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Pacific Gas and Electric Company

May 2023

  • A California Highway Patrol officer watches flames that are visible from the Zogg Fire on Clear Creek Road near Igo, Calif., on Monday, Sep. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

    California utility avoids trial for 2020 wildfire that killed four

    Pacific Gas and Electric will pay over $50m for rebuilding and civic penalties and continue initiatives to reduce wildfire risks

March 2021

  • A house burns on Platina Road at the Zogg Fire near Ono, California, 27 September 2020.

    California fire that killed four sparked by tree hitting PG&E power lines, officials say

    Utility recently emerged from bankruptcy after its equipment started fires that killed more than 100 people in 2017 and 2018

October 2020

  • John and Denise Papia load up the last two bags of ice from the Safeway in Rincon Valley for their refrigerator and freezer before a potential shutoff in Santa Rosa, 8 September.

    California utility could cut power to 1m people amid extreme fire weather

  • Bikers ride through the Montclair district of Oakland, Calif., where power is turned off, on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. Pacific Gas & Electric has cut power to portions of Northern California hoping to prevent wildfires during hot, windy weather throughout the region. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

    California: 100,000 people without power amid extreme wildfire risk

September 2020

  • Power companies across California will be cutting electricity to as many as 721,000 people.

    Hundreds of thousands brace for power shutoffs as California fires burn 2m acres

    Altogether, 721,000 people could be affected by these preventive measures, posing significant risks to the physically vulnerable

June 2020

  • The Ridgewood mobile home park retirement community in Paradise, California, was leveled in the 2018 Camp fire.

    PG&E confesses to killing 84 people in 2018 California fire as part of guilty plea

    The fire, which completely devastated the town of Paradise, was blamed on the company’s crumbling electrical grid

January 2020

  • Street lights stand dark in Lafayette, California, during a Pacific Gas & Electric power outage on 26 October.

    California's wildfire risk keeps getting worse. Now a decade of blackouts lies ahead

    The state’s 2019 fire season was relatively mild, but included nine public safety power shutoffs. Is it making the system safer?

December 2019

  • A back fire set by firefighters burns a hillside near PG&E power lines during firefighting operations to battle the Kincade fire in Healdsburg, California, in October.

    PG&E reaches $13.5bn deal to resolve claims over years of California wildfires

    Company says settlement, reported at $13.5bn, incorporates all major groups of claimants

October 2019

  • Firefighting crews battle the Kincade fire in Healdsburg, California.

    PG&E: what’s next for the utility at the center of California’s wildfires

    The company’s ongoing troubles have led to the question: what’s needed to adapt its infrastructure and who will pay?
  • Flames consume a home as the Kincade Fire tears through the Jimtown community of Sonoma County, Calif., Oct. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

    California wildfires: violent winds fuel Kincade blaze as Getty fire burns in LA

    Two million still without power after weekend shutoffs as wine country fire scorches 66,000 acres
  • Flames rise behind Ledson Winery in October 2017 in Kenwood, near Santa Rosa, California.

    'Be vigilant, be careful': Californians learn to live with constant threat of fire and power cuts

    As more blackouts loom, some are lucky enough to live near ‘resilience zones’ with power hubs of their own
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