Judge Orders PG&E To Provide Information On Its Role In Sparking Dixie, Fly Fires
A federal judge has given Pacific Gas and Electric until August 16 to explain its role in starting the Dixie and Fly fires.
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A federal judge has given Pacific Gas and Electric until August 16 to explain its role in starting the Dixie and Fly fires.
PG&E says it may be responsible for another fire in Northern California.
Prosecutors said they have determined Pacific Gas and Electric criminally liable for causing the Zogg Fire, which killed four people and destroyed several homes in Shasta County in 2020.
Pacific Gas and Electric's plan to bury 10,000 miles of its power lines in an effort to prevent its fraying grid from sparking wildfires will cost the company at least $15 billion.
G&E on Wednesday announced plans to bury 10,000 miles of transmission lines.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company says its equipment was possibly involved in the start of the now 30,000-plus acre Dixie Fire.
Pacific Gas and Electric has long vowed to change its reckless ways, but year after year there's more death and destruction from Northern California wildfires sparked by the nation's largest utility.
Pacific Gas and Electric asked regulators Wednesday to grant a $3.6 billion rate hike to help it pay for hardening its power systems to prevent deadly wildfires.
California's power grid operator said there would be no rolling blackouts Thursday evening after Pacific Gas and Electric announced earlier in the afternoon that multiple counties across the Sacramento region could see outages as high heat impacts the West.
Power is back after thousands of PG&E customers were left in the dark on Monday.
Pacific Gas & Electric is getting hit with a nearly $150 million bill for neglect that caused Northern California wildfires during the past two years and mismanagement of blackouts designed to prevent the utility's crumbling power grid from causing more damage.
Pacific Gas and Electric is targeting Nevada County as a high-risk wildfire area, cutting down trees away from 138 miles of power lines to prevent wildfires. But what does that mean for animals who call those trees home?
A trust approved by a federal judge to help compensate victims of deadly California wildfires sparked by Pacific Gas & Electric equipment paid survivors just $7 million while racking up $51 million in overhead in its first year of operation, KQED News reported.
A trust representing more than 80,000 victims of deadly wildfires ignited by Pacific Gas and Electric's rickety electrical grid is suing nearly two dozen of the utility's former executives and board members for alleged dereliction of their duty to ensure the equipment wouldn't kill people.
A Valentine's Day balloon filled with helium drifted into a power line Sunday, sparking an outage that temporarily plunged more than 2,300 Fresno households into the dark.
Pacific Gas & Electric and other California utilities said Friday that they will spend about $13 billion to reduce the risk of wildfires following the worst fire season in modern state history and a string of blazes that were blamed on their equipment.
As it prepares for more rain and snow in the coming week, Pacific Gas and Electric on Sunday said approximately 98% of the nearly 944,000 customers who were impacted by outages during the biggest storm of the season have seen their power restored.
Thousands are still waiting for power to return after this week's storm. PG&E has told some customers it could be a few more days before it can be restored.
On Friday, PG&E reported on the number of its customers who still don't have power. Some have been without it for three days.
Power companies like SMUD and PG&E are feeling the heat from people without any, as they enter day two without power.
More than 100,000 PG&E and SMUD customers lost power in one night.
A former Pacific Gas & Electric employee was sentenced Monday to nearly two years in prison for his role in a kickback scheme to secure PG&E contracts for his cousin's Stockton transportation company, federal prosecutors said.
Forecasted high winds and dry conditions may prompt the first Public Safety Power Shutoff of the year Monday night.
A scathing new report accuses Pacific Gas and Electric Co. of failing to address the number one cause of wildfires they've ignited.
Embattled Northern California utility PG&E Corp. has lured away the top executive at Michigan's largest power provider to steer its effort to restore a reputation tarnished by years of neglectful conduct that culminated in a series of deadly wildfires.
