‘CPUC's December 22, 2021 Proposed Decision in R2005003, the CPUC's plan to replace zero-emission Diablo Canyon with PacifiCorp's emissionladen [coal & gas] generation, hidden behind the California legal euphemism, "Unspecified Imports"’.
Odd, given the CPUC’s Charter, line 1: “All decisions shall be made in the public interest” Coal & gas emissions are suddenly in the public interest?
Of course, this is the same CPUC (different peole) that allowed PG&E to falsify maintenance records for their 30” gas main through a San Bruno neighborhood that burst in 2010 https://tinyurl.com/mwvdyj3a burned 8 people to death, destroyed homes and, further underscoring why NTSB found both CPUC and PG&E negligent, couldn’t be turned off for over an hour because no automatic shutoff valving had been required by CPUC.
CPUC & PG&E were found negligent. PG&E remains under court supervision for that and its poor wildfire safety. Neither PG&E nor CPUC management were prosecuted.
CPUC had more to ‘contribute’ in 2015 -- SoCal Gas was allowed to overpressure gas storage wells in its Aliso Canyon well field despite safety valving questions ignored by CPUC. The resulting leak luckily didn’t burn up nearby Porter Ranch, but it did leak several million tons of CO2- equivalent emissions over a few months. https://tinyurl.com/2p8ehx43
So, the CPUC’s “Proposed Decision in R2005003” does what? It allows Warren Buffet to sell us electricity generated by his ~13GW of coal and gas plants in his Berkshire-Hathaway Energy inventory. He apparently needs to find some inept state agency to allow his polluting power into their power system – ours, if we’re so foolish as to shut off Diablo Canyon’s clean power and accept CPUC’s unenvironmental action.
The CPUC’s proposal is even more absurd because Buffet wants us in California to pay for new, long-distance power lines to his coal & gas generators, as, for instance, run by his Pacificorp subsidiary (Buffet's 2/2/2021 letter* to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders informs Californians the powerline price tag will be $18 billion).
If Californians don’t head to, or write to, the California Public Utilities Commission, 505 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102 and give the members firm opinions, Warren Buffet will be tickled.
Suggestions have been made that our CPUC leadership shouldn’t be appointed, but elected. We Californians might then have a chance to pick from candidates who actually care about the first line in CPUC’s charter.