AutoGuideBlog.com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Mitsubishi, LA Auto Show, USA Right on schedule, Southern California Edison (SCE) and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG & E) have received all-electric Mitsubishi i MiEVs to begin their testing programs with. Although the cars displayed on the LA Auto Show floor were red and white, like the one we drove earlier this [...]
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Mitsubishi , LA Auto Show , USA Right on schedule , Southern California Edison (SCE) and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG & E) have received all-electric Mitsubishi i MiEVs to begin their testing programs with. Although the cars displayed on the LA Auto Show floor were red and white, like the one we drove earlier this year in New York, there was at least one vehicle in SCE colors...
LAist (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
November is approaching, and both sides of the battle over gay marriage in California are revving up their donation drives. The coalition fighting against Prop. 8, the anti-gay marriage amendment, includes everyone from gay and lesbian activists such as GLAAD to municipal power providers PG & E to Brad Pitt. And the proponents of Prop 8 include, well, people of a more or less religious persuasion,...
OrganizingLA Blog (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Thanks to a reader, we discovered some press from our Alliance for Universal Power Supply Conference speech at PG & E headquarters in San Francisco this past summer. From CNET News, a popular website for news and commentary on energy...
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Mitsubishi , USA Those folks in America wanting to buy an all-electric Mitsubishi i MiEV sometime in the future now have a reason for increased optimism. The company has just announced agreements with both Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG & E) and Southern California Edison (SCE) to test how the vehicles fare under California's driving conditions. Amongst the quotes that...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
A handful of MiEV cars will be sent to the utilities, which will evaluate whether there's a mass market for them here. Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will bring electric cars to the U.S. starting this fall in test programs announced today with Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and Southern California Edison.
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Pacific Gas & Electric, which provides Northern California with most of its electricity and natural gas, has donated $250K to the fight against Proposition 8. Giving a financial and public relations boost to gay marriage proponents, PG&E announced today that it is giving $250,000 to the No on Proposition 8 campaign. The utility also said it will spearhead the formation of a business advisory council...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
The utility also says its will help form a council to get other businesses in the state to work to defeat Proposition 8. Giving a financial and public relations boost to gay marriage proponents, PG&E announced today that it is giving $250,000 to the No on Proposition 8 campaign.
SFist (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Oh my, word. Did you hear it? We received a few emails mentioning it, but NBC 11 confirms: "As of 4:10 p.m., PG & E activity in the vicinity of California and Drumm streets is disrupting regular cable car service on the California line," read a Muni alert. "Service will be provided by bus shuttles. The 1-California and the 41-Union are switching back at Clay and Drumm streets in both directions. Muni...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
A facility near Fresno captures methane gas that wafts from a huge vat of cattle manure and sells it to PG & E. Imagine a vat of liquid cow manure covering the area of five football fields and 33 feet deep. Meet California's most-alternative new energy.
Environmental Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
According to Greenwire, eight utility executives, including PG & E, FPL, and Entergy, wrote Edison Electric Institute seeking changes in EEI's report on the cost of implementing pending climate change legislative proposals. "It appears that EEI has been circulating this...
Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 29/01/2008
One worker is dead, one injured, and another trapped following the collapse of a recently decommissioned PG & E electric tower in Hunters Point; cables had been tied to the structure, which then collapsed atop the workers. Firefighters rescued one...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
Endangered watershed areas will be conserved in a painstaking process that must sort out competing interests. After three years of work, an array of interest groups are poised to determine the future of more than 140,000 acres of some of California's most ecologically rich and endangered watershed lands, among the largest swaths to be preserved in decades.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 22/12/2007
HOUSTON, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- El Paso Corporation announced today that it has executed a precedent agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG & E) for long-term firm transport...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 19/12/2007
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. went surfing Tuesday, becoming the first U.S. utility to commit to buying electricity generated by the tumult of the sea.
