A bill that would allow utilities to recover wildfire costs if they conform to state-regulated safety plans moved through the California legislature, but it faces opposition from some who say it lets utilities off the hook.

California lawmakers moved forward with several pieces of energy legislation, but items such as a 100% RPS and CAISO regionalization seem to be on hold.

A California Senate committee on Tuesday approved a bill that would allow publicly owned utilities that meet certain criteria to run their gas-fired plants at a minimal level to ensure that related bond debt is paid off and not passed to taxpayers.

CAISO officials on Wednesday urged California lawmakers to pass legislation that would convert the grid operator into an RTO.

California regulators and lawmakers are sounding the alarm over a possible decline in the financial and credit health of utilities stemming from wildfire risk and liability.

A key California lawmaker is seeking comment this week on a revived effort to regionalize CAISO and create a multistate Western RTO.

Allegations of sexual harassment and workplace retaliation dominated the beginning of the 2018 session of the California State Legislature.

Legislature ended its 2017 session, drawing criticism for its pursuit of CAISO regionalization and for letting a 100% clean energy bill die in committee.

Few parties in California are happy with the way the state’s community choice aggregator (CCA) program is turning out, legislators learned.

Both houses of the California State Legislature voted late Monday to extend the state’s greenhouse gas (GHG) cap-and-trade program until 2030.