Join the CPUC's mailing list for this project
The CPUC's environmental team mails notices of scoping meetings and the draft report to this list. It is the most reliable way to hear when formal comment opens.
Send your name and mailing address and ask to be added.
Subscribe to CPUC updates
Once the application is filed, you can subscribe to its docket and get every filing as it lands.
Sources: CPUC subscription service; Opportunities for Public Participation in Golden Pacific Powerlink Project
Ask the CPUC Public Advisor how to take part
The Public Advisor's office explains the process to members of the public, free, and can receive comments.
Tell SDG&E what you know about your area
SDG&E is still taking feedback on its preliminary route. What you send goes to SDG&E, not into the CPUC record, so keep a copy to reuse when formal comment opens.
Sources: Golden Pacific Powerlink; Learn more
Temecula residents: the City's comment form
The City of Temecula collects comments for its own public record on the project.
Sources: City of Temecula SDG&E comment form; Golden Pacific Powerlink comments and updates
Petitions show the scale of opposition to elected officials. Each one is run by its host, who holds the information you give it.
Supervisor Jim Desmond
Stop the Golden Pacific Powerlink
Asks for your name, email, phone and address, held by the Supervisor's office.
Warner Springs, on change.org
Join us in opposing the Golden Pacific Powerlink
Hosted by change.org under its own privacy terms.
Every official for the communities on the routes, from city councils to the U.S. Senate, with what each has said in public and how to reach their office, plus how to write so it is read.
Separate windows, months or years apart. The first one is short.
Protest the application or become a party
A protest is due within 30 days of the date the filing first appears in the CPUC's Daily Calendar, unless the CPUC sets another date, and filing one makes you a party. Parties can present evidence and take part in hearings. You can also ask to become a party later, by written motion or by asking in person at the prehearing conference.
Sources: Rules of Practice and Procedure (Rule 1.4, becoming a party; Rule 2.6, protests); Methods for becoming a party to a proceeding
Comment on the docket
Anyone can post a public comment on the proceeding's docket card at any time and read what others have said.
Speak or write at environmental scoping
Thirty days to tell the CPUC which impacts and route alternatives its environmental report must study.
Comment on the draft environmental report
At least 45 days, usually years after the filing.
Attend public participation hearings
Hearings where the Commission takes public comment in person.
Sources: California Public Utilities Commission; SDG&E, via the City of Temecula
Plain advice, not legal advice. For the formal process, the CPUC Public Advisor's office helps the public at no charge.
- Say who you are and where you live in relation to the route.
- Describe what you know first-hand: the road you evacuate on, the well you rely on, the land you work, the fire you lived through.
- Be specific. Name places, dates and distances. One precise fact outweighs a page of adjectives.
- Cite your sources when you use a number, and use the number the source actually gives.
- Write it yourself. Comments in a person's own words carry weight; form letters and machine-written comments are easy to discount.
Four prompts, in your words. The hub adds only a subject line. Once SDG&E files, you can paste the same comment into the public comment form on the application's docket card.
How long you have lived or worked there, and how close the proposed corridor runs.
The road you evacuate on, the well you rely on, the land you work, the fire you lived through.
Places, dates and distances. If you use a number, say where it comes from.
What you want the decision-maker to do.
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Print the one-page fact sheet to hand out at a meeting.