2025-2026 Oversight/Informational Hearings

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2025 Hearings

March 12, 2025 -- Informational Hearing -- Regional Expansion of Wholesale Electricity Markets: An Overview of the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative **VIDEO**

• Agenda
• Background
  • July 2023 Letter to the CREPC and the WIEM from a group of Regulators for a path to electricity market inclusive of all Western states.
• Alice Reynolds, President, California Public Utilities Commission
• Siva Gunda, Vice Chair, California Energy Commission
• Elliot Mainzer, President/CEO, California Independent System Operator
• Kathleen Staks, Executive Director, Western Freedom and Co-Chair of the Pathways Initiative Launch Committee
• Linda Serizawa, Director, Public Advocates Office
• Jennifer Tanner, Leader, Indivisible California Green Team
• Michael Colvin, Director Regulatory and Legislative Affairs, Environmental Defense Fund
• Loretta Lynch, former President, California Public Utilities Commission
• Marc D. Joseph, Attorney, Coalition of California Utility Employees and the State Association of Electrical Workers
• Randy Howard, General Manager, Northern California Power Agency

February 19, 2025 -- Oversight Hearing -- The California Public Utilities Commission and the Public Advocates Office Annual Update to the Legislature: Addressing Electricity Utility Bill Affordability While Advancing the State's Clean Energy Goals. **VIDEO**

• Agenda
• Background
  • Governor's Executive Order N-5-24
• Alice Reynolds, President, California Public Utilities Commission
  • CPUC Annual Report
• David Hochschild, Chair, California Energy Commission
• Linda Serizawa, Director, Public Advocates Office
  • PAO Annual Report
• Carla Peterman, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs & Chief Sustainability Officer, Pacific Gas & Electric
• Ashley Arax, Senior California Policy Manager, Clean Air Task Force
• Richard J. McCann, Partner, M.Cubed on behalf of the California Solar & Storage Association
• Nora Sheriff, Counsel, California Large Energy Consumers Association
• Matthew Freedman, Staff Attorney, The Utility Reform Network
• Mohit Chhabra, Senior Analyst, Regulatory and Economic Policy, Climate & Energy, Natural Resources Defense Council
• Michael Wara, Director, Climate & Energy Policy Program & Senior Research Scholar, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University