OTOH, PG&E is limited in its abilities to take actions to prevent fires, by the State.
Fellow California Voters Two Things -——
Grusome OUT Vote NO!
Larry Elder for Gov!
Speaking of “power and money”, what ever happened to that ONE BILLION DOLLARS that Newsom sent to the Chinese last year… supposedly for masks?
It is all a matter of priorities. PGE has to go green by dictate from the state. There seems to be lots of money solar and wind. Californians think that if they don’t stop global warming on their own everyone will die in a few years so the loss of a few lives is of little concern. It is all for the common good.
I used to live there. Now I don’t recognize the place.
The Long Knives are out for Gruesome Newsome. He’s going down.
PG&E, being a public utility, is dependent on the goodwill of the State, both its PUC and the political powers in Sacramento. So it has always “played ball” with the powers that be. That means, often enough, doing stupid things like cooperating with “alternate energy” fads and various mountebanks that have acquired political backing in CA. There has been a long series of these.
On the other hand, the State needs a functional energy system. PG&E is “too big to fail”, because it is very difficult to replace, in its services and organization, of both the electric power grid (including all the transmission lines that are the backbone), as well as the centrally managed gas transmission and distribution system.
Its possible to sell off local distribution in a small area to a municipality, or a power plant here and there, but someone has to run the whole monstrous thing. And then there are all the vast areas in between, where no-one wants to, or can, take over.
Yep..... takes a lot of money for decent firepower these dayz... wait, nevermind.