The California Public Utilities Commission authorized Southern California Edison Company to recover costs for utility-owned energy storage systems procured during 2016-2017 to mitigate reliability concerns in the Los Angeles Basin following shortages caused by a major gas leak in the Aliso Canyon storage facility in October 2015, according to the commission’s June 25 decision. The leak lead to a ban on injections into the facility, and the commission authorized SoCal Edison to hold a solicitation to procure storage. The utility secured four projects, two from Tesla Motors Inc. totaling 20 megawatts and two from General Electric Company totaling 20 megawatts. The projects count towards satisfying a portion of the utility’s storage targets established by 2010 legislation that directed California’s three investor-owned utilities to obtain 1,325 megawatts of storage by 2020.