Pacific Gas & Electric | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-28

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00:01:10 1 History
00:01:19 1.1 Early history
00:01:27 1.1.1 San Francisco Gas
00:04:33 1.1.2 San Francisco Gas and Electric
00:07:33 1.2 Pacific Gas and Electric Company
00:09:35 1.2.1 The 1906 San Francisco earthquake
00:10:23 1.3 Sacramento Electric, Gas and Railway Company
00:11:43 1.4 Further consolidation and expansion
00:13:31 1.4.1 Natural gas
00:15:59 1.5 Nuclear plants and gas pipelines
00:18:30 1.6 Postwar era
00:19:51 1.7 2001 bankruptcy
00:22:02 1.8 2019 bankruptcy
00:23:10 2 Generation portfolio
00:23:33 2.1 Hydroelectric
00:24:51 2.2 Nuclear
00:26:57 2.3 Combustion
00:28:50 2.4 Solar
00:29:36 3 PG&amp;E and the environment
00:31:43 4 Disasters
00:31:52 4.1 Groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California
00:35:34 4.2 Wildfires
00:36:40 4.2.1 Sierra Blaze
00:37:03 4.2.2 San Bruno, California explosion
00:39:10 4.2.3 Butte Fire
00:39:28 4.2.4 October 2017 Northern California wildfires
00:40:11 4.2.5 Camp Fire
00:41:04 5 Controversies
00:41:12 5.1 Community Pipeline Safety Initiative (CPSI)
00:42:08 5.2 Smart meters
00:43:07 5.3 Proposition 16
00:43:41 5.4 Tax dodging and lobbying
00:44:05 5.5 Restatements
00:44:40 5.6 Rates
00:46:02 6 South San Joaquin Irrigation District (SSJID)
00:46:42 7 See also



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The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is an American investor-owned utility (IOU) with publicly traded stock that is headquartered in the Pacific Gas & Electric Building in San Francisco. PG&E provides natural gas and electricity to most of the northern two-thirds of California, from Bakersfield and Barstow to near the Oregon State Line and Nevada and Arizona State Line, which represents 5.2 million households. PG&E is overseen by the California Public Utilities Commission. It is the leading subsidiary of the holding company PG&E Corporation, which has a market capitalization of $3.242 billion as of January 16, 2019. It was founded by George H. Roe after California's Gold Rush and by 1984 was the United States' "largest electric utility business". PG&E is one of four regulated, investor-owned utilities (IOUs) in California; the other three are PacifiCorp's Pacific Power, Southern California Edison and Sempra Energy's San Diego Gas & Electric.On January 14, 2019, PG&E announced that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to the financial challenges associated with the catastrophic wildfires that occurred in Northern California in 2017 and 2018.