Utilities Must Convince PUC on Cost Plans

PG&E; Corp. and Edison International’s plans for charging customers for the high power prices they paid this year won’t be considered by two state officials reviewing problems with California’s electricity market. Only accounting changes in how the utilities tally their power costs will be considered, said California Public Utilities Commission member Henry Duque and Assistant Chief Administrative Law Judge Angela Minkin at a meeting in San Francisco. San Francisco-based PG&E; and Rosemead-based Edison must now persuade the PUC as a whole to consider their proposals for passing power costs to customers.