California utility regulator expands diversity goals, aiming for more LGBTQ and disabled

The state’s public utility regulator announced that it expanded efforts to diversify its energy, telephone and water suppliers, adding businesses owned by disabled people and setting goals for suppliers owned by LGBTQ people.

The California Public Utility Commission’s Supplier Diversity Program has led to the agency procuring more than 30 percent of its utility supply from businesses owned by women, people of color, veterans and LGBTQ people.