Rapid advances in digital technology can provide utilities with much needed assistance in wildfire response.

The fall season when utility equipment tends to start fires is coming and regulators and reliability coordinators want utilities to be ready.

WECC waded into California’s wildfire troubles in an effort to understand how catastrophic blazes could affect reliability and how to protect the grid.

The California PUC launched an examination of the state’s natural gas infrastructure and the rules governing it for the first time in 16 years.

The California Public Utilities Commission decided to extend the general rate case cycle for the state’s investor-owned utilities from three years to four.

DERs such as rooftop solar panels and batteries may pose a higher risk for grid stability than previously thought, the chief engineer for SDG&E warned.

California officials hammered PG&E executives during a legislative hearing over the utility’s mishandling of multiple public safety power shutoffs.

As roughly 600,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers remained without power, the president of the California PUC called the situation “unacceptable.”

PG&E shut down power to large swaths of its Northern California service territory, citing gusty winds that could cause utility-sparked conflagrations.

FERC again upheld the RTO incentives it previously approved for Southern California Edison and PG&E, rejecting rehearing requests by California regulators.