Company Profile
Company Overview
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, the company is a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation.
There are approximately 20,000 employees who carry out Pacific Gas and Electric Company's primary business—the transmission and delivery of energy. The company provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central California.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company and other utilities in the state are regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission. The CPUC was created by the state Legislature in 1911.
Environmental Commitment
Pacific Gas and Electric Company has long been recognized as an environmental leader by providing safe, economical and reliable products and services in a responsible and environmentally sensitive manner. Doing more so that our impact on the environment is less drives us to adopt new technologies, improve our environmental management practices, build strong ties with local communities, reach out to stakeholders to address challenges and contribute to the development of public policies that raise the bar for our industry.
The Pacific Forest and Watershed Lands Stewardship Council was created in 2004 to oversee the implementation of the Land Conservation Commitment, wherein PG&E will either donate or create conservation easements to preserve and enhance over 140,000 acres of PG&E's watershed lands and 655 acres in the Carizzo Plains. The Pacific Forest and Watershed Lands Stewardship Council will also oversee the implementation of the Environmental Opportunity for Urban Youth Program, which will provide inner city children with wilderness experiences and new urban parks and recreation facilities.
Fast Facts
Service area stretches from Eureka in the north to Bakersfield in the south, and from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Sierra Nevada in the east.
More than 141,215 circuit miles of electric lines.
More than 42,141 miles of natural gas pipelines.
5.1 million electric customer accounts.
4.3 million gas customer accounts.