Environmental & Energy,
Administrative/Regulatory
May 28, 2021
PG&E pays net $20M fine for website breakdown during power shut-off
“PG&E’s violations put the health of many customers at risk and made an already stressful and fraught situation significantly worse,” commission Administrative Law Judge Marcelo L. Poirier wrote.
State regulators fined Pacific Gas and Electric Co. $106 million for flawed implementation of a program that cuts off electricity to power lines to prevent them from causing wildfires during dangerous conditions.
The net penalty assessed by the California Public Utilities Commission is $20 million because it is offset by $86 million in bill credits PG&E provided customers at the direction of Gov. Gavin Newsom. The major violatio...
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