Subject:

Electric Utilities

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    PG&E Pipeline Pressure Surges Are a Real Threat

    PG&E is starting to feel some unwanted pressure over its gas pipelines. The company is being asked to be much more transparent following a federal directive requiring all utilities to maintain and report instances of pressure surges along their gas pipelines. That might be a tall order for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Greenpeace Activists Call Apple's iCloud a "Dirty Cloud"

    Giant walking iPhones greeted Apple employees as they entered the company's headquarters in Cupertino this morning where Greenpeace activists criticized Apple's iCloud for using "dirty power."Demonstrators stood outside demanding employees and executives stop powering its iCloud using coal-fired pow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Who Hates Smart Meters? Glen Park Residents

    It's been a while since we've seen any good sparring over the contentious so-called smart meter, but apparently strong sentiments are circulating in parts of the city. A kind and anonymous reader passed along this photo that's being posted around homes in Noe Valley and Glen Park neighborhoods, wher ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Smart Meter Protest in SF Thursday

    A December 2010 protest against SmartMeter installation in West Marin Despite its status as a tech hub where virtually every square inch of land is within range of a wireless Internet signal, San Francisco has proved hospitable over the years to people with all manner of fears about radiation from g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    Jackie Speier Blasts PG&E for Sloppy Record-Keeping

    This is what happens when you are disorganized​Congresswoman Jackie Speier tells the Chronicle this morning that she is "appalled" by the fact that Pacific Gas and Electric Co. leaders "don't know what's underground." This became transparent after the company admitted it can't find important docum ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2010

    SmartMeter Protesters Block PG&E Trucks in Marin; 2 Arrested (PICS, VIDEO)

    ​Around 30 members of the group West Marin Citizens Against Smart Meters yesterday blockaded the only route into the remote village of Inverness, turning back trucks they claim were en route to install SmartMeters. Two of the protesters, Katharina Sandizell-Smith and June DiMorente, were arrested ... More >>

  • News

    September 22, 2010

    Who cares about gas lines? Worry about killer cellphone radiation

    ​Around 30 members of the group West Marin Citizens Against Smart Meters yesterday blockaded the only route into the remote village of Inverness, turning back trucks they claim were en route to install SmartMeters. Two of the protesters, Katharina Sandizell-Smith and June DiMorente, were arrested ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    PG&E's '100 Riskiest Pipelines' List Could Be Released Today

    WiggsWill your neighborhood make the list? ​What's worse than not knowing if you're living atop a high-risk PG&E pipeline? Knowing you are. After Friday's entreaty by the California Public Utilities Commission that PG&E provide a list of the specific locations of its 100 riskiest subterran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    PG&E Disseminates List of 100 Riskiest Pipelines

    Is this pipe on the list too? ​List is released. See jump for more. PG&E President Chris Johns told the media today a list of his agency's 100 pipes most likely to explode and ruin your day will be disseminated later today. In the meantime, he says, customers can call (888) 743-7431, and disco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    PG&E Will Reveal Pipeline Locations -- Sort Of

    KTVT/KTXALook! There's one! ​In the wake of the San Bruno disaster, a number of environmental and First Amendment types have demanded PG&E disclose the routes of its riskiest gas pipes. The utility provider has declined, however, citing the risk that terrorists could capitalize on that sort of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2010

    San Bruno Fire: PG&E Twice Billed Ratepayers to Replace Pipe Near Blast, Never Did Work

    WiggsWas this disaster really necessary? ​According to documents released by the San Francisco consumer watchdog The Utility Reform Network (TURN), PG&E received $5 million to replace a "high risk" section of piping not far from last week's San Bruno blast zone -- but didn't do the job as sche ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    San Bruno Fire's Death Toll Mounts

    Wiggs​As smoke rises from the devastated chunk of San Bruno, the death toll stands at four, with four more residents still unaccounted for. The dead are also now more than mere statistics -- there's student Jessica Morales. And, in a grim coincidence, one of the victims was Jacqueline Greig -- A C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2010

    San Francisco's Clean Power Program Collapses, Starts Over

    Electricity never strikes out twice in one place... we hope.​After spending months attempting and failing to negotiate the terms of a new program to provide clean, relatively cheap power to the local citizenry, San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission earlier this month began the process anew w ... More >>

  • News

    May 12, 2010

    Power Surge: Program could raise your electric bills

    Electricity never strikes out twice in one place... we hope.​After spending months attempting and failing to negotiate the terms of a new program to provide clean, relatively cheap power to the local citizenry, San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission earlier this month began the process anew w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    PG&E's New Definition of 'A Few' Faulty SmartMeters: 43,000

    'A few' problems found with this SmartMeter and its bretheren​After earlier insisting that only "a few" of its SmartMeter customers were incorrectly billed, PG&E has now been forced to admit it has no idea what the total is -- but tens of thousands were installed improperly and even more were ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Mexican Consulate Says S.F. Supes' Resolution Riddled With Errors

    Uh-oh. The Board of Supervisors would like a word with you people...​As it's wont to do, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Feb. 2 passed a chest-thumping, toothless resolution. This one condemned Mexico for taking measures to privatize the government electric utility known as Luz y Fuerza ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2009

    Green-Energy Agency's Response to Critical Grand Jury Report: Screw You Guys, We're Goin' Home.

    Marin County's civil grand jury caused an uproar in the ranks of Bay Area eco-activists earlier this month when it released a scathing report on a proposed overhaul of the county's energy policy. The grand jury's panning of Marin Clean Energy, a plan to provide many areas of the county with governme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    City Softens Requirements on Clean Energy Master Plan

    City officials have backed off from several of the more ambitious aspects of a planned overhaul of the local power grid that is intended to make San Francisco's energy supply greener and less dependent on Pacific Gas & Electric Co.The promised land​The city's Public Utilities Commission and Lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    State Not Ready to Shut Down Mirant Power Plant Just Yet

    ​City clean power activists and politicos were split in their reactions to the outcome of a state power regulatory body meeting today in Folsom, as San Francisco's plans to shutter the Mirant power plant "irrevocably" by 2010 took something of a hit. While Cal-ISO -- the state body that determines ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2009

    Is LAFCo Getting Ready to Sue PG&E?

    LAFCo Chairman Ross Mirkarimi may not be smiling for long​Lawsuit, anyone? That could be the case, to judge from what took place at the most recent Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) meeting on July 31.LAFCo is a sort of energy task force controlled by supervisors who advocate municipalizin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    Still Crazy After All These Years: Bay Guardian's Warblings Drown Rational Discussion of Solar Project

    The price is wrongA grumpy minority on the Board of Supervisors tries in vain to put the brakes on a renewable power project that makes bad business sense. This may sound familiar to observers of politics in San Francisco, where left-wing Democrats on the board tend to outflank their more moderate ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2009

    Billionaire Oilman's Traveling Green Energy Road Show Hits S.F.

    Daniel KramerT. Boone PickensAs Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens hits San Francisco tonight in his ongoing tour promoting a curtailing of foreign oil imports and a bolstering of domestic clean energy (in which he is invested to the gills), a long, strange article about Pickens' long, strange trip h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2009

    SF Gov InAction: Meet the Guardian's Imaginary Friend and Congratulate the Department of Technology on Its Fictitous $750,000 Tech Center

    When your whole government shuts down so that it can go to Washington D.C. and lobby for handouts, you know you've reached a point of no return. Economically it's a sign of total defeat, an acknowledgment that we are a zombie municipality that needs fresh infusions of federal blood just to go thr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    PG&E Steals SF Activists' Thunder -- Make That Sunlight -- With New Solar Power Plan

    David BlaikieMore attractive than ever.San Francisco-based utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co. announced yesterday that it will be undertaking a $1.5 billion project to produce more solar energy for its customers throughout the state. The initiative, which includes plans to build new solar-power ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    Meet the New LAFCo, Same as the Old LAFCo

    The White House handover has put us in a contemplative mood here at SF Weekly. Time passes, the seasons change, and the wheel of fate turns. But some things are constant -- among them the intellectual rigidity of San Francisco's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo), a little-noticed board that ... More >>

  • News

    January 21, 2009

    SF Weekly Letters

    The White House handover has put us in a contemplative mood here at SF Weekly. Time passes, the seasons change, and the wheel of fate turns. But some things are constant -- among them the intellectual rigidity of San Francisco's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo), a little-noticed board that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    Central Coast Weekly Blasts Chron's Environmental Coverage

    While the San Francisco Chronicle is busy fêting itself with daily retrospectives, journalists beyond the walls of 901 Mission are sounding a less complimentary note. In an editorial published last week, the weekly Carmel Pine Cone takes the Chron to task for its reporting on environmental question ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2008

    New Report Foresees a Short Road to Extinction for CA salmon

    It’s Time to Panic. But Then What? By Peter Jamison I recently observed that San Francisco salmon fishermen, despite some relatively good news in an industry that of late has lumbered from one calamity to the next, are still pretty glum these days. That’s because a number of highly publicized ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    Election Night Storylines

    It’s Time to Panic. But Then What? By Peter Jamison I recently observed that San Francisco salmon fishermen, despite some relatively good news in an industry that of late has lumbered from one calamity to the next, are still pretty glum these days. That’s because a number of highly publicized ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008

    Can PG&E Make Carmen Chu into a Star? You Bet, Kiddo!

    It’s Time to Panic. But Then What? By Peter Jamison I recently observed that San Francisco salmon fishermen, despite some relatively good news in an industry that of late has lumbered from one calamity to the next, are still pretty glum these days. That’s because a number of highly publicized ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2008

    Most "Censored" Story in S.F. History: If It's Been Censored, Why do We All Know About it?

    It’s Time to Panic. But Then What? By Peter Jamison I recently observed that San Francisco salmon fishermen, despite some relatively good news in an industry that of late has lumbered from one calamity to the next, are still pretty glum these days. That’s because a number of highly publicized ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    Let's Harness Prostitutes as a Source of Renewable Energy!

    It’s Time to Panic. But Then What? By Peter Jamison I recently observed that San Francisco salmon fishermen, despite some relatively good news in an industry that of late has lumbered from one calamity to the next, are still pretty glum these days. That’s because a number of highly publicized ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2007

    Get Your Smokin’ Hot Electricity News!

    It’s Time to Panic. But Then What? By Peter Jamison I recently observed that San Francisco salmon fishermen, despite some relatively good news in an industry that of late has lumbered from one calamity to the next, are still pretty glum these days. That’s because a number of highly publicized ... More >>

  • News

    March 28, 2007

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of 3-28-2007

  • News

    December 20, 2006

    What Lies Beneath

    Brain and stomach cancer. Asthma and bronchitis. Miscarriages and stillbirths. All are health problems suffered by residents of Midway Village. Why won’t authorities close it down?

  • News

    May 31, 2006

    A Bridge Too Costly

    The city's way of contracting out public works construction is broken — so much so that companies are not bidding on important municipal projects and that could cost us billions

  • News

    May 24, 2006

    Invasive Species

    The city's way of contracting out public works construction is broken — so much so that companies are not bidding on important municipal projects and that could cost us billions

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Underfoot Art

    "Substrada" by Brian Goggin

  • News

    December 10, 2003

    A Modest Post-Election Proposal

    For Preventing the Homeless People of San Francisco From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to the Public in an Energy-Efficient Manner

  • News

    June 18, 2003

    First SF Weekly Sharpie Literary Awards

    DISCUSSED IN THIS REVIEW: Cons, Scams & Grifts, 2001, Mysterious Press, Confidence, 2003, Lion's Gate Films What Should I Do With My Life?, 2002, Random House

  • News

    December 19, 2001

    Apples and Oranges; Water Fight

    How Kennedyesque is Gavin Newsom?

  • News

    August 1, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    Power Point;The Chronicle Chronicles;Outlawing Landlords and Other Amusements

  • News

    August 1, 2001

    Power Politics

    Two major S.F. energy projects are in the works. Do we need both? The question isn't really being discussed.

  • News

    July 18, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    Power to the People; A Love/Hate Relationship

  • News

    April 11, 2001

    A Silver Lining

    Power to the People; A Love/Hate Relationship

  • News

    September 16, 1998

    Midway to Nowhere

    The residents of Daly City's Midway Village wonder if their environmental concerns will ever be addressed

  • News

    January 10, 1996

    Off-Base (Part II)

    The most vituperative battle ever fought over the Presidio pits a handful of activists (and a certain weekly newspaper) against a local coalition of environmentalists, business, and the majority of elected officials. Is the congressional compromise to es

  • Calendar

    October 11, 1995

    Mayoral Web

    The most vituperative battle ever fought over the Presidio pits a handful of activists (and a certain weekly newspaper) against a local coalition of environmentalists, business, and the majority of elected officials. Is the congressional compromise to es

  • News

    March 29, 1995

    Whirly Birds

    The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?

  • News

    March 1, 1995

    Dog Bites

    The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?

  • More >>
VOICE Daily Deals
for free stuff, news info & more!

Now Click This

About Us | Media Kit | Work for SF Weekly | Esubscribe | Free Classifieds | SF Weekly Advertising | National Online Advertising | Mobile | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Site Problems? | RSS | Site Map
© 2012 SF Weekly, LP, All rights reserved.
Browse Voice Nation
avatar
Newsletters | Mobile
  • Voice Places

    Voice Places

    Discover restaurants, nightlife, travel, shopping...

  • VOICE Daily Deals

    VOICE Daily Deals

    Get 50 to 90% off every day on restaurants, movies, massages...

  • Best Of

    Best Of...

    More than 10,000 of the BEST things to eat, drink, and experience

  • My Voice Nation

    My Voice Nation

    Join the Village Voice community and get exclusive deals and info

  • Happy Hour

    Happy Hour

    Your local Happy Hour guide at your fingertips

or

Log in or Sign up

Social Connect:

Use your favorite account to access My Voice Nation.


Use your My Voice Nation account to log in:





Forgot password?
or

Sign Up or Log in

Social Connect:

Sign up for My Voice Nation with your preferred network.


Sign up for a My Voice Nation account:



Privacy policy