NOTABLEPacifiCorp (a Berkshire Hathaway Energy subsidiary, operating as Pacific Power) agreed in a proposed settlement with the California Public Advocates Office to suspend all of its ratepayer-funded energy efficiency programs in California, winding them down by Jan. 1, citing a lack of cost-effectiveness. The change would produce a roughly 0.7% rate decrease for its approximately 46,000 Northern California customers. The filing at the California Public Utilities Commission was reported Aug. 25, 2026.source → https://www.utilitydive.com/news/pacificorp-suspend-california-energy-efficiency-programs/828721/

NOTABLEThe Public Utilities Commission of Nevada approved new Energy Grid Services and Capacity Grid Services riders for NV Energy (Berkshire Hathaway Energy's Nevada utility), under which customer-sited distributed resources can be paid for dispatched energy based on hourly market pricing and for load reduction based on avoided generation and transmission costs. The tariffs replace a demand response framework that had been in place for 15 years, but advocates criticized the commission for limiting participation by third-party aggregators and declining to require NV Energy to include a virtual power plant resource type in its next integrated resource plan.source → https://www.utilitydive.com/news/nevada-misses-an-opportunity-in-performance-based-der-tariffs-advocate/828836/