Can PG&E Stop Causing So Many Fires In California?

[@mrssirens]

This whole thing really seems like it was spun as a marketing campaign for this company, heres the bad, now look how progressive we are, how much we care about our customers.

[@cherriemckinstry131]

magma hot spots..on satellight.

[@sebastiant5695]

lol making advertisement with burying 23 miles of powerline. You know that in other places, they have all their powerlines underground. Just get those things out of the trees.

[@bcubed72]

@@sebastiant5695 Waste of money, PLUS the ground in a fault zone moves relative to other ground Bury em and you have an outage, and infrastructure damage possible with every earthquake.

[@ShutThePuck]

@@bcubed72 How's the above ground solution going? I think we'd all settle for outages and infrastructure damage for what has already happened and will continue to happen. Also I think someone can come up with a solution for the problems underground, whereas if a wildfire starts and goes out of control we can only hope to contain it before it kills people and destroys the surrounding 100's of miles.

[@bcubed72]

@@ShutThePuck Plenty of other states have above ground transmission, and don't catch fire. Besides, are you talking SERVICE lines, or the much more powerful transmission lines? Makes a difference!

[@virn143]

This was just a PR show for the company.

[@euanmuir6402]

It’s like watching an ad

[@DemeDemetre]

of course

[@laurensa.1803]

'Murica

[@ricflair5956]

They’re basically using a French grip to jerk themselves off in this one.

[@4997wolven]

I wonder when they will figure out that it is cheaper to begin burying electrical cables rather than leaving them above ground!!

[@naivemiew4231]

The mentality of not doing so is called "cost saving". ;-)

[@SoulDevoured]

They don't have any money upfront to do it because the government decided to sue them instead of regulate them. Yay capitalism

[@ShaudaySmith]

@@naivemiew4231 When the savings are 10x cheaper to poll powerlines than burying them, and they rely on old practices that do not take into account contemporary environmental factors and population demand... It's going to take a big incident like the Napa and Paradise fires to motivate real change.

[@cherriemckinstry131]

@@SoulDevoured magma hot spots..on satellight.

[@starwizardmanonthestarwiza2469]

The stuff to bury the electrical lines up in the mountains

[@christianj252]

PG&E has some really good marketing people coming up with nice big words and phrases.

[@Ch28Kid]

This feels like sponsor content. Feels like an ad for PG&E.

[@Taco-lo5bh]

lmao, first day on the internet?

[@hamzerpanzer]

@@Taco-lo5bh This is a news channel though

[@skullfc4215]

@@hamzerpanzer news divulgation by itself doesn't bring revenue, someone has to bring the money in, mostly companies in need of a good image will do that for new outlet

[@maggiejetson7904]

@@hamzerpanzer LOL CNBC does this all the time, not news.

[@budders9958]

Yeah because corporations = evil.

[@rendermanpro]

*"No electricity - no wildfires".* Interesting "solution".

[@twiggs24]

Walks in with fireworks, hold my beer watch this

[@SolutionsNotPrayers]

99% of the time, it's caused by lightening strikes. Can you control that?

[@michaelv9117]

@@SolutionsNotPrayers 5% caused by lightning. "Cause of the top 20 most destructive California wildfires" -power lines =7, human related=3, electrical=2, under investigation=2 etc. --California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

[@emceeunderdogrising]

Gender reveal party enters chat .............

[@emceeunderdogrising]

@M R That damn leftist private utility company.

[@GreenAppelPie]

Ah yes, when shareholders win everyone else lose and then later shareholders lose.

[@eddiew2325]

If it makes u feel better I will buy u a donut

[@adama4791]

I think it’s a perfect example of why as shareholders you need to not be a moron and understand that you can’t bleed something cuz it’ll bite you in the ass later

[@hangender]

Cali is turning into a desert. So yes eventually everyone loses.

[@eddiew2325]

@@hangender what kind of dessert

[@acasccseea4434]

Or, just have public utilities run by the government, like literally everyone's else in the world. Why on earth do people want private everything

[@johnny_eth]

So this is what happens when private companies prioritize quarterly profits instead of actually delivering a quality service for their customers.

[@MinkSoda]

What most people don't realize *** PG & E ISN'T THE ONE THAT CAUSED THE FIRES THROUGH NEGLIGENCE.*** The fires were caused by DEWs (Directed Energy Weapons) and there is an abundance of photographic evidence that is being suppressed from the Public. A Utility company's resources cannot start fires so hot that it melts steel OR ANY metal it comes into contact with into a puddle of liquid metal; melt washing machines; toilet bowls; auto engine blocks, that can literally cut a 3-story house in half in a razor straight line leaving one side untouched and the surrounding trees and bushes left intact, melts car windshields, and cook animals in mid-stride from the inside out as if they were in a microwave. No Forest Fire or faulty power line can cause that kind of devastation.

[@viviviv7325]

This is what happens when an area gets grossly overpopulated. Remember, it hasn't always been this way. California used to be a first world type of state, not a third world type. Cali is closing our only nuclear power plant so expect things to just get worse.

[@ricflair5956]

@@MinkSoda you’re clinically insane. Did you take your scizo pills today??

[@mikesaunders3326]

Don't blame private companies for doing what they do. Blame the GOP for pushing to privatize literally everything.

[@viviviv7325]

@@mikesaunders3326 When did California become a conservative state? It's been under Democrat rule for decades. California has been poorly run for many many years and is nearing rock bottom.

[@Arknight96]

PG&E had so much time to find a solution, I call bs when the company say they are trying all they can.

[@praiseYahshua822]

@Dr Will Kutchurkokov On your electric bill you can see that instead of PG&E paying for their failure, California Is charging you an extra $30 on your electric bill to pay for PG&E failures. Look at your electric bill. You'll see it for yourselves

[@praiseYahshua822]

@Dr Will Kutchurkokov That incorrect

[@quentinmanson3287]

He sits there like a saint. However they allowed over 80 people die to save a buck

[@cherriemckinstry131]

magma hot spots..on satellight.

[@chiro-quack-tor2108]

They didn't die ... They got promoted..

[@XDSDDLord]

This is all well and good, but PG&E is still a public company, meanings its share holders still expect maximum profits. What was done to make sure that profit is kept to a bare minimum. The entire budget to the point of near break even needs to be dedicated to the operations, there is no reality in which profit for shareholders is acceptable in this industry.

[@cherriemckinstry131]

The wildfires are being caused by magma pushing closer to the surface.. many people watching the heat buildup from satellights andvreportingbitbon youtube..

[@XDSDDLord]

@@cherriemckinstry131 citation needed*

[@saramae9878]

Absolutely agree. Look at SMUD in Sacramento. Significantly lower prices, and higher satisfaction from customers. Their "shareholders" are the people who live there, not investors who only care about profits.

[@chiro-quack-tor2108]

PG and E should just abandon California and dump it on the state.. providing power in the state of California is simply not a money maker... The state wants to regulate prices and still expect electricity... Rebuilding infrastructure isn't cheap and now with the lawsuits it's going to fall on its face...

[@saramae9878]

@@chiro-quack-tor2108 SMUD, TID, MID, etc do just fine. So yes, good plan lol. Infrastructure should not be a for profit enterprise.

[@BayuAH]

15:16 - With such a high risk of fire, why do they still use wood as power poles, instead of iron bars or even concrete?

[@specialopsdave]

Iron is conductive and expensive, and concrete is vulnerable to ice cracking in the more mountanous regions in the winter. Honestly, plastic is the best material from an engineer's standpoint, but since that would be enviromentally irresponsible, wood poles that are replaced every 50-75 years is the best option.

[@sanbruno3606]

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[@BayuAH]

@@specialopsdave Thank you for your explanation. With good isolation iron bar as pole actually relatively good. That is why there multi-layers ceramic insulators bellow the cables. But, in my country, actually iron bar poles are almost all being replaced with concrete, because of corrosion that caused by humidity. Woods also not really good in my country also because of humidity and huge amount of rains.

[@cherriemckinstry131]

@@specialopsdave magma hot spots..on satellight.

[@cherriemckinstry131]

@@sanbruno3606 magma hot spots..on satellight.

[@SurfergirlKH]

Why don‘t they just put the lines underground? Has been done for years in Europe…

[@MKNYC_]

Very expensive for a place as large as California

[@SurfergirlKH]

@@MKNYC_ Sure, but for example Germany is larger than CA and when they have to repair it anyway they can as well put it underground. Bit by bit. Considering how much damage and pollution the bush fires cause 😕😫

[@MKNYC_]

@@SurfergirlKH bush fires are a natural phenomenon pollution is one of the lesser things to be concerned about (besides the short term health hazard that I agree with you on). And yea they mention they buried 22 miles of lines near paradise, so that’s bit by bit. It’s just a MASSIVE undertaking. Germany built their underground system from the start, so they’re ahead of the curve. I’m not an engineering or procurement specialist but it would take probably trillions of dollars to bury everything in California. Not feasible in any situation.

[@MKNYC_]

@@SurfergirlKH it also appears that a majority of Germany’s transmission system is overhead (this is normal, it’s 10x more expensive to build an equivalent underground line). With the new stuff going underground. I don’t doubt the German’s when it comes to engineering so perhaps they’ll come up with a way to reduce cost.

[@SurfergirlKH]

@@MKNYC_ Not if the bush fires are caused by humans (idiots using fireworks)…And no, we had lots of power lines overground, they have just been taking underground when street construction was planned anyway!

[@sebastiangruenfeld141]

I hope PG&E paid you well for this ad

[@masterdecats6418]

This ^

[@brewskibrew986]

Instead of all of these fancy off grid systems that end up raising the electricity rates how about they spend some money on maintenance and not have 100 year old equipment on there system 🙄

[@kaushaljishnu3650]

the fancy off grid is probably cheaper or a pilot site so that it could be cheaper at scale.

[@christopherguzman4949]

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[@michaeldeww]

It doesn't matter when this company is an IOU, they don't care really about customers. They only owe accountability to the shareholders and making money. Not to the consumers. Sucks!

[@arthurpaliden1496]

The major limiting factor in this fire prevention operation will be how to do it while increasing shareholder value and dividends.

[@andrepoghosyan8269]

No one investing PG&E is expecting a dividend any time soon. Especially with them filing for bankruptcy Getting their stuff together will make the stock go up and increase shareholder value

[@sanbruno3606]

JESUS SAYS 🌧 RAIN IN CALIFORNIA🌧 PROSPERITY BONANZA SAFETY HONESTY OPTIMISM

[@andrepoghosyan8269]

@@sanbruno3606 stop spamming this on every video

[@terenceconnors9627]

Stop letting private companies run public services, for one.

[@yengsabio5315]

Does PG&E know anything about preventive and predictive maintenance, respectively?

[@mikesaunders3326]

Of course they know about it, but it's a lower priority than shareholder profits.

[@JuneHarriseco]

All I'm hearing is the extra they will charge their existing customers, even after they break even.

[@laurensa.1803]

@Donald Wright Those taxes seem to be nothing compared to our country. I just looked it up, and there seems to be a third of hundred cent tax per KWh in California. We pay 10 cent per KWh in the Netherlands. Start complaining about taxes now... No wonder your infrastructure is literally rotting away.

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

@Faux Que : _"Solar makes no sense when my power is so cheap"_ And because of the absurdly myopic thinking of people like you, Florida is shrinking, and the west is burning, causing many billions of dollars in damage and it will only get worse if people like you don't suddenly grow brains.

[@cherriemckinstry131]

@Donald Wright magma hot spots..on satellight.

[@cherriemckinstry131]

@Faux Que magma hot spots..on satellight.

[@mikesaunders3326]

@Donald Wright Your position is kind of indefensible when you literally can't even keep the lights on.

[@johnthompson7548]

California just needs to take PG&E over

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

Socialism was never intended to be for the wealthy elite only. But "this is Murica!" lols It's crazy how long McCarthyism has controlled and oppressed The American People.

[@sanbruno3606]

JESUS SAYS 🌧 RAIN IN CALIFORNIA🌧 PROSPERITY BONANZA SAFETY HONESTY OPTIMISM

[@donaldjeezytrump2435]

Ha stupidest comment ever . As if California could do better.. fucc out of here

[@MKNYC_]

California hasn’t ran anything correctly for decades, why do you think this is a good idea?

[@johnthompson7548]

It’s funny how people hate the government bureaucracies but looovvvesss corporate bureaucracy. Government created it but corporations perfected it. Civic lesson: government- in this case California- is beholden to the people. 39.7 million people Corporations- in this case PG&E - is beholden to shareholders or 3,000 people. If try to hold them accountable, they just go bankrupt. Please tell me what state ran by Republicans that is 100% perfect? What non-socialized country you think is well ran.

[@davidjames6788]

Dig the lines in. Its pretty simple. it wouldn't even be 20% of californias annual gdp. like so much else its the relationship of money profit and paying for rules with politics that strengthen your position

[@AD-zg7fw]

Nah, it's like computer security. The flaws are left in.

[@SDGreg]

Some lines are being buried but it would take decades and some lines cannot be buried. Like the lines that started the Paradise fire, were in area with lots of granite. You can't even dig to bury the lines because of the granite.

[@animehuntress9018]

@@SDGreg There are other options and even putting some of the system underground would help. On another note I'm seriously sick of hearing whining from people about the shut-offs. SDG&E has been doing it for much longer but we got over it and adjusted. You hook up a generators, or use grant for solar. You rig batteries to run your fridges. People can't just rely on a company to take care of their needs when they have a monopoly. If there is only one electric company your stuck and they know it.

[@masterdecats6418]

@@animehuntress9018 socialism time?

[@animehuntress9018]

@@masterdecats6418 No clue what your saying.

[@jmonsted]

That microgrid being used to power three customers... why didn't they just buy the customers regular rooftop solar setups? I bet that would've cost a fraction of the money.

[@alexanderphilip1809]

Maybe the cost is prohibitive ?.

[@zyrohnmng]

Proof of concept?

[@crylittlebitch]

installation costs make up the majority of costs in small-scale solar systems, and having one instead of 5 on 5 individual roofs reduces the installation cost by a lot.

[@JochenHormes]

Then you would have to plan the solution for the existing houses. With this solution you can copy it to other places without major replaning.

[@teardowndan5364]

If the power company puts its panels on someone else's roof, it causes ownership and access issues between the power company and home owner for the roof. Before putting panels on a roof, you may also want to re-do the roof if it is likely to need a re-roofing during the panels' useful life so you don't need to re-roof with panels getting in the way. With off-site panels, you don't need to worry about either issue.

[@BayuAH]

0:35 - "Wildfire is coming. Is your home ready?" That's wildly ironic.

[@cherriemckinstry131]

magma hot spots..on satellight.

[@reginadavis8892]

This was also on an episode of American Greed. Smh!🤦🏾‍♀️ Yet not one PG&E corp exec has gone to prison.

[@concernedcitizen6577]

Californian joke: "is it time for the annual Wildfire Festival yet?"

[@obamayomama8291]

"Can't wait for October Break!"

[@Pyette91]

Burning man 2.0?

[@xero256]

That's not far from the truth. If it's summer, something is on fire every day.

[@TheAvsouto]

Just when California stops burning Australia and the Amazon takes its turn. Inevitable Collapse

[@Pyette91]

@@xero256 my life must always be summer…. This is fine.

[@idowebwork]

Hope CNBC got paid for this ad for PG&E.

[@MrJamesLuz]

PG&E and SDG&E (Sempra) have allowed profits to drive their businesses rather than acting like public utilities. I live in California and have solar panels and a generator. I had to fight SD&E over the number of panels on my house. They claimed our house was going to “overproduce” but it was based off of the neighborhood average and not our house’s historical use.

[@BayuAH]

In my country, if you overproduce electricity, you actually can sell the excess to the electricity company as bill reduction scheme.

[@mfb424]

All of these utilities know that solar energy can be sent back to grid. But already over 10 years ago I was meeting these mentioned utilites to educate them about the benefits of adding battery storage to their grid. Tesla is doing that stuff now with success with Powerwalls and Megapacks. For consumer these batteries should be provided as a service without any additional cost as it would ensure 100% solar energy self consumption. All the interfaces were developed and successful pilot projects made. No technocal issues. So one can expect battery storage to emerge to every building during next few decades.

[@sanbruno3606]

JESUS SAYS 🌧 RAIN IN CALIFORNIA🌧 PROSPERITY BONANZA SAFETY HONESTY OPTIMISM

[@richardh8822]

Don’t let them steal your electricity. Get a couple of good power banks and use it off grid.

[@samsfk4877]

*Richest and most powerful country in the world btw*

[@adriank9234]

FUBAR; CLUSTER_F

[@HH-le1vi]

Most dysfunctional state in the entire country

[@adriank9234]

@@joshn2342323 We certainly are (smirking into my beer) as I am sitting in 22C 'winter' weather with shorts/t-shirt/can pondering the complexities of life in the USA (not). Australia - yee-mofo-ha.

[@rickemmet1104]

Having worked at SDG&E in a fire prevention program, I can tell you that having two major fires start from TRANSMISSION lines is unheard of. There is far less that can go wrong with this type of power line than distribution lines, for a host of reasons. A run to failure policy? Give me a break, these fires should never have occurred, period! This is a very good report with lots of accurate info. There are a number of caveats that could be covered, but the video would then be too confusing for the general public. Good job guys!

[@MinkSoda]

What most people don't realize *** PG & E ISN'T THE ONE THAT CAUSED THE FIRES THROUGH NEGLIGENCE.*** The fires were caused by DEWs (Directed Energy Weapons) and there is an abundance of photographic evidence that is being suppressed from the Public. A Utility company's resources cannot start fires so hot that it melts steel OR ANY metal it comes into contact with into a puddle of liquid metal; melt washing machines; toilet bowls; auto engine blocks, that can literally cut a 3-story house in half in a razor straight line leaving one side untouched and the surrounding trees and bushes left intact, melts car windshields, and cook animals in mid-stride from the inside out as if they were in a microwave. No Forest Fire or faulty power line can cause that kind of devastation.

[@donaldjeezytrump2435]

Wrong. I love pge

[@aydencz1239]

@@MinkSoda news flash fire is hot

[@phenry5083]

if you worked for SDGE then you know this is BS and a California problem, not a PGE problem

[@joecrozier3236]

Protect your WHOLE power system with fuses, reclosers, breakers. EVERY MILLIMETRE! Use the FASTEST POSSIBLE protections. Smaller fuses clear faults faster. (Current-limiting fuses - 1/100th of a second.) Don't buy trash! Pick vendors of QUALITY protections. NEVER forget that for fault protection to keep people safe, YOUR GROUNDS MUST BE GOOD! 1 ohm - OK. 100 ohms - people could die. Same for lightning protection. INSPECT > MAINTAIN > FIX > UPGRADE > REPEAT

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[@animehuntress9018]

Honestly the power outages aren't new. SDG&E was doing it several years before PG&E. Frankly in High wind areas it would be better to have at least some of the electric system underground.

[@DickCheneyXX]

They just need to aggressively and indiscriminately cut all vegetation near the lines. "Esthetic" considerations are costing lives and need to be completely ignored.

[@MinkSoda]

What most people don't realize *** PG & E ISN'T THE ONE THAT CAUSED THE FIRES THROUGH NEGLIGENCE.*** The fires were caused by DEWs (Directed Energy Weapons) and there is an abundance of photographic evidence that is being suppressed from the Public. A Utility company's resources cannot start fires so hot that it melts steel OR ANY metal it comes into contact with into a puddle of liquid metal; melt washing machines; toilet bowls; auto engine blocks, that can literally cut a 3-story house in half in a razor straight line leaving one side untouched and the surrounding trees and bushes left intact, melts car windshields, and cook animals in mid-stride from the inside out as if they were in a microwave. No Forest Fire or faulty power line can cause that kind of devastation.

[@4997wolven]

I have been saying this for years. Cheaper to bury power lines than risk the current lawsuits they are facing!!

[@clarencetse]

@@MinkSoda don't forget your crazy pills, lady.

[@sanbruno3606]

JESUS SAYS 🌧 RAIN IN CALIFORNIA🌧 PROSPERITY BONANZA SAFETY HONESTY OPTIMISM

[@glennalexon1530]

No doubt the good people of California will stop using electricity to solve this problem. Thanks for your service.

[@whatever_12]

Why not change the Pole to concrete one? It far more beneficial in fire areas and those in place are already rotting and causing a fall hazard anyway

[@twiggs24]

Much heavier and way, way more expensive

[@TeeDee87]

making concrete is one of the worst co2 pollution industry and there is quite a lot of poles that would need to be made. Can't see that as an solution.

[@whatever_12]

@@twiggs24 4k to 6k for high risk areas isn't so much to a company having a 20billion+ settlement

[@whatever_12]

@@TeeDee87 idk about the number but am sure the benefits of preventing wildlife outweigh the carbon footprints for 1to2 cbm of concrete per pole

[@solveigvan808]

Why not aluminum poles? They could be mostly hollow so they'd be fireproof, lighter, and last centuries compared to the wood or even concrete poles.

[@klondikejoe]

PG&E has a set budget. Both CPUC and CalISO regulate what rates PG&E customers pay. To service the system per regulatory spec rates have to be increased but that will not happen. CNBC is being disingenuous by blaming PG&E for the failing infrastructure, especially in the video title. It is the CA rate payers and CA regulatory agencies that have tied PG&E's O&M activity hands. Nothing mentioned about regulated rates and O&M costs in the video....The big elephant in the room

[@alexturlais8558]

This is why private companies shouldn't be allowed to handle important utilities.

[@krabes8613]

many examples of why they shouldn’t be in the hands of government

[@alexturlais8558]

@@krabes8613 i agree, but capitalism sucks at incentives.

[@lalah9481]

Why is a public utility allowed to be profit driven and privately owned???

[@notmyfault6835]

"Fire Season" - power company shuts off electricity... you get nothing... power company not getting paid during shut off... power company raise rates and you still get nothing and have to pay more 🤬🤬🤬

[@cherriemckinstry131]

magma hot spots..on satellight.

[@maggiejetson7904]

Why would they need a PG&E microgrid instead of rolling their own solar and battery?

[@JustMe-fl1db]

This. Too many people still dependant on a company and don't realize the solution is to go direct and cut out the middle man completely. I also wondered why the featured hotel didn't mention a self solar solution... if they had their own power their business would increase during a public power shutdown... locals would rent rooms just to have access to power. Win win.

[@maggiejetson7904]

@@JustMe-fl1db The hotel is likely too close to others to have space for a solar install, but rural home with big yard or lot would likely be a good candidate for ground based solar.

[@w2385-i2s]

Cutting the power off is for lazy power companies.

[@kirbyman1kanden7pf]

yeah transfers the costs to the customers too

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

I live in the worst fire zone in California, just a few miles from the two biggest fires in our history. Each time they turned off our power, they said it was to prevent fires because of the wind. But the winds they claimed never came while our power was down, and the temperatures were mild. They never turned out power off when the winds actually were high and the days and nights were burning hot. *It's not laziness, it's a publicity stunt.*

[@brianbrewster6532]

Maybe attempting to supply power to millions people disparately spread over mountainous topography is a losing proposition. This micro-grid approach is a step in the right direction. But seriously - building one of these to supply 5 people is fundamentally ludicrous. How about smaller power plants that service entire towns instead versus ginormous plants servicing hundreds of thousands but spread over tens of thousands of square miles? The answer is this: PG&E will lose control over this highly lucrative energy market. Exactly why this capitalistic country fights tooth and nail to dissuade citizens from going off-grid with their own solar-roof/battery storage set ups.

[@clouddragonz]

Why not put all power transmission lines underground?

[@ste6149]

We pay for so much for electricity that's created using our public water ways, that we should just nationalize power production and make it cheaper for everybody. We should charge them for the square footage of every Pole we find on our property based on it's value, and every pole on public land should be charged for as well

[@RobertoCarlosM]

What happens when there's essentially no regulations and it's money above human life

[@RR_reunificationRights]

Why not use orange chemicals to remove trees. It proved ok in Vietnam.

[@ebubeawachie]

Why do they use wooden poles tho? In Nigeria, we use concrete electric poles 👨🏾‍🔧 Stopped using wood 15 years ago.

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

The poles are not what causes the fires. It's sparks from downed power lines and blown transformers etc.

[@MinkSoda]

What most people don't realize *** PG & E ISN'T THE ONE THAT CAUSED THE FIRES THROUGH NEGLIGENCE.*** The fires were caused by DEWs (Directed Energy Weapons) and there is an abundance of photographic evidence that is being suppressed from the Public. A Utility company's resources cannot start fires so hot that it melts steel OR ANY metal it comes into contact with into a puddle of liquid metal; melt washing machines; toilet bowls; auto engine blocks, that can literally cut a 3-story house in half in a razor straight line leaving one side untouched and the surrounding trees and bushes left intact, melts car windshields, and cook animals in mid-stride from the inside out as if they were in a microwave. No Forest Fire or faulty power line can cause that kind of devastation.

[@specialopsdave]

@@MinkSoda Why would they target California? Also, that must be a very weak and slow DEW to make a razor sharp cut, because a powerful one would cause a messy explosion.

[@SoulDevoured]

@@MinkSoda you don't seem to understand how hot a forest fire can get. Think of all the things people would melt and burn with wood kilns. Now imagine a kiln a million times that size.

[@woodworksparadise6036]

@@SoulDevoured lol... "I've never been in or near a forest fire, or flash flood, but I know nature doesn't destroy stuff that way..." lol... personally speaking, I've been in a lot of natural disasters, flash floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, building, structural, auto fires, and I can tell you, you see a lot of things that make no sense, and when you're in one,, its always much more devastating than you see on t.v., or a video...simple example is if you've ever been in a car wreck, you understand how quickly things get messy...

[@jaredkennedy6576]

I think the big takeaway here is that a public utility should be run to the advantage of the people it serves, and not to get some extra money to stockholders. This right here is the end result of wringing every dollar out, it leaves a dead husk of a company that at best can't reliably perform. This isn't a story of triumph, it's a horrifically shameful tale of making people pay more to get the basic service they were supposed to have been getting all along.

[@viswanathaditham5085]

Wow, it really feels like they're trying to promote pg&e towards the end there. Also, no mention of habitat loss? Seriously

[@cherriemckinstry131]

magma hot spots..on satellight.

[@00000000000101010]

30k would go a long way towards getting a decent backup generator set up.

[@laurensa.1803]

30k in hypothetical losses, does not equal in 30k profit or cashflow.

[@00000000000101010]

@@laurensa.1803 The restaurant owner said she lost 30k, that's 30k that had it been invested in a generator, would have not been lost. And that's just that one shutdown.

[@00000000000101010]

Sucks but that's the reality of living in some areas of California these days.

[@sanbruno3606]

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[@arunsubramanian7949]

Underground power lines and charge a little bit to customer for the infrastructure. Could've been cheaper than 25 billion lawsuit payment.

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

And why should the customer foot their maintenance bill when they're the ones who misused their maintenance funds for so many decades? 4:32 I'm sorry, but I paid my bills and expect them to hold to their side of the deal. I refuse to pay for their corruption, and only a fool would agree that's justifiable.

[@arunsubramanian7949]

@@aylbdrmadison1051 now who pays for their firefighting, band aid measures like cutting vegetation and law suit payments. It’s not out of thin air, it’s your money as customer going up in smokes by getting nickel and dime from you. Makes sense to pay a small charge one time for underground cabling so there won’t be any power cuts or spend money on band aid measures.

[@brianbrewster6532]

Why do these greed corporations always wait until after people die to implement safety features that already existed? The rail system experienced the same growing pains only a couple years ago and now monitor tracks more closely and apply brakes on runaway trains so they highly flammable oil cargo doesn't lose its brakes and roll down into towns to blow them to smithereens. This is a huge corporation that should've better planned for this event. If this had happened in the aviation world - it would've decimated that industry.

[@lem0nade_899]

Curious, why don’t they bury the electrical wires underground?

[@selanryn5849]

They are.

[@RSmithJr12]

Makes it difficult to service

[@alexlewis8143]

@@RSmithJr12 they aren't servicing them to begin with

[@RSmithJr12]

@@alexlewis8143 but they should be. Putting them underground makes that almost impossible

[@alexlewis8143]

@@RSmithJr12 we have burried lines at my mom's one power outage in 7 years due to burried lines. A lot more due to un burried lines.

[@solesurvivor752]

WHY IS CNBC DEFENDING PG&E?

[@babybijou969]

“We must succeed,” in saving nature from wildfires, he says….whilst tearing down nature to install electric towers 🤠

[@mikesaunders3326]

This entire situation is one of the best arguments against public investor ownership of utilities, among many other things.

[@GreenAppelPie]

Duh, just put the all the lines underground. I like the micro grid but that has to be expensive to install and upkeep

[@samuelwilliams7331]

Cheaper than dying

[@Supermath101]

An actual lineman made a video explaining why this isn't always the best solution in detail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGqndKRuf9OVf7M

[@terrysmith6133]

Why can't they have solar, wind and batteries. I forgot the big corporations won't get your money we can't have that in America.

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[@UnipornFrumm]

So you have 100k$ to lose and unreliable power but dont have 20k$ to buy like 4 tesla power walls

[@mfb424]

That is unfortunately the situation. Bank usually does not care if you lose money. But getting that additinonal loan and make the investment for battery storage is something what bank will control. That said the market is already ready for distributed battery asset operations with virtual power plants and to support 100% self consumption of own rooftop solar. Battery as a service is going to happen with disruptive effects.

[@sanbruno3606]

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[@Malikar001]

PG&E was told to spend money on renewables which are more expensive and unreliable. The money came from maintaining their existing lines... they admitted as much.

[@usmanullahasif6281]

why don't they use cement or steel poles?

[@JamesPhieffer]

Is there any way in which California isn't screwed up? Pushing for mandatory electrification of vehicles sold, etc, while having the least reliable grid in North America, to start...

[@MidNiteR32]

Wow. They’re barely just now building solar panel grids? Ya know that would have been great if they decided to do that, say…I don’t know…25 years ago. They just decided to do this now? Jesus, help us.

[@bestgreenpest]

Make China Great Again.. right dumb dumb

[@christawilliams9116]

WOW ! Did I really hear what PG&E meant to say? California is just now in 2021 hardening the power grid by clearing vegetation to 12 feet away from the power lines and evaluating any trees tall enough to fall on it. They are considering inspecting poles for rot. Maybe start replacing them before failure. WTF ? I lived in Mississippi in the early 70's. The standard there was to clear all vegetation for 15 feet around power lines and evaluate trees tall enough to fall on the line. They routenly check the poles for rot placing a metal tag on them after each inspection. Raplace them well before failure, give away the old ones. California's "IMPROVED" 2021 grid which will take years to implement will still be below what Mississippi standards were 47 years ago. Is my interpretation accurate? How can it be that one of the wealthiest states is struggling to catch up with what were already the standards of one of the poorest states decades ago? Christa

[@tylerswan491]

17:40 why did u hit him in the head

[@dentatusdentatus1592]

Because he can handle the truth.

[@eaaeeeea]

You need to remove unnecessary regulation. At the same time you absolutely need necessary regulation such as underground power lines only.

[@thejeffinvade]

They should stop using wooden poles, all Chinese power line poles I have seen is made of reinforced concrete.

[@sanbruno3606]

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[@marcusjohn6654]

How about not living in stupid places?

[@idahopotato5837]

If you want to rely on electricity get a Solar or generator backup system. You don't want your business shut down every grid down scenario.

[@jeredansurgeon1056]

Or we publicize these private, unreliable, and catastrophically negligent energy companies.

[@sanbruno3606]

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[@Idontwantachannel67]

I like how they act like its the trees fault.

[@itoakira917]

Erin Brokowich : Ah here we go again.

[@AD-zg7fw]

Erin is good but her former partner Ed Masry passed away and their former colleague Girardi is a larger than life spectacle of a con artist. The lawyers who go after the military industrial complex are part of the complex? Go figure.

[@garbinator09]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oX6ml2qOptqMgdk

[@sfbluestar]

PG&E is one of the greatest companies in history. I like my PG&E workers. Always very friendly and do a good job.

[@raypitts4880]

workers are always polite they have to face the customers and look after their own jobs top side management get paid what ever happens

[@dvsxavier]

California has strict environmental laws protecting trees. Even though cutting down trees and forestry management could solve this problem.

[@willblack8575]

They want it all to burn

[@brianbrewster6532]

On the flip side of this story - why don't people forgo relying on their most unreliable utility company and investing modestly in power generators? What's $10K for a generator in your basement that could keep your $1M investment flourishing? That's a drop in the bucket insurance policy that most companies can readily afford. My Amazon plant in Florence, NJ is short-sighted this way. They have experienced multiple power outages over the past couple years, where the entire plant of $1500 employees was forced to shut down due to preventable outages. I'm quite sure our $280B company (larger than Pakistan's GDP) could easily afford a $500K backup generator on site. So WTF are they waiting for? I blame human laziness on both sides of this issue.

[@moose5.9]

Imagine living in the highest GDP state in the country and having to deal with rolling blackouts like a 3rd world country. What a mess. Stop using wood poles to if they keep rotting. Stop letting bad policies be the norm. Also pretty weird trump says they need to clean up the woods and they found 5+ million trees that needed to be taken out lmao. Gotta love everything anti orange man

[@j.pgoodwin9020]

Over 50% of the Forests is "owned" and under Federal management, 8% State management and the rest is all privately owned and managed

[@selanryn5849]

The trees are on private land. Homeowners flip out about their trees being cut down.

[@moose5.9]

@@selanryn5849 so they'd rather burn their house down than cut trees?

[@S-E-P-96]

PG&E’s solution to their own problems that were caused because of them is to raise our bill for the second year in a row to help with what they call wildfire and climate “initiative” even though it ends going to towards their legal fees because obviously them drowning in millions of dollars of debt from legal fees is more important and they would rather exhaust our firefighters and watch entire towns burn down instead of actually taking care of the problem and not causing people to loose everything they own.

[@nuterra9143]

PG&E starts fires and still rises in stocks. *Dutch East India Company anthem starts playing*

[@SoulDevoured]

Tbf the stock market is crazy right now

[@kellylynch2428]

Leading up to the 3 largest, most costly and deadliest fires, PG&E was paying too much money to shareholders (aka maximizing profits and dividends) INSTEAD of maintaining its own infrastructure safely. This is why there are regulations. And why we need the regulators to be funded to do their jobs. Stop CA from burning down due to lack of maintenance of the power grid. My family lost 3 homes from 2 of those fires. Both caused by poorly maintained and monitored powerlines.

[@sanbruno3606]

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[@gonzalez7678]

Hi sweetie

[@raveneye77]

It is always mind blowing to see in which areas the USA is so far behind western European countries...

[@matthewchandler7845]

Why does this feel like a commercial, trying to SELL me that this company is worth a damn after its gross negligence? Let them go bankrupt and get a new company in there that can do a job that exists in literally every other state and township in the United States.......

[@cherriemckinstry131]

magma hot spots..on satellight.

[@handlaidtracksand3dprinted922]

As an American now twelve years in Netherlands I'm always amazed the US never put power lines underground. Last time I was in the US it looked like India with the wires everywhere. Here at least there is nearly zero severe weather, but the US has every kind of weather crisis and still wires everywhere! They only lines you see here are a few high voltage transmission lines on huge towers and of course for trains...

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[@scottkim9536]

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[@althoughmediaproductions9290]

When you think wild fires are wild fires but then realize PGE are linked to 1500 fires in California.

[@jaymevogl4338]

Intentional “wildfires” … a means to an end

[@cherriemckinstry131]

magma hot spots..on satellight.

[@jonathanwilson4791]

Move to California they say. It will be great they say....

[@djlovetap2141]

PG&E should Buy Tesla power storage… that easy: partner with someone storing power with lithium batteries. Mega Batteries are great and work to save tons of money and energy. PG&E should probably just go bankrupt for staying dirty and dysfunctional when the solution is simple to implement

[@evilbred974]

Or they do what smart businesses do and put out a tender with statements of requirements and allow multiple companies to bid on that contract.

[@adama4791]

Battery storage (and solar or wind) is just barely becoming cheap enough to replace peaker plants during times of high usage. It is not a feasible solution if you have to keep your customer base online for up to 7 days. Consider that theoretically a fire could shut down homes in any part of their grid, to serve their entire customer base for 7 days it would cost $224B in mega pack storage from tesla. 1 day backup costs $32B. All for a company with an annual profit of around $2.1B. I’m not saying they shouldn’t do something but that’s definitely not the answer.

[@sanbruno3606]

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[@cameron00148]

So how does it work if the power supply is shutoff, but a house has Solar Panels w/ storage?

[@w2385-i2s]

Just fired the CEO and executives.

[@raypitts4880]

how much pay off did they get.

[@bindilove3899]

Let’s not forget that the CPUC regulates PG&E. The company isn’t waltzing around doing whatever they want completely unregulated. Climate change is a BIG issue as well. Electricity has always started fires. Fires are getting out of control now like never before due to overgrown forests and drought. Before, you just didn’t hear about the fires before because they were stopped quickly. This isn’t just a PG&E problem as So Cal Edison and others have these issues too.

[@ronakpatel7919]

but its the California government that doesn't let pg&e cut down the trees around the power lines to prevent sparks

[@jeremyramey3221]

That's Bullcrap. The video itself showed them cutting down trees.

[@shawnjay92]

That’s not true. California isn’t stopping them from cutting down trees. I would love for you to prove that. I’ll be waiting. PG&E is beyond corrupt. www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article234087352.html

[@cllamasful]

I see I’m not the only one that felt this went from informative to promotional/ damage control!

[@cherriemckinstry131]

magma hot spots..on satellight.

[@waguar]

This is just a PG&E fluff-piece

[@doubleatheman]

Uhhhh At 5:30 pg&e fails to mention it's failed PSPS shutdown procedure at a plant actually is what sparked the Kinkade fire...

[@gregorymalchuk272]

What exactly happened?

[@doubleatheman]

@@gregorymalchuk272 www.ktvu.com/news/kincade-fire-ignited-four-minutes-after-malfunction-on-pge-transmission-tower

[@doubleatheman]

The malfunction at the tower occurred because of arking across wires, during the attempt to shut power off for the PSPS event.

[@grimmjaww4363]

look at these Americans, don't even know that it's called LoadShedding. It's a technique birthed in South Africa. Didn't know we had so much incommon /s

[@jameshelling4421]

If PG&E were to cut down every tree that might possibly fall onto a power line, there would be such a cry from the green peace tree hugging community you could hear it around the world.

[@kirbyman1kanden7pf]

this is an advertisement

[@greatdaneacdc]

The restaurant that lost all their food should invest in a generator! We do in Baja

[@timsteinkamp2245]

I know the old days power lines used to be a sign of economic growth and having power poles in your neighborhood could be considered pride. Now new developments have buried lines. I don't understand why all lines are not buried. In Oregon with PGE we had two freeway interchanges without power after an ice storm for seven days and we are next to a hydro dam. I believe power lines and poles are visual pollution.

[@billjane5522]

BECAUSE IN THE USA you only do things on the cheap and not properly. Even China does it better than the USA.

[@timsteinkamp2245]

@@billjane5522 Yea right, did you look at the recent flooding videos. The problem here is new construction is buried but old neighborhoods are not. Why not go away if you don't know what you are talking about.

[@bleb87]

The only alternative is california buying out pge and making it a state utility. Aint nobody want to own a power company in california, its wayyy to fire prone and its only getting worse.

[@Red_Proton]

The Enhanced Vegetation Management seems like a logical, rational, and necessary requirement for ALL power lines/companies. Why wasn't this kind of preventative maintenance performed decades earlier? Why doesn't the federal government mandate this kind of "vegetation management" along with a third-party inspection, so it's not self-regulated, just like the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)? I guess profits before people is more important. Good job PG&E.

[@mmoarchives2542]

yeah, turned the power off after it was too late and was called out by nbc

[@Spiritfba]

This is what happens when you turn utilities over to Wall St.