Encanto Gas Holder Entries for October, 2010

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Homelessness: A Modest Proposal

As a service to the community and hopefully at relatively low cost, could it be possible that the Board of ...

UFO Sighted In Encantostan

The recent wet weather in San Diego has caused new plants to germinate. Everything is green now, and the species-specific ...

Larry Stirling: Adult Supervision Required at City Hall

Larry Stirling, former San Diego city council member and retired judge, had an opinion printed in this morning's Union-Tribune, strongly ...

An Early Holiday Season Arrives With Unlimited CCDC Bailout

Senate Bill 863 removes the tax increment cap on what the Centre City Development Corporation can take away from the ...

Intervenor to be Squelched in SDG&E/IOU WEBA Case?

San Diego Gas and Electric Company has filed a response to Ruth Henrick's motion for intervenor compensation from participating in ...

SDG&E Executive Conflict of Interest Prompts Payment Return by Roberts Campaign

Keegan Kyle at voiceofsandiego.org reported yesterday (October 25) that an executive of San Diego Gas and Electric Company received his ...

Keeping Southwestern College Credits If Accreditation Is Lost

Southwestern College is now on a 5-month clock to losing its accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges ...

More SDG&E Energy Rebates Coming?

Word in the power industry has it that there is a glut of natural gas in the nation's supply system. ...

CPUC Grants San Diego City and County Party Status in SDG&E/IOU WEBA Proceeding

The City of San Diego and the County of San Diego were granted party status in the state power regulator ...

Jerry Sanders as a Time "Intelligent Cities" Leader

As San Diego prepares for the half-cent sales tax hike Battle of the Millennium in the next two weeks, Bruce ...

Ramona Sentinel Publishes SDG&E Comments on WEBA Opposition

Rose Marie Scott-Blair at The Ramona Sentinel reported comments by San Diego Gas and Electric spokesperson Stephanie Donovan regarding protests ...

SDG&E Leading Nation in Smart Grid Rollout, Like It or Not

In the future, we will all get more than power for paying our monthly electrical bill. We will also be ...

SDG&E Monthly Bills Confusing San Diegans?

Early poll results for U-T website visitors today show about 60% of SDG&E bill payers cannot figure out exactly what ...

Erroneous SDG&E/IOU WEBA Assumptions – Part II

In their amended A0908020 application to bill power customers for uninsured wildfire legal and other liabilities, the investor owned utilities ...

Recent Political Popularity of Closed Door Negotiations

Closed door negotiations have made an apparently popular comeback in California. Forget about governments operating in sunshine under open meeting ...

PG&E Benefits from Massive Sempra Generation Arizona Solar Farm

Onell Soto reported this morning (October 14) that Sempra Generation, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, has agreed to sell the ...

Erroneous SDG&E/IOU WEBA Assumption – Part I

After comments and protests were received by California's Public Utilities Commission following the filing of an amended A0908020 application by ...

Planning for Association of Residential Electricity Cooperatives

Related to comments received earlier, I will be exploring the concept of San Diego residents starting up their own backyard ...

Did Mayor's Blessing Give Away the Proposed Sales Tax Increase Revenue to CCDC?

From last week's announcement of a Sacramento legislative budget deal that included a tax increment cap increase to the Centre ...

Many Opponents to new SDG&E/IOU Proposed WEBA Liability Limit

The recently amended A0908020 application by San Diego Gas and Electric Company and two other California investor owned utilities (IOUs ...

Post-Crash Summation and the San Diego City Council Session on Debt Servicing

The October 11 City Council agenda includes an informational item on council member training in debt servicing. Fitch Ratings will ...

San Diegans' Self-Preservation by Keeping an Eye on Council Members

The main way that the people of San Diego will be able to climb out of this economic recession-like trough ...

Scoping Memo Issued in SDG&E PSW/PSW Rate Hike Proposal at CPUC

California Public Utilities Commissioner Nancy E. Ryan issued the scoping memorandum at the end of September for San Diego Gas ...

Sempra Energy Stock Buyback from RBS Sempra Commodities Asset Sale

Sempra Energy's recent stock buyback announcement in September appears to be consistent with earlier corporate comments of a renewed focus ...