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The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is an American investor-owned utility (IOU). The company is headquartered at 300 Lakeside Drive, in Oakland, California.PG&E provides natural gas and electricity to 5.2 million households in the northern two-thirds of California, from Bakersfield and northern Santa Barbara County, almost to the Oregon and Nevada state lines.
Erin Brockovich (née Pattee; born June 22, 1960) is an American paralegal, consumer advocate, and environmental activist who was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) involving groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California for attorney Ed Masry in 1993.
Hinkley groundwater contamination. From 1952 to 1966, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) dumped about 370 million gallons (1,400 million litres) of chromium -tainted wastewater into unlined wastewater spreading ponds around the town of Hinkley, California, located in the Mojave Desert about 120 miles north-northeast of Los Angeles. [1] [2]
PG&E generates millions of dollars in profits from the inflated sale of energy. Yet, it seems consumers are responsible for every aspect of running PG&E’s business model.
Wait a minute. Didn’t PG&E just get a rate increase? It doesn’t matter. Now it’s asking for another one. On top of the $35-a-month increase that just took effect, Pacific Gas & Electric Co ...
However, she eventually received several hundred thousand dollars as the result of a settlement from the utility PG&E, whose downed power lines contributed to this and other fires in 2017 and 2018.
Portland General Electric ( PGE) is a Fortune 1000 public utility based in Portland, Oregon. It distributes electricity to customers in parts of Multnomah, Clackamas, Marion, Yamhill, Washington, and Polk counties – 44% of the inhabitants of Oregon. Founded in 1888 as the Willamette Falls Electric Company, the company has been an independent ...
The rate request comes amid a new year of rate hikes, with the average PG&E household paying an additional $34.50 on its monthly bill, and fears that electricity prices will continue to rise.