A fine against Pacific Gas & Electric has been requested by California regulators after failure of properly notifying those affected by Public Safety Power Shutoffs last year.
The fine is levied by an independent office within the California Public Utilities Commission.
Originally, the office recommended a fine as high as $277 million and as low as $87 million but adopted a middle range of nearly $166 million.
The PSPS outages of 2019 affected an estimated 4 million people in 34 counties across California, and PG&E has until next Wednesday to respond to the fine levied against them.
