Print The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday sided with the soon-to-launch San Diego community energy program in a dispute it had with San Diego Gas & Electric. San Diego Community Power — which will begin to purchase power for customers in San Diego, Chula Vista, La Mesa, Encinitas and Imperial Beach later this year — had complained to the commission that data SDG&E intended to use to calculate rates would make the new energy program less attractive to prospective customers. SDG&E argued it was using numbers it was authorized to employ as part of a general rate case that is still being considered by the commission.