CalMatters Commentary - While advocates of regulating prices for consumer services and commodities say the practice protects the public, there’s a flip side of also protecting the the finances of
(FOX40.COM) — Over 4,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers near the community of Linden experienced a widespread power outage, according to the PG&E outage map. The first of the large outages was reported at 11:36 a.m. and affected 1,315 customers. The two other closures noted by the utility company are noted to have started at […]
(BCN) — A former San Jose mayor is switching up his political allies to take on a common adversary, the West Coast’s largest power utility. Former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo is leading a new labor-backed coalition to oppose Pacific Gas and Electric’s proposed rate hike of 18%, or nearly $39 per month. This hike […]