January 17, 2023

San Francisco is progressing in its fight to achieve full public power for all residents and businesses by acquiring PG&E’s electric grid in the City.

San Francisco recently filed a legal brief outlining the City’s position for how state regulators should determine a fair price for PG&E’s electric grid that serves San Francisco. The City is asking the California Public Utilities Commission to provide an independent appraisal of PG&E’s electric assets in the City – a process known as a valuation proceeding – so that the City can buy that portion of PG&E’s grid and provide the benefits of full public power to its residents and businesses.

January 6, 2023

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) once again ruled against PG&E in San Francisco’s ongoing fight for public power.

This particular dispute centered around PG&E’s demand that San Francisco provide power to customers at unnecessarily high voltage levels – known as primary service – even though the customers are only using relatively small amounts of electricity. Forcing these small customers to receive primary service requires the installation of bulky, expensive equipment that is not needed for safety or any other purpose. For years, San Francisco has been safely and reliably providing electric service to these customers at the lower level know as secondary service.

December 1, 2022

The City of Rocklin is writing in support of the City and County of San Francisco’s petition asking the California Public Utilities Commission to set a price for Pacific Gas & Electric’s assets in the City of San Francisco to facilitate their move to an electric utility that will be publicly owned.

October 21, 2022

City Attorney David Chiu and San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) General Manager Dennis Herrera released the following statements after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an order in line with a January 2022 D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in the City’s favor. The decision diminishes PG&E’s attempts to obstruct the City’s public power efforts and ensures that the City can continue to provide public power to broad categories of municipal customers that it has been serving since 1992. The types of municipal customers that were grandfathered in include City departments and agencies as well as related entities that serve a civic purpose like schools, museums, and public housing

March 9, 2022

Our relationship with PG&E is way past its expiration date, and the corporation needs to finally call it quits. San Francisco is tired of accepting an unreliable company with a history surrounded by bankruptcies, federal investigations, and overcharging customers. Public power is already proven to be a safe, reliable, affordable, and sustainable electrical service—and San Francisco is ready.

In an Op-Ed in the Sacramento Bee, California State Senators Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) tell the truth: It’s time we say goodbye to PG&E and hello to public power.