Currents

An Energy Newsletter for Local Governments

Direct Access

The CPUC adopted a decision that concluded that the CPUC does not have the legal authority to reinstitute direct access (DA) until the Department of Water Resources (DWR) is no longer responsible for the contracts into which it entered during the energy crisis (D.08-02-033). However, the decision also states that CPUC can continue to move forward to reinstitute DA, while simultaneously working with DWR and the utilities to assign the remaining DWR contracts to the IOUs, or otherwise eliminate DWR’s liability for the contracts. The CPUC is moving forward with that process, and there will be a pre-hearing conference on April 11, 2008.

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