Pacific Gas and Electric News

San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric Co. says it has paid property taxes and franchise fees totaling more than $302 million to the 49 counties and 243 cities in which it operates in California.

Hercules has sold its municipal utility to PG&E for $9.5 million, putting an end to a decade-long, multimillion-dollar misadventure.

Benjamin Graham taught that Intelligent Investors must do a thorough fundamental analysis of investment opportunities to determine their intrinsic value and inherent risk.

Mill Valley, the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. are working together to bring free parking to the downtown area from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays through May 2. Time limits will still be enforced.

The Eureka City Council on Tuesday directed staff to collect more data before making a decision on whether to place an excess electricity use tax on a future ballot.

A 70-mile transmission line meant to meet the Valley's growing demand for electricity is proposed to be built through portions of Fresno, Kings and Madera counties and go into operation by 2020.

The Downtown Stockton Alliance has extended the deadline to Friday for technology related business startups to receive free office space and business service at the Tech Incubator.

Cementing protection for one of the largest privately owned pieces of land on California's 1,100-mile coastline, a San Francisco environmental group on Monday donated to the public the Coast Dairies property - a pastoral expanse of rolling meadows, redwood forests and panoramic ocean views north of Santa Cruz.

More than 1,000 Redwood City customers around the county government center are without power this afternoon after a possible equipment failure.

Directors of the Placer County Water Agency last Thursday adopted a series of water use regulations and restrictions and appealed to all customers to conserve water for the duration of the drought.

Toyota has been fined a record $1.2 billion for intentionally concealing a defective gas pedal on millions of its vehicles, and for misleading its customers about the problem.

Berkeley Fire Chief Gil Dong says a "big giant fireball" erupted around 8 p.m. Saturday and burned for several hours until it was extinguished early Sunday.

It was an old gas pipe and Con Ed knew it was a problem. However, fixing that problem is a bigger issue than you may think.

The Eureka City Council will meet Tuesday to vote on approving a new contract for the Martin Slough Force Main project after a contractor walked off of the job.

Following an NBC Bay Area investigation that exposed CPUC president Michael Peevey accepted thousands of dollars in free travel from special interest groups, Sen. Jerry Hill introduces a bill to prevent public officials from accepting lavish vacations from utility-funded nonprofits.

During a meeting with city leaders Friday, Pacific Gas and Electric agreed not to remove any trees until it reaches agreement with the city on how to proceed.

PG&E is offering a $250,000 reward for leads that help investigators track down the people responsible for last year's attack on a substation in California.

As a zero net energy house, which produces at least as much energy as it consumes, the home represents the type of construction the state of California is pushing as a tool to control carbon emissions.

A Marine remained in custody Wednesday after military officials say he shot and fatally wounded a colleague with his M4 rifle at the main gate of a North Carolina base.

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