SF Chronicle: Court sides with S.F. in its claim that onerous PG&E requirements hold up projects
Bob Egelko | January 26, 2022
San Francisco has taken a step forward in a legal battle with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. over the city’s claim that the utility has forced numerous projects — schools, libraries, recreational and housing developments — to obtain huge and costly equipment to handle unneeded amounts of electricity.
The city claims PG&E has required new or renovated projects in San Francisco to acquire such equipment, increasing their costs and delaying their reopening, unless they decide to obtain electricity directly from the utility rather than from San Francisco’s Public Utilities Commission. The SFPUC owns the rights to power generated from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Tuolumne County, but uses PG&E lines for distribution to customers in the city.
San Francisco Does its Due Diligence in Fight for Public Power
January 5, 2022
The City of San Francisco continues to move forward with its efforts to purchase the local electric grid and expand its public power service. The most recent action is public review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) related to the proposed acquisition of PG&E’s local grid infrastructure.
What San Francisco is doing next in its transition to public power
January 5, 2022
The City of San Francisco has continued to move diligently forward with its transition to public power since making its initial offer to purchase PG&E’s local electric grid in 2019. The latest step is the City’s initiation of public review of the acquisition under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Read more about this process and how it fits into the City’s steady progress toward owning and operating our local power system.