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	California Public Utilities Law
		Public utilities are companies that provide services commonly considered so essential and important to the public welfare as to be subject to substantial government regulation.
		Public utilities often are referred to as "natural monopolies", meaning that due to the nature of the service provided, economic and other considerations dictate that the larger the business and the less competition, the more efficiently the service can be provided.
		At first, utility regulation in the United States was handled by the courts on a case-by-case basis, with early attempts to regulate public utilities directed at the railroads.
	www.weblocator.com /attorney/ca/law/b33.html (3357 words)

	Cooper News: California Public Utilities Commission Meeting Summary - November 9, 2006
		The CPUC comments will emphasize that "[s]eparations reform directly affects the small rate-of-return carriers in California, and has the potential to affect funding of Californiaâs Universal Service programs." The CPUC also speculates that separations issues could be impacted by ongoing state and federal efforts to reform access charges and universal service.
		As the Commission noted, "[t]his case is the latest in what is now a long line of cases in which an internet dial-up number somehow changes from local to toll, apparently without deliberate act by the customer." Following the precedent from the Higginbotham v.
		Public Participation Hearings in Public Policy Fund Proceeding Completed â“ Commissioner Chong proudly announced that the public participation proceedings in the public policy fund proceeding (R.06-05-28) are now complete, and that they provided some significant and useful input from consumers regarding their priorities relative to the public programs.
	www.cwclaw.com /publications/alertDetail.aspx?id=212 (1691 words)

	Cooper News: California Public Utilities Commission Meeting Summary - October 5, 2006
		Second, the Commission will adopt a general order to clarify the procedures under which a statewide franchise can be sought, and to identify the mechanisms under which such a franchise will be administered.
		While the Commission was unable to resolve the issues in that proceeding, the "issues did not go away." Bohn lamented the lack of clarity regarding the application of CEQA, and promised to rectify this problem.
		The Commission had supported this bill with certain amendments, but it was vetoed by the Governor amidst uncertainty about the future of the CTF program.
	www.cwclaw.com /publications/alertDetail.aspx?id=210 (2866 words)

	RACE Press Release: Ratepayers for Affordable Clean Energy v. California Public Utilities Commission
		The CPUC made its decision without holding any evidentiary hearing to determine whether the projections it received from the utilities about growing demand for natural gas in California over the next decade were accurate.
		A California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) decision, made in September 2004, grants California’s natural gas utilities the authority to enter into ratepayer (“core customer”) contracts for LNG supplies, on the false presumption that domestic natural gas supplies are declining, California demand is increasing, and LNG will fill the supply gap and lower prices.
		LNG proponents falsely claim that California and the nation are experiencing an impending natural gas shortage, and that importing LNG will provide necessary supply diversity to California and drive the price of natural gas down in the state.
	lngwatch.com /race/pr_RACEvsCPUC.htm (723 words)

	Cox/Oller Tell Public Utilities Commission: You’re Not Taking Folsom’s Water
		The Commission’s Decision 04-03-039 — rendered without notice to the City or an opportunity to be heard — prospectively voided a 10-year-old agreement between the City and the Southern California Water Company pursuant to which the City secured 5,000 acre feet per year in additional water rights.
		It is unconscionable for the Commission to void the City’s agreement, which it entered into in good faith and for value, under the circumstances presented.
		Commission staff used the occasion of this filing, however, as an opportunity to invalidate the Folsom lease and fine the company on the grounds that the company had failed to apply for PUC approval in 1994.
	republican.sen.ca.gov /news/1/pressrelease3077.asp (1545 words)

	Pacific Environment : Ratepayers for Affordable Clean Energy v. California Public Utilities Commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		LNG terminals are being proposed in California and Baja California by Sempra, Shell, Chevron, Mitsubishi, and BHP Billiton to serve California natural gas demand.
		The California Energy Commission estimates the cost to import LNG to the West Coast in the $4 to $5/MMBtu range.
		In the same decision, the CPUC granted the authority for two Sempra-owned utilities (San Diego Gas and Electric and Southern California Gas) to cancel domestic gas pipeline contracts and substitute with LNG.
	www.pacificenvironment.org /article.php?id=265 (757 words)

	California Public Utilities Commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is a commission of the U.S. state of California tasked with regulating rates and service quality of privately-owned telecommunications, electric, natural gas, water) utilities which operate as monopolies and the safety of railroad and rail transit and passenger transportation carriers.
		Consumers who are unable to resolve complaints regarding utility service with the utility are invited to request assistance from the CPUC.
		The documents are Commission orders and have force of law on the utilities and on the rates paid by the customers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/California_Public_Utilities_Commission (569 words)

	NRDC: OnEarth Magazine, Spring 2006 - California Illuminates the World
		When the crisis hit, California was already among the most frugal states in the country in terms of per-capita energy use.
		California was, for example, the first state to adopt efficiency standards for appliances.
		California's efficiency standards for new buildings, introduced in 1978 and known as Title 24, have been replicated all over the world.
	www.nrdc.org /onearth/06spr/ca1.asp (748 words)

	LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: California Public Utilities Commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is responsible for the regulation of privately owned "public utilities," such as gas, electric, telephone, and railroad corporations, as well as certain passenger and household goods carriers.
		Since the CPUC has had difficulty projecting its budgetary requirements for this program, we think it would be appropriate to make a determination on budget-year funding requirements at the May Revision after the commission has received a greater number of its current-year claims.
		To address this problem, the commission has implemented a new carrier claim forecasting procedure that requires the carriers to submit annual claims forecasts that are based on the preceding year's claims, rather than rough estimates of program participation by CPUC staff.
	www.lao.ca.gov /analysis_2004/resources/res_14_8660_anl04.htm (2726 words)

	December 20, 1995 California Public Utilities Commission Ruling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		California's commitment to public purpose and social aspects of the provision of energy services to all of our citizens has been marked by legislative, commission inspired, industry based and community prompted initiatives in the past and fully anticipate such aspirations and effort to mark our state's future.
		If the California economy is to realize the efficiency gains brought about by competition among generators, the impact of that competition on the price of electricity must gain the broadest customer awareness.
		Hence we direct the participating utilities to formulate a detailed proposal that adheres to the minimum requirements we have specified and to present such a proposal to FERC for its approval.
	members.aol.com /wgscogen/cpuc.htm (3882 words)

	California Solar Center - Action Alert Exit Fees - CPUC
		In the next 30 days, the California Public Utilities Commission will rule on a proposal[read the decision on the CPUC website]l that would severely undermine the growth of solar energy in California.
		California's utilities - Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas and Electric - actively support the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to approve a new solar tax equivalent, known as "exit fees".
		As a result of tremendous efforts by California lawmakers and the public to support solar energy, California enjoyed a 1000% growth in the number of large solar electric systems installed in the last two years.
	www.californiasolarcenter.org /cpuc2003.html (535 words)

	California Public Utilities Commission on Power Crisis
		Utilities were held accountable for reliability by the PUC and the public.
		California moved first and furthest in divesting the utilities of their power plants.
		California's current electricity industry structure place autonomous, self-governing entities in roles formerly performed by government or utilities--planning, building, maintaining, and operating generation and transmission, and setting prices.
	www.wind-works.org /articles/CAPUConPowerCrisis.html (1252 words)

	California Utilities Commission Approves Costly Solar Plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		California citizens will pay at least $3.2 billion over the next 11 years to finance a costly solar energy initiative rejected by the state's legislature in fall 2005 but implemented by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on December 13.
		CPUC's California Solar Initiative is virtually identical to S.B. 1, the Million Solar Roofs proposal that was supported by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) but died in the state assembly in September 2005.
		CPUC adopted the Million Solar Roofs proposal virtually intact, leaving out minor portions of the bill that it did not have the power to implement.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1570447/posts (1216 words)

	NRDC: California Sets Nation's Most Aggressive Energy Saving Goals
		Utility plans to procure energy efficiency as a resource put them on target to meet the savings goals over the next five years.
		The utilities' 2004 long-term investment plans put them on target to meet the CPUC's new savings goals over the next five years; in the latter part of the decade, the CPUC's decision will encourage the utilities to continue to pursue energy efficiency even more aggressively.
		The CPUC set a goal of doubling the annual natural gas savings achieved by the efficiency programs by 2008, and more than tripling the annual savings by the end of ten years.
	www.nrdc.org /air/energy/fcagoals.asp (1381 words)

	President of the California Public Utilities Commission to Unveil California’s Energy Action Plan at the Made in ...
		California, the fifth largest economy in the world, continues to lose manufacturers to other states and oversees, at an alarming rate.
		The “Made in California” conference is a partnership between the California Center for Border and Regional Economic Studies, San Diego State University, California Manufacturing Technology Consulting (CMTC) and the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration.
		The mission of the California Center for Border and Regional Economic Studies, San Diego State University is to inform public and private decision makers of demographic, economic and social trends in the Western U.S., Imperial County — Mexican Border region.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2004/11/emw183250.htm (662 words)

	OPENING REMARKS OF CARL WOOD MEMBER OF THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		My agency, the California Public Utilities Commission just published a report which establishes that the incidents that roiled our state less than two years ago – rolling flouts due to asserted supply shortages – were avoidable because the power plant owners actually had enough capacity to supply the shortfalls.
		The crisis was finally remedied by the act of Congress that approved the Public Utilities Act of 1935.
		In California we have learned the lesson that the law and morality of the profiteers’ “marketplace” is that laws are made to be broken and that morality is not getting caught.
	www.uwua.org /wood_opening_remarks.htm (1649 words)

	Planet Ark : California Public Utilities Commission Allows Cost Recovery for Green Power Lines
		LOS ANGELES - Investor-owned electric utilities in California will be allowed to pass on to customers the costs of building lines to transmit renewable power from sources such as wind farms, the California Public Utilities Commission ruled Thursday.
		The Tehachapi area, with the potential for about 4,000 megawatts of wind power, is key for investor-owned utilities in California trying to meet a state requirement that renewable sources generate 20 percent of their power portfolio by 2010.
		Among investor-owned utilities in California are Pacific Gas & Electric Co, a subsidiary of PG&E, Southern California Edison, a subsidiary of Edison International, and San Diego Gas & Electric, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36854/story.htm (451 words)

	PUC places new lid on local utility stock dividends - California Public Utilities Commission Los Angeles Business ...
		The state Public Utilities Commission has clamped a new lid on dividends payable to shareholders of local utility stocks.
		Kotz had recommended the rates of return on equity for all California utilities be shaved 100 basis points, or one percentage point, from their 1993 levels.
		The electric utility had asked for the 1.25 percent increase in the equity factor (and decrease to debt), according to Helm.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_n50_v15/ai_14890187 (881 words)

	California Public Utilities Commission Approves BPL Regulations:
		While the Commission's BPL guidelines include a requirement to maintain the safety and reliability of the electric distribution system, the state agency has no jurisdiction over radio frequency interference, which received no mention in the PUC's news release.
		The policy the CPUC adopted April 27 stemmed from a draft developed by CPUC member Rachelle Chong, a former FCC commissioner.
		Ah-nuld, the governor of California, is a Republican.
	www.eham.net /articles/13746 (566 words)

	Clean California Update
		UCS staff and activists also played essential roles in the passage of new state and regional clean air regulations limiting diesel truck idling to five minutes and thus preventing tons of global warming emissions and air pollution from being emitted every year, and reducing development-related pollution in the Central Valley.
		This is the highest number of public comments the CPUC has ever received on a single issue, and it made a difference.
		On December 13, the CPUC expanded funding for solar incentives in 2006 to $300 million and released a proposal to create an 11-year, $3.2 billion incentive program for solar energy systems on California rooftops.
	www.ucsusa.org /clean_california/triannual-update-12-05.html (754 words)

	California Public Utilities Commission Approves New Transmission Line For San Mateo County
		Under the California Environmental Quality Act, the CPUC performed the environmental review for the project and decided on the route and design.
		Some 38 routes were examined by the CPUC, including evaluation of the legal, environmental and technical feasibility of routes.
		Planners had to contend with challenges posed by the San Andreas earthquake fault, a pristine watershed hosting rare and endangered plant and animal life that enjoy federal environmental protection, and a densely populated urban area whose demand for electricity continues to grow.
	www.pge.com /news/news_releases/q3_2004/040819.html (531 words)

	Proposed text for a letter to customers about the California Public Utilities Commission Order Instituting Rulemaking ...
		On June 27, 2002, the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) voted to adopt a draft order that institutes rules governing predictive dialing in California.
		The draft rules, and the Public Utilities Code section they implement, are somewhat ambiguous on the point of whether or not the new rules apply to calls made when a business relationship already exists between the caller and the called party.
		Calling lists should be divided, with calls into California specially handled in a separate job, so that dialer performance on calls with less stringent abandon rate needs will not be interfered with.
	www.mosaixusergroup.com /avya_Califrules.htm (2040 words)

	Technology Policy: Fatal Conceit at the California Public Utilities Commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Fatal Conceit at the California Public Utilities Commission
		After a year of heading in the right direction, the California Public Utilities Commission veered off course last week when Commissioner Dian Grueneich initiated a dangerous move towards old command-and-control regulation.
		Grueneich claimed to be staking out a middle ground in her alternate plan to Commissioner Michael Peevey's outline for a California Telecommunications Bill of Rights.
	www.pacificresearch.org /press/opd/2006/opd_06-02-03sa.html (648 words)

	Online NewsHour: Power Problems
		The critical issue here is that the utilities have to earn enough revenue to cover their costs going forward.
		TYSON SLOCUM: Public Citizen feels those rates should not have been raised, and we feel that deregulation is a failure because true competition can never occur in the utility industry.
		That the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission would grant some sort of relief by up imposing price caps, and the wholesale market to keep prices from going completely out of control, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has backed away from that and in fact has lifted the price caps that were in place.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/business/jan-june01/california_1-4_audio.html (1606 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Phase 1 issues were chosen so that the Commission can issue a timely decision, permitting the utilities to make necessary “critical path” modifications to their billing systems to meet the Commission’s January 1, 1999 target for the implementation of cost credits.
		Thus, the Commission will not be establishing a generic methodology not based upon features unique to any one utility, as is often the case in a ratesetting proceeding.
		Rather, it would be based upon the Commission’s general notion of what costs are saved when the utility stops performing services of a given variety, and how best to calculate the credits to reflect those savings.
	ora.ca.gov /wk-group/appeal.doc (1815 words)

	California Public Utilities
		Appliance Recycling Centers of America, Inc. (OTC BB: ARCI) today announced it has entered into a contract with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to operate a refrigerator/freezer/room air conditioner recycling program in San Diego and surrounding areas as well as a six-county region in California's Central Valley, including the cities of Fresno and Stockton.
		Administered by the CPUC and funded by recently enacted California legislation, this new energy conservation program is expected to reduce residential peak summer electricity demand by about 21 megawatts, the equivalent of a small power plant.
		Based on our previous work with Southern California Edison Company (SCE) and the Summer Initiative program, we believe the evidence is compelling that retiring working inefficient household appliances from service is a proven and cost-effective means for reducing residential energy demand and saving money for consumers.
	www.arcainc.com /html/california_public_utilities.html (741 words)

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