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Photo: Rogelio V. Solis (AP) Most of us don’t give much of a thought about how the sausage of our electric bill is made. It comes, we maybe yell at our roommates about leaving the TV on or groan with our spouses about how cold it was last month, pay it, and move on. But more often than not, our utility bills reflect how big money and special interests are at play in a complex and opaque set of rulemaking that affects us all. Advertisement And it’s not just important to understand for your o...

Updated on March 10, 2021 at 12:13 am NBC Universal, Inc. A PG&E subcontract tree inspector worried back in 2018 that “clueless” crews were missing at-risk trees near where Cal Fire suspects a leaning and possibly burned tree touched off the Zogg fire in Shasta County, according to emails reviewed by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit. In an email from Nov. 7, 2018, an unnamed Mountain G Enterprises (MGE) contract inspector tells an unnamed colleague that “trees were mismarked” by crew...

It's likely that parts of Sonoma County will be without power because of unsettled weather. The story from KSRO's Lauren Marks:

1:59 Texas residents have faced thousands of dollars in unexpected electric bills from an unprecedented winter storm last month. But it’s unlikely California PG&E customers would experience similar spikes due to outages. Utility price surges in Texas come from two things: the type of market and its level of regulation. Many Texas energy companies are part of a wholesale electricity market, so prices fluctuate with supply and demand. This means electricity companies pay the wholesale cost of e...

After 15-16 weeks of order and delivery time, they should be installed by fall. The generators will be owned by the city and leased to the park. If at any time the park no longer needs them, if for example PG&E supplies backup power to the park, the city may relocate the generators, said City Manager Mike Kirn. Park owners have agreed to provide $68,700 in capital funding and to operate and maintain the generators through a nominal increase in the park’s private utility rates. During previ...

PG&E customers are paying even more.

The state’s top emergency official joined state utility regulators to push back against a judge’s proposed order to compel the utility to account for the...

Heres a breakdown showing the estimated scope of the power shutoffs in the Bay Area: Alameda County: 5,328 customers Contra Costa County: 929 customers Napa County: 9,221 customers San Mateo County: 1,687 customers Santa Clara County: 2,210 customers Solano County: 871 customers PSPS Outages Map An outage planned by PG&E will affect residents in 24 counties. See if your area may be affected with this general outline. Click on each community center to see more information on operating hours and ...

Updated on February 12, 2021 at 4:30 pm Bloomberg via Getty Images PG&E has informed state regulators that it failed to test and treat more than 6,000 of its electric distribution power poles – including about 2,000 in high fire threat areas – despite regulatory reports asserting that all of its poles had been inspected as required by state law. The utility first told regulators with the state Public Utilities Commission in November that an internal audit concluded the utility did not have ...

California regulators have approved allowing utilities to buy more energy that can be available by the summer to avoid a repeat of the rolling blackouts last...