Shasta County
What your local boards and councils decided, from their own agendas and minutes.
The four-year EPIC project will coordinate batteries, EV chargers and solar to test distribution-grid services in disadvantaged communities.
A BoxPower project at the Colusa Indian Community reservation would pair a flexible-interconnection controller with a 400-kilowatt/1.3-megawatt-hour battery and measure whether grid controls can support housing expansion without conventional upgrades.
The 4-0 action will fund 10 DC fast-charging ports and 22 Level 2 ports at LA Metro’s Division 10 and Division 18 facilities.
The 4-0 action replaces a 2005 agreement and its 2010 update, creating a formal channel for compliance information, complaint investigations and enforcement support without committing new funds.
The grant will support Level 2 charging ports on existing city light posts and public streets, but the state packet does not identify installation sites or a schedule.
At a legislative hearing, auditors said the county documented reviews of fewer than half of landfill air-quality reports and took 657 days to direct relocation assistance, compared with 22 days after the Aliso Canyon gas leak.
At the creative-economy committee’s first hearing, Mary Alabanza said AB 2319 created California’s first standalone post-production incentive but received a tenth of the funding sought by advocates.
PG&E, Southern California Edison and SDG&E must form a working group and file a joint application within 12 months under a decision approved in Rulemaking 21-06-017.
At an Assembly hearing, testimony put competing estimates on how eliminating or capping insurer recovery from utilities could shift wildfire costs between homeowners, utilities and ratepayers.
At an Oct. 27 Assembly hearing, the company urged changes to SB 53 that would address emergency controls, cyber-incident disclosures and independent testing. No committee vote was documented.
At a California legislative hearing, a PG&E executive said wildfire-related borrowing premiums are also projected to add $4.1 billion in interest over the life of bonds issued since 2017.
The commission voted 5-0 to grant roughly two-thirds of SoCalGas’ $173.8 million request for 2019-23 Transmission Integrity Management Program expenses.
The company said three incidents were reported in July and a fourth was found later, but the hearing record does not identify affected systems or any resulting harm.
The State Personnel Board submitted the dispute over CCHCS registry staffing and personal-services contracts for a later decision after a Sept. 14 hearing.
The California Department of Water Resources says the resources are normally offline and would be activated only when needed; the agency expects to provide its next quarterly update in early 2027.
The proposed EPIC-funded project would test whether stored electricity can provide process heat at Pacific Coast Producers’ tomato-processing facility, with results subject to independent measurement.
The proposed Highland Electric Fleets agreement would fund at least 119 fast-charging ports across four named school districts and an unidentified site, but the packet does not show a final vote.
The project will add 32 60-kilowatt fast-charging ports at the Newman Nutrition Center, including 16 capable of sending power back to the grid.
State officials reported $271 million in EV incentive funding, nearly 12,000 My First EV incentives and a revised 2030 need for 614,000 public and multifamily charging points.
The presentation says seven utilities had procurement-target deficits, but it does not identify the utilities or document a final commission vote.
At a legislative hearing, a CARB official said the agency is examining indirect-source rules and other strategies while defending oversight of its heavy-duty incentive program.
The proposed EPIC grant to DER Security Corp. would test utility-connected residential and commercial energy resources, cybersecurity and community-informed grid services.
The CPUC approved three no-copay wireless plans with up to 20 gigabytes of data while reducing activation reimbursement to $15 per participant per year.
The commission added 47 areas covering about 208 square miles and denied SCE’s request to remove 61 areas, citing an insufficient record that wildfire risk had declined.
