Community CommentaryOpinionElias: Paying the price for PUC conflictsThomas D. EliasJanuary 17, 2024 January 17, 2024064 What happens when the five PUC commissioners are essentially immune from public pressure during their terms....
California FocusOpinionElias: In latest bailout plan, utilities want your income infoThomas D. EliasAugust 16, 2023 August 16, 20230121 Now comes the latest bailout effort for California’s three largest electric utilities, PG&E, Southern California Edison and SDG&E....
California FocusOpinionElias: Why utility fines mean so littleThomas D. EliasApril 6, 2022 April 6, 20220130 The utilities know they’ll get the money back, and then some, the next time the Public Utilities Commission considers a rate increase....
CitiesEncinitasEncinitas FeaturedEncinitas could see quiet zone in Cardiff in a yearAaron BurginMarch 22, 2018 March 22, 20182 1011 Encinitas could see its first rail “quiet zone” — where train horns would not have to sound — in Cardiff in less than a year,...
California FocusOpinionFire ruling has immediate effect on state’s utilitiesThomas D. EliasDecember 29, 2017January 18, 2018 December 29, 2017January 18, 20180317 Under intense political pressure at the same time bone-dry Santa Ana and Sundowner winds propelled unchecked wildfires across Southern California in early December, the California...