Southern California Gas Co. v. Public Utilities Commission

Opinion

MANUEL, J.

— Petitioners in these proceedings, consolidated for purposes of review, challenge a decision of the Public Utilities Commission (commission) which purports to implement the Home Insulation Assistance and Financing Act, Public Utilities Code sections 2781-2788, enacted in 1975. Section 2782 of the act directs the commission to permit utility companies to institute home insulation assistance and financing programs and to develop and adopt such requirements as it finds necessary or desirable to implement the provisions of the act.

In January 1976, the commission began an…