Pacific Gas & Electric

Pacific Gas & Electric spent more than $4 million on state lobbying the same year its power lines were suspected of playing a role in the most destructive wildfires in California history. Critics tell 2 Investigates they believe the money spent on improving the company's image, which include paying for ...

A massive fire roars through a neighborhood in San Bruno in 2010. California utility regulators have fined Pacific Gas & Electric Co. $97.5 million over improper back-channel communications with their own agency following the deadly 2010 San Bruno pipeline blast. Paul Sakuma — The Associated Press ...

Startup Stem broke ground in 2014 when it bid about 160 kilowatts of aggregated storage capacity into a pilot being run by utility Pacific Gas & Electric. Other behind-the-meter battery aggregations have won bids for the state's multi-year Demand Response Auction Mechanism (DRAM) pilot program.

Two have been included in every one of the 11 years SEPA has published the list. They are Pacific Gas & Electric of California, this year's leader with 831 megawatts added in 2016, and Southern California Edison, in second place this year with 547 megawatts. The third, Xcel Energy of Colorado at fifth ...

I feel that the problem has been addressed fairly well, both through internal development and through acquisitions. As for utilities, only one meets my statistical criteria, barely. That's PG&E Corp (PCG), the parent to Pacific Gas & Electric. It fetches 12 times earnings. I am unenthusiastic about the entire utility ...

California is already by far the No. 1 state for sales of electric cars, and the state's biggest utility apparently wants to add to that momentum. PG&E (formerly Pacific Gas & Electric) announced yesterday a new $3,000 purchase incentive for new Nissan Leafs. The utility company rebate is taken off the ...

The suit states Pacific Gas & Electric Co. employed High County Forestry and Mountain F Enterprises Inc. to trim trees near powerlines on the plaintiffs' property and that the defendants caused trees to "crash down with substantial force." The plaintiffs allege the defendants damaged their roof and concrete ...

Utility customers in Davis, Woodland and unincorporated Yolo County are about to decide whether to choose Valley Clean Energy or Pacific Gas & Electric & Co. as their electricity provider. Those customers are currently served by PG&E (NYSE: PCG) for electricity, but starting in the next few weeks, they ...

Among the biggest risers on the S&P 500 on Tuesday April 17 was Pacific Gas & Electric Co. ($PCG), popping some 2.65% to a price of $46.80 a share with some 6.88 million shares trading hands. Starting the day trading at $45.77, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. reached an intraday high of $47.00 and hit ...

David Almeida, manager of clean energy programs at Pacific Gas & Electric, said the utility sees transportation electrification as a "beneficial load growth opportunity," rather than a concern. “Increasing load helps us run our system more efficiently, and reduces the overall costs of running our system," ...

A new so-called community choice energy program in Placer County now has a major differentiation to offer between itself and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. — much cheaper electricity. Auburn-based Pioneer Community Energy, a joint powers electric-buying authority of Placer County and the cities of Auburn, ...

AMERICAN CANYON, CA — Pacific Gas & Electric reported on its outage map that more than 1,200 customers near American Canyon, Vallejo and Napa Valley were without power Wednesday morning. The outage started around 5:33 a.m. PG&E attributed the outage to a broken power pole found in the ...

She later worked at Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation as senior vice president for public affairs before she joined the Brown administration. Though Ms. McFadden had not worked with Governor Brown before joining his staff, the two developed a rapport that went far beyond anything he had with other staff ...

Pacific Gas & Electric (PCG) provides natural gas and electric services to ~16 million customers in northern and central California. Pacific Gas & Electric was the S&P 500's second-best performer on Tuesday. Pacific Gas & Electric declined last week and started this week on a weaker note by falling to ...

Minutes before President Donald Trump landed in California on March 13, the most powerful politicians in the state sent out a public statement that had nothing to do with him and would garner little attention. The announcement from Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders said that due to recent ...

Pacific Gas & Electric is requesting proposals for the development of up to 45 MW of “clean energy” resources including at least 10 MW of energy storage, as the centerpiece of its plans to replace the aging Dynegy Oakland jet fuel-fired power plant. The utility said it will open a two-month request for offers ...

Decision Time: Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (NYSE:PCG) now sits in the perhaps the most difficult technical position -- the stock has no urgency in its direction and that has left it at an inflection point. Watch the key moving average levels that we discuss below and further, watch the stochastics, technical ...

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PCG) traded on unusually high volume on Mar. 14, as the stock lost 2.06% to close at $44.17. On the day, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. saw 9.85 million shares trade hands on 59,050 trades. Considering that the stock averages only a daily volume of 6.37 million shares a day over the ...

Among the biggest risers on the S&P 500 on Tuesday March 13 was Pacific Gas & Electric Co. ($PCG), popping some 6.32% to a price of $45.10 a share with some 12.86 million shares trading hands. Starting the day trading at $42.63, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. reached an intraday high of $45.68 and hit ...

Thursday's commitment comes as part of stepped-up wildfire measures from Pacific Gas & Electric Co. The utility faces hundreds of millions of dollars in possible liability as California investigators determine whether its electrical equipment sparked October wildfires. The fires killed 44 people in Northern ...

Pacific Gas & Electric, which provides natural gas and electric services to customers in northern and central California, was the S&P 500's top gainer on March 22. Pacific Gas & Electric started this week on a weaker note and declined in the first three trading days of the week. Pacific Gas & Electric opened ...