Topic: PG&E Corporation

San Francisco Boiler Collapse

One man was killed, when a boiler collapsed at a Pacific Gas & Electric building that was being demolished in San Francisco , California on January 28, 2008.

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California blast site wasn't on utility watch list

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The California site of a deadly gas pipeline explosion earlier this month was not on a "top 100" watch list of pipelines monitored by Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives said on Monday.The September 9 explosion of a ...
Pacific Gas and Electric sets aside $100 million to help California residents hurt by blastPacific Gas and Electric Co. said Monday it has set aside up to $100 million to help San Bruno, California residents recover from last week's natural gas ...
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PG&E shares fall after explosion in California, as investors factor in uncertaintyShares of PG&E Corp. fell sharply Friday after an explosion killed at least four people and injured dozens more in a San Francisco suburb where the utility provides natural ...

PG&E Seeks Funding for Pumped-Storage Hydro...

California, United States Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced it has filed a request with state regulators for funding to study the feasibility of building a pumped-storage hydro project in the Mokelumne River watershed in Amador County. Pacific Gas and Electric Company ...

Green Energy Finds Its Legs - Peter Cox

One, wind is now the number one source of new electricity-generation installations in both Europe and the U.S. and has been for the last year or two. The problem with wind energy in the U.S. now is that you have ...

Cali Utility Learns Painful PR Lesson

There's no doubt that Pacific Gas and Electric screwed up when they didn't react immediately to growing complaints about the utility's massive smart metering program. Unfortunately for Pacific Gas and Electric, though, that one percent translates to about 50 ...
If you didn't say Lehman Brothers you weren't even close. With $691 billion in assets, its September 2008 Chapter 11 filing was more than twice as large as No. 2 Washington Mutual's (assets: Pacific Gas & Electric would move from ...