EUREKA, Calif.—Melanie Bettenhausen was learning to live with the devastating wildfires that periodically sweep through Northern California, but she isn’t sure she can endure the alternative offered by PG&E Corp.: mass blackouts. Last year, a fire caused by a PG&E transmission line swept through Paradise, Calif., destroying her childhood home. Though she had already moved away and was running the North Coast Co-Op here in this coastal town, her aunt was forced to flee the old family house.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 13, 2019 23:48 UTC