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.