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California’s Electric Utilities Are Becoming Uninvestable
With Sacramento letting SB 492 stall and California's strict inverse condemnation doctrine still leaving utilities liable for grid-caused wildfires regardless of negligence, PG&E and Edison International face mounting pressure on their cost of capital just as the state needs major grid investment. VX News here republishes Bloomberg Opinion energy columnist Liam Denning's analysis of why California's electric utilities are becoming uninvestable, and of the reforms that could shift wildfire risk away from ratepayers and toward insurance markets.
The 14 Climate Signals That Will Define 2026 (Bloomberg Excerpt)
As the world enters the latter half of a decisive decade for climate action, Bloomberg News identifies fourteen global signals shaping climate, energy, and policy outcomes in 2026. In sharing this excerpt, VX News points to a fragmented transition, driven less by coordinated diplomacy and more by geopolitics, infrastructure constraints, and market forces.
