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FILE -- Utility crews repair overhead lines along Pacific Coast Highway just west of Malibu, Calif., on Nov. 25, 2018. On Thursday, May 9, 2024, the California Public Utilities Commission will consider a change in how the state's investor-owned utilities calculate their customers' power bills. (AP Photo/John Antczak, File)

California regulators OK change of how power bills are calculated

By Adam Beam - Associated Press

One of Pacific Gas &amp; Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant's nuclear reactors in Avila Beach, Calif., is viewed Nov. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, File)

California legislators advance plan to extend nuke plant run

By Michael R. Blood and Adam Beam - Associated Press

Stephanie Williams, 60, cools off with water from a hydrant in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Excessive-heat warnings expanded to all of Southern California and northward into the Central Valley on Wednesday, and were predicted to spread into Northern California later in the week. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

California heat wave sparks fears of fires, power outages

By John Antczak and Brian Melley - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2019, file photo, a Pacific Gas &amp; Electric worker walks in front of a truck in San Francisco. Pacific Gas &amp; Electric has agreed to pay more than $55 million to avoid criminal prosecution for two major wildfires started by its aging equipment in 2019 and 2021, prosecutors announced. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

California utility to pay $55 million for massive wildfires

By Olga R. Rodriguez and Mike Liedtke - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, charred footprints of homes leveled by the Camp Fire line the streets at the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park retirement community in Paradise, Calif. A trust approved by a federal judge to help compensate victims of deadly California wildires sparked by Pacific Gas &amp; Electric equipment paid survivors just $7 million while racking up $51 million in overhead in its first year of operation, KQED News reported. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

California fire victims see little payout from settlement

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FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2019, file photo, flames from the Kincade Fire consume Soda Rock Winery in Healdsburg, Calif. A California prosecutor has charged troubled Pacific Gas &amp; Electric with starting a 2019 wildfire. District Judge William Alsup overseeing Pacific Gas &amp; Electric's criminal probation is holding a hearing Tuesday, May 4, 2021, to consider whether Pacific Gas &amp; Electric violated its criminal probation from a fatal 2010 natural gas explosion by sparking the October 2019 Kincade Fire north of San Francisco.(AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

US judge weighs if PG&E violated probation with 2019 fire

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2020, file photo, a house burns on Platina Road at the Zogg Fire near Ono, Calif. California power regulators are poised to reprimand Pacific Gas and Electric for continuing to neglect its electrical grid that has ignited a series of deadly wildfires in Northern California and could order the utility to do be more vigilant in the upcoming months of hot, windy weather. The anticipated rebuke from the California Public Utilities Commission Thursday, April 15, 2021, would serve as official notice to PG&amp;E that it hasn't been doing enough to reduce the risks posed by a combination of crumbling equipment and overgrown trees susceptible to touching or toppling into nearby power lines. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, File)

Regulators rebuke PG&E for neglect in reducing wildfire risk

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2019, file photo, flames from the Kincade Fire consume Soda Rock Winery in Healdsburg, Calif. A California prosecutor has charged troubled Pacific Gas &amp; Electric with starting a 2019 wildfire. The Sonoma County District Attorney on Tuesday April 6, 2021, charged the utility in the October 2019 Kincade Fire north of San Francisco. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

California’s Pacific Gas & Electric charged in 2019 wildfire

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2019, file photo, a helicopter drops water near power lines and electrical towers while working at a fire on San Bruno Mountain near Brisbane, Calif. A federal judge overseeing Pacific Gas &amp; Electric's criminal probation is considering requiring the utility to be more aggressive about turning off its electricity lines. The plan outlined Tuesday, March 23, 2021, would add more power shut-offs near tall trees and would at least double the number of power outages in six Northern California counties. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Judge mulls requiring PG&E to turn off power more frequently

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

Report: California wildfire sparked when tree hit power line

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Investigators say deadly 2020 Northern California wildfire was caused by tree hitting Pacific Gas &

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Valentine’s Day balloon cuts power for thousands in Fresno

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California utilities to spend billions to cut wildfire risk

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Ex-utility employee gets prison for California fraud scheme

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FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2019, file photo, is a man walking past a Pacific Gas and Electric sign on a PG&amp;E building in San Francisco. PG&amp;E's household customers will be hit with an average rate increase of 8% to help the once-bankrupt utility pay for improvements designed to reduce the risks that its outdated equipment will ignite deadly wildfires in its Northern California service territory. The higher prices, effective March 1, are expected to boost the bills of PG&amp;E's residential customers by an average of $13.44 to per month. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

PG&E rate hike aimed at improvements to ease fire risk

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

$166M in fines recommended for PG&E over power outages

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Northern California to see more dry, windy conditions

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More fire-prevention power shutoffs possible in California

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FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2020 file photo the Glass Fire burns a hillside above Silverado Trail in St. Helena, Calif. Dry, windy weather posed an extreme wildfire risk Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, in Northern California, where massive blazes already have cost hundreds of homes and killed or injured dozens of people. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Facing new fire threat, PG&E cuts power to tens of thousands

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

Helina Thorp, right, 14, expresses frustration while unsuccessfully trying to log in to her school distance-learning classes while her mother, Virginia Thorp, attempts to call school officials from a Pacific Gas &amp; Electric community resource center at the El Dorado Fairgrounds during a Public Safety Power Shutoff in Placerville, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. People in nearly 172,000 homes and businesses in parts of California were sweltering Tuesday without electricity as Pacific Gas &amp; Electric intentionally shut off power to prevent wildfires amid high winds. The business and household customers without power were in areas including the Sacramento Valley, Sierra Nevada foothills, and parts of Napa and Sonoma counties in wine country. (Daniel Kim/The Sacramento Bee via AP)

PG&E trying a new tactic in power cuts to prevent wildfires

By JANIE HAR - Associated Press