Pacific Gas and Electric News

A power line that channels electricity from El Portal to Yosemite Valley was severed during the storm, possibly by lightning, and had not been repaired, Yosemite spokesman Scott Gediman said, meaning Yosemite Valley had gone more than 24 hours without power.

Southbound lanes of Newark Boulevard at Lafayette Avenue were shut down after a garbage truck slammed into a power pole Monday morning in Newark, police said.

Already locked in its third dry year, an ongoing drought could complicate California's battle against global warming and make it more expensive, officials said.

Police have issued a warning about a phone scam that has resurfaced in El Cerrito.

Downed electric lines caused by a vehicle accident northeast of Fresno on Friday evening resulted in power outages for more than 500 Pacific Gas & Electric Company customers.

The Rating Outlook remains Stable. The rating affirmation is based upon Fitch's view that Juniper is likely to generate adequate cash flow to meet its final scheduled debt service payment without drawing on its debt service reserve backed by a letter of credit equal to six months of debt service.

President Barack Obama boasts about his "year of action," the 40-plus executive actions he's taken this year to push past a gridlocked Congress in order to help struggling Americans.

Witnesses pulled the man from the burning wreckage, authorities said. According to Merced County Sheriff's Capt.

In more than one US location gas pipes under city streets have exploded, causing damage and even death.

Today, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Veterans Employee Resource Group awarded 10 scholarships totaling $55,000 to college and college-bound students.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is asking the public to weigh in on a proposal to build a new high-voltage transmission line across western Fresno County.

Longtime Grover Beach politico John Shoals will be running for the city's mayoral seat in the upcoming Nov. 4 general election.

Leaders here are cheering an agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric they hope will allow the utility and city to work together to preserve both public safety and as many local trees as possible.

The State Water Resources Control Board has approved a request by Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

Solano County residents can now receive up to $200 in rebates when purchasing a qualifying water-efficient and energy-efficient clothes washer through a new partnership between the Solano County Water Agency and Pacific Gas and Electric .

San Luis Obispo's LED Lighting Upgrade Delivers Superior Light Quality and Savings DURHAM, N.C. - Inspired by the successful Los Angeles street lighting upgrade, where many of the city's 140,000 high-pressure sodium street lights were converted to Cree LED luminaires, San Luis Obispo, Calif.

City officials and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will hold a reopening event Wednesday for Willow-Balch Park in southeast Fresno.

Utilities continued to provide positive total returns from the beginning of tightening to the end of tightening.

Vallejo City Council unanimously approved a $1.73 million contract with Tanko Lighting of San Francisco to convert about 8,000 high-pressure sodium streetlights to LED fixtures.

The site of the former Cinderella Motel at Antelope Boulevard and Rio Street in Red Bluff will be undergoing testing starting Monday for clean up of potentially toxic substances left behind from its days as a gas manufacturing plant.