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• California regulators approve PG&E power contracts

  - 2006-10-11

  The California Public Utilities Commission recently approved three contracts for utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to purchase electricity generated by renewable energy. The contracts for the PG&E Corp. subsidiary range between 10 and 15 years. They are part of California's energy action plan calling for renewable resources to...

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• Honeywell helps U.S. Postal Service with energy savings and PG&E Nuclear Station in California ramped up to 95 percent of capacity.

  - 2005-01-10

  M2 PRESSWIRE-10 January 2005-FNWU: Honeywell helps U.S. Postal Service with energy savings and PG&E Nuclear Station in California ramped up to 95 percent of capacityC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01102005 City of Industry, CA - Energy industry news provided by Financial News...

  Tags: California, FINANCE, financial, Honeywell International Inc., PG&E Corp., Strategy, U.S. Postal Service

• The Sacramento Bee, Calif., Jack Sirard Column.

  - 2003-11-18

  By Jack Sirard, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 18--Equity strategist Tina Larsson likes nothing better than a company singed on the edges but operating with a solid core business. Larsson, of the Kinetics New Paradigm Fund, searches...

  Tags: Bee, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., California, dividend, FINANCE, Insurance, Investment, PG&E Corp., stock

• PG&E Bankruptcy Settlement Includes Important River Protections

  - 2003-06-20

  WASHINGTON, June 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A settlement agreement announced yesterday between Pacific Gas and Electric and the California Public Utilities Commission drew cautious approval from environmental and recreation advocates in California. As part of a broader agreement crafted to help PG&E exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the company committed to...

  Tags: agreement, bankruptcy, California, California Public Utilities Commission, habitat, Litigation, PG&E Corp., river

• Northern California Power Grid Project Advances amid Doubts.

  - 2002-06-28

  By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 28--A novel plan to widen a notorious bottleneck in the state's electric grid is marching forward in Washington despite warnings in California that the work may not be needed....

  Tags: California, ISO, PG&E Corp., Quality

• High Electricity Costs Put Sacramento, Calif.-Area Paper Mill over the Edge.

  - 2001-09-06

  By Dale Kasler, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 6--ANDERSON, Calif.--Maybe Shasta Paper Co. could have survived that nasty sales slump or the onslaught of cheap imports. But a shocking increase in electricity costs put it over the edge. ...

  Tags: California, economist, Gibson, job, PG&E Corp., University of California at Los Angeles, worker

• California Official Asks SEC to Investigate Utility's Financial Dealings.

  - 2001-07-06

  By Jennifer Bjorhus, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 6--California Attorney General Bill Lockyer asked the federal Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday to step in to investigate whether PG&E Corp. violated federal law in taking billions of dollars...

  Tags: California, financial, petition, PG&E Corp., SEC

• Pacific Gas & Electric Can Ignore Power Debt, Judge Rules.

  - 2001-06-28

  By Matt Sebastian, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 28--SAN FRANCISCO--Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is free to ignore hundreds of millions of dollars worth of electricity bills from the keeper of California's power grid, a federal judge ruled...

  Tags: California, ISO, Judge, PG&E Corp., Quality

• California System Operator, Electric Utilities to Meet Federal Deadline.

  - 2001-06-01

  By Rick Jurgens, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 1--PG&E Corp. will once again go its own way today when owners and operators of the California electricity grid, under pressure from federal regulators, make another move in the ongoing...

  Tags: California, Enron Corp., ISO, PG&E Corp., Quality, Southern California Edison

• Federal Regulators Threaten To Order Refunds by Power Generators.

  - 2001-03-15

  By Dale Kasler, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 15--Suggesting for the first time that power generators in California may have deliberately withheld supplies to jack up prices, federal regulators threatened Wednesday to order $10.8 million in refunds...

  Tags: California, Edison, ISO, Manufacturing, outage, PG&E Corp., Quality, Williams