Gavin Newsom recently appointed president of the California Public Utilities Commission. We expect the PUC to step up and do its job.”The utilities commission regulates many things besides power utilities, including railroads and cellphones. “What we saw play out by PG&E last week cannot be repeated,” Batjer told the company’s chief executive, Bill Johnson. “PG&E was not fully prepared to manage such a large-scale power shutoff.”“This is not hard,” she later told PG&E officials. “You will be judged by outcomes and not by plans,” Batjer told Johnson.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 21, 2019 06:56 UTC