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• Solar Tax Credit Hooks Another Major Utility

  BNET - 2009-02-26

  The solar investment tax credit is turning out to be the bait the industry needs to keep money flowing in an economy running short on investors willing to fund renewable energy projects. When the federal tax incentives package was passed last October, which included the solar investment...

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• PG&E Signs Contracts with BrightSource Energy for up to 900 Megawatts of Solar Thermal Power

  - 2008-04-01

  SAN FRANCISCO -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced today that it has entered into a series of contracts with BrightSource Energy, Inc. for renewable solar power. The first three contracts are for a total of 500 megawatts MW of power to be supplied from three solar thermal electric generating...

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• PG&E and Finavera Renewables Announce Nation's First Commercial Wave Energy Power Purchase Agreement; Utility to Add Two Megawatts of Clean, Renewable Wave Energy to its Power Mix.

  - 2007-12-18

  SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, Dec 18, 2007 Marketwire via COMTEX -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company today announced that it has entered into a long-term, two megawatt MW commercial wave energy power purchasing agreement PPA with Finavera Renewabl SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, Dec 18, 2007 Marketwire via COMTEX...

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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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• State urges conservation as power usage soars

  - 2004-04-28

  W ITH A HEAT WAVE bringing summertime temperatures to the Bay Area in the springtime, residents and businesses are being urged to conserve electricity. Electricity usage is more than 30 percent higher than a week ago, said Gregg Fishman, spokesman for the California Independent System Operator, which...

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• Power Woes Stop Short of Outage in Fresno, Calif., Area.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-12-11

  Dec. 8--Unprecedented winter power shortages nearly forced rolling outages in Fresno and throughout the state Thursday because of a Stage 3 electrical emergency. The bad news came as Valley residents, preparing for the holidays with festive home-light displays, were urged for a fourth consecutive...

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• PG&E Delivers Record Volume of Electricity to Its Customers - Stage 1 Emergency Continues

  - 1998-08-04

  SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 4, 1998--Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced today that the utility delivered a record high 23,031 megawatts of electricity to its customers Monday as a heat wave blanketed Northern and Central California. The previous PG&E record for electricity demand was 21,862 megawatts, set on August 7, 1997....

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• Diablo Canyon Power Plant Approaches Full Power

  - 1996-08-17

  SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 17, 1996--Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced today that both generating units of Diablo Canyon Power Plant continue to safely increase operating capacity and should reach full power by the end of the weekend.The power plant was idled following last Saturday's electrical disturbance that affected the Western...

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