SAN FRANCISCO—Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to pay more than $55 million to avoid criminal prosecution for two major wildfires started by aging Northern California power lines belonging to the nation’s largest utility, prosecutors announced Monday. Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) does not admit wrongdoing in the two settlements reached with prosecutors for last…
PG&E’s Criminal Probation to End Amid Ongoing Safety Worries
SAN FRANCISCO—Pacific Gas & Electric is poised to emerge from five years of criminal probation, despite worries that nation’s largest utility remains too dangerous to trust after years of devastation from wildfires ignited by its outdated equipment and neglectful management. The probation, set to expire at midnight Tuesday, was supposed to rehabilitate PG&E after its…
PG&E Shuts Off Electricity for 25,000 People in California Due to Fire Conditions
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) cut off power to thousands of residents in California Monday in a “safety shutoff” due to critical fire conditions. “This safety shutoff is due to a dry, offshore wind event expected to start Sunday night and bring wind gusts of up to 50 mph by Monday morning,” a PG&E…
PG&E Charged in California Wildfire Last Year That Killed 4
SAN FRANCISCO—Pacific Gas & Electric was charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter and other crimes after its equipment sparked a Northern California wildfire that killed four people and destroyed hundreds of homes last year, prosecutors said. It is the latest legal action against the nation’s largest utility, which pleaded guilty last year to 84 counts of…
California Utility Cutting Power to 51,000 Customers Amid Dangerous Wildfire Conditions
The nation’s largest utility announced on Tuesday evening that it has begun shutting off power to some 51,000 customers as a large wildfire, fueled by winds, raged through a small Northern California forest town. Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) in a press release said it made the decision to prevent winds from knocking down or…
PG&E Will Spend at Least $15 Billion Burying Power Lines
SAN RAMON, Calif.—Pacific Gas & Electric plans to bury 10,000 miles of its power lines in an effort to prevent its fraying grid from sparking wildfires when electrical equipment collides with millions of trees and other vegetation across drought-stricken California. The daunting project announced Wednesday aims to bury about 10 percent of PG&E’s distribution and…
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