Pacific Gas and Electric News

PG&E said Wednesday it has discovered flaws in the training for hundreds of employees who fuse together plastic pipes used to deliver natural gas to customers, the latest stumble for the utility as it faces the prospect of a big fine and new criminal charges over a fatal explosion in San Bruno.

By year's end, every street light in Vallejo will have been changed to LED, saving energy, money and maintenance time as well as qualifying the city for a sizable rebate, city officials said.

News from the City of Orinda: This past year Pacific Gas & Electric has been working on a plan to construct the Miner Road Undergrounding Utility project which will convert the existing overhead utilities into new underground conduits.

The outage that left nearly 9,400 Eel River Valley customers without power Monday night and early Tuesday was caused by an equipment malfunction at a power substation, according to Pacific Gas & Electric Company spokeswoman Brittany McKannay.

Thousands of customers tonight are without power in the Eel River Valley, according to the Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

Tuolumne Utilities District directors will consider an agreement Tuesday that could provide an emergency supply of water for hundreds of Del Oro Water Co.

In the third-largest watershed in California, the Eel River rambles through some of the state's most stunning landscape.

John Duffy, a nuclear engineer turned grape grower and hotelier who developed Vintner's Inn, the home of famed restaurant John Ash & Co., died June 20 of an unexpected illness.

Gunfire sent a 12,000 vote power line and portions of a conductor tumbling to the street late Friday, killing a 19-year-old man and critically injuring his half brother who tried to help him, according to police and Pacific Gas and Electric officials.

After masked gunmen popped out of a manhole into a San Jose , Calif. , substation last year, firing automatic weapons and destroying 17 transformers, Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

For decades, Californians who use the most electricity have paid extra for that privilege, on the theory that high prices might provide an incentive for them to use less.

The tale of a reformed villian Gru assisting the minions and finding true love entertained a couple hundred people at Henry Miller Plaza during Movie in the Park last week.

One witness reported seeing a man, about 6 feet tall with shoulder-length shaggy blond hair, who had fired a shotgun at a Pacific Gas and Electric substation.

Celebrate the Independence Day holiday in Chowchilla on Saturday at the Chowchilla-Madera County Fairgrounds with a lively outdoor evening concert, picnic-style foods and beverages, bounce houses and inflatables, and, of course, fireworks.

For decades, Californians who use the most electricity have paid extra for that privilege, on the theory that high prices might provide an incentive for them to use less.

Nothing is more important to California's large privately owned utilities than the virtual monopolies they enjoy in most of the state.

Starting Tuesday, California will be the first state to specifically regulate the amount of chromium-6 allowed in its drinking water, public health officials announced.

Highway 99 just south of Bakersfield will close in both directions Tuesday night from 9 to 9:30 p.m., the California Department of Transportation said.

Gary Aasland is the kind of guy to whom serendipitous events happen. For instance, his mother had a tiny gold cross which had been blessed at the Vatican by the pope.

Power was restored to some 700 Dunnigan customers who lost it Monday night around 11 o'clock, according to Pacific, Gas & Electric.