Some wildfire-related legislation could face key votes in the state senate this week, including an effort to hold PG&E accountable when it shuts off power to prevent fire.
The California Senate Appropriations Committee Tuesday moved to put some wild-fire related bills on the “suspense file,” meaning the proposals will either be quickly killed or passed by the end of the week.
One of those bills is Senator Scott Wiener’s proposal to make sure utilities are held accountable when they intentionally cut off power.
In some cases, the proposed system requires customers to be compensated for resources lost in the blackouts.
“Right now it’s a little bit of wild west when it comes to PG&E’s blackouts and we saw it when PG&E shut power to 2.5 million residents in California,” Senator Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, said.