San Onofre Settlement Dispute and Award Recommendations
State utility regulators are set to award nearly $290,000 to a San Francisco consumer group involved in a disputed cost-sharing deal for the San Onofre nuclear plant failure. The lead negotiator, TURN, is at the center of the controversy over the allocation of the $4.7 billion settlement costs. With mounting evidence of improper communications, TURN withdrew support, calling for a case review, while also slated to receive compensation for work on other cases. The resolution and upcoming sanctions against Southern California Edison have brought attention to regulatory oversight issues.
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State utility regulators will be asked next week to award almost $290,000 to the San Francisco consumer group that negotiated a deal dividing costs for the San Onofre nuclear plant failure, even though the nonprofit has since called for the agreement to be scrapped. Under a proposed decision to be considered by the California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday, The Utility Reform Network, or TURN, would receive $289,794 for its San Onofre work. The group had requested $289,821. San Diego Tribune, Oct. 16, 2015
TURN was the lead negotiator in the private settlement discussions that resulted in charging ratepayers 70 percent of the $4.7 billion cost for premature closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station north of Oceanside. The settlement was unanimously approved by the commission in November, ending the investigation into what caused the radiation leak at San Onofre in 2012.
This past June, as evidence mounted that the settlement costs were discussed in improper backchannel communications between regulators and utility executives, TURN withdrew its support for the agreement and called for the case to be reopened. Regulators have not responded to the request from TURN or similar entreaties from other groups.
Also on Thursday, TURN is scheduled to receive just over $726,000 in compensation for work it performed on other cases. The award recommendations come weeks before the commission is scheduled to consider sanctions against San Onofre majority owner Southern California Edison, which was found to have violated rules against improper communications 10 times in the San Onofre proceeding. Regulators will consider the proposed decision from Judge Darling on Nov. 19. That proposal could be released publicly as soon as next week.
