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Home My WebLink About2022-07-12; City Council Legislative Subcommittee; ; California Public Utilities Commission - Local Government Liaison UpdateCity Council Legislative Subcommittee Meeting Date: July 12, 2022 To: City Council Legislative Subcommittee From: Jason Haber, Intergovernmental Affairs Director Item 2: California Public Utilities Commission -Local Government Liaison Update Recommendation: Receive an informational update and overview of the California Public Utilities Commission's policy and regulatory work concerning the telecommunications, energy, transportation, and water industries, and provide feedback. Discussion: The California Public Utilities Commission's Local Government Liaison will provide an update and overview of recent and ongoing proceedings of the commission that are relevant to the city, including those related to: Exhibits: Summer Energy Reliability Community Choice Energy Net Energy Metering Water Reliability Railroads and Rail Transit Systems 1. California Public Utilities Commission Fact Sheet: What is the California Public Utilities Commission? 2. California Public Utilities Commission Brochure: A Century of Service to California July 12, 2022 Item #2 Page 1 of 5 The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) regulates services and utilities, protects consumers, safeguards the environment, and assures Californians' access to safe and reliable utility infrastructure and services. To learn more about the CPUC, please contact the News & Outreach Office at outreach@cpuc.ca.gov CaJifornia Public Utilities Commission ly 12, 2022 What is the California Public Utilities Commission? What Industries Does the CPUC Regulate? t ~ Energy -Electricity and Natural Gas The C PUC regulates investor-owned electric and natural gas utilities. The C PUC ensures the reliability and safety of electric and natural gas systems, and works co advance renewable energy and climate goals. Transportation -Rail and Passenger Carrier Safety "!be CPUC oversees the safety of railroads and rail transit systems, for-hire passenger carriers (limousines, airport shuttles, charter and scheduled bus operators) and Transportation Network Companies (Lyfc, Uber). Telecommunications The CPUC develops and implements policies for the telephone communications and broadband markets, including ensuring fair, affordable universal access co necessary services. Water The CPUC is responsible for ensuring chat investor-owned water utilities deliver clean, safe, and reliable water co their customers at reasonable rates. 505 Van Ness Ave. 415-703-2782 cpuc ca gov San Francisco, CA 94102 800-848-5580 (Toll Free/tern #0 C} ~tG ~ 0322 Staying Informed: Where Can I Find Information About CPUC Proceedings and Events? DOCKET CARD: www.cpuc.ca.gov/Docket Search for documents related to CPUC proceedings~ OPEN PROCEEDINGS: www.cpuc.ca.gov/proceedings-and- rulemaking Monthly updates of proceedings currently open at the CPUC. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE: subscribecpuc.cpuc.ca.gov Receive email notifications when documents such as press releases are published. Getting Involved: Does My Voice Matter to the CPUC? SERVICE LIST: www.cpuc.ca.gov/service-lists Receive ongoing communication about a specific proceeding. DAILY CALENDAR: www.cpuc.ca.gov/DailyCalendar Follow hearings, meetings, workshops, and how to access CPUC events remotely. MONTHLY NEWSLETTER: www.cpuc.ca.gov/newsletter Subscribe to receive our newsletter by email, or read it online. Yes, your voice matters! We want to hear from you to help us make decisions chat reflect all Californians' concerns and perspectives. • Comment on an Issue: You can make comments on proceedings on the Docket Card at www.cpuc.ca.gov/Docket, where you can also read the comments of ochers. You can also give oral comments at Public Participation Hearings and at ocher CPUC meetings that have designated public comment sessions, or email us at public.advisor@cpuc.ca.gov. • Become a Party: You can become a party to a CPUC proceeding to participate formally in the decision-making process. For more information, contact the Public Advisor's Office: '.'o) VISIT: www.cpuc.ca.gov/pao C\ CALL: 866-849-8390 EMAi L: public.advisor@cpuc.ca.gov How Can the CPUC Help Me Resolve My Issues? Our Consumer Affairs Branch (CAB) can help if you have a problem with your utility bill or service that you are unable to solve direccly with your utility company. You can contact CAB in three different ways: '§> CALL: 800-649-7570 ~ FILE a complaint online: www.cpuc.ca.gov/complaints July 12, 2022 i§ WRITE a letter to: CPUC Consumer Affairs Branch 505 Van Ness Ave. San Francisco, CA 94102 How Does the CPUC Work with and for Communities? The CPUC has several programs to reach different people and groups so that we can meaningfully involve chem in CPUC proceedings and decision-making. Our Consumer Affairs Branch helps resolve disputes between customers and their utility company. Our Public Advisor's Office provides information, advice, and assistance to individuals and groups who want co participate in CPUC proceedings. Our Business and Community Outreach Office builds relationships with community organizations and local governments, working to keep chem informed and involved with CPUC programs and policymaking. Our Small Business Program gives small businesses opportunities to contract with the state and utility companies, and keeps them informed about important issues and policy. Our Supplier Diversity Program successfully encourages utilities to spend more than 20 percent of their contracts to business owned by women, minority, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT), and disabled veterans. Our Low Income Oversight Board helps ensure the CPUC and utility companies serve low income customers with helpful programs and partnerships. Our Disadvantaged Community Advisory Group advises the CPUC and our partners at the California Energy Commission on issues related to environmental justice and social equity. Our Telecommunications Access for the Deaf and Disabled Administrative Committee advises the CPUC about the provision of telecommunications equipment and relay services for persons with functional limitations of hearing, vision, movement, manipulation, speech, cognition, and interpretation of information. California Public Utilities Commission em #2 Page 3 of 5 The Mission of the CPUC: California's economy depends on the infrastructure the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and utilities provide. For more than 100 years. the CPUC has wor.::ed to protect consumers and ensure the provision of safe. reiable utmty service and infrastructure at reasonable rates. with a commitment to environmental enhancement and a healthy California economy. This includes essential services such as electric. natural gas. water, and telecommunications infrastructure; railroads. rail crossings, and fight roil transit systems; passenger carriers. such as limousines, charier buses. and ferries; and household moving companies. July 12, 2022 ---- J The CPU C's vast responslblllttes Include: • Ensuring that regulated services are defivered in a safe. refiable manner, including conducting investigations. inspections. and audits. • Implementing aggressive renewable energy and energy efficiency goals and advancing climate strategies. • Developing and implementing policies for the rapidly changing communications and broadband markets. including ensuring fair. affordable universal access to necessary services. protecting against fraud, and removing barriers that prevent a fully competitive mar.::et. • Safety jurisdiction over the rail system. including freight railroads. inter-city passenger railroads, commuter railroads. and rail transit systems. • Licensing. insurance. and consumer protection oversight of moving companies and passenger carriers. • Ensuring that California's investor-owned water utilities deiver clean. safe. and refioble water to their customers at reasonable rates. Learn more on the CPUC's website The CPUC's website. www.cpuc.ca.gov, offers a daily calendar that lists CPUC hearings, wor.::shops, and events; offers consumer brochures and reports on the status of programs such as renewable energy and energy efficiency; and has downloadable fact sheets on CPUC consumer programs and issues. There is also a Hot Topics section; remote access to CPUC hearings; and a Practitioner's page designed to put useful information for both new and veteran practitioners in one place for easy access. California Public Utilities Commission A Century of Service to California What We Do and How You Can Get Involved Working For You: Commissioners & Staff The Governor appoints five Commissioners for six-year terms to the CPUC and designates one as President. Commissioners make all policy decisions. usually meeting twice a month to vote on issues noted on a pubic agenda. In order lo fulfill ifs role in overseeing services that are essential to the ives of Californians. the CPUC employs a dedicated staff of analysts. economists. engineers, Administrative Law Judges. accountants. lawyers. safely experts. transportation speciafisls. and other professionals. II also has a Division of Ratepayer Advocates. an independent entity that represents consumers in CPUC proceedings. Follow a Proceeding or Receive Documents ~ • The CPUC has a free onfine Subscription Service that provides the pubfic the ability to subscribe lo documents published on the CPUC's website that are associated with formal proceedings. items the Commissioners will vote on. press releases. and more. The Subscription Service sends subscribers an email notification when any document meeting their subscription criteria is published on the CPUC's website. Sign up at www.cpuc.ca.gov/subscriplion. Ask a Question or File a Complaint About Your Utility Bill or Service Contact the CPUC's Consumer Affairs Branch. which assists consumers who have questions about rates or services regarding electric. gas. telephone. or waler utifities, and assists consumers who are unable to resolve an issue with their utility company. Call: 800-649-7570 Visit: www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/CEC/e_complalnt/ Write: CPUC Consumer Affairs Branch. 505 Van Ness Ave .. San Francisco. CA 94102 File a Complaint about a Limo, Airport Shuttle Bus, or a Moving Company Contact the CPUC's Transportation Enforcement Section to file a complaint about passenger carriers or household moving companies. Passenger carriers: 1-800-894-9444; Household moving companies: 1 ·800-366-4782 Email: ciu_inlake@cpuc.ca.gov Write: CPUC Complaint Intake Unit - Transportation Enforcement Section. Safely and Enforcement Division. 505 Von Ness Ave .• San Francisc o, CA 94102 Comment on CPUC Proceedings or Policy Issues ({jn} Contact the CPUC's Public Advisor's Office if you wont lo provide your views (considered "informal comments") on CPUC proceedings or policy issues. Written informal comments sent ttvough email or Postal Service ore the most effective way to thoroughly and accurately communicate your views. Those comments ore given lo the CPUC's Commissioners and Administrative Law Judges. Verbal informal comments con be mode al Public Participation Hearings. during the pubfic comment session of CPUC Voting Meetings. and in other CPUC forums that have designated public comment sessions. The Pubic Advisor's Office also provides information and advice to individuals and groups who wont lo learn more about formally participating in CPUC proceedings by becoming an intervenor. Call: 866-849-8390 or 415-703-2074 Email: public.advisor@cpuc.ca.gov Write: CPUC Pubfic Advisor's Office, 505 Von Ness Ave .. Room 2103. San Francisco. CA 94102 Visit: www.cpuc.ca.gov/PPH Reaching Out to Consumers The CPUC reaches out lo consumers lo help with utility issues and to encourage interest and participation in CPUC proceedings. To better reach and assist consumers. the CPUC's actions include: • Holding Pubfic Participation Hearings. meetings. workshops, and other events throughout the slate on issues important lo consumers, such as managing energy bills, obtaining utility contracts for small businesses. and utility rates. • Utifizing speaking engagements and community and local government partnerships to promote the CPUC's programs and poficies. • Establishing a call center lo help answer questions about utility service and bills and resolve disputes. • Establishing a Public Advisor's Office lo provide procedural information, advice. and assistance to individuals and groups who wont to participate in CPUC proceedings. • Establishing a team of statewide Outreach Officers to provide assistance and information on consumer programs and services and CPUC policies to members of the community, local and state government offices. legislative offices. and non-profits (www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/aboutus/ biz_community.hlm). • Creating a Small Business Program lo promote procurement opportunities with the slate and uliilies and provide education on issues impacting the small business community ( 1-800-253-0500, smallblz@cpuc.ca.gov). • Creating a Supplier Diversity Program to promote and monitor supplier diversity in procurement by u1ilities and overseeing a certification clearinghouse (wmdvbe@cpuc.ca.gov). California Public Utilities Commission CPUC Update 1 City of Carlsbad Legislative Committee July 12, 2022 Jesus Torres California Public Utilities Commission California Public Utilities Commission Brief Introduction 2 •Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Los Angeles and Sacramento •Meet publicly at least once a month to decide on important policies, such as energy rates and procurement, renewable energy goals, and improvements to infrastructure Alice Reynolds, Chair Clifford Rechtschaffen Genevieve Shiroma Darcie L. Houck John Reynolds California Public Utilities Commission Regulated Industries 3 Oversee electric utilities to ensure safety, reliability, and affordability. Consumer protection and public programs for telecommunication companies and broadband expansion initiatives Oversee safety enforcement of rail companies and rail crossings infrastructure. Consumer safety of public transit and independent transportation companies like limousines, shuttles, and Uber/Lyft. etc. Oversee water service quality issues and process utility rate change requests for companies like California-American Water Company Oversee gas utilities to ensure safety, reliability, and affordability. Electrical EnergY-Internet and Phone Natural Gas Rail SafetY. TransP-ortation Water California Public Utilities Commission Issues of Interest -Community Choice Aggregation 4 •Certify Implementation Plans •Authorize Non-Bypassable Charges such as Public Purpose fees. Sets the Power Charge Indifference Adjustment (PCIA) to assure bundled customer indifference •Adjudicate complaints via expedited complaint process established in the CCA Code of Conduct •Authorizes CCA energy efficiency program funding •Accepts Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) plans •Administer Resource Adequacy requirements •Oversee Supplier Diversity procurement goals CPUC’s Jurisdiction over CCA’s (not an exhaustive list) California Public Utilities Commission 5 Issues of Interest –Net Energy Metering 3.0 •A Proposed Decision was issued in December 2021 that proposes to replace the NEM 2.0 tariff with a successor tariff called the “Net Billing Tariff.” •The Net Billing Tariff would apply to future residential and non-residential customers that interconnect an on-site renewable energy system in PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E territories. •In Fenruary 2022, the Administrative Law Judge for the proceeding sent an email to the parties saying that the Proposed Decision will not appear on a CPUC's Voting Meeting agenda until further notice. •On May 9, 2022, the Administrative Law Judge issued a Ruling to take comment on several issues: 1. Glide path approach (tariff transition from NEM 2.0 to 3.0) 2.Non-bypassable charges on gross consumption 3.Community distributed energy resources California Public Utilities Commission 6 Issues of Interest –Summer Reliability A C B D Energy Efficiency Energy Efficiency programs, Energy Upgrade California Battery Storage Over 4,000 MW of additional battery storage in the last 18 months Demand Response Emergency Load Reduction Program (ELRP), Load Shifting Additional Capacity CPUC ordered 11GW of additional capacity A Layered Approach to Grid Reliability •· ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ • ■ ■ •••••••••••••• •············ •········ California Public Utilities Commission 7 ▪Educate small business owners on utility supplier diversity program and the State’s small business procurement policy SMALL BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT ▪Listen and understanding local customers’ issues and concerns and voicing them to the CPUC. UNDERSTAND LOCAL ISSUES ▪Local resource for CBOs, public safety, emergency preparedness personnel, small businesses, and local governments LOCAL RESOURCE ASSIST WITH LOCAL ISSUES INFORM EDUCATE ▪Issues with local utility service ▪Rail safety/crossings ▪Grant programs ▪Energy Efficiency programs •Public programs, bill assistance •Filing Complaints •Utility related scams/ fraud ▪Encourage public participation in CPUC decision making process Assisting Local Communities ~