Pacific Gas and Electric News

PG&E, a Northern California utility company, is already experimenting with using big batteries to store wind-generated electricity at its Vaca-Dixon Substation.

Whenever there is a tragedy, be it in a coal mine, on a drilling platform, or in your neighborhood, there is an understandable desire to learn the cause and penalize the perpetrator.

I have never opted in to such a program, but neither have I opted out. The gas and electric meters for the house where I live are located inside the building, as is typical of San Francisco row houses.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company will be replacing sections of natural gas pipeline underneath Winslow Street, between Fuller Street and Whipple Avenue, with additional construction work on Whipple Avenue, in Redwood City staring Mon., Dec. 16. This is part of the city's system-wide program to ensure the safety of the transmission pipelines that ... (more)

Officials say a gas main leak that led to an underground fire in Oakland and forced the evacuation of several homes has been capped.

A widespread drop in temperatures prompted many to crank up the thermostat, causing two natural gas usage records to be broken in just a matter of days.

PG&E officials monitor a gas line that ruptured and burst into flames at Golf Links Road and Fontaine Street in Oakland, Calif.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. spokesman Jason King told KRON4-TV the utility received a report about a gas leak on Tuesday and found a 4-inch plastic gas main had ruptured.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. spokesman Jason King told KRON4-TV the utility received a report about a gas leak on Tuesday and found a 4-inch plastic gas main had ruptured.

Pacific Gas and Electric, one of the nation's largest utilities, set an all-time record for natural gas consumption Monday.

Pacific Gas and Electric, one of the nation's largest utilities, set an all-time record for natural gas consumption Monday.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company unveiled the company's state-of-the-art Gas Control Center.

A utility worker was injured while responding to an outage in San Francisco Sunday morning, a PG&E spokesman said.

The Nevada Irrigation District activated an emergency pumping system Thursday to restore water flows to the Cascade Canal and two of Nevada County's largest water treatment plants.

City of San Carlos City Manager's Office City Hall 600 Elm Street Phone: 802-4228 Fax: 595-6729 SAN CARLOS, CA, December 6, 2013 - Despite the City of San Carlos' on-going safety concerns and questions about the need to operate the pipeline, Administrative Law Judge Maribeth Bushey issued a Proposed Decision this afternoon that would allow the ... (more)

PG&E executives said Friday that a new $38 million state-of-the-art natural gas control center here will make the company's gas system safer, the same day that a state regulatory judge recommended that the utility be allowed to resume full-pressure operations of a closely scrutinized gas pipeline beneath San Carlos.

The new facility, which houses both gas control and dispatch in , will serve as PG&E's around-the-clock nerve center to monitor all aspects of its natural gas system across a 70,000-square-mile service area.

On Thursday students and staff at West Valley College had to bundle up not only outside but inside too after PG&E ordered the campus to reduce its natural gas consumption.

Pacific Gas and Electric , commonly known as PG&E, is an investor-owned utility that provides gas and electricity to most of the northern and central California region.

State Department of Conservation officials will be in Bakersfield next week gathering public input about what should be included in an environmental review of proposed rules for the oilfield technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking."