PG&E Starts Trust Fund To Help Rebuild After San Bruno Blast
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has created a trust fund of up to $70 million to help the city of San Bruno rebuild after last year's explosion.
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Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has created a trust fund of up to $70 million to help the city of San Bruno rebuild after last year's explosion.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. officials are acknowledging that they may never be able to find some of the documents for the utility's older natural gas pipelines.
Pacific Gas & Electric Corp.'s top executive is stepping down following a "challenging year" that included the natural gas pipeline explosion San Bruno.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has started sending out informational letters and safety brochures to 2.5 million homeowners and businesses near natural gas transmission pipelines.
Some homes and businesses in a San Francisco neighborhood had to be evacuated after a work crew punctured a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. natural gas line.
After the deadly explosion in San Bruno on Sept. 9, state regulators ordered Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to produce records for its pipelines through urban areas or test them - the agency said Tuesday that some of that work will begin in May.
Officials at Pacific Gas & Electric say the utility on Monday provided records and other information as part of its response to a state Public Utilities Commission investigation into last year's deadly San Bruno gas pipeline explosion.
San Francisco State University has canceled classes because of a power outage that happened late Monday morning, school officials said.
PG&E reached a settlement Thursday in San Francisco with the California Public Utilities Commission, which now requires the utility giant to release safety reports of its gas transmission lines.
An off-duty PG&E mechanic helped battle last year's deadly, gas-fueled inferno in San Bruno by responding on his own, federal documents show.
Those opposed to nuclear power turned out to share their views with the Public Utilities Commission in San Francisco on Thursday.
Under questioning this week by the state Public Utilities Commission, PG&E officials maintained that inspectors have found no other pipelines with the same conditions as Line 132, which blew up last September, killing eight people.
PG&E officials say they shouldn't have to pay an even larger fine for not turning over all its pipeline safety records by March 15th.
An environmental advocacy group has thrown its support behind PG&E's SmartMeter program.
Two top Pacific Gas & Electric Co. executives are resigning—one with a sizeable bonus—as the California utility reorganizes following the deadly explosion on one of its high-pressure gas lines in San Bruno.
More then 266,000 San Francisco and San Mateo residents received a $25 pre-paid debit card from Pacific Gas and Electric Co. for conserving gas this past December, but some customers are still confused on whether the debit card includes extra fees.
Survivors of a deadly gas pipeline explosion that ravaged a San Bruno neighborhood testified before California regulators on Tuesday night.
Power was restored to San Francisco Pacific Gas & Electric customers Friday night after an outage left more than 5,000 in the dark, a utility spokesman said.
California's two nuclear power plants should not rely on pools similar to those used at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant for long term storage of spent fuel rods, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Wednesday.
A year before a pipeline explosion ripped through a San Bruno neighborhood, a Solano County man was already conducting his own research about the pipelines near his house.
San Francisco and San Mateo residents who received a $25 prepaid debit card as reward from Pacific Gas and Electric Co. don't have to worry about any fees associated with the promotion, despite what they may find in the small print.
Authorities shut down several streets in San Francisco Monday morning as they responded to an incident involving PG&E equipment, a San Francisco Fire Department dispatcher said.
Crews were working Friday to reopen blocked roadways, restore power to thousands and repair damage from flooding that forced the evacuation of a Capitola mobile home park.
A Peninsula Assemblyman is highly critical of a fine agreement between the CPUC and PG&E.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is proposing to allow residents to switch off the wireless signals on their utility meters for a fee, but opponents of the devices aren't satisfied.
