Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Type	Public (NYSE: PCG)
Founded	1905
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, USA
Industry	Electricity Natural Gas
Products	Electricity Natural Gas
Revenue	US$11.7 Billion (2006)[1]
Operating income	US$1.97 Billion (2006)[1]
Net income	US$917 Million (2006)[1]
Employees	19,800 (2006)[1]
Website	www.pge.com

The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) , (NYSE: PCG), is the utility that provides natural gas and electricity to most of Northern California. The southern part of the state is generally served by Southern California Edison for power and natural gas from Southern California Gas. PG&E was founded in 1905 and is currently headquartered in the Pacific Gas & Electric Building in San Francisco. Image File history File links Pge_svg. ... A public company usually refers to a company which is permitted to offer its securites (i. ... The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Nickname: Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Government  - Mayor Gavin Newsom Area  - City  47 sq mi (122 km²)  - Land  46. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Lightning strikes during a night-time thunderstorm. ... Natural gas is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane but including significant quantities of ethane, butane, propane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium and hydrogen sulfide. ... Lightning strikes during a night-time thunderstorm. ... Natural gas is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane but including significant quantities of ethane, butane, propane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium and hydrogen sulfide. ... Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), also known as operating income and operating profit, is a term used to describe a companys earnings. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... Net income is equal to the income that a firm has after subtracting costs and expenses from the total revenue. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ... Natural gas is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane but including significant quantities of ethane, butane, propane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium and hydrogen sulfide. ... Lightning strikes during a night-time thunderstorm. ... Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. ... Southern California Edison, the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. ... Southern California Gas Company is the primary provider of natural gas to the lower portion of the State of California. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... The Pacific Gas & Electric Building is an office skyscraper located in San Franciscos Financial District on Mission Street. ... Nickname: Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Government  - Mayor Gavin Newsom Area  - City  47 sq mi (122 km²)  - Land  46. ...

History

In the 1850s, manufactured gas was being introduced as means of lighting for the first time and coal gasification works were being built in the larger eastern American cities. San Francisco pioneer Peter Donahue, in the foundry business that would become the Union Iron Works, learned all he could about gas manufacturing and with his brother James and a young engineer named Joseph G. Eastland incorporated the San Francisco Gas Company on August 31, 1852. The original location for the gas works was bounded by First, Fremont, Howard and Natoma streets south of Market, on the then shore of the San Francisco Bay. On the night of February 11, 1854, the streets of San Francisco were for the first time lighted by gas, and a banquet was held at the Oriental hotel. In a year, the company had 12 miles of street mains, and two gas holders at First and Howard with a combined capacity of 160,000 cubic feet. The cost of gas was billed at 15 dollars per thousand cubic feet, where no meters were installed, the price was estimated from the size of the burners. Shortly thereafter, the Citizens Gas Company was given a fifty year franchise by the state legislature but when the company was built and ready to deliver gas, it sold out to the San Francisco Gas Company. // Production of steel revolutionized by invention of the Bessemer process Benjamin Silliman fractionates petroleum by distillation for the first time First transatlantic telegraph cable laid First safety elevator installed by Elisha Otis Railroads begin to supplant canals in the United States as a primary means of transporting goods. ... Town gas is a generic term referring to manufactured gas produced for sale to consumers and municipalities. ... Union Iron Works, located in San Francisco, California, built a number of ships for the United States Navy. ... San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ...

In April 1870, the City Gas Company was organized and built its works on the Potrero Point shoreline. Another company, the Metropolitan Gas Company, was established but was not a success, it was quickly purchased by the San Francisco Gas Company. All these companies were merged with larger infusions of capital into the San Francisco Gas Light company in 1873. A rival company, the Central Gas Company, came into existence in 1882 and the rate for gas went as low .90 cents a thousand cubic feet. The Central and the Pacific Gas Improvement Company were merged into the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company, (SFG&E Co.) September 1, 1903. Potrero Point, location of the earliest and most important industrial facilities in the Western United States, was a natural land mass extending into San Francisco Bay. ...

Rapid technological improvements in the processes of manufacturing gas were immediately adopted by the company. When petroleum was produced in California, the manufacture of water gas, then in general use in eastern and midwest states, began in San Francisco. Water gas is a method of hydrogen production that combines steam and coke gas In the following chemical reaction: CO + H2O → CO2 + H2 In 1873, Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe developed and patented a process by which large amounts of hydrogen gas could be generated for residential and commercial use...

Water gas was first made from anthracite coal brought around Cape Horn from Swansea in Wales and enriched with California petroleum. The first water gas works, a thoroughly modern plant, was established at Potrero Point and the manufacture of water gas was a success due to the increased amount of petroleum available that reduced costs. The company then acquired land in North Beach at Bay, Laguna and Webster streets, and in 1891, the North Beach Gas Works was built. For many years this facility, with its 2,000,000 cubic feet gas holder, was considered the finest gas works in the world. The original plant at Howard Street was dismantled.

In December, 1896, the San Francisco Gas Light Company merged with the Edison Light and Power Company under the new title San Francisco Gas and Electric Company and this company existed until 1903 and then dissolved.

Other companies that started in the business in active competition but eventually merged into the SFG&E co. were the Equitable Gas Light Company and the Independent Electric Light and Power and the Independent Gas and Power company, founded by Claus Spreckels, the king of California sugar. Claus Spreckels was a major industrialist of California and Hawaii and became known as the Sugar King. ...

By 1906, the exclusive use of petroleum for manufactured gas was catching on and a 4.,000,000 cubic feet gas-oil unit was built at the Potrero Gas Works. A similar unit had been built at the Martin Station in Visiaticion Valley on the San Mateo border and it was connected to the Potrero Gas works by a 12 inch high pressure pipe for use in San Francisco. At the same time, hydroelectric power was established in California at the Colgate power plant on the Yuba River began to deliver power for agriculture. In 1905, Pacific Gas and Electric Company was formed by a merger of the SFG&E co. and the California Gas and Electric corporation. The 1906 earthquake destroyed the North Beach Gas Works but the Potrero works were unaffected and with the Martin Station supplied the city after the Great fire. In 1912 PG&E began installing meters to free itself from the previous flat rate billing scheme. The Yuba River is an important river in California and a major tributary of the Feather River, which is a tributary of the Sacramento River. ...

The company known as Pacific Gas and Electric incorporated on October 10, 1905, as a consolidation of more than two dozen power and water concerns around the state. PG&E went on to consolidate power in northern California and by 1952 represented 520 companies merged 1906 also marked the year that PG&E purchased the Sacramento Electric, Gas & Railway Company. The history of the PG&E streetcar lines in Sacramento goes back to the Sacramento City Street Railway, a 5-foot gauge horsecar railway that operated 9 miles of street railway in Sacramento in the late 1800s. The Sacramento Street Railway was purchased by the Sacramento Electric, Power and Light Company Electric Railway. In 1896, the Sacramento Electric, Power & Light Company Electric Railway was purchased by the Sacramento Electric, Gas & Railway Company. In 1906, PG&E acquired the line and in 1915 PG&E operated the line under the PG&E name. PG&E's streetcars had lines such as the "#6 - Oak Park Line". In 1943, PG&E sold the lines to Sacramento City Lines which ended up in the hands of the National City Lines. National City Lines converted several streetcar lines in that era to bus service and the track was abandoned on January 4, 1947.^[2] a historic postcard showing electric trolley-powered streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, where Frank J. Sprague successfully demonstrated his new system on the hills in 1888 A streetcar is a railway vehicle designed to carry passengers on tracks, usually laid in city streets. ... Rail gauge is the distance between two rails of a railroad. ... Rapid Transit in San Diego: An original 1886 horse-drawn trolley and its driver participate in a parade celebrating the groundbreaking of the Panama-California Exposition Center in 1911. ... Between 1936 and 1950, National City Lines (NCL), a holding company sponsored and funded by General Motors, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California and Phillips Petroleum, bought out more than 100 electric surface-traction (streetcar) systems in 45 cities (including New York, Philadelphia, St. ... An articulated bus operated by the CTA in Chicago, Illinois, USA. A Go North East Bus parked in a lay-by in Tyne and Wear, England A bus is a large road vehicle intended to carry numerous persons in addition to the driver and sometimes a conductor. ... January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ...

PG&E began delivering natural gas to San Francisco and northern California in 1930 through the longest pipeline in the world connecting the Texas gas fields to northern California with compressor stations that included cooling towers every 300 miles, at Topock on the state line and near the town of Hinkley, California. The company began retiring its polluting gas manufacturing facilities. In the post war era, PG&E went on a massive building spree, creating 14 new hydroelectric plants and 5 steam plants. This article on a place of local interest appears to contain only a small amount of verifiable information. ... Hinkley is a town in the Mojave Desert in California, 10 miles west of Barstow, 45 miles east of Mojave, and 50 miles northeast of Palmdale. ...

As of December 1992, PG&E operated 173 electric generating units and 85 generating stations, 18,450 miles of transmission lines and 101,400 miles of distribution system. In the later 1990s, under electricity market deregulation this utility sold off most of its natural gas power plants. The utility retained all of its hydroelectric plants, the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant and a few natural gas plants, but the large natural gas plants it sold made up a large portion of its generating capacity. This had the effect of requiring the utility to buy power from the energy generators at fluctuating prices, while being forced to sell the power to consumers at a fixed cost. However, the market for electricity was dominated by the Enron Corporation, which, with help from other corporations, artificially pushed prices for electricity ever higher. This led to the California electricity crisis that began in 2000 on Path 15, a transmission corridor PG&E built.. For the band, see 1990s (band). ... An electricity market is a system for effecting the purchase and sale of electricity using supply and demand to set the price. ... Deregulation is the process by which governments remove, reduce, or simplify restrictions on business and individuals in order to (in theory) encourage the efficient operation of markets. ... Natural gas is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane but including significant quantities of ethane, butane, propane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium and hydrogen sulfide. ... A power station (also power plant) is a facility for the generation of electric power. ... Hydroelectric dam diagram The waters of Llyn Stwlan, the upper reservoir of the Ffestiniog Pumped-Storage Scheme in north Wales, can just be glimpsed on the right. ... Diablo Canyon Power Plant The Diablo Canyon Power Plant is an electricity-generating nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo County, California. ... Enron Corporation was an energy company based in Houston, Texas. ... The California electricity crisis (also known as the Western Energy Crisis) of 2000 and 2001 followed a failed partial-deregulation, in 1996, of the electricity market in the state. ... Path 15 is the name of a major north-south power transmission corridor in California. ...

With a critical power shortage, rolling blackouts began on January 17, 2001. With little generating capacity of its own, and unable to sell electricity to consumers for more than it could buy it on the open market, PG&E was forced to enter bankruptcy April 6, 2001. The State of California bailed out the utility, the cost of this worsened an already bad state budget situation. This played an important part in the eventual recall of California Governor Gray Davis. January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... The 2003 California recall was a special election permitted under California law. ... Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gray Davis with President George W. Bush (2003) Seal of the Governor of California (without the Roman numerals designating the governors sequence) See also: List of pre-statehood governors of California, List of Governors of California The Governor of California is the highest executive authority... Joseph Graham Davis Jr. ...

PG&E emerged from bankruptcy in April 2004, after distributing $10.2 billion to hundreds of creditors. Its 4.8 million electricity customers are expected to pay an average $1,300 to $1,700 each in above-market prices through 2012. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2012 (MMXII) will be a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

PG&E was one of the most profitable companies on the Fortune 500 list for 2005 with $4.5 billion in profits out of $11 billion in revenue.

Generation Portfolio

PG&E's utility-owned generation portfolio consists an extensive hydroelectric system, one operating nuclear power plant, one operating natural gas-fired power plant, and another gas-fired plant under construction. Two other plants owned by the company have been permanently removed from commercial operation: Humboldt Bay Unit 3 (nuclear) and Hunters Point (fossil).

Hydroelectric facilities

PG&E's hydroelectric portfolio is the largest under private ownership in the United States. Drawing water from approximately 100 reservoirs along 16 river basins, its maximum electric output is 3,896 MW.

The single largest component is the Helms Pumped Storage Facility, located in Fresno County, California. Helms consists of three units, each rated at 404 MW, for a total output of 1,212 MW. The facility operates between Courtright and Wishon reserviors, alternately draining water from Courtright to produce electricity when demand is high, and pumping it back from Wishon when demand is low. The power house itself is situated more than 1,000 feet inside a solid granite mountain. Fresno County is a county located in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California, south of Stockton and north of Bakersfield. ...

Nuclear facilities

The Diablo Canyon Power Plant, located in Avila Beach, California, is the only operating nuclear asset owned by PG&E. The maximum output of this power plant is 2,190 MW, provided by two equally-sized units. Diablo Canyon Power Plant The Diablo Canyon Power Plant is an electricity-generating nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo County, California. ...

The company also maintains the Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant in Eureka, California. It is the oldest commercial nuclear plant in California and its maximum output was 65 MW. The plant operated for 13 years, until 1976 when it was shut down for seismic retrofitting. New regulations enacted after the Three Mile Island accident, however, rendered the plant unprofitable and it was never restarted. Spent fuel has been and is currently stored at the plant's spent fuel pool, though PG&E has received a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to construct and operate a dry cask storage for the site. Motto: Eureka - (I have found it!) Map of California showing the location of Eureka Coordinates: Country United States State California County Humboldt Founded 1850 Incorporated April 18, 1856 (town) Re-incorporated February 19, 1874 (city) Government type Mayor-council  - Mayor Virginia Bass  - City manager David Tyson Area    - City  14. ... Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station consisted of two pressurized water reactors manufactured by Babcock & Wilcox each inside its own containment building and connected cooling towers. ... NRC headquarters in Rockville, MD. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (or NRC) is a United States government agency that was established by the Energy Reorganization Act in 1974, and was first opened January 19, 1975. ...

Fossil facilities

There are also two conventional fossil fuel units at the Humboldt Bay power plant, which currently operate on natural gas and produce 105 MW of combined output. These units, along with two 15-MW peaking units, are scheduled for retirement in 2009. On the same site, PG&E is currently building 163 MW of new gas-fired generation.

As part of a settlement with Mirant for alleged market manipulations during the 2001 California energy crisis, PG&E took ownership of a partially-constructed natural gas unit in Antioch, California. The unit, known as the Gateway Generating Station, will be completed by PG&E placed into operation sometime in 2008. It will produce approximately 530 MW. Mirant is an energy company headquartered in Atlanta. ... The California electricity crisis (also known as the Western Energy Crisis) of 2000 and 2001 followed a failed partial-deregulation, in 1996, of the electricity market in the state. ... Antioch is a city located in Contra Costa County, California. ...

On May 15, 2006, after a long and bitter political battle, PG&E shut down its 48-year-old Hunters Point power plant in San Francisco. At the time of closure, the maximum output of the plant was 170 MW. Residents of the impoverished neighborhood had been pushing for more than a decade to close the plant, claiming it contributed to above average rates of asthma and other ailments. Nickname: Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Government  - Mayor Gavin Newsom Area  - City  47 sq mi (122 km²)  - Land  46. ...

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PG&E and the Environment

Beginning in the mid-1970's, regulatory and political developments began to push utilities in California away from a traditional business model. In 1976, the California State Legislature amended the Warren-Alquist Act^[3], which created and gives legal authority to the California Energy Commission, to effectively prohibit the construction of new nuclear power plants. The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) filed as an intervenor in PG&E's 1978 General Rate Case (GRC), claiming that the company's requests for rate increases were based on unrealistically high projections of load growth. Furthermore, EDF claimed that PG&E could more cost-effectively encourage industrial co-generation and energy efficiency then build more power plants. As a result of EDF's involvement in PG&E's rate cases, the company was eventually fined $50 million by the California Public Utilities Commission for failing to adequately implement energy efficiency programs.

Recently, the CEO of PG&E Corporation, Peter Darbee, and the CEO Of PG&E Company, Tom King, have publicly announced their support for California Assembly Bill 32, a measure to cap statewide greenhouse gas emissions and a 25% reduction of emissions by 2020. The bill was signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on September 27, 2006.

Since Darbee took control of the corporation in 2004, PG&E has been aggressively promoting its green image. In San Francisco, where the utility has repeatedly fought public power ballot initiatives, PG&E has launched a campaign dubbed "Let's Green This City". Community organizers have countered with a Lets Green WASH This City campaign focused on PG&E's power containing <1% solar and 2% wind.

PG&E and its predecessor companies have left a wide swath of polluted land in California from the by-products of its operations. It has also left significant land disturbances from its building of roads, power towers, power line rights of way and generating facilities. Right-of-way is a legal term which may have any of several meanings: priority at a crossing, or in traffic. ...

The cover-up and legal case in Hinkley

When natural gas was introduced in the west, an extensive network of pipelines from the southwest fields were built to ship gas from Texas to northern California, and these pipelines required repressurization stations approximately every three hundred miles. The town of Hinkley was one such site. In 1993, PG&E was accused of contamination of drinking water with toxic hexavalent chromium in the Southern California town of Hinkley. The chemical was used in water cooling towers to prevent scale and rust. PG&E had alerted the townsfolk earlier about the chromium but said that it was nothing to worry about, saying that chromium was in many multivitamins. However, many illnesses were linked to the hexavalent chromium, including cancers, birth defects, and organ failures. After many arguments the case had finally led to arbitration with a maximum of $400 million. After the first 40 people got about $110 million, PG&E reassessed its position and decided it was a bad idea. The case was settled in 1996 for $333 million, the largest settlement ever paid in a direct-action lawsuit in U.S. history. The 2000 movie Erin Brockovich dramatized this event. This event was also on A&E Network's "American Justice". 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Chromium hexavalent Cr(VI) compounds, often called hexavalent chromium, exist in several forms. ... Downtown Los Angeles Skyline Southern California, also colloquially referred to as SoCal, is an informal name for the megalopolis and nearby desert that occupies the southern-most quarter of the U.S. state of California. ... Hinkley is a town in the Mojave Desert in California, 10 miles west of Barstow, 45 miles east of Mojave, and 50 miles northeast of Palmdale. ... A multivitamin is any preparation containing more than a single vitamin. ... Arbitration is a legal technique for the resolution of disputes outside the courts, wherein the parties to a dispute refer it to one or more persons (the arbitrators or arbitral tribunal), by whose decision (the award) they agree to be bound. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Erin Brockovich is a 2000 movie which dramatizes the story of Erin Brockovichs first fight against the West Coast energy giant PG&E. The film was directed by Steven Soderbergh and featured superstar Julia Roberts in the lead role for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. ... Biography is one of A&Es longest-running and most popular programs. ...

Diversity

PG&E received a 100% rating on the Corporate Equality Index released by the Human Rights Campaign starting in 2003, the second year of the report. HRC logo The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is one of the largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) equal rights organization in the United States. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Fortune 500 2005

• PG&E Corp. Rank: 196 (2004 rank: 179) CEO: Peter A. Darbee Address: 1 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94105

References and footnotes

• "The History of Gas Lighting in San Francisco" Pacific Gas and Electric Magazine Vol. 1 #3 August 1909
• PG&E - A Report on the Companies Environmental Policies and Practices - Council on Economic Priorities - NY April 1994
• Roe, David. Dynamos and Virgins. (New York: Random House, 1984.)

External links

• Pacific Gas and Electric Company Official home page
• PG&E Environmental Justice from PG&E for Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco!
• Lets Green This City
• Lets Green Wash This City
• Greenpeace Action for More Solar in San Francisco
• Sierra Club on Community Choice Energy
• Local Energy Alternatives to PG&E
• PG&E history timeline
• Activists Protest PG&E's Broken Promises in Hunters Point
• SF Guardian on Action Against PG&E