fine A Slap On The WristTuesday, November 8th, 2011Katy Grimes: The largest fine ever levied by the California Public Utility Commission was just handed down to PG&E for the 2008 Christmas Eve gas line explosion in Rancho Cordova, which destroyed a home and killed the occupant, Wilbert Paana, 72. The blast also injured five others. Inves... CPUC Stuck In Culture of CorruptionMonday, October 17th, 2011 OCT. 17, 2011 It is shameful to punish the puppy when the pack leader is at fault. It is no different in the workplace and the corporate world -- failure and corruption are usually the fault of the top dogs. Two recent examples are Pacific Gas & Electric and the California Public Utility C... Power Lines Fight Heads to Supreme CourtFriday, September 30th, 2011 SEPT. 30, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Next stop for Chino Hills in its fight against electricity transmission lines: the California Supreme Court. The Southern California bedroom community has spent more than $2 million fighting the lines constructed by Southern California Edison and approved by the C... Feds Blast PG&E and Utilities CommissionThursday, September 1st, 2011 Sept. 1, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Why it took two deadly gas pipeline explosions for Pacific, Gas and Electric and the California Public Utilities Commission to admit complacency is the subject of a scathing report just completed by the National Transportation Safety Board. Utility customers and... Chino Hills’ Monster TowersThursday, August 18th, 2011Katy Grimes: Assemblyman Curt Hagman (R-Chino Hills) brought up a menacing subject during a committee hearing this week with the California Public Utility Commission. But he didn't get answers to his questions - just yet. Following the recent release of the Independent Review Panel’s repor... |