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A California administrative law judge last Friday increased PG&E Corp.’s penalties and fines regarding long-term violations of the Underground Service Alert (USA), aka 811 system.

A California administrative law judge last Friday increased PG&E Corp.’s penalties and fines regarding long-term violations of the Underground Service Alert (USA), aka 811 system.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued an order Thursday to overhaul rules governing the operation and planning of natural gas pipeline systems, citing the state’s impending transition away from the fossil fuel, as well as operational issues, constraints, and safety-related incidents that have occurred in recent years.

California regulators on Tuesday proposed a $1.675 billion settlement with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) to address the combination utility’s culpability in igniting wildfires in 2017 and 2018.

California regulators on Monday ordered wholesale changes in the wildfire mitigation plans of the state’s major utilities, which are aimed at gaining more data and standardization as well as increased accountability in reducing wildfire risks in 2020.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Wednesday launched a statewide investigation of how major utilities have used preventive power shutoffs to curb wildfires, noting that it intends to hold the power companies accountable for their actions during those increasingly controversial events.

Acknowledging that reducing natural gas in the power stack is causing near-term worries about reliability, California regulators on Thursday took steps to bolster supplies for the next four years, including delaying the retirement of some gas-fired coastal, water-cooled generation plants.

On orders from the governor, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Monday launched a multi-faceted investigation of the major investor-owned electric utilities’ wildfire preventive power shutoffs as fires rage throughout the state.

The mayor of San Jose, California’s third largest city, has a preliminary proposal on the table to take over the natural gas and electric systems of bankruptcy-bound Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) and transform it into a customer-owned cooperative utility.