The District of Columbia Public Service Commission will conduct a conference on cybersecurity to discuss best practices that the electric and natural gas utilities are taking to protect their infrastructure from cybersecurity threats. The commission will hear from Potomac Electric Power Company and Washington Gas Light Company on topics including cyber risk management programs, public notification methods when breaches occur, and reporting structures for cybersecurity attacks on their information networks and control systems.

The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority will hold its seventh technical meeting in its proceeding on establishing integrated distribution system planning, or IDSP, within a performance-based regulation, or PBR, framework. The meeting will discuss current evaluation processes for electric distribution companies’ existing distribution system planning practices and continuous improvement from one cycle to the next. April 2023, the agency issued a final decision in the first phase of its investigation into PBR, adopting the regulatory goals, foundational considerations, and priority outcomes to guide its development and adoption of a PBR framework. The decision also includes the implementation of specific regulatory reforms through the second phase, which comprises a series of reopener proceedings to explore the regulatory mechanisms and PBR elements namely, revenue adjustment mechanisms, performance mechanisms, and integrated distribution system planning. 21-05-15RE03

The District of Columbia Public Service Commission is due to receive comments on its Value of Distributed Energy Resources study to inform the commission and stakeholders regarding the potential value of distributed energy resources to address costs in the electric system associated with generation, transmission, and distribution. The study is part of a proceeding to review the district’s energy system in light of recent sustainability goals and mandates. While the commission welcomes comments on all topics covered in the study, the commission seeks answers to specific questions including how the study or successor studies, if any, would contribute to the district’s climate goals, and whether the study can support the expansion of solar resources in the district. FC1130

The California Energy Commission is due to receive comments on proposed revisions to the state’s Energy Code. The commission began a formal rulemaking of the 2025 Energy Code on March 29 following two years of pre-rulemaking development of the proposed changes. The Energy Code recommendations are required to be feasible and cost-effective when taken as a whole and are implemented as performance standards with optional prescriptive requirements. Proposed standards will be adopted in 2024 with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2026. READ MORE

The California Air Resources Board and Québec’s Ministry of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change will hold their 39th joint quarterly carbon auction, which will offer allowances for current and future years. The current auction will offer 2017 and 2024 vintage allowances totaling about 51.6 million, and the advance auction will offer 2027 future allowances totaling about 7.2 million. The previous auction held in February sold all of the nearly 51.2 million current allowances at a price of $41.76 per allowance and 7.2 million future allowances at $41 per allowance. California’s cap-and trade program places an economy-wide cap on major emitting sources.

The California Energy Commission is due to receive comments regarding updates to the state’s home energy rating and labeling program. The commission recently held a pre-rulemaking workshop to discuss updates to the voluntary program, which intends to assist homeowners, homebuyers, renters, and others in understanding the estimated energy performance of their homes. The discussion included an overview of the statutory and regulatory background, and the general scope to update the program. The overall goal of the program is to provide consumers with reliable information regarding the relative energy efficiency of a home. This information is supplemented by cost- effective energy efficiency recommendations which consumers can choose to implement to help them save energy and money on their energy bills. The regulations pertaining to the program were adopted in 2008 and have not been updated since then. 23-HERS-02