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