Our Work
Advocating Throughout California
PCF focuses on clean energy advocacy in Southern California. It represents residential ratepayer before the California Public Utilities Commission, holds state agencies and other government entities accountable through court actions, and provides local educational outreach throughout San Diego County.
Administrative Advocacy
Intervening in proceedings before the Public Utilities Commission
Making public comments and engaging in proceedings before state and federal government bodies
Litigation
Suing in state and federal court
Working in coalition with non-profits and community organizations to stop destructive, unneeded projects and encourage improvements in the law
Local Advocacy
Supporting the efforts of other non-profits at the CPUC and in the courts
Providing expertise in energy regulation
Current CPUC Proceeding Work
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Integrated Resource Plan (IRP)
Number: R.20-05-003
This proceeding considers all of the Commission’s electric procurement policies and programs and ensures California has a safe, reliable, and cost-effective electricity supply. It will implement a process for integrated resource planning that will ensure that load serving entities (LSEs) meet targets that allow the electricity sector to contribute to California’s economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions reductions goals.
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Resource Adequacy (RA old)
Number: R.19-11-009
This proceeding ensures the reliability of electric service in California. The CPUC established RA obligations applicable to all Load Serving Entities (LSEs) within the CPUC’s jurisdiction, including investor-owned utilities, energy service providers, and community choice aggregators. The Commission’s RA policy framework guides resource procurement and promotes infrastructure investment by requiring that LSEs procure capacity so that capacity is available to the CAISO when and where needed.
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Resource Adequacy (RA new)
Number: R.21-10-002
This proceeding ensures the reliability of electric service in California. The CPUC established RA obligations applicable to all Load Serving Entities (LSEs) within the CPUC’s jurisdiction, including investor-owned utilities, energy service providers, and community choice aggregators. The Commission’s RA policy framework guides resource procurement and promotes infrastructure investment by requiring that LSEs procure capacity so that capacity is available to the CAISO when and where needed.
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Net Energy Metering (NEM
Number: R.20-08-020
This proceeding will establish the next NEM tariff. NEM allows customers who generate their own energy ("customer-generators") to serve their energy needs directly on site and to receive financial credit on their electric bills for any surplus energy fed back to their utility.
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Aliso Canyon Investigation
Number: I.17-02-002
Description: This investigation proceeding will determine the feasibility of minimizing or eliminating the use of Southern California Gas Company’s Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage Facility while still maintaining energy and electric reliability for the Los Angeles region.
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Cost of Capital
Number: A.21-08-013
This proceeding establishes the ratemaking cost of capital including authorized costs of long-term debt, costs of common equity, costs of preferred equity, and authorized rates of return.
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Extreme Weather
Number: R.20-11-003
The Commission launched this proceeding to secure the short-term reliability of the electricity grid by reviewing the need for additional electricity generation resources.
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High Distributed Energy Resources Future
Number: R.21-06-017
This proceeding attempts to prepare the electric grid for a high number of distributed energy resources, including those specific to transportation electrification and as defined in Assembly Bill 327 and Public Utilities Code Section 769.
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Risk-Based Decision-Making Framework for Electric and Gas Utilities
Number: R.20-07-013
This proceeding considers ways to strengthen the risk-based decision-making framework that regulated energy utilities use to assess, manage, mitigate, and minimize safety risks. This rulemaking builds on requirements for a utility risk framework adopted in the first Safety Model Assessment Proceeding (first SMAP), Application 15-05-002 et al, and in Rulemaking 13-11-006, the Risk-Based Decision-Making proceeding.
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Risk Assessment Mitigation Phase (RAMP)
Number: A.21-05-011
This proceeding is the second of two-step procedures, the first being a Safety Model Assessment Proceeding (S-MAP), that the CPUC adopted to incorporate a risk-based decision framework (RDF) to evaluate the safety and reliability improvements in the large utilities General Rate Case (GRC) applications, in which the utilities request funding for such safety-related activities. RAMP applications provide an opportunity for the Commission to verify that each utility has appropriately used the RDF adopted in the first S-MAP.
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De-energization
Number: R.18-12-005
This proceeding reviews and sets the parameters under which utilities may proactively cut power to electrical lines that may fail in certain weather conditions. Such power cuts reduce the risk of their infrastructure to cause or contribute to a wildfire. This effort is called a Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS). De-energization can leave communities and essential facilities without power, which brings its own risks and hardships, particularly for vulnerable communities and individuals.