The California State Senate passed legislation that would allow the state’s investor-owned utilities to pass through the costs of wildfires to ratepayers.

California’s three investor-owned utilities asked state officials to protect bundled customers from being saddled with expensive long-term renewable contracts.

Sempra Energy became the third California-based energy company to promise a “three-pronged” cost recovery effort related to wildfires.

California utilities and other parties say they have reached a new settlement over the costs of shutting down the San Onofre nuclear power plant.

Utilities are at the epicenter of public battles between the California PUC and its critics over wildfires, public safety and ethics.

A CAISO report suggests that California’s utilities are about 2,000 MW short of the capacity needed to comply with 2018 local resource adequacy requirements

California electricity suppliers have met the state’s 25% renewable generation requirement, in many cases exceeding it substantially, the PUC says.

Sempra Energy’s financial results were hobbled by a decision to deny subsidiary SDG&E request to recoup losses stemming from wildfires a decade ago.

California utilities and state agencies are cooperating on developing plans to manage the effects of global climate change on the electricity grid.

California utilities and business groups are opposing a state bill that would increase the amount of publicly available data about electricity consumers.