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PG&E Corporation reports developments tied to its regulated utility subsidiary, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a combined natural gas and electric utility serving more than 16 million people across Northern and Central California. News commonly covers earnings, rate and bill-credit programs, grid reliability, wildfire prevention, emergency response, and customer safety communications.
Company updates also address electric-vehicle integration, residential electrification tools, the PG&E PowerHouse demonstration lab, and the Diablo Canyon Power Plant. Operational announcements often focus on sensor data, machine learning, smart meters, bidirectional charging, and programs intended to support a safer and more resilient electric system.
Pacific Gas and Electric (NYSE:PCG) launched a Clean Energy Calculator on February 25, 2026, developed with GridX to help customers evaluate electrification upgrades.
The online tool uses customers' actual energy usage to model costs, savings, rate-plan impacts, appliance purchase and operating costs, incentives, and gas-versus-electric total cost of ownership. Access: pge.com/calculator.
PG&E (NYSE: PCG) declared its Q1 2026 common cash dividend of $0.05 per share, payable April 15, 2026, to shareholders of record as of March 31, 2026. The utility subsidiary also declared preferred dividends for the three-month period ending April 30, 2026, payable May 15, 2026.
PG&E listed quarterly per-share amounts for eight preferred stock series, ranging from $0.27250 to $0.37500.
Pacific Gas and Electric (NYSE:PCG) is pre-positioning crews, equipment and activating its Emergency Operations Center ahead of a multi-phase winter storm expected Feb 16–18, 2026. Meteorologists forecast gusts up to 60 mph, heavy rain (0.5–3 inches), and snow down to 2,000 feet, with significant accumulation above 3,000 feet.
PG&E says it uses AI and machine‑learning weather models to place crews, poles and transformers nearer expected impact zones and will provide outage updates at PGE.com/outages and PG&E Currents.
PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG) reported 2025 GAAP EPS of $1.18 and non-GAAP core EPS of $1.50, and tightened 2026 non-GAAP core EPS guidance to $1.64–$1.66. The company cut non-fuel O&M by 2.5%, advanced ~3.6 GW of data center projects into final engineering, and continued wildfire mitigation progress.
Operational highlights include a third consecutive year with zero major wildfires caused by utility equipment, 334 miles of undergrounded lines completed in 2025, and residential electric rates down 11% since January 2024.
Pacific Gas and Electric (NYSE: PCG) warns customers that metallic (foil) balloons can cause power outages, equipment damage and public safety hazards if released outdoors. The company says nearly 350 outages in 2025 from metallic balloons affected 165,000 customers across Northern and Central California.
PG&E urges Californians to secure balloons with weights, never release them, puncture and discard used balloons, and call 1-800-743-5000 to report balloon-related issues or 911 for downed lines.
Maas Energy Works commissioned a new renewable natural gas (RNG) interconnection at Couco Creek Dairy in Turlock, California, enabling injection of both onsite and trucked‑in dairy biomethane into PG&E’s pipeline. At full operation the site targets ~350 MMBtu/day of RNG and supports California methane‑reduction goals.
PG&E called this its eighth RNG interconnection and reports transporting ~6.5 Bcf of RNG by end‑2025; the project is expected to cut ~54,000 metric tons CO2e/year.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (NYSE:PCG) supported GENYOUth's Super Schools initiative tied to Super Bowl LX, which equipped 60 Bay Area schools with nutrition equipment and NFL FLAG kits. The program increased access to approximately 9 million school meals annually and expanded physical activity opportunities for over 33,000 students.
Partners included Oakland Unified School District, Bay Area Host Committee, Dairy Council of California, Amazon Access, Domino's, PepsiCo Foundation and the NFL Foundation. GENYOUth also highlighted Taste of the NFL fundraising impact.
Pacific Gas and Electric (NYSE:PCG) announced a strategic collaboration with SPAN to deploy the SPAN Edge at-the-meter device through a new PanelBoost program to reduce customer costs and delays tied to traditional panel or service upgrades. PG&E estimates >600,000 homes may need service upgrades over the next decade to meet electrification demand.
SPAN Edge offers Dynamic Service Rating™ load shaping, can be installed at the meter, and aims to avoid service upgrades that PG&E says can cost $6,000–$40,000, while installation through PanelBoost could cost customers $500–$2,000. PG&E expects initial deployments to thousands of customers starting summer 2026 and will launch a program website then.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (NYSE: PCG) and the PG&E Foundation will award $7,000 scholarships to 25 Oakland-area high school seniors graduating from the PG&E Community Financial Education Program on Feb. 7, 2026 at UC Berkeley.
Launched in 2022, the six-month program has served 96 students over four years and reports a total of $800,000 in student scholarships funded by PG&E and its foundation. Partners include UC Berkeley Haas, Berkeley Executive Education, The Mills Institute at Northeastern, and Amenti Capital Group.
PG&E (PCG) mobilized crews, partners and emergency centers to support Super Bowl LX in the Bay Area from Feb 2–8, 2026, ensuring safe, reliable gas and electric service for venues and community events.
Preparations include venue inspections, transformer checks, inventory reviews, temporary generation planning and activated Emergency Operations Centers in San Francisco and San Jose.