PG&E Caps Best Day Since Going Bankrupt as California Offers Help
- Governor’s report includes option of fund to help utilities
- Legislature asked to act on liability problem by July 12
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California Governor Gavin Newsom gave legislators just three months to address a multibillion-dollar wildfire liability problem that has forced the state’s largest power company, PG&E Corp., into bankruptcy and threatens the same fate for its other utilities.
The governor issued a report Friday outlining possible solutions for how costs for destructive wildfires will be covered -- including a possible fund that utilities can tap into -- that sent the clearest signal yet that the state will move to keep its power companies solvent. He called for legislation to be passed before lawmakers take a month-long summer recess on July 12, sending shares of PG&E and its peers soaring.