PG&E was alerted more than 30 years before the deadly Camp fire about the failure risk of worn steel hooks like the one that snapped and caused the most destructive
California, the tragic ground zero for ruinous wildfires in the United States, has also led the nation in pushing its power grid into a lower-carbon future, hoping to counteract climate
Northern California’s 2019 wildfire season is effectively over, following storms and snowfall over the Thanksgiving weekend, and experts agree that Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) managed to avoid the worst-case
Over the course of 10 years, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. “consistently and significantly” shifted money away from efforts to bury power lines underground, likely causing such projects to take
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) power lines contacting trees and other objects is the most common cause of fires involving PG&E equipment, according to data provided by
PG&E is proposing to give coolers to low-income customers living in wildfire-prone areas where deliberate blackouts are likely, starting in January 2021 at the earliest, CalMatters reporter Jackie Botts found.
California’s monopoly electric utilities asked state officials to sign off on higher profits earlier this year, saying larger shareholder returns were needed to attract investors who might be scared off
Pacific Gas & Electric defended its decision to shut off power across Northern California in October and November, saying no lives were lost this year in fires that may have
PG&E is about to go bankrupt. But the troubled utility said it will keep the lights on and is committed to a “fair and expeditious” resolution of the from the
This week, 120,000 people in northern California went without power. It was the latest round of precautionary outages by the state’s largest utility company. PG&E says the outages were necessary
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We know that thousands of customers were impacted by the shutoffs and instead of feeling safe, many customers were left fearing for their safety, unprepared and angry.
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