Pacific Gas and Electric News

Years ago, in the middle of the boom in nuclear power plants, we used to say, only half in jest, the private utilities would never accept solar energy because you can't put a meter on the sun.

Bayview is home to folks who love vintage cars. Just ask the members of Fo' Fifteen , Bayview's car club.

If it wins final approval, the eye-popping $2.25 billion penalty that the California Public Utility Commission's Safety and Enforcement Division has recommended against Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

Pacific Gas and Electric is hosting a free "Time for Business" lunch 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk Aloha Terrace, 400 Beach St.

Allegations of Native American archeological sites being destroyed by logging operations have caused a rift between members of the Maidu Summit and Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

PG&E crews will begin work Tuesday on Elmira Road as the company continues testing gas pipelines throughout the state.

HINKLEY Years of groundwater cleanup still lie ahead in the tiny desert community of Hinkley, made famous by a contaminated water supply that was the subject of the Hollywood film "Erin Brockovich." But a final environmental impact report released last Friday will soon allow expanded cleanup efforts, according to Lauri Kemper, the Lahontan Water ... (more)

BARSTOW Plata's Mexican food is as connected to the history of Barstow as the BNSF Railroad and Marine Corps Logistics Base, said Armando Gonzalez.

A car crashed into a power pole in Fremont Sunday afternoon, causing live wires to come down onto the roadway and initially cutting off power to thousands of local residents.

With four cities down and four to go, Sonoma County officials this week enter the second half of their roadshow to convince cities to take part in the county's planned public power agency.

A Newark resident reported a suspicious person posing as a PG&E employee knocked on her door Thursday, according to police.

State utility regulators are mulling a proposal - well, several proposals - to slap Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

Pacific Gas & Electric teamed up with UC Santa Cruz to help design energy-efficient labs in the new Biomedical Building.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. representative Jana Morris said the outage happened at 12:24 p.m. and affected 261 customers.

Authorities are searching for Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker as the main suspect of a murder in New Jersey.

The Media and Learning Center at De Anza College recently won a citation for energy performance from the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter, and PG&E. The award was presented April 25 and seeks to honor projects that demonstrate how deep reductions in energy use are essential to good design in the 21st century.

From about 300 feet in the air, the two workers strapped in atop a newly placed steel tower on a hilltop alongside Highway 101 looked completely at ease and unfazed by the fact that they were about to be taken for one hell of a ride.

The man who achieved Internet fame as Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker when he struck a driver accused of attempting to run over a Pacific Gas & Electric work in February, is wanted on suspicion of murdering an attorney in New Jersey.

1 attack in Fresno, California. He was riding with a man who drove into a utility worker.

The second tank is backed into position as the first begins its descent through the roof.