San Diego Gas & Electric Company

San Diego Gas & Electric is still pushing a plan to cut power to remote areas when wildfire risk is high, despite a state ruling against the plan. Richard Morrow, president of San Diego Gas & Electric Co., said in a letter going to 60,000 rural customers...

San Diego Gas & Electric customers will get a $124 million refund in the form of a credit on their electric bills as a result of an over-collection, a state utility regulatory agency announced Thursday. SDG&E requested the California Public Utilities...

An effort is under way to transform the San Diego region's electrical grid into a digital "smart grid'' by a newly formed coalition of 25 organizations that includes San Diego Gas & Electric, UC San Diego and CleanTech San Diego, it was announced...

San Diego Gas & Electric customers are getting a total of $120 million in refunds because the utility overcharged them. The California Public Utilities Commission Thursday approved the refund, which will be made to customers in the form of a one-time...

Hundreds of homes and businesses in East County were without power Sunday morning because of a problem with an overhead electrical system. The outage, which started just after 5:40 a.m., affected 332 addresses in Dulzula, Potrero, Campo, Jamul, Lyons...

In the foamy chop of the warm-water discharge flowing into the San Gabriel River from a Long Beach power plant, a green sea turtle, wide as a manhole cover, materialized Friday just a few yards from shore. A few minutes later, an even larger sea turtle...

Public Utilities Commissioner Timothy A. Simon solicited donations from companies he regulates to help pay for a nonprofit conference on green energy hosted last month by one of his political patrons, documents and interviews show. Two weeks after the...

Power lines are the suspected culprit behind at least five of the 12 major fires that burned in Southern California last week, including the Witch fire, which burned nearly 200,000 acres, destroyed 1,041 homes and killed two people. Although acts of...

With foreclosures rising and home prices diving, there is a bright spot in California's residential real estate market: Solar-powered homes are starting to outsell traditionally electrified new homes in several markets, and developers are stepping up...

The Sesnon fire, which started Monday near Porter Ranch and destroyed 15 homes, was sparked when high winds downed a power line. It broke out almost exactly one year after a firestorm raged across Southern California, including three wind-driven fires...

Taxes as a tool to fix economy Re "Gov.'s staff exploring new taxes," May 2 The only proven solution to California's budget deficit is a sustained economic recovery. A sales tax on services would impede that recovery. Increasing the price of services...

As fierce Santa Ana winds finally began to subside, firefighters reached a turning point Wednesday in their desperate four-day battle against Southern California's wildfires. Although several large fires remained largely untamed and several communities...