The California Energy Commission adopted the Final 2025 Integrated Energy Policy Report at its July 8 business meeting, closing out a yearlong proceeding on the state’s main energy-assessment and forecasting document.
The proposed resolution says the commission accepted, approved and adopted the final report, including any changes made at the meeting and any non-substantive typographical corrections. It also directs staff to distribute the report to state, local and federal entities, the public and the Legislature.
The packet cites the Warren-Alquist Act and Public Resources Code sections 25301 and 25302 as the legal basis for the commission’s duty to conduct energy assessments and forecasts and update them in even-numbered years.
A separate memorandum from the commission’s Chief Counsel’s Office recommends finding that adoption of the report is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act because the report does not itself commit the state to a specific project or cause a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect environmental change. As a fallback, the memo says the report would qualify for CEQA’s common-sense exemption under Guidelines section 15061(b)(3) if it were treated as a project.
The backup materials describe the 2025 IEPR proceeding as including a scoping order, a revised scoping order, nine workshops, two webinars, a draft report released April 23, 2026, and a proposed final report posted June 19, 2026. They also list docket records 25-IEPR-01 through 25-IEPR-06.
The source packet does not specify a vote tally or any dissent in the materials reviewed.
