Dive Brief: Ensuring a reliable grid and affordable energy remain key priorities for California's utilities as the state charts a path toward its goal of 100% renewable and zero-carbon electricity by 2045, power providers said during a joint agency workshop Wednesday. The meeting, conducted by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Energy Commission and California Independent System Operator (CAISO), kicked off a broader regulatory process to begin planning for the build out of new resources to meet that goal. "Making sure that reliability in the near term and the longer term continues to be the focus as we decarbonize is a very critical part and priority of this journey," Daniel Hopper, director of resource and environmental planning and strategy at Southern California Edison, said. "[W]e are at an inflection point. The old ways of planning simply don't work," he added.