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Energy Safety adopts executive compensation guidelines, requires use of Excel template
Summary
The Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety adopted its Executive Compensation Structure Guidelines version 1 and will publish a clean version online; the guidelines require use of a standardized Excel template that commenters may not modify, Energy Safety staff said.
Susie Rose, program manager for the Electrical Undergrounding and Culture Division at the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (Energy Safety), opened a public meeting on April 2, 2025, to consider adoption of the agency's Executive Compensation Structure Guidelines version 1. "The final executive compensation structure guidelines version 1 are hereby adopted," Rose said near the close of the meeting.
The guidelines formalize requirements for electrical corporations seeking Energy Safety approval of executive compensation structures as part of safety certification. Energy Safety staff said the rules implement requirements in the Public Utilities Code cited during the meeting and rely on the Energy Safety Policy Division process guidelines adopted Feb. 21, 2025, for submission formatting and public-participation procedures.
During a presentation, Lauren Sabin, program and project supervisor for the Safety Culture branch, summarized revisions to the guidelines from the prior year: the document was evergreened and will use version-based naming instead of calendar years; duplicative sections that overlap the recently adopted policy-division process guidelines were removed; and a new requirement was added that certain data be submitted in Excel to improve data analysis. Sabin said the Excel template is required in its current form so Energy Safety's analytics team can process submissions. In response to a public question, Sabin said, "Not at this time. No. Currently, the template's formatted to allow our data analytics team to be able to process the information very similar to the, QDR requests that, formatting that they've, created." The question was asked by a commenter who identified themselves as Shoei from SDG.
Energy Safety posted the draft guidelines on Feb. 28, 2025, and provided the public comment period required by Government Code section 15475.6, the agency said. Staff said opening comments were due March 20, 2025, and reply comments were due March 31, 2025; Energy Safety reported it received neither opening nor reply comments but did accept verbal comments during the public meeting. The agency notified the public of the meeting on March 21, 2025, providing at least 10 days' notice, and said it also provided a 30-day written comment period required for substantive changes.
Staff said a clean, adopted version of the guidelines would be published on Energy Safety's website and posted to the Executive Compensation Guidelines docket through Energy Safety's e-filing system by April 3, 2025. The meeting then was adjourned.
Adoption details: Energy Safety adopted "Executive Compensation Structure Guidelines version 1" as presented. No formal roll-call vote was recorded in the meeting transcript; staff announced the adoption and described the public-notice and comment timeline. Energy Safety noted the final guidelines are consistent with the draft issued Feb. 28, 2025, and that the Excel data template is required without participant edits to ensure compatibility with internal data processing.
