Pacific Gas and Electric News

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Power was lost to 5,845 Pacific Gas & Electric customers in northwest Santa Rosa on Sunday when a vehicle hit a power pole in the area of Steele and McBride lanes.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. began work Thursday to upgrade 4,400 feet of natural gas transmission pipeline in north Tracy along Grant Line Road between Holly Drive and North MacArthur Drive.

Earthquake Models Help Identify Potentially Impacted Areas so Resiliency Plans, Resources and Materials Can Be Focused on Where They Will Be Needed Most /PRNewswire/ -- Serving an active earthquake region, advanced preparation for natural disasters is a top priority for Pacific Gas and Electric Company to help ensure safe and reliable operations.

PG&E will vent natural gas Monday afternoon on Marsh Road between Page and Hoover streets in Menlo Park and on Marshall Street between Main Street and Jefferson Avenue in Redwood City to allow crews to work on a pipe, according to the utility.

PG&E paid $1.67 million in property tax to Yolo County plus franchise fees of $2.27 million to the county and its four cities, the utility reported.

A majestic Siberian elm towers over the entrance to the Pleasant Hill Cohousing community tucked at the end of Lisa Lane.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. officials are set to appear in court on Monday to face federal felony charges involving safety violations tied to a deadly 2010 natural gas pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Crews are working Friday afternoon to clear a mudslide in Piedmont that brought down several trees including one that hit power lines.

A new White House strategy paper on reducing emissions of methane-a powerful greenhouse gas-named Pacific Gas and Electric Company as one of five natural gas utilities nationwide "collaborating to address key technical and regulatory factors affecting methane emission reduction opportunities from natural gas distribution systems."

Humboldt County Sheriff's Office Drug Task Force officers are continuing to investigate a storage facility in Fortuna where they found around 1,300 growing marijuana plants in a unit on Thursday.

Work is ongoing in downtown Fairfax to replace segments of a Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

A vehicle crashed into a power pole in Alum Rock shortly before 7 p.m. Thursday, knocking wires to the ground and turning off the lights for about 3,400 residents, according to officials with Pacific Gas and Electric.

Joined by Congressman Kevin McCarthy and Boys & Girls Clubs of Kern County Executive Director Zane Smith, Pacific Gas and Electric Company President Chris Johns Thursday announced a partnership to help underserved youth with career education and job readiness training.

The lease revenue bonds are secured by lease payments made by the county to the authority under a covenant to budget and appropriate.

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.