Pacific Gas and Electric crews are working to get ahead of wildfires in the Los Angeles area to protect the power grid from spreading flames. Crews are clearing areas around powerlines and treating the areas with fire retardant to protect each pole.

The L.A.-area fires may pose the first big test of California’s wildfire fund, which was set up in 2019 to protect utilities from bankruptcy.

Investigators are scouring video footage, witness testimony and debris to identify the origins of two deadly fires.

The California Public Utilities Commission voted to approve Southern California Edison’s wildfire mitigation plan, ignoring requests that the decision be delayed.

On the ground, PG&E’s Safety and Infrastructure Protection Teams (SIPT) are working to protect critical electric infrastructure by clearing vegetation and treating utility

Pacific Gas & Electric are working with Southern California Edison on power repair and service restoration work along with helping CAL FIRE by clearing brush and applying

PG&E says that their crews are in Southern California working to provide assistance to CAL FIRE, Southern California Edison, and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power as first

PacificLight Power—backed by Indonesian billionaire Anthoni Salim’s Hong Kong-listed First Pacific—has won a $735 million contract to build and operate a hydrogen-ready combined cycle gas power plant in Singapore.

MOSS LANDING — Flames and smoke in the community of Moss Landing and the Elkhorn Slough area in northern Monterey County largely were just smoldering late Friday morning following a major fire at a battery storage plant that brought evacuations, closing Highway 1.

Then in September 2022, a fire broke out at the PG&E Elkhorn battery plant. Police closed Highway 1 for 12 hours. An investigation found it was caused by an improperly installed vent shield on one of the 256 units, which allowed rainwater to get in and short out the batteries. There were no injuries to firefighters, PG&E employees or the public.

The dramatic fire at the the Vistra battery storage plant, one of the world’s largest, caused the evacuation of 1,200 people in Northern Monterey County, closed Highway 1 and sent large clouds of toxic black smoke billowing from at one of the world’s largest battery storage plants.