Company: PCG-PB
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001004980-25-000010
Chunk: 96

Company: PG&E Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 96
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, compared to 2022 and 2023, due to hotter, drier weather conditions.

In recent years, the Utility has introduced or expanded its use of several measures including downed conductor detection, partial voltage force outs, and transmission operational controls which further decreased wildfire ignition risk and took additional steps to improve customer reliability such as vegetation management activities to reduce vegetation-caused outages, upgrading the system to improve sectionalization, and installing fault indicators to reduce restoration times.  The Utility also uses multiple weather models on a daily basis that indicate which circuits to enable with safety settings and which to put in normal protection settings, optimizing for wildfire risk reduction when needed and enhancing reliability when wildfire risk is low.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility are continuing to invest in a safe and reliable gas system and are working toward targeted electrification, greening the gas supply, and shaping California energy policy.  The Utility has focused on continuously improving its gas operations safety record.  Since the San Bruno natural gas pipeline explosion in 2010, the Utility’s asset safety efforts have included replacing distribution mains and transmission pipelines, as well as strength testing transmission pipelines.  The Utility uses in-line inspections to assess the integrity of transmission pipelines.  The Utility also uses safety and control systems to monitor, gather, and process real-time data on its gas system. 

The Utility has engaged in educating employees, contractors, and the public regarding safe digging programs and practices for their awareness during construction and when digging near the Utility’s underground gas and electric assets.  The Utility also installed safety devices that automatically detect increasing pressure on systems and stop the flow of gas to avoid outages and overpressure events.  Additionally, the Utility continues to streamline its efforts to respond to outages on a timely basis.  The Utility’s outage response is designed to keep the public safe while limiting customer outages and returning service safely and as quickly as possible.

The Utility’s non-nuclear generation operations focus on safety, compliance, environmental stewardship, and asset reliability. The Utility focuses on continuous improvement and risk informed decision-making to maximize asset value for customers, while adhering to industry standards for asset risk management and lifecycle optimization.  Work management systems enable the execution and tracking of preventative and corrective maintenance strategies for generation assets. Capital improvements are carried out to renew key asset components and are strategically aligned with interim risk reduction measures to ensure long-term safe and reliable generation.

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Regulatory Environment 

The Utility’s business is subject to the regulatory jurisdiction of various agencies at the federal, state, and local levels