Alleging wildfire mitigation work failures, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Thursday put Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) into the first step of an enhanced oversight and enforcement process.

Under its more closely scrutinized status, PG&E must submit to the CPUC a corrective action plan and progress reports every 90 days. Depending on its fire mitigation work this year, PG&E could either be removed from the enhanced regulation or placed under even stricter oversight, the CPUC noted in its ruling.

PG&E failed to sufficiently prioritize clearing vegetation on its highest-risk power lines as part of its wildfire mitigation work last year, the CPUC said, while ordering PG&E to take corrective actions to ensure it improves its safety performance, something...