The California Public Utilities Commission reports that the state’s three major utilities are getting roughly 18 percent of their energy from renewable energy sources. That’s two percent shy of the twenty percent they were supposed to have by 2010. It looks likely they will make it by 2012. And then they have eight years...
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PG&E chose not to install safety valves on their San Bruno gas lines in 2006 because they concluded that most of the damage from an explosion would occur in the first 30 seconds, officials revealed yesterday during a National Transportation Safety Board hearing in Washington D.C. Documents also revealed that PG&E workers were concerned...
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The National Transportation Safety Board will seek answers from PG&E officials over the next three days about the San Bruno gasline explosion last September. Specifically, safety officials will try to determine why PG&E lacked any automatically controlled valves to shut off the gas, which gushed uncontrolled for more than an hour.
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PG&E may ask its customers to foot part of the bill for a gasline explosion in San Bruno last September that killed 8 people. The utility company spent $63 million in 2010 on the explosion and anticipates paying out considerably more on lawsuits and pipeline tests. PG&E reported $1.1 billion in profits for 2010....
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Sebastopol in Sonoma County is a hotbed of anti-Smart Meter activism. With two new members of the city council now in office, the political landscape may have changed enough that the town may ban the PG&E meters on Tuesday. Officials say that since other towns in the area have enacted bans, they are less...
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PG&E has found an additional 21 gas leaks in its service area, including three in South San Francisco, as part of an ongoing investigation into the safety of its infrastructure following the San Bruno explosion. The leaks were found by flying small planes over feeder mains and using a methane detector to pick up...
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Utility company Pacific Gas & Electric lost the San Francisco measure that would require a two-thirds electorate vote for the city government to sell electricity because it was misunderstood, according to CEO of PG&E Peter Darby. “The problem was we never had an opportunity to have a discussion,” Darby told attendees to a University...
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