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FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2019, file photo, is a man walking past a Pacific Gas and Electric sign on a PG&amp;E building in San Francisco. PG&amp;E's household customers will be hit with an average rate increase of 8% to help the once-bankrupt utility pay for improvements designed to reduce the risks that its outdated equipment will ignite deadly wildfires in its Northern California service territory. The higher prices, effective March 1, are expected to boost the bills of PG&amp;E's residential customers by an average of $13.44 to per month. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

PG&E rate hike aimed at improvements to ease fire risk

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

Helina Thorp, right, 14, expresses frustration while unsuccessfully trying to log in to her school distance-learning classes while her mother, Virginia Thorp, attempts to call school officials from a Pacific Gas &amp; Electric community resource center at the El Dorado Fairgrounds during a Public Safety Power Shutoff in Placerville, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. People in nearly 172,000 homes and businesses in parts of California were sweltering Tuesday without electricity as Pacific Gas &amp; Electric intentionally shut off power to prevent wildfires amid high winds. The business and household customers without power were in areas including the Sacramento Valley, Sierra Nevada foothills, and parts of Napa and Sonoma counties in wine country. (Daniel Kim/The Sacramento Bee via AP)

PG&E trying a new tactic in power cuts to prevent wildfires

By JANIE HAR - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, July 10, 2002 file photo, Michael Peevey, Gov. Gray Davis' appointee to the Public Utilities Commission, answers questions while appearing at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Rules Committee at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Peevey, California's chief utility regulator, under fire over accusations of secret dealings with the state's largest utility, said Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 that he will not seek reappointment when his term ends at the end of the year. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California’s top utility regulator defends record

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