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Author: a2zresource
Blog Creation Date: June 24, 2008
Entries: 242
Entries
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Imperial Valley Solar Project DOA As SDG&E Power Source?
By a2zresource — December 30, 2010, 11:27 a.m.
Southern Cal Edison Pulls Out Of Sister Solar Project Tessera Solar's Calico Solar project has been sold to K Road Sun after Southern California Edison announced that it was pulling out of the 663-megawatt San Bernardino sterling engine site. The project is a companion to Tessera Solar's 709-megawatt Imperial Valley ... Post a comment
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CCDC Paying For Convention Center Development A Wise Move? You Bet!
By a2zresource — December 23, 2010, 11:06 a.m.
Recent statements by a majority of San Diego city council members indicate that there should be a transfer of payment responsibility for prior Convention Center redevelopments to the downtown redevelopment agency Centre City Development Corporation. The move could decrease the City's annual budget operating deficit by a little over $9 ... 10 comments
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An Electric Franchise Fee Proposal RE SDG&E Executive Hiring Of Former State Power Regulators
By a2zresource — December 21, 2010, 4:19 p.m.
The following is a proposal to amend the City of San Diego Electric Franchise ordinance, adding one percent to the annual franchise fee paid by San Diego Gas & Electric Company to the City of San Diego for each SDG&E executive who has been a state power regulator at California's ... Post a comment
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SDG&E, Other Power Utilities Closer To Billing Consumers For AB 32 Green House Gas Fees
By a2zresource — December 20, 2010, 10:35 a.m.
California's Public Utilities Commission has granted permission for San Diego Gas and Electric Company, Southern California Edison Company and Pacific Gas and Electric Company to track their AB 32 green house gas emission fees in memorandum accounts. Each utility's account may be used in later CPUC proceedings to pass on ... Post a comment
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CPUC: PG&E Smart Meters Stay Installed
By a2zresource — December 19, 2010, 9:57 p.m.
California's Public Utilities Commission has denied the City and County of San Francisco (CCSF) attempt to halt Pacific Gas and Electric Company's installation of smart meters in the PG&E service area. According to CPUC, "CCSF has not provided new facts that would warrant the suspension of PG&E's SmartMeter program. Issues ... 9 comments
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CPUC: SDG&E Z-Factor Wildfire Insurance Problem Solved At $29 Million
By a2zresource — December 18, 2010, 10:23 a.m.
Onell Soto reports this morning that California's Public Utilities Commission approved SDG&E's A0908019 Z-Factor request for a $29 million rate hike to cover its increased wildfire insurance needs. The SDG&E request was initially designated as "Z-Factor" on SDG&E's claim that it was surprised by insurers demanding higher payments after the ... 15 comments
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Feds Propose Future Guidance For SDG&E, Other Utility Solar Farm Sites
By a2zresource — December 17, 2010, 3:32 p.m.
Starting with recommendations from the Bureau of Land Management, the Obama administration's Energy and Interior Departments have opened up a 90-day comment period on new guidelines for locating solar farms in the future. The guidelines will cover sites in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, involving more than ... Post a comment
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County Law Library Closing For Renovations
By a2zresource — December 17, 2010, 7:03 a.m.
There are only two weeks left before the main branch of the San Diego County Public Law Library at 1105 Front Street closes to start renovations in early 2011. The closure is scheduled to last at least four months while the five decade old facility undergoes a major $3.2 million ... 2 comments
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SDG&E GRC Wildfire Rate Hike Finally Filed With CPUC
By a2zresource — December 16, 2010, 9:42 a.m.
*North County Times* reports that San Diego Gas and Electric Company has finally filed its general rate case (GRC) to California's Public Utilities Commission that was first hinted at back in August. SDG&E's A1012005 GRC requests a 7.5 percent rate hike for wildfire expenses that are already subject to several ... Post a comment
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BP Sued By Obama Administration, With Sempra Implications?
By a2zresource — December 15, 2010, 9:08 p.m.
Federal officials in the Justice Department announced today that BP and several contractors have been sued under the Clean Water Act and other statutes for the cost of Gulf of Mexico cleanup operations. The Gulf disaster response was required after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank, killing 11 ... 1 comment
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A Free Energy-Saving Analysis for SDG&E Customers, Part I
By a2zresource — December 15, 2010, 11:01 a.m.
Are you concerned about rising utility bills this year because you might be using too much power from SDG&E? SDG&E thinks you use too much power. Attorneys for SDG&E have already testified to California's Public Utilities Commission that if you are a small business or residential customer, then yes, you ... 2 comments
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Consumer Federation Slams Utilities on Smart Meter Privacy Position
By a2zresource — December 14, 2010, 9:33 a.m.
In its recent regulatory filing, the Consumer Federation of California (CFC) attacks the arguments of investor owned utilities (referred to as IOUs by state regulators) seeking to avoid regulatory liability for abuses of private consumer data taken from smart meters by non-utility third parties. San Diego Gas and Electric Company ... Post a comment
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Regulatory Smart Meter Security Leak?
By a2zresource — December 13, 2010, 7:27 a.m.
Utilities Oppose CPUC Jurisdiction Over 3rd Party Data Collectors San Diego Gas and Electric Company and other California investor owned utilities have come down against California's Public Utilities Commission having any say over third party users of private consumer information gathered from smart meters. Currently, several non-utility firms are expected ... Post a comment
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City Demurrer No Good, Must Answer Kessler Amended Complaint
By a2zresource — December 12, 2010, 2:45 a.m.
The City of San Diego demurrer to Scott Kessler's most recent amended complaint was unpersuasive in Court on December 10. The City of San Diego was ordered to file its legal answer to the allegations in that *Kessler v. City of San Diego* complaint by December 30. Plaintiff Scott Kessler ... 4 comments
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If San Diego Needs More Electricity, then Sempra Sells It... To Canada?
By a2zresource — December 8, 2010, 1:36 p.m.
Despite a documented need for more electricity that led San Diego Gas and Electric Company to demand approval for the Sunrise Powerlink project, a major component of SDG&E's holding company Sempra Energy (SRE) has moved to resume sales of electricity not to SDG&E but to Canada. Sempra Energy Trading (SET) ... 1 comment
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On "Jacob Calls For Investigation Of Sempra"
By a2zresource — December 7, 2010, 11:49 p.m.
Jeff McDonald reports through our daily paper that County Supervisor Dianne Jacob will ask for state and federal investigations of Sempra Energy, prompted by allegations that Sempra Energy bribed Mexican officials involved in the Energia Costa Azul natural gas project in Baja California. In a later report by 10news.com, "Sempra ... 3 comments
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Lower Wholesale Energy Costs To SDG&E Mean Higher Consumer Power Prices For Small Businesses and Residents
By a2zresource — December 6, 2010, 12:42 p.m.
An interesting comment appeared in an Onell Soto article about San Diego Gas and Electric Company and SDG&E's Sunrise Powerlink transmission line this past weekend as work is set to begin on that often-opposed project. According to Soto, “SDG&E says it needs the $1.9 billion [Sunrise Powerlink] line to bring ... Post a comment
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SDG&E Gets CPUC Rejection of Minimal Third-Party Smart Meter Audit Standards
By a2zresource — December 4, 2010, 4:26 p.m.
California's Public Utilities Commission has rejected the Certichron, Inc. petition P1007015 for CPUC to adopt minimum standards for smart meter vendors to create records that are admissible as evidence in state and federal court systems. San Diego Gas and Electric Company and Southern California Edison component Southern California Gas Company ... 2 comments
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SDG&E Solar Projects: More Generating Capacity Implies Higher Prices?
By a2zresource — December 3, 2010, 8:38 a.m.
Onell Soto has provided a full-page article in our diminutive daily paper entitled “Big Solar Projects Bloom In The Desert,” describing nearly a dozen alternative energy developments now breaking ground in the Imperial Valley and throughout Southern California. While such projects will help to improve San Diego Gas and Electric ... Post a comment
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Further Scheduling Changes in SDG&E PeakShift A1007009 Proceeding
By a2zresource — December 1, 2010, 11:18 a.m.
Administrative Law Judge Jessica Hecht has ordered the following changes in San Diego Gas and Electric Company's PeakShift at Work/ PeakShift at Home rate hike application A1007009 proceeding before California's Public Utilities Commission. Written testimony due from CPUC's Division of Ratepayer Advocates and other intervening parties is delayed from January ... Post a comment
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