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PG&E’s new Monterey substation expected to go online soon.
News

PG&E’s new Monterey substation expected to go online soon.

  • Erik Chalhoub
  • Jan 22, 2026

Pacific Gas and Electric’s new substation in Monterey is nearing completion, with company representatives targeting an online date in the seco…

Your energy rates are about to change. Good luck figuring out what it all means.
Opinion

Your energy rates are about to change. Good luck figuring out what it all means.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Jan 15, 2026

Sara Rubin here, studying what looks, at first glance, like a very straightforward monthly bill I receive from PG&E for gas and electricit…

A dark Christmas Eve as over 15,000 PG&E customers face outages due to high winds and rain; more on the way.
News

A dark Christmas Eve as over 15,000 PG&E customers face outages due to high winds and rain; more on the way.

  • Pam Marino
  • Dec 24, 2025

As of 2pm on Christmas Eve, Wednesday, Dec. 24, more than 15,000 households and businesses were without power in Monterey County, after high w…

A key traffic project on Highway 156 has new life, and a lot more money.
News

A key traffic project on Highway 156 has new life, and a lot more money.

  • David Schmalz
  • Jun 26, 2025

In December 2020, the California Transportation Commission approved $20 million for a project that had been in work for over a decade: A compl…

High winds trigger public safety power shutoffs in South County.
News

High winds trigger public safety power shutoffs in South County.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Jun 19, 2025

On Thursday, June 19, the National Weather Service announced elevated fire risk due to high winds and dry conditions in parts of inland Monter…

PG&E's Elkhorn battery energy storage facility taken back offline after equipment malfunctions.
News

PG&E's Elkhorn battery energy storage facility taken back offline after equipment malfunctions.

  • David Schmalz
  • Jun 2, 2025

PG&E announced today, June 2, that its Elkhorn battery energy storage facility in Moss Landing—which is owned by PG&E and co-operated …

PG&E's Elkhorn battery facility in Moss Landing to go back online by June 1.
News

PG&E's Elkhorn battery facility in Moss Landing to go back online by June 1.

  • David Schmalz
  • May 8, 2025

In a May 7 letter to county Supervisor Chris Lopez, chair of the Board of Supervisors, PG&E announced it plans to bring its 182.5-megawatt…

Over 21,000 PG&E customers are without power after a car crashes into a transmission pole in Salinas.
News

Over 21,000 PG&E customers are without power after a car crashes into a transmission pole in Salinas.

  • Pam Marino
  • May 7, 2025

Over 21,000 PG&E customers were without power just after 3pm on Wednesday, May 7, after a car hit a transmission pole near the corner of L…

PG&E fails this community yet again, and nobody seems willing or able to change it.
Forum | Opinion

PG&E fails this community yet again, and nobody seems willing or able to change it.

  • Kayvon Malek
  • Dec 26, 2024

I write this on Saturday, Dec. 14, from the home I rent in Pacific Grove, by candlelight, like some 18th-century serf. I await the sunrise to …

PG&E is installing a larger substation transformer expected to improve capacity on the Monterey Peninsula.
News

PG&E is installing a larger substation transformer expected to improve capacity on the Monterey Peninsula.

  • Pam Marino
  • Dec 23, 2024

Monterey Peninsula residents, frustrated over the most recent big power outage during the storm that walloped the region on Dec. 14, may have …

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