Rehearing and Judicial Review
This decision construes, applies, implements, and interprets the provisions of AB1X. Therefore, Public Utilities Code Section 1731(c) (applications for rehearing are due within 10 days after the date of issuance of the order or decision) and Public Utilities Code Section 1768 (procedures for judicial review) are applicable. (See Stats. 2001-2001, First Extraordinary Session, Ch. 9.)
1. An emergency exists in the electricity market in California.
2. Pursuant to Water Code § 80110, this Commission must determine when the right of retail end use customers to acquire service from other providers shall be suspended.
3. Consistent with the draft decision mailed to parties on June 15, 2001, which suspended direct access effective July 1, 2001, and to ensure that we do not reward customers who have switched to direct access since July 1, 2001 and disadvantage customers who continue to receive bundled service from the utility, the July 1 effective date for the suspension of direct access is unchanged.
1. The determinations we make today should apply to PG&E, SDG&E, as well as SCE.
2. The right to contract for direct access should be suspended effective July 1, 2001. Written contracts executed prior to July 1, 2001 should be exempt from the suspension for the initial term of the contracts.
3. This order should be effective today so that our order may be implemented expeditiously.
4. All petitions to intervene and petitions to late-file comments are granted.
IT IS ORDERED that:
1. This order shall apply to Southern California Edison Company (SCE). Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E).
2. SCE, PG&E, and SDG&E shall notify their customers that the right of retail end users to acquire service from other providers, except the Department of Water Resources, is suspended until the Department no longer supplies power pursuant to Water Code §§ 80000, et seq., effective July 1, 2001, except that customers with written contracts executed prior to July 1, 2001 may continue to receive power from such other providers for the initial terms of any such contracts.
This order is effective today.
Dated , at San Francisco, California.
(See Formal Files for the Appendix.)
