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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.

With extremely high winds forecast to return to Northern California by Tuesday, wildfire prevention methods by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) that cut power to more than two million people and thousands of homes and businesses are likely to stay in place for up to five days.

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.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) executives told state regulators on Friday that preemptively shutting off power in high-risk wildfire areas could continue for the next decade.

Bankruptcy bound Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) told a federal district court judge in San Francisco that its equipment, or operations, could have been involved in at least nine fires in Northern California this year.

Edison International’s Southern California Edison Co. (SCE) utility acknowledged its infrastructure may have caused the disruptive, fast-moving Saddleridge fire that skirted residential areas and a major gas storage facility in northern Los Angeles County last week, according to a report the company filed with state regulators.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) has lost the exclusive right to file its reorganization plan in court after a federal judge this week cleared the way for bondholders to file a competing version.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) has reached a settlement to pay $65 million for allegedly falsifying natural gas and electric records that in some cases led to contractors damaging utility infrastructure.

California regulators on Thursday opened a formal proceeding to assess financial and other implications for combination utility operations in the reorganization plan by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E).