Tag: Pacific Gas and Electric
Sonoma County, Other Cities Sue PG&E Over Kincade Fire Damage Last Year
On Tuesday, Sonoma County and a mix of other local entities and cities sued the Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) utility company over damages caused by the 2019 Kincade Fire in Sonoma County. According to a joint news release on...
PG&E Warning More ‘Public Safety Power Shutoffs’ in Northern CA
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. announced Thursday that “Public Safety Power Shutoffs” would take place Sunday and Monday in northern California and Sierra foothills. However, not one of the nine Bay Area counties are included, MSN reported, despite that CalFire...
PG&E Exits Bankruptcy
Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented by AudioHopper. On Wednesday, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) officially exited bankruptcy, ending over one and a half years of bankruptcy and emerging as a company under completely new...
Is Governor Newsom’s Office Trying to Keep Documents Secret Over Rushed Passage of Utilities’ Bailout?
After the Public Utilities Commission denied three Investor Owned Utilities in California – Pacific Gas and Electric, San Diego Gas and Electric, and Southern California Edison – the cost of wildfire repayments, the utilities filed a lawsuit in the Federal...
Gov. Newsom Doubles Down on State Takeover of PG&E, Says Utility ‘No Longer Exists’
“Exactly one year after PG&E Corp. filed for bankruptcy, Gov. Gavin Newsom said PG&E ‘no longer exists’ and doubled down on a state takeover if the utility doesn’t shape up by June 30,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The California...
Utility Breakup Plan: Two Attorneys Say ‘PG&E Too Big to Succeed’
The opening paragraph of a lawsuit names the California Public Utilities Commission, California Department of Water Resources, California Department of Finance Director Keely Bosler, State Treasurer Fiona Ma, and all of the CPUC Commissioners, Marybel Batjer, Liane Randolph, Martha Guzman...