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PG&E Warns Customers About Scam
Patch.com
PG&E wants to remind customers that PG&E representatives would not ask for personal or banking information over the phone. • Customers should always ask to see identification before allowing anyone claiming to be a PG&E representative inside their home ...
PG&E spying shows how not to engage customersFierce Energy
PG&E Warns Customers Of Nationwide Utility ScamMarketWatch (press release)
PG&E issues warning about nationwide scam including Solano CountyTheReporter.com
Bakersfield Now -KQED
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PG&E Investigating Cause of Power Outage in Large Area of West County
Patch.com
By Laila Kearney A power outage that struck more than 15000 customers in West County has been repaired but PG&E has yet to conclude the cause. The outage began at about 9:30 am, affecting areas of Pinole and Hercules to Crockett.
West Contra Costa outage repaired after knocking out power to more than 15000 ...San Jose Mercury News

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Stay on top of power prices
The Wenatchee World Online
1 in the nation for the lowest electricity rates, industrial and commercial, at 5.65 cents per kilowatt hour in 2010. By a five-year average of all rates, we rank fifth in the nation at 5.75 cents. Electricity is the highest energy cost for business, ...

abc7news.com
Power Outage on South Side Should be Fixed This Morning, PG&E Says
Patch.com
Novato Fire District It will be mid-afternoon before all Pacific Gas & Electric customers affected by Thursday's outage get power restored because of the tricky nature of replacing a downed power pole, a PG&E spokesman said Friday.
Downed power lines in Novato cause big power outageabc7news.com

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Smart Grid News
PG&E spying shows how not to engage customers
Fierce Energy
The 2010 anti-smart-meter-spying scandal carried out by one of PG&E's top officials is again in the news, and it remains an example to utilities of how not to interact and communicate with customers. William Devereaux was in charge of the utility's ...
PG&E Warns Customers Of Nationwide Utility ScamMarketWatch (press release)
PG&E issues warning about nationwide scam including Solano CountyTheReporter.com
PG&E Warns Customers of Utility ScamKSEE
Bakersfield Now -KQED
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COUNTYWIDE WATER RATES COULD JUMP NEARLY 10%
U-T San Diego
One month after protesting rate increases at the Metropolitan Water District in Los Angeles, the San Diego County Water Authority proposed boosting prices for local agencies by nearly 10 percent in 2013. Just less than half of the price hike is linked ...

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CBS47 Special Report: Affordable Solar Energy
CBS 47
Rick Ellison lives in Selma, where he is on a time of use plan with PG&E. “We couldn't use power. It was astronautically expensive, because of that time of use meter." But today, Rick feels a lot different after going solar about a year ago.

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Atherton: PG&E crews repairing gas line leak that prompted shelter in place
San Jose Mercury News
PG&E crews have capped a gas leak that prompted a shelter-in-place order in Atherton on Thursday afternoon, a utility spokesman said. A 3-inch line was ruptured by a construction crew digging in the area of Selby Lane and Polhemus Avenue at about 11:20 ...
Selby Lane Closed in AthertonPatch.com

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PG&E to replace 3200 feet of steel pipe under Olive Drive
Davis Enterprise
Sue Cockrell/Enterprise photo It appears that PG&E isn't concerned only about its distribution pipeline underneath the Stonegate subdivision in Davis. About a month after it finished a project in Stonegate that replaced more than 2000 feet of plastic ...

PG&E crews working to seal ruptured gas line in Atherton
KTVU San Francisco
PG&E crews have capped a gas leak that prompted a shelter-in-place order in Atherton earlier Thursday, a utility spokesman said. A 3-inch line was ruptured by a construction crew digging in the area of Selby Lane and Polhemus Avenue at about 11:20 am, ...
Gas line broken by backhoe in AthertonSan Jose Mercury News

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Fitch Affirms SCPPA Canyon Power Project Revs at 'AA-'; Outlook Stable
MarketWatch (press release)
BONDS RELY ON ANAHEIM: SCPPA's Canyon Power Project revenue bonds are secured by a power supply agreement with Anaheim Public Utilities (APU), the municipal electric utility that provides retail service to the city of Anaheim, California.

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PG&E Warns Customers Of Nationwide Utility Scam
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is alerting customers to be aware of a scam that has impacted other utility customers across the country. The scam, which has been reportedly taking place in ...
PG&E issues warning about nationwide scam including Solano CountyTheReporter.com
PG&E Warns Customers of Utility ScamKSEE
PG&E warns customers of nationwide scamBakersfield Now
KQED -Record-Searchlight
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KGO-TV
PG&E REACHES MAJOR MILESTONE installing 9 millionth smartmeter™
Gridley Herald
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today announced it achieved a major customer milestone, having recently upgraded more than 9 million meters to SmartMeter™ technology. And now, with 93 percent of the SmartMeter installations complete across ...
PG&E says SmartMeter program wins wide acceptance in MarinMarin Independent-Journal
PG&E Reaches Major Milestone Installing 9 Millionth SmartMeter(TM)MarketWatch (press release)
Has Mill Valley Accepted SmartMeters?Patch.com
Marinscope Community Newspapers -SiliconValley.com -KGO-TV
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KSRO
Property Owners Vow To Fight PGE Tree-Cutting Plan
KSRO
PG&E is trimming or removing thousands of trees along a 39-mile stretch from the Geyers to Petalauma, saying they need to eliminate the primary cause of power outages - tree limbs falling on power lines. The utility meets Friday May 18 with the ...

Unfair to Lovelace
North Coast Journal
For several years, I have been the point person in Humboldt County educating and organizing around the dangerously unhealthy levels of microwave radiation emitted by PG&E's Smart Meters. Ms. Brooks claims that “when PG&E installed Smart Meters he ...

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Allocating California's Carbon-Market Generated Dollars
MarketWatch (press release)
And, in terms of impacts on households, the research shows minimal impacts on electricity rates once the allowance value has been allocated." REPORT I Options for Cap and Trade Auction Revenue Allocation: An Economic Assessment for California examines ...

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Allocating California's Carbon-Market Generated Dollars
PR Newswire (press release)
And, in terms of impacts on households, the research shows minimal impacts on electricity rates once the allowance value has been allocated." REPORT I Options for Cap and Trade Auction Revenue Allocation: An Economic Assessment for California examines ...

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Biz buzz: Cost Plus narrows loss, boosts revenue; URS lands contract; PG&E ...
Contra Costa Times
San Francisco-based PG&E has installed more than 9 million new digital meters in Northern and Central California, the utility said. PG&E has now completed 93 percent of the SmartMeter installations it is planning.

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VentureBeat
Gen110 Announces Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Investment
MarketWatch (press release)
Gen110 has helped more than 2000 homeowners in California avoid utility rate hikes by producing approximately 13 gigawatt hours of electricity annually at their own homes. A private company based in San Francisco, Gen110 was founded in 2009 to free ...
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Invests in Gen110Smart Energy News
Kleiner Perkins backs solar sales & marketing startupGigaOM

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Opponents of PG&E tree clearing fight back with lawyer, meeting
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
By KERRY BENEFIELD Landowners concerned about PG&E's controversial new vegetation maintenance program that has targeted thousands of trees along a 39-mile corridor through Sonoma County have hired a lawyer to combat the plan. Members of Save Our Sonoma ...