The article fails to mention that when PG&E was not doing enough infrastructure maintenance and upgrades, it was spending $2.8 billion extra buying “renewable” energy, to satisfy state mandates written in law, when cheaper wholesale electricity was available from the national grid.
Exactly. It’s easy to blame the utility companies but they were not allowed to operate their business in a way that makes sense. All those pie in the sky mandates are a overhead cost with little or no benefit. If a technology is not fiscally sound and needs subsidies it should be abandoned or left to those who want to pay it’s freight not placed on the backs of people by Government.