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Hinkley groundwater contamination. From 1952 to 1966, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) dumped about 370 million gallons (1,400 million litres) of chromium -tainted wastewater into unlined wastewater spreading ponds around the town of Hinkley, California, located in the Mojave Desert about 120 miles north-northeast of Los Angeles. [1] [2]
The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is an American investor-owned utility (IOU). The company is headquartered at 300 Lakeside Drive, in Oakland, California.PG&E provides natural gas and electricity to 5.2 million households in the northern two-thirds of California, from Bakersfield and northern Santa Barbara County, almost to the Oregon and Nevada state lines.
Erin Brockovich (née Pattee; born June 22, 1960) is an American paralegal, consumer advocate, and environmental activist who was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) involving groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California for attorney Ed Masry in 1993.
As of April 1, a PG&E customer using 750 kilowatt hours of electricity will pay $352 a month — more than twice as much as what a Sacramento Municipal Utility District customer would pay. Opinion
PG&E showed profits of $2.24 billion in 2023, a nearly 25% year-over-year increase. PG&E utility bills about to soar again in Central California. Here are the reasons why
The approved plan will allow PG&E to bury 1,230 miles of electric wire — in order to reduce the risk of sparking a wildfire — and also calls for 778 miles of “covered conductor,” which ...
The 2000–2001 California electricity crisis, also known as the Western U.S. energy crisis of 2000 and 2001, was a situation in which the U.S. state of California had a shortage of electricity supply caused by market manipulations and capped retail electricity prices. [10] The state suffered from multiple large-scale blackouts, one of the ...
This is a list of operational battery storage power stations in California with a nameplate capacity of at least 10 megawatts . / 34.05944°N 117.77417°W / 34.05944; -117.77417 ( AltaGas Pomona Energy) / 35.25694°N 118.02361°W / 35.25694; -118.02361 ( Beacon BESS 1)