To watch videos of all committee hearings, click on this link then search for the hearing date or the name of the committee.

August 29, 2023 -- Oversight Hearing -- Powering Through: Electricity Reliability as California Transitions to a Zero-Carbon Future.    ***VIDEO***

(moved from August 22, 2023)

• Agenda
• Background
• Sarah Cornett, Fiscal & Policy Analyst, Legislative Analyst's Office
• Siva Gunda, Vice Chair, Commissioner, California Energy Commission
• Alice Reynolds, President, Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission
• Delphine Hou, Deputy Director, Statewide Water and Energy Program, California Department of Water Resources
• Elliot Mainzer, President & Chief Executive Officer,  California Independent System Operator

March 7, 2023 -- Oversight Hearing -- State Broadband Investments: Progress Towards Connecting the Unserved.     ***VIDEO***

• Agenda
• Background
• Brian Metzker, Prinicpal Fiscal & Policy Analyst, California Legislative Analyst's Office
• Liana Bailey-Crimmins, Director, California Department of Technology
• Mark Monroe, Deputy Director, Broadband Middle Mile Initiative, California Department of Technology
• Rachel Peterson, Executive Director, California Public Utilities Commission
  • March 2023 Broadband Implementation Update
• Robert Osborn, Director, Communications Division, California Public Utilities Commission
• Kome Ajise, Executive Director, Southern California Association of Governments
• Stephen Cheung, CEO and President, LA County Economic Development Corporation|LA DEAL
• Tracy Phine, Senior Legislative Advocate, Rural County Representatives of California

February 28, 2023 -- Oversight Hearing -- The California Public Utilities Commission and the Public Advocates Office Annual Update to the Legislature: A Focus on Utility Bill Affordability.    ***VIDEO***

• Agenda                                            
• Background
• Alice Reynolds, President, California Public Utilities Commission                    CPUC Annual Report
• Matt Baker, Director, The Public Advocates Office                                              PAO Annual Report
• Gillian Wright, Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer, Southern California Gas
• Sam Harper, Consultant, California Large Energy Consumers Association
• Adam R. Smith, Principal Manager--State Public Policy, Southern California Edison
• Nick Chaset, Chief Executive Officer, East Bay Community Energy
• Dr. Mark Toney, Ph.D., The Utility Reform Network       
  • CPUC I-Comp Backlog Report

February 22, 2023 -- First Extraordinary Session Informational Hearing -- Petroleum Windfall Profits Penalty: Will Californians Get Relief at the Gas Pump?    ***VIDEO***

• Agenda                                                           
• Background
• Commissioner Siva Gunda, Vice-Chair, California Energy Commission
• Nicolas Maduros, Director, California Department of Tax and Fee Administration
• Ross Brown, Principal Fiscal and Policy Analyst, Legislative Analyst's Office
• Michael Jorgenson, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Office of Attorney General Rob Bonta
• Severin Borenstein, Faculty Director, Energy Institute at Haas School of Business -- University of California, Berkeley
• Dr. James Sweeney, Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
• Dave Hackett, Chairman of the Board, Stillwater Associates
• Robert McCullough, Principal, McCullough Research
• Michael Mische, Professor of Management and Organization, University of Southern California Marshall School of Business
• Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President and CEO, Western States Petroleum Association
• Jamie Court, President and Chairman of the Board, Consumer Watchdog
• John Wenger, Legislative Advocate, California Fuels & Convenience Alliance
• Kassie Siegel, Senior Counsel, Climate Law Institute -- Center for Biological Diversity

The Capitol and O Street building is open for in-person attendance of committee hearings.  Please utilize the teleconference service if you are experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19 or test positive.

Teleconference Instructions:

Information regarding a call-in option for testimony will be made available and updated the night prior to the hearing date.

Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications hearing call-in information for September 6, 2023:

Participant number: 1-877-226-8163

ACCESS CODE: 7362832

Please note: In order for your testimony to be heard clearly, you must mute any devices you are using to live stream the committee hearing prior to calling into the teleconference service. Please do not testify using speakerphone or bluetooth, this can cause acoustic feedback and make it very difficult to hear your testimony. 

• Upon calling in, you will be placed in a “waiting room” where you will be muted but you can listen to the committee hearing as you wait.
• When a committee moves to public comment, a moderator will ask for anyone who is wishing to testify in “Support” or “Opposition” of the bill to please press 1-0.   You should press 1-0 when you are prompted by the moderator. When you press 1-0 on your phone, you will wait and an operator will assign you a line number, at that time you will be placed in the queue for identification.  Remember your line number, the moderator will call out that number to identify YOU when it is your turn to testify.  OF IMPORTANT NOTE: If you press 1-0 a second time, you will remove yourself from the queue and you will not be identified to testify. Every time you press 1-0 you either put yourself “In queue” or take yourself “out of queue” so listen carefully, and press 1-0 only once when you are prompted by the moderator.
• When you are successfully in the queue, with your assigned line number, the moderator will call out your line number, open your line, and at that time you may address the committee. You must have your own phone unmuted before you begin testimony.

A more detailed explanation of the teleconference instructions can be found by clicking the “Teleconference Instructions”

Please note: In order for your testimony to be heard clearly, you must mute any devices you are using to live stream the committee hearing prior to calling into the teleconference service.