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For the fifth consecutive year, The PG&E Corporation Foundation (PG&E Foundation) will provide grants to support independent restaurant owners and their staffs. They are doing so through the California Restaurant Foundation 's (CRF) Restaurants Care Resilience Fund . The grants will support a record number of restaurants in Northern and Central California this year. Resilience Fund applications are being accepted at www.restaurantscare.org/resilience through April 26, 2025. The PG&E Foundation is contributing $1.1 million to the program this year. The funding will help build more resilient hometown businesses for the long term. A total of 188 restaurants and commercial caterers in Pacific Gas and Electric Company's (PG&E) service area will receive $5,000 grants. That number is up from last year's 154 grant recipients. Since 2021, PG&E and the PG&E Foundation have contributed $4.3 million to the CRF's Restaurants Care Resilience Fund. This has provided grants

Today, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and real estate developer Westbank announced two major milestones in the development of Silicon Valley's innovative net-zero community. PG&E infrastructure upgrades have begun, and Westbank has launched a global call for data center partners to join the initiative. Eastdil Secured, a global real estate investment bank, will lead the process of identifying partners who support using data centers to enhance communities. Westbank's project will pair three data centers with up to 4,000 residential units to create a sustainable downtown San Jose. Excess heat from the data centers will be harnessed and repurposed through a district energy system to heat and cool surrounding buildings. The plan addresses the growing demand for artificial intelligence (AI)-driven data centers and housing while advancing San Jose's net-zero goals. "The Silicon Valley Initiative is about the evolution of energy, housing and AI infrastructure – it will

Building upon proven layers of protection that ensured no major wildfires resulted from the company's equipment in 2023 and 2024 and infused with technological innovation, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today shared its robust, risk-informed strategy to continue that progress in light of an ever-changing climate. PG&E's 2026-2028 Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP), submitted to California's Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (Energy Safety), details the company's relentless actions to construct, maintain and operate its system to minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfires and help keep its customers and hometowns safe. The plan fully integrates high-tech tools and solutions including inspecting assets with drones , using artificial intelligence to improve weather forecasts and installing sophisticated sensors that can detect vibrations, sounds and light that could indicate potential anomalies on an electric circuit that could lead to an ignition. PG&E's WMP