Pacific Gas and Electric News

Pacific Gas and Electric Company officials say it was a squirrel that got into some of their electrical equipment in the Glenbrook basin that caused an outage that affected 2,205 of the utilities customers this morning.

On the front doorsteps of the California Public Utilities Commission in San Francisco Monday morning, the City of San Bruno released a barrage of criticisms and demands for firings, fines, and punishments aimed at the CPUC as well as PG&E for what it calls blatantly illegal conduct: secret meetings and communications out of the public view.

At least 41 emails obtained by the city of San Bruno reveal an intimate, friendly arrangement between the monopolistic power company and the regulators that are supposed to keep them in line.

A Chief of Staff of California Public Utilities Commission president Michael Peevey advised a PG&E executive on ways to deflect a request to disclose public information.

An an old abandoned power plant in the River District will soon get new life once it transforms into the Powerhouse Science Center.

TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation: "We rate PG&E CORP a BUY.

City leaders in San Bruno are expected to make a major announcement Monday, alleging a cozy relationship between PG&E and the California Public Utilities Commission, according to a press release.

Twenty-one years after Erin Brockovich discovered the city's water contained high levels of hexavalent chromium , the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board has told Hinkley residents their once-toxic water is now safe to drink.

San Bruno officials said Friday they have discovered at least 40 violations of state law in documents that prove an "illegal, cozy, and inappropriate" relationship exists between the state Public Utilities Commission and PG&E, the latest flap in the aftermath of a lethal natural gas explosion in San Bruno four years ago.

Corp.'s 6% 1st Preferred Non-Redeemable will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.375, payable on 8/15/14.

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District received a new 50-year license from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to continue operating the 688 MW Upper American River Project.

On July 21, 2014, the California Court of Appeal's Fourth Appellate District, Division One, affirmed the trial court's decision in Rhea v.

Thousands of Pacific Gas and Electric customers were without electricity Thursday afternoon after power lines came down in the area of a brush fire near Highway 280, officials said.

Utilities in states with progressive policies are leading sales of renewable energy and leading in savings from energy efficiency, according to a report released today by Ceres, a non-profit that seeks to mobilize leadership on clean energy.

UPDATE 5 p.m.: PG&E is reporting that power has not yet been fully restored to customers near Cal Poly off California Boulevard in San Luis Obispo.

Oak Knoll Avenue between Medway Road and San Anselmo Avenue will be closed for Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

Directed by the multi-talented Steven Soderbergh, "Erin Brockovich" is based on the true story of a legal clerk with no formal education in the law who helped settle one of the largest direct-action lawsuits in U.S. history.

Two wood-burning power plants in Tuolumne County are among those selected Wednesday for a federal program that helps supply the fuel.

A gas line break in the 900 block of West El Monte Way in Dinuba has forced people from their homes on Wednesday, police said.

In a filing that ultimately could force PG&E to reduce pressure in some of its natural gas lines, San Bruno city officials and a key unit with a powerful state agency this week demanded that California regulators require the utility to produce improved records for multiple gas pipelines.