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Recent utility-rates coverage from The Sidekick network, including local decisions, public meetings, and civic updates.
The active cost-of-capital proceeding has set an evidentiary hearing and briefing deadlines, while an archived hearing summary contains an unverified $25,000 figure that conflicts with official customer materials.
The CPUC is reviewing Bear Valley Electric Service’s request for staged increases through 2030 after customers questioned wildfire spending, outages, fees and affordability at an Oct. 13 hearing.
The consumer office says its lower recommendation could save Great Oaks customers about $61,000 a year, but the commission has not voted on the utility’s 2027-30 cost-of-capital case.
Redding Electric Utility reported 111 days of cash on hand, but said one-time funds put its underlying position at about 55 days as power and infrastructure costs rise.
At a May 28 hearing, staff outlined a rewrite of California’s cap-and-invest program that would steer more allowance value to electricity bill relief, create a $4 billion industrial incentive fund and tighten long-term allowance budgets.
The utility-affordability and wildfire-compensation bill drew lengthy public comment from Camp Fire and Tubbs Fire survivors in the Assembly Appropriations Committee, but no recorded vote appeared in the excerpted hearing record.