CLECA has filed comments contesting a portion of the partial settlement in PG&E's Electric Rule 30 proceeding (A.24-11-007) — the docket that will determine whether risk-mitigation requirements designed for speculative data center load apply to California's existing industrial customers.
Two fronts
First, confidentiality: the partial settlement would disclose confidential customer-specific interconnection data. CLECA's June 8 comments argue the provision violates Public Utilities Code § 8380, exceeds the scoping memo, and lacks record support.
Second, the exemption: PG&E's revised Rule 30 — including a 75% minimum demand charge from year one — was built for data center load profiles. CLECA argues the Commission's own Rate Design Principles support treating Decarbonizing and EITE existing customers differently from speculative new load, and that existing exceptional-case procedures should remain available. An industrial facility adding load to electrify a gas-fired process is not a hyperscale campus that may never be built.
The filing follows CLECA's opening and reply briefs in May and an active program of ex parte briefings with commissioner advisors through June. Background: industrial decarbonization & data center rate design.