The California Public Utilities Commission is considering whether new rate tariffs are needed for data center customers and other large-load customers to prevent stranded costs and cost-shifting.

A California Senate committee has advanced a bill that would allow load-serving entities to trade capacity on an hourly basis to meet the state’s slice-of-day resource adequacy requirements.

CAISO’s draft 2025/26 transmission plan proposes more than $1 billion for an infrastructure project that would power new data centers and other large loads in Silicon Valley.

CAISO’s Department of Market Monitoring urged the ISO to replace its interim congestion revenue allocation rules under its forthcoming Extended Day-Ahead Market “as soon as practicable.”

CAISO is moving toward approval of an $8.5 million financing plan for the Regional Organization for Western Energy’s start-up costs.

In approving construction of new transmission facilities for a 49-MW data center in Sunnyvale, the California Public Utilities Commission relied on a process typically used for distribution projects.

California’s historic battery storage boom over the past five years has not kept up with EV capacity growth in the state — and now officials want to send idle electrons back to buildings, homes and the grid through new bidirectional chargers.

The California Public Utilities Commission ordered 6 GW of new capacity to meet forecast data center and electric vehicle loads — among other new demand — in the state.

California Public Utilities Commission President Alice Reynolds is leaving the CPUC and joining CAISO’s Board of Governors after more than four years at the helm of the state’s utility regulator.

Offshore wind experts urged the California Public Utilities Commission to reconsider a forecasted 6-year delay to the Golden State’s offshore wind project in Humboldt County.