PG&E Can Intervene in California Nuclear Plant Funding Fight

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. will intervene in a lawsuit filed against the Energy Department over more than $1 billion in federal funding allocated to the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant.

The US District Court for the Central District of California on Thursday adopted a tentative ruling issued Dec. 17 granting PG&E’s intervention motion. PG&E had a timely filing and has “significant protectable interest” in the case, the court found.

“As PG&E and not the DOE owns and operates the DCPP, the existing Defendants cannot be expected to adequately represent PG&E’s interests in the action,” Judge George H. Wu wrote.

The ...