Scope
California Public Utilities Commission Rulemaking 26-04-009, an Order Instituting Rulemaking on California advanced electric rate design filed 9 April 2026, says that in coordination with the Senate Bill 57 assessment the proceeding will consider rate design issues for data centers and other large load customers. The order opens the proceeding; it adopts no data center rate.
- Geographic scope
- California
- Jurisdiction
- State
- Authority type
- Regulator or commission
- Issuing authority
- California Public Utilities Commission
Dates
- Adopted
- No adoption day is recorded
- Effective
- Effective date not stated in the source
- Scheduled expiration
- None scheduled
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- None stated
- Source document
- 10 April 2026
- Last checked
- 2 October 2026 (earlier than tracker date 5 October 2026; not an automatic status change)
- Proceeding
- R.26-04-009
Summary
The California Public Utilities Commission opened Rulemaking 26-04-009 on advanced electric rate design; the order was filed on 9 April 2026 and issued on 10 April 2026. Among other issues, the order says the proceeding will consider rate design issues for data centers and other large-load customers in coordination with the Senate Bill 57 cost-shift assessment. The order is procedural: it opens the proceeding and does not adopt a data center rate or tariff.
What this does not establish
- The Commission docket card on apps.cpuc.ca.gov is disallowed by robots.txt, so later rulings, scoping memos or decisions in the proceeding were not reviewed; the 17 September 2026 Commission agenda that was opened lists no item in this rulemaking.
- The proceeding link is the order itself because the docket card could not be opened.
- Data centers are one of several issues in the rulemaking; this record covers only that data center issue.
Unresolved questions
- Whether a scoping memo has set a schedule for the data center rate design issues was not established.
Relationships
Supersession means a later instrument replaces the earlier legal effect. Repeal links identify the repeal instrument and the measure it ends. A later implementation or related letter is not treated as a replacement unless the record says so.
- No related action is recorded.
Sources
https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M604/K677/604677976.PDF
- Current official status current official status reviewed 2 October 2026