Will consumer choice in electricity get a major delay in California?

The California Public Utilities Commission giveth, but the same benighted agency much more often taketh away. At least from consumers.
In December, this five-member commission for the first time in many years stood up for utility customers by refusing to let the San Diego Gas & Electric Co. dun its customers for the costs of negligence in the leadup to massively destructive fires in 2007. At almost the same time, though, commissioners scheduled a vote that could allow the state’s three