California
California should take over utilities that have failed to prevent their equipment from causing huge wildfires, says former top regulator Loretta Lynch.
Dec. 2, 2019
Business
Energy: Federal panel says electricity crisis is product of flaws in deregulation, but it stops short of ordering reductions in sky-high prices.
Nov. 2, 2000
California’s public utilities regulators voted unanimously to allow increased storage of natural gas at the troubled Aliso Canyon facility near Porter Ranch that was the site of the nation’s worst gas blowout in 2015.
Nov. 5, 2021
Deregulation: No increase was to be allowed this soon, but Edison warns it is on brink of bankruptcy. Critics decry ‘ratepayer bailout.’ L.A., some other areas unaffected.
Dec. 20, 2000
Politics
Power: Davis implies that federal commission is too ideological. Its approval is needed if California is to purchase the electricity-transmission grid.
Feb. 28, 2001
If long-term electricity contracts at fixed prices are a path out of the power crisis that the state’s two major utilities say nearly bankrupted them, then why didn’t those utilities take that route months or years ago?
Feb. 5, 2001
What happens if the state’s two largest electric utilities seek bankruptcy protection?
Jan. 3, 2001
In less than a decade, the impeccably conservative Republicans of the California Public Utilities Commission have unleashed the most far-reaching deregulation of telecommunications, natural gas--and now electric utilities--undertaken by any state or nation.
May 8, 1994
The California Public Utilities Commission said Wednesday that it will allow competition to determine which proposed pipelines will bring clean-burning natural gas to California from out of state, rather than making the choice itself.
Feb. 8, 1990
Utilities: A jump in profits is forecast for firms that provide the state’s energy. Davis seeks advice from Greenspan.
Dec. 27, 2000