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California Regulator Sanctions Utility Over Power Outages

Associated Press

   SAN FRANCISCO - California's top utility regulator blasted Pacific Gas
   and Electric on Monday for what she called "failures in execution"
   during the largest planned power outage in state history to avoid
   wildfires that she said "created an unacceptable situation that should
   never be repeated."
   The agency ordered a series of corrective actions, including a goal of
   restoring power within 12 hours, not the utility's current 48-hour
   goal.

   "The scope, scale, complexity, and overall impact to people's lives,
   businesses, and the economy of this action cannot be understated,"
   California Public Utilities Commission President Marybel Batjer wrote
   in a letter to PG&E CEO Bill Johnson.

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