Wildfire

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) on Sunday told California regulators that its equipment may have been involved in the ignition of the now raging Dixie Fire in part of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Northern California. A PG&E field employee reported a blown fuse on PG&E’s Bucks Creek 1101 12-kV overhead distribution circuit,…

California officials are predicting another difficult wildfire season in California, but San Diego Gas and Electric Co. (SDG&E) CEO Caroline Winn said the combination utility expects that planned outages will unfold smoothly this year.  Winn spoke on Monday during a virtual hearing of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which is hearing how the major…

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).

While the physical risks of California wildfires are projected to increase, actions by courts, lawmakers and regulators over the past 12 months have lowered the state’s financial exposure, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

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.

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco on Tuesday approved the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E)revised reorganization planand left unchanged the $13.5 billion settlement signed late last year.

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco on Tuesday approved the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E)revised reorganization planand left unchanged the $13.5 billion settlement signed late last year.

California’s major utilities have been told to continue pushing forward with enhanced wildfire mitigation plans despite statewide shelter-in-place mandates regarding the Covid-19 pandemic.