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Mayors’ ambitious plan for PG&E fix would put California on uncharted electricity path

Mayors’ ambitious plan for PG&E fix would put California on uncharted electricity path

4 years ago
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/09/mayors-ambitious-plan-for-pge-fix-would-put-state-on-uncharted-electricity-path/

It would be the biggest government-led intervention in California’s electricity system in decades, a bold takeover of the state’s largest and most troubled utility as Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is assailed over widespread blackouts to avoid power line-sparked wildfires that have put it in bankruptcy court.

But will the proposed PG&E remake as a customer-owned cooperative bring cheaper, safer and more reliable power to Silicon Valley and beyond? One thing is certain: A state whose power business deregulation imploded in 2000 with rolling blackouts again would be charting new ground in delivering electricity.