Climate Adaption for Energy Utilities: Lessons Learned From California's Pioneering Regulatory Actions

This Policy Brief provides lessons learned from regulation of climate adaptation by energy utilities. The regulatory bodies responsible for oversight of investor-owned energy utilities are ill-equipped to regulate climate adaptation in the energy sector; but they may be the only institutions with au...

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Autores principales:	Sonya Ziaja, Mohit Chhabra
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	climate adaptation energy private utilities regulation California Environmental sciences GE1-350
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:feb9ba955ff94733a60383c3e1673c682021-12-03T07:19:57ZClimate Adaption for Energy Utilities: Lessons Learned From California's Pioneering Regulatory Actions2624-955310.3389/fclim.2021.718472https://doaj.org/article/feb9ba955ff94733a60383c3e1673c682021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2021.718472/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/2624-9553This Policy Brief provides lessons learned from regulation of climate adaptation by energy utilities. The regulatory bodies responsible for oversight of investor-owned energy utilities are ill-equipped to regulate climate adaptation in the energy sector; but they may be the only institutions with authority to do so. In 2018, the California Public Utilities Commission initiated the first quasi-legislative procedure to regulate investor owned energy utilities' climate adaptation activities. The Commission's new rules for climate adaptation offer some general guidance on climate adaptation, and require investor owned utilities to conduct and submit climate vulnerability studies. Structural limitations, including conflicting interest, capacity of staff, and scope of the problem hampered the success of adaptation regulation, which failed to address fundamental questions about what constitutes adaptive measures.Sonya ZiajaMohit ChhabraFrontiers Media S.A.articleclimate adaptationenergyprivate utilitiesregulationCaliforniaEnvironmental sciencesGE1-350ENFrontiers in Climate, Vol 3 (2021)
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description	This Policy Brief provides lessons learned from regulation of climate adaptation by energy utilities. The regulatory bodies responsible for oversight of investor-owned energy utilities are ill-equipped to regulate climate adaptation in the energy sector; but they may be the only institutions with authority to do so. In 2018, the California Public Utilities Commission initiated the first quasi-legislative procedure to regulate investor owned energy utilities' climate adaptation activities. The Commission's new rules for climate adaptation offer some general guidance on climate adaptation, and require investor owned utilities to conduct and submit climate vulnerability studies. Structural limitations, including conflicting interest, capacity of staff, and scope of the problem hampered the success of adaptation regulation, which failed to address fundamental questions about what constitutes adaptive measures.
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title	Climate Adaption for Energy Utilities: Lessons Learned From California's Pioneering Regulatory Actions
title_short	Climate Adaption for Energy Utilities: Lessons Learned From California's Pioneering Regulatory Actions
title_full	Climate Adaption for Energy Utilities: Lessons Learned From California's Pioneering Regulatory Actions
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Climate Adaption for Energy Utilities: Lessons Learned From California's Pioneering Regulatory Actions

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