Aspen has been supporting a group of municipal generators known as the Northern California Generation Coalition as they participate in three cases being heard by the Public Utilities Commission: the General Rate Case of PG&E, the Gas Cost Allocation Proceeding (GCAP) of PG&E and the PUC’s own rulemaking for long-term gas system planning issues.

Under Aspen’s environmental services on-call contract, Aspen prepared an IS/MND on behalf of Silicon Valley Power (SVP) for the proposed Homestead Substation Rebuild Project, which would rebuild the existing Homestead Substation within the existing substation site in the City of Santa Clara.

Units 2 and 3 of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) were shut down in January 2012. Unit 2 last operated on January 9, 2012, when it was removed from service for a planned refueling and maintenance outage.

San Bernardino County Land Use Services Department has used its RECPG funds to prepare a Renewable Energy and Conservation Element for its General Plan.

Inyo County has used its Renewable Energy and Conservation Planning Grants (RECPG) Program funds to develop a Renew­able Energy General Plan Amendment (REGPA) to include policies for facilitating and locating renewable energy development in the County.

The County of Imperial was the recipient of a California Energy Commission Grant on July 15, 2013, to update the existing “Geothermal/Alternative Energy & Transmission Element” of the General Plan. 

In February 2014, Aspen, as a subcontractor to PMC, prepared the County of San Luis Obispo Renewable Energy Streamlining Program (RESP) Opportunities and Constraints Tech­nical Study (OCTS).

Aspen’s Catherine Elder was a pro bono, independent participant in the 2022-23 North American Energy Standards Board gas-electric harmonization discussions that developed 20 recommendations to prevent a recurrence of adverse electricity and natural gas price and reliability and resiliency impacts experienced during winter storm Uri in February 2022 and Elliot in December 2022.

Aspen prepared two major environmental documents, an EIR and EIS/SEIR, evaluating a proposed crude oil pipeline in southern California.

Aspen prepared an EIR for the Santa Barbara County Energy Division on the proposed Plains Exploration and Production Company (PXP) Tranquillon Ridge Project which would involve the development of oil and gas wells from Platform Irene into the Tranquillon Ridge Field located in State waters using extending reach drilling technology.

Ocotillo Express LLC submitted a plan of development to the BLM El Centro Field Office for the construction of a wind energy facility on a 15,000-acre site near Ocotillo and Coyote Wells.

Aspen’s Catherine Elder was identified as an author of the Gas Decarbonization Chapter of the Energy Commission’s 2021 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR). The IEPR is produced every two years as a policy report to the California legislature.

Aspen provided environmental support for various projects under Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)’s Environmental Regulatory Support Services on-call contract.