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Following a movement to ban natural gas in new buildings that began in California and is spreading nationwide, San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) said it is in support, if it can be done in a cost effective way to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The California Energy Commission (CEC), which previously ratified…

With approval of its $58 billion reorganization plan, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) and its parent company said they will exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a “re-imagined” enterprise. Driven to bankruptcy by devastating wildfires in 2017 and 2018, PG&E now is eligible to tap into a $21 billion state wildfire fund authorized under last…

California regulators last Thursday approved a multi-billion-dollar microgrid program accelerating short-term actions to lessen the impact of planned wildfire preventive grid shutdowns by the state’s major investor-owned utilities (IOUs).

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) officials on Monday defended their enhanced preparedness for lowering the risks of wildfires this year after being criticized at a hearing of the California Senate’s Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee.

California regulators on Thursday approved with conditions Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s (PG&E) proposed $58 billion bankruptcy reorganization plan, giving the combination utility a clear path to exit Chapter 11 once a federal bankruptcy court approves the proposal.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) and its parent company last Friday gained approval to reorganize and exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy, including approval from the wildfire victims, with more than 85% voting in favor of the plan.

California regulators on Thursday unanimously slapped a $1.9 billion penalty on Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) for its role in thehorrific wildfiresthat ravaged Northern California in 2017 and 2018, and separately postponed until the Fall a vote on a long-standing investigation of the San Francisco-based combination utility’s safety culture.

A federal district judge overseeing Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s (PG&E) criminal safety violation conviction probation on Wednesday ordered a safety overhaul of thebankruptcy-boundcombination utility.

Under a program overseen by the California Public Utilities Commission for collecting funds fromcap-and-tradeauctions for greenhouse gas emissions, major natural gas utilities are providing credits to residential customers this month.