Public Safety

May 20, 2013

Utilities Remind Customers to Keep Dogs Secure During Service Visits

May 19-25 is National Dog Bite Prevention Week, a public service campaign that emphasizes the need for increased pet owner responsibility in the prevention of dog bites. PG&E, Southern California Edison, Southern California Gas Co. and San Diego Gas & Electric remind customers to keep dogs secure when a utility worker is scheduled to visit a home or business.

May 20, 2013

PG&E’s General Rate Case Supports Future of Safe, Reliable and Affordable Energy

2013 is a pivotal year for PG&E, its customers, and the state’s economy. The CPUC is reviewing PG&E’s proposed General Rate Case for the years 2014 to 2016. At issue are the resources the utility needs to safely and reliably operate, maintain and modernize its gas and electric distribution and electric generation systems. PG&E believes it can achieve these important benefits at a reasonable cost to customers.

May 17, 2013

SNL Energy: PG&E Uses Training, Technology to Revamp Gas Operations

SNL Energy, an energy-industry news website, wrote about PG&E’s pipeline-safety progress and the construction of its $35 million gas control center in San Ramon. Mel Christopher, PG&E’s senior director of gas system operations, and Jesus Soto Jr., the company’s senior vice president of gas transmission operations, were quoted.

May 14, 2013

PG&E’s Jesus Soto Testifies before Congress on Natural Gas Infrastructure, Technologies and Innovations

America needs to invest in its energy infrastructure and system improvements if it expects to reap the benefits of the abundance of affordable gas, one of PG&E’s top leaders told Congress today. Jesus Soto Jr., PG&E’s senior vice president of Gas Transmission Operations, participated in a U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources’ natural gas forum

May 10, 2013

Wayward Mother’s Day Metallic Balloons Pose an Electrical Danger

Springtime is a season for celebrating. And for those who choose helium-filled metallic balloons as part of their Mother’s Day and graduation gift giving, PG&E stresses caution.

April 29, 2013

VIDEO: An Update on PG&E’s Efforts to Create the Safest, Most Reliable Gas System in the Country

PG&E owes it to our communities – the places where our customers and employees call home – to work every day toward becoming the safest, most reliable gas system in the nation. Here’s how this is happening, writes Nick Stavropoulos, PG&E’s executive vice president of Gas Operations.

April 24, 2013

PG&E Continues Push to Increase ‘Call 811’ Awareness at Vallejo Event

PG&E joined local officials from Solano County today at an event to boost awareness of the importance of calling 811 before any digging project. Held at the Solano Community College’s Vallejo Campus, the event coincided with National Safe Digging Month.

April 23, 2013

PG&E’s Stavropoulos Stresses ‘Call Before You Dig’; Company Funds Central Valley 811 Task Force

Public safety officials from Fresno and Madera counties are now armed with $25,000 from PG&E to help launch a new Central Valley Task Force on public safety and raise awareness of calling 811 before a digging project. PG&E’s Nick Stavropoulos, executive vice president of gas operations, announced the gift and formation of the Central Valley 811 Task Force.

April 18, 2013

First Responders Join PG&E’s National Safe Digging Month Efforts

As part of April’s National Safe Digging Month, PG&E conducted emergency responder training at its San Carlos Service Center for fire, police, and emergency services departments in San Mateo County today. Prior to the training, it was announced that a Peninsula 811 Task Force to increase the awareness of calling 811 before any digging project.

April 17, 2013

PG&E Joins Local Task Force to Increase ‘Call 811’ Awareness

PG&E will be working with fire chiefs in Alameda County and other officials to increase the understanding and importance of calling 811 before a digging project, the company said today (April 17). John Higgins, PG&E’s senior director of gas distribution operations, and Renee Domingo, the director of emergency services and homeland security for Oakland, will be the co-chairs of the new Alameda County 811 Task Force.

April 17, 2013

Fresno Horse Park, PG&E Work Together As Pipeline Work Moves Forward

In a unique business arrangement, Fresno County Horse Park — one of the nation’s oldest competitive equestrian event centers — has leased property from PG&E since 1957. Through decades, the two have fostered a relationship that works. The collaboration is even more critical today as PG&E soon will start a gas pipeline construction project that will run directly through the horse park arena this summer.

April 17, 2013