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Maybe I'm out of touch, but why is this a big deal - the Gas and Electric side of every combined utility I've worked with are very separate business units, with
by Aloha 7y ago
Maybe I'm out of touch, but why is this a big deal - the Gas and Electric side of every combined utility I've worked with are very separate business units, with differing sales forces, policies and completely different regulatory regimes.
- ip26 7y agoAs a non-Californian it sometimes look like there is a body hard at work scapegoating PG&E. Not that they are blameless, but I think there's a lot of blame to go around and the voters & government do not want to consider their own contributions to the problem.
- notadoc 7y agoWhat specific blame do you put on the voters and government?
- ip26 7y agoForestry management decisions (not allowing enough controlled burns, underfunding manual brush clearing), unwillingness to pay for buried powerlines, poor development planning in towns on the wildland-urban interface, lax wildfire building codes, no real enforcement of defensible space rules, inability to cope with even brief power outages during high risk periods... PG&E was holding the match, but the public & the government built the tinderbox IMO.
- s1artibartfast 7y agoOne partial explanation is a portion of the public and government that want to take control of the infrastructure from PG&E and make it state owned.
- coldcode 7y agoClickbait. It's like complaining about the Army when an AF plane crashes.