PG&E Corporation

ABOUT THIS COMPANY:

The primary utility serving California is the Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E), the only child of the Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation.  The company serves natural gas drawn from 40, 123-mile distribution pipelines and 6,136-mile transportation pipelines to 4.2 million customers.  It’s even got more electric customer accounts (5.1 million) that the company serves through 123,054-circuit-mile electric distribution lines and 18,610-circuit mile of transportation pipelines.  (In addition, PG&E buys electrical power from other sources both inside and outside the state for later sale to its clients.)  PG&E is also the owner of a profitable nuclear plant (Diablo Canyon) and increasing interests in power derived from waves, biomass, solar panels and the wind.  All these activities take place in a 70,000-square-mile service area in Northern and Central California.