Pacific Gas and Electric News

State utility regulators are mulling a proposal - well, several proposals - to slap Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

Pacific Gas & Electric teamed up with UC Santa Cruz to help design energy-efficient labs in the new Biomedical Building.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. representative Jana Morris said the outage happened at 12:24 p.m. and affected 261 customers.

The Media and Learning Center at De Anza College recently won a citation for energy performance from the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter, and PG&E. The award was presented April 25 and seeks to honor projects that demonstrate how deep reductions in energy use are essential to good design in the 21st century.

From about 300 feet in the air, the two workers strapped in atop a newly placed steel tower on a hilltop alongside Highway 101 looked completely at ease and unfazed by the fact that they were about to be taken for one hell of a ride.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company today will begin replacing major valves on Alma Street between Colorado Avenue and the Oregon Expressway/Page Mill Road overpass.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. plans a controlled release of natural gas at Coffee Road and Claratina Avenue this morning, a process that can produce a loud, sound like an engine and intermittent smells.

CleanPowerSF which will launch later this year or early next will offer San Franciscans up to 30 megawatts of renewable power purchased from Shell Energy North America.

On Monday, a state agency recommended fining the Pacific Gas and Electric Company $2.25 billion.

The pop-pop of chopper blades and the sight of helicopters ferrying transmission line towers and heavy equipment to and from the Cuesta Grade are common these days in San Luis Obispo as Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

The city wants to hire San Francisco-based Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP, the same law firm that represented San Bruno, Calif., residents in litigation against Pacific Gas & Electric for a gas-line rupture and explosion in 2010.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company joins American Institute of Architects, San Francisco chapter , in partnership with Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation , to announce the opening of the third annual Architecture at Zero competition for zero net energy building designs.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. utility crews started work this week on a $740,000 project in eastern Tehama County to upgrade the local electric system to provide more reliable service to customers.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee favorably reported the legislation today, with broad support from Senators serving on the Committee.

Over the course of the month, 2,831 PG&E employees, along with their friends and families, volunteered at 186 events and contributed 11,746 hours of service to a wide variety of projects in the communities where they live and work.

CENTRAL COAST, Calif.- Between brush fires, earthquakes and storms, on the central coast, one company understands the importance of being prepared.

It looks like Pacific Gas & Electric's shareholders are going to have to spend $2.25 billion on safety improvements because of a 2010 natural-gas pipeline explosion in the San Francisco exurb of San Bruno.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is set to begin installing about 6,000 feet of natural gas distribution lines in Foster City this month, city officials said Tuesday.

Remember in 2001 when Enron-engineered energy deregulation helped cause rolling blackouts in California and drove Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

This is the fifth year in a row that the utility has been recognized by DiversityInc , a leading publication on diversity and businesses.