BREAKING: PG&E Reserves $14 Billion to Pay Wildfire Survivors
According to a submission to the Securities and Exchange Commission today, PG&E stated that it “believes it is probable that the Utility’s equipment will be determined to be an ignition point of the 2018 Camp [F]ire.” As a result, the company is including a $10.5 billion pre-tax charge related to Camp Fire claims, along with a new $1.0 billion charge relating to the 2017 Atlas and Cascade Fires. Altogether, the company has reserved a total of $14 billion to pay wildfire survivors who make a claim in bankruptcy.
PG&E provided more detail in a press release:
- CAL FIRE identified coordinates for the Camp Fire near a tower on PG&E’s Caribou-Palermo 115 kV Transmission Line and identified the start time as 6:33 a.m. on November 8, 2018
- At approximately 6:15 a.m. that morning, the Caribou-Palermo 115 kV transmission line relayed and deenergized.
- Approximately 15 minutes later, a PG&E employee observed fire in the vicinity of the tower and reported it to 911
- Later that day, an aerial patrol identified that a suspension insulator had separated from an arm on the tower
- A few days later, the company observed a broken C-hook that had connected the insulator, wear at the connection point, and a flash mark on the tower
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