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Opposing WEBA Parties File Motion to Delay Prehearing Conference
Absence of Timely Amended Application by SDG&E;, Other Utilities at Issue The Disability Rights Activists have joined with the California Public Utilities Commission's Division of Ratepayer Advocates (CPUC DRA) and Consumer Safety and Protection Division (CPUC CSPD), and The Utility …
Maloni on Voting as Legalized Gambling on Redevelopment Projects
Scott Maloni informed us in the media over the weekend that downtown San Diego provides us with $60 million annually in tax revenues that are used for public safety and community services throughout the City of San Diego. If only …
Connect the Dots 20100802
The Fix San Diego Politicians, Developers, and People Reporting to Public Utility Shareholders are in In a strange twist of political fate along a long local strand with no end in sight, Mayor Jerry Sanders last week vetoed a public …
Motion for WEBA Protest at Issue before CPUC
Protest party Ruth Henricks and her attorney Michael Aguirre have filed a motion to reply to investor owned utility (IOU) response opposing Henrick's eaarlier motion to file protest in the uninsured wildfire liability billing authority matter now before the California …
All-hazard Local Emergency Response Theory as Emergency Management by Objectives
Comprehensive Emergency Management (CEM) as implemented under the current version of the Incident Command System (ICS) is a collection of best practices for state and local emergency incident responses that are eligible for federal cost reimbursement, and a whole lot …
Wilco Industries: What SDG&E is looking for in Distributed Generation
Independent Energy Solutions today announced that its rooftop solar installation for Wilco Industries in Vista has been completed. The installation is expected to generate about half a megawatt of clean, green electricity for San Diego Gas and Electric Company (SDG&E;) …
Does SDG&E's Sunrise Powerlink Really Make Sense?
An editorial position recently taken by the San Diego Union-Tribune is a jump for joy, now that the Forest Supervisor of the Cleveland National Forest has given an apparent green light for SDG&E;'s Sunrise Powerlink project to cross federally-protected land …
San Diego City Council to Adopt 2011 Fiscal Appropriations Ordinance
The San Diego City Council is scheduled to approve the 2011 Fiscal Appropriations Ordinance today. The move comes as the City Council prepares to ask residents for a half-cent sales tax increase as a November ballot issue. City Council members …
Let's Get Ready to Rumble: Jury Fee Paid in Kessler v. City of San Diego
A check of the Register of Actions in Scott Kessler v. City of San Diego shows that last week, Plaintiff has filed the required Jury Fee Deposit for trial. Kessler, a former city employee, alleges he was forced out of …
Defending Small Businesses and Residents from SDG&E
San Diego residential power customers and small businesses are facing hard times in this economy, and a big part of that problem for the foreseeable future can be found in two rate proposals by San Diego Gas and Electric Company …
Revised WEBA Application by SDG&E Not Yet Available
IOU Revisions Previously Demanded by CPUC Administrative Law Judge California investor owned power utilities (IOUs), including San Diego Gas and Electric Company, continue to ignore an administrative law judge's order to produce a revised application in their proceedings for Wildfire …
Forest Supervisor Approves SDG&E Sunrise Powerlink
Cleveland National Forest to be Forever Changed The Forest Supervisor of the Cleveland National Forest has approved San Diego Gas and Electric Company's plan to pass the Sunrise Powerlink project through federally-protected lands. The proposed project will not be placed …
1.2 Million SDG&E Residental Customers to be Billed by Time-of-Day/Week
120,000 Small Business SDG&E; Customers Included in Proposed PSW/PSH Rate Scheme San Diego Gas & Electric Company employee Joseph Velazquez testified to California's Public Utilities Commission that SDG&E; intends to move "virtually all of SDG&E;’s customers including its estimated 1.2 …
San Diego City Council Revisits $288 Million Loan Forgiveness to Redevelopment Agency
Cancellation of 2009-2010 Loan Interest Also Up for Review The San Diego City Council will later this week take up a resolution to “extinguish” $288 million in loans and interest that the City Council earlier made to the Redevelopment Agency …
Kessler v. City of San Diego: Hall's Report of Hearing Action
Matthew Hall reported on statements made in open court at the hearing where Judge John S. Meyer's tentative ruling against the City of San Diego was upheld. Hall's report of the courtroom action (July 9, 2010) came after plaintiff's attorney …
CPUC Allows Hearings in SDG&E Time-Based Rate Scheme Application
The Administrative Law Judge Division of California's Public Utilities Commission has reported in Resolution ALJ 176-3257 that hearings will be required in the ratesetting application A1007009 by San Diego Gas & Electric Company. ALJ Division Executive Director Paul Clanon certified …
Kessler v. City of San Diego: Protective Order Denied?
A tentative order by Judge John S. Meyer has denied the City of San Diego motion for a protective order. The protective order would have shielded Mayor Jerry Sanders from appearing at a deposition in the Scott Kessler v. City …
SDG&E Seeks Time-Based Billing for Residential Customers
Objective: "Incent" Residents & Small Businesses to Use Less Energy San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E;) wants to bill customers based on the day or time of day when electricity is used, a change from current residential and small …
What Citizens Covet Half of SDG&E's Sunrise Powerlink Capacity?
Various parties, from San Diego Gas and Electric Company in support to Utility Consumers Action Network in opposition, have filed briefs with California's Public Utilities Commission in the SDG&E application "to lease a 50 percent portion of the transfer capability …
City College to Host First Fall Semester SDCCD Board Meeting
The San Diego Community College District's Board of Trustees will meet at San Diego City College on September 16. As that will be Mexican Independence Day, expect to see City College MEChA out in costume and in force. The District's …