California regulators have unanimously ordered an investigation into a dozen deliberate PG&E power outages that plunged millions of people into the dark last month.
No gasoline. Generators in short supply. Spoiled food. Darkness. Hunger. In Lake County, thousands endured days of PG&E’s most recent power outages, aimed at protecting the public and limiting the utility’s wildfire liabilities.
CPUC President Marybel Batjer ordered the investigation last month and the five-member commission appears ready to give its approval given the public frustration.Commissioners grilled PG&E officials at an emergency meeting called by Batjer last month, demanding answers for why the utility was so unprepared for an Oct. 9 shutdown in which counties and customers struggled with a crashing website and overworked call lines to get information.
PG&E initiated five rounds, with the smallest affecting about 30,000 people and the largest affecting nearly 2.5 million. Residents in San Francisco suburbs and in Northern California wine country were without power for days. The company is in bankruptcy and faces $30 billion in liabilities after its equipment was found to have started several deadly wildfires in 2017 and 2018, including the Camp fire, which killed 86 people and destroyed the town of Paradise.
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