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

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3 жыл бұрын

California’s largest utility, PG&E, has a massive wildfire problem. Its equipment has sparked half of the state’s most destructive fires since 2015, including the Camp Fire that killed 85 people in 2018. Now, it’s trying to reduce the risk by building remote solar-powered microgrids, shutting off power during windy weather, and cutting down thousands of trees near power lines. We talk to PG&E and community members about the impact of efforts meant to keep the power on and keep Californians safe.
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Can PG&E Stop Causing So Many Fires In California?

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@mrssirens 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

magma hot spots..on satellight.

@sebastiant5695 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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!

@christianj252 3 жыл бұрын

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

@virn143 3 жыл бұрын

This was just a PR show for the company.

@euanmuir6402 3 жыл бұрын

It’s like watching an ad

@DemeDemetre 3 жыл бұрын

of course

@laurensa.1803 3 жыл бұрын

'Murica

@ricflair5956 3 жыл бұрын

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

@4997wolven 3 жыл бұрын

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

@naivemiew4231 3 жыл бұрын

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

@SoulDevoured 3 жыл бұрын

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

@ShaudaySmith 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

@@SoulDevoured magma hot spots..on satellight.

@starwizardmanonthestarwiza2469 3 жыл бұрын

The stuff to bury the electrical lines up in the mountains

@GreenAppelPie 3 жыл бұрын

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

@eddiew2325 3 жыл бұрын

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

@adama4791 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@eddiew2325 3 жыл бұрын

@@hangender what kind of dessert

@acasccseea4434 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Ch28Kid 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Taco-lo5bh 3 жыл бұрын

lmao, first day on the internet?

@hamzerpanzer 3 жыл бұрын

@@Taco-lo5bh This is a news channel though

@skullfc4215 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@budders9958 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah because corporations = evil.

@rendermanpro 3 жыл бұрын

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

@twiggs24 3 жыл бұрын

Walks in with fireworks, hold my beer watch this

@SolutionsNotPrayers 3 жыл бұрын

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

@michaelv9117 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@emceeunderdogrising 3 жыл бұрын

@M R That damn leftist private utility company.

@XDSDDLord 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@XDSDDLord 3 жыл бұрын

@@cherriemckinstry131 citation needed*

@saramae9878 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@johnny_eth 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Wckmt7ok 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

@@Wckmt7ok you’re clinically insane. Did you take your scizo pills today??

@mikesaunders3326 3 жыл бұрын

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

@viviviv7325 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@praiseYahshua822 3 жыл бұрын

@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 3 жыл бұрын

@Dr Will Kutchurkokov That incorrect

@sebastiangruenfeld141 3 жыл бұрын

I hope PG&E paid you well for this ad

@masterdecats6418 3 жыл бұрын

This ^

@BayuAH 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@BayuAH 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

@@specialopsdave magma hot spots..on satellight.

@cherriemckinstry131 3 жыл бұрын

@@sanbruno3606 magma hot spots..on satellight.

@quentinmanson3287 3 жыл бұрын

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

@cherriemckinstry131 3 жыл бұрын

magma hot spots..on satellight.

@chiro-quack-tor2108 2 жыл бұрын

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

@reginadavis8892 3 жыл бұрын

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

@yengsabio5315 3 жыл бұрын

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

@mikesaunders3326 3 жыл бұрын

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

@concernedcitizen6577 3 жыл бұрын

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

@obamayomama8291 3 жыл бұрын

"Can't wait for October Break!"

@Pyette91 3 жыл бұрын

Burning man 2.0?

@xero256 3 жыл бұрын

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

@TheAvsouto 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Pyette91 3 жыл бұрын

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

@brewskibrew986 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@christopherguzman4949 3 жыл бұрын

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@michaeldeww 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@johnthompson7548 3 жыл бұрын

California just needs to take PG&E over

@aylbdrmadison1051 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@donaldjeezytrump2435 3 жыл бұрын

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

@MKNYC_ 3 жыл бұрын

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

@johnthompson7548 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@arthurpaliden1496 3 жыл бұрын

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

@andrepoghosyan8269 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@andrepoghosyan8269 3 жыл бұрын

@@sanbruno3606 stop spamming this on every video

@samsfk4877 3 жыл бұрын

*Richest and most powerful country in the world btw*

@adriank9234 3 жыл бұрын

FUBAR; CLUSTER_F

@HH-le1vi 3 жыл бұрын

Most dysfunctional state in the entire country

@adriank9234 3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@SurfergirlKH 3 жыл бұрын

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

@MKNYC_ 3 жыл бұрын

Very expensive for a place as large as California

@SurfergirlKH 3 жыл бұрын

@@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_ 3 жыл бұрын

@@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_ 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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!

@JuneHarriseco 3 жыл бұрын

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

@laurensa.1803 3 жыл бұрын

@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 3 жыл бұрын

@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 3 жыл бұрын

@Donald Wright magma hot spots..on satellight.

@cherriemckinstry131 3 жыл бұрын

@Faux Que magma hot spots..on satellight.

@mikesaunders3326 3 жыл бұрын

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

@notmyfault6835 3 жыл бұрын

"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 3 жыл бұрын

magma hot spots..on satellight.

@BayuAH 3 жыл бұрын

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

@cherriemckinstry131 3 жыл бұрын

magma hot spots..on satellight.

@MrJamesLuz 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@mfb424 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@richardh8822 2 жыл бұрын

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

@jmonsted 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the cost is prohibitive ?.

@zyrohnmng 3 жыл бұрын

Proof of concept?

@crylittlebitch 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@clouddragonz 3 жыл бұрын

Why not put all power transmission lines underground?

@maggiejetson7904 3 жыл бұрын

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

@JustMe-fl1db 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@rickemmet1104 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@Wckmt7ok 3 жыл бұрын

@donaldjeezytrump2435 3 жыл бұрын

Wrong. I love pge

@aydencz1239 3 жыл бұрын

@@Wckmt7ok news flash fire is hot

@phenry5083 2 жыл бұрын

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

@davidjames6788 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@SDGreg 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

@@animehuntress9018 socialism time?

@animehuntress9018 3 жыл бұрын

@@masterdecats6418 No clue what your saying.

@idowebwork 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Idontwantachannel67 3 жыл бұрын

I like how they act like its the trees fault.

@whatever_12 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

Much heavier and way, way more expensive

@TeeDee87 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@whatever_12 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@animehuntress9018 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Wckmt7ok 3 жыл бұрын

@4997wolven 3 жыл бұрын

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

@clarencetse 3 жыл бұрын

@@Wckmt7ok don't forget your crazy pills, lady.

@sanbruno3606 3 жыл бұрын

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

@jameshelling4421 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@terenceconnors9627 3 жыл бұрын

Stop letting private companies run public services, for one.

@arunsubramanian7949 3 жыл бұрын

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

@aylbdrmadison1051 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@RobertoCarlosM 3 жыл бұрын

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

@cyndiharrington1751 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the INFO

@00000000000101010 3 жыл бұрын

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

@laurensa.1803 3 жыл бұрын

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

@00000000000101010 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@sanbruno3606 3 жыл бұрын

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@lem0nade_899 3 жыл бұрын

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

@selanryn5849 3 жыл бұрын

They are.

@RSmithJr12 3 жыл бұрын

Makes it difficult to service

@alexlewis8143 3 жыл бұрын

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

@RSmithJr12 3 жыл бұрын

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

@alexlewis8143 3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@alexturlais8558 3 жыл бұрын

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

@krabes8613 3 жыл бұрын

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

@alexturlais8558 3 жыл бұрын

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

@mikesaunders3326 3 жыл бұрын

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

@ebubeawachie 3 жыл бұрын

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

@aylbdrmadison1051 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Wckmt7ok 3 жыл бұрын

@specialopsdave 3 жыл бұрын

@@Wckmt7ok 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 3 жыл бұрын

@@Wckmt7ok 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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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...

@babybijou969 3 жыл бұрын

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

@America_bombsTSMC 3 жыл бұрын

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

@UnipornFrumm 3 жыл бұрын

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

@mfb424 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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@jaredkennedy6576 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@MidNiteR32 3 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Make China Great Again.. right dumb dumb

@thejeffinvade 3 жыл бұрын

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

@sanbruno3606 3 жыл бұрын

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@JamesPhieffer 3 жыл бұрын

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...

@solesurvivor752 3 жыл бұрын

WHY IS CNBC DEFENDING PG&E?

@user-cw2py6wh8l 3 жыл бұрын

Cutting the power off is for lazy power companies.

@kirbyman1kanden7pf 3 жыл бұрын

yeah transfers the costs to the customers too

@aylbdrmadison1051 3 жыл бұрын

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.*

@usmanullahasif6281 3 жыл бұрын

why don't they use cement or steel poles?

@user-dr2pg8fk2i 3 жыл бұрын

Here's a wild idea....bury the high risk lines.

@jpbrown7668 3 жыл бұрын

but that would cost MONEY... shareholders would not enjoy that

@Spiritfba 3 жыл бұрын

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

@GreenAppelPie 3 жыл бұрын

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

@samuelwilliams7331 3 жыл бұрын

Cheaper than dying

@Supermath101 3 жыл бұрын

An actual lineman made a video explaining why this isn't always the best solution in detail: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rJ90dtRpr9TGeYU.html

@viswanathaditham5085 3 жыл бұрын

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

@cherriemckinstry131 3 жыл бұрын

magma hot spots..on satellight.

@brianbrewster6532 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@64slugirl 3 жыл бұрын

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@itoakira917 3 жыл бұрын

Erin Brokowich : Ah here we go again.

@AD-zg7fw 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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@nuterra9143 3 жыл бұрын

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

@SoulDevoured 3 жыл бұрын

Tbf the stock market is crazy right now

@lalah9481 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Malikar001 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@glennalexon1530 3 жыл бұрын

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

@jaymevogl4338 3 жыл бұрын

Intentional “wildfires” … a means to an end

@cherriemckinstry131 3 жыл бұрын

magma hot spots..on satellight.

@greatdaneacdc 3 жыл бұрын

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

@raveneye77 3 жыл бұрын

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

@idahopotato5837 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@sanbruno3606 3 жыл бұрын

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@tylerswan491 3 жыл бұрын

17:40 why did u hit him in the head

@dentatusdentatus1592 3 жыл бұрын

Because he can handle the truth.

@brianbrewster6532 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@sociolocomtsac 3 жыл бұрын

'Merica! We don't need infrastructure. lol

@youtubesucks8024 3 жыл бұрын

This was the longest ad I’ve voluntarily watched

@user-cw2py6wh8l 3 жыл бұрын

Just fired the CEO and executives.

@raypitts4880 2 жыл бұрын

how much pay off did they get.

@joecrozier3236 3 жыл бұрын

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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@MD21037 3 жыл бұрын

Once again, we're going to blame the power company for all the fires. LMFAO

@matthewchandler7845 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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@djlovetap2141 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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@eaaeeeea 3 жыл бұрын

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

@S-E-P-96 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@moose5.9 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@selanryn5849 3 жыл бұрын

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

@moose5.9 3 жыл бұрын

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

@flechaevan9287 3 жыл бұрын

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@ryangilbert7308 3 жыл бұрын

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@tylermendoza8332 3 жыл бұрын

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@scottkim9536 3 жыл бұрын

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@TylerBenney 3 жыл бұрын

This is why people need home battery storage.

@ThyCracka 2 жыл бұрын

“we’re not just going to pack up and leave California” as an Californian myself, maybe you should

@dvsxavier 3 жыл бұрын

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

@willblack8575 3 жыл бұрын

They want it all to burn

@waguar 3 жыл бұрын

This is just a PG&E fluff-piece

@masteryoffgtrash7665 3 жыл бұрын

99 year old equipment? What the hell?

@cllamasful 3 жыл бұрын

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

@cherriemckinstry131 3 жыл бұрын

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@kirbyman1kanden7pf 3 жыл бұрын

this is an advertisement

@grimmjaww4363 3 жыл бұрын

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

@handlaidtracksand3dprinted922 3 жыл бұрын

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...

@andygoody2599 3 жыл бұрын

I sure hope the shareholders are getting good value out of all those deaths.

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@ronakpatel7919 3 жыл бұрын

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

@jeremyramey3221 3 жыл бұрын

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

@shawnjay92 3 жыл бұрын

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

@klondikejoe 3 жыл бұрын

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

@janeling5833 3 жыл бұрын

We need more of "Erin Brockovich!"

@eaaeeeea 3 жыл бұрын

Bury ALL the power lines into the ground.

@Red_Proton 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@thenattydaddy3893 2 жыл бұрын

Thank god they put in the solar. California never gets earthquakes that would cripple their "innovative" solutions... God bless the folks in CA. A lot of us differ in mindsets but as an American, I wish we had the answers to prevent/withstand everything mother nature throws us.

@ste6149 2 жыл бұрын

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

@lawerancelanham 3 жыл бұрын

Pleasing shareholders never ends up well for anything but their pockets. If they want to make real difference, they're going to have to massively scale they're upgrade model.