Pacific Gas and Electric News

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.

It appears that a heating ventilation and air conditioning system was the source of a possible gas leak that forced Oakland police headquarters to be evacuated today, police said.

Despite a downward revision to the solar assessment and an increase to operating cost assumptions in project projections, the debt service coverage profile at Opco remains consistent with the current rating.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is pleased to join the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1245 in celebration of Journeyman Lineman Recognition Day on Thursday, July 10. The recognition day, which was recently designated by the California State Assembly, acknowledges the critical role that electric linemen play in delivering ... (more)

Michael Gregory, reflected in a window, prune vines at Milestones of Development as Rebuilding Together preps for work this weekend.

Hundreds of Pacific Gas and Electric employees responsible for fusing together the plastic pipes that deliver natural gas to homes have not properly completed training required to be certified to perform the work, PG&E officials said Thursday.

After years of scathing criticism over failures to make sure PG&E natural gas pipelines don't blow up and passengers can get out of burning limousines, a state agency on Thursday adopted a "safety-first" policy.

More than one thousand PG&E customers are without power in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood this morning, a PG&E spokesman said.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. plans to begin work on replacing 4,400 feet of natural gas transmission pipeline in north Tracy on Aug. 7. This stretch of pipe was identified by PG&E as one that needed to be replaced as part of the mandatory Pipeline Safety Enhancement Plan created by the California Public Utilities Commission after a PG&E gas line ... (more)

PG&E said Wednesday it has discovered flaws in the training for hundreds of employees who fuse together plastic pipes used to deliver natural gas to customers, the latest stumble for the utility as it faces the prospect of a big fine and new criminal charges over a fatal explosion in San Bruno.

By year's end, every street light in Vallejo will have been changed to LED, saving energy, money and maintenance time as well as qualifying the city for a sizable rebate, city officials said.

News from the City of Orinda: This past year Pacific Gas & Electric has been working on a plan to construct the Miner Road Undergrounding Utility project which will convert the existing overhead utilities into new underground conduits.

The outage that left nearly 9,400 Eel River Valley customers without power Monday night and early Tuesday was caused by an equipment malfunction at a power substation, according to Pacific Gas & Electric Company spokeswoman Brittany McKannay.

Thousands of customers tonight are without power in the Eel River Valley, according to the Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

Tuolumne Utilities District directors will consider an agreement Tuesday that could provide an emergency supply of water for hundreds of Del Oro Water Co.

In the third-largest watershed in California, the Eel River rambles through some of the state's most stunning landscape.

John Duffy, a nuclear engineer turned grape grower and hotelier who developed Vintner's Inn, the home of famed restaurant John Ash & Co., died June 20 of an unexpected illness.

Gunfire sent a 12,000 vote power line and portions of a conductor tumbling to the street late Friday, killing a 19-year-old man and critically injuring his half brother who tried to help him, according to police and Pacific Gas and Electric officials.

After masked gunmen popped out of a manhole into a San Jose , Calif. , substation last year, firing automatic weapons and destroying 17 transformers, Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

For decades, Californians who use the most electricity have paid extra for that privilege, on the theory that high prices might provide an incentive for them to use less.