General Government
8660 Public Utilities Commission

The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) regulates critical and essential services such as privately owned telecommunications, electric, natural gas, and water companies, in addition to overseeing railroad/rail transit and moving and transportation companies. The PUC is the only agency in the state charged with protecting private utility consumers. As such, the PUC is responsible for ensuring that customers have safe, reliable utility service at reasonable rates, protecting against fraud, and promoting the health of California's economy, which depends on the infrastructure the utilities and the PUC provide.
MAJOR PROGRAM CHANGES Back to Top
  • AB 32: Global Warming Solutions - The Budget includes $1,272,000 and 2.9 positions for the PUC's greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts. The additional resources will enable the PUC to conduct climate change proceedings to implement emissions reduction strategies, evaluate various electric and natural gas sector greenhouse gas emissions cap scenarios, and develop protocols to measure and verify actual emissions reductions.

  • Million Solar Roofs Initiative - The Budget includes $2,460,000 and 2.9 positions to implement Chapter 132, Statutes of 2006, (SB 1) and the California Solar Initiative. The primary goals of the Million Solar Roofs Initiative are to: (1) install 3,000 MW of solar energy systems in California, and (2) foster growth in the solar energy industry to enable solar to become a competitive energy alternative without subsidies by the end of the program.
PROGRAMS Back to Top
The following table presents total proposed budget year positions and expenditures for each budgeted program area. These expenditures include all funding sources that support the state agency's programs.
Code Program
 Proposed
2007-08*
Positions
Dollars
10
 Regulation of Utilities
645.6
$381,501
15
 Universal Service Telephone Programs
13.2
884,615
20
 Regulation of Transportation
159.2
20,458
30.01
 Administration
132.2
26,247
30.02
 Distributed Administration
-
-26,247
Totals, Positions and Expenditures (excluding Infrastructure)
950.2
$1,286,574
 
 Infrastructure Expenditures
-
-
Totals, Positions and All Expenditures
950.2
$1,286,574

Refer to the Program Descriptions for a description of programs operated by this state agency.

Refer to the 3-Yr Expenditures & Positions for expenditures, positions, and funding detail.
PRINTABLE BUDGET DOCUMENTS Back to Top
The following identifies budget documents for this state agency that are available in a printable (pdf) format.

Entire Public Utilities Commission Budget (pdf * - 48K) in pdf format.
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of all budget information for this state agency. Note: Along with other information, this document includes the documents listed below.

 Fund Condition Statements ONLY (pdf * - 18K)
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of only the fund condition statements for each fund administered by this state agency.

 Detail of Appropriations and Adjustments ONLY (pdf * - 8K)
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of only the detail of appropriations and adjustments for this state agency.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Back to Top
Legal Citations and Authority
Includes the legal citations (state statutes, federal statutes, and court orders) for operation of department programs and activities.