California PUC proposes Internet rules for utilities
A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
California utility regulators on Thursday proposed rules to provide Internet access over electric power lines.
The California Public Utilities Commission proposed regulations for the state's investor-owned electric utilities to test broadband-over-power-line, or BPL, technology in the state.
Sempra Energy's San Diego Gas & Electric Co. utility unit is working on a BPL pilot, the CPUC said, and the Pacific Gas & Electric unit of PG&E Corp and Edison International's Southern California Edison subsidiary are considering test programs.
"California has been AWOL on developing BPL while other states have been forging ahead with testing and commercial development of this new technology," Michael Peevey, CPUC president, said in a statement.
Twenty-six other states have trial programs underway, according to the commission.
posted by Fergie @ 9/08/2005 04:34:00 PM
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