It's difficult to establish that a company like PG&E has gone green, but this story does a fair job. Just a few more environmentalist/scientist viewpoints would have helped.

An interesting look at one big player's involvement in alternative energy generation. It would be a much better article if it presented more context of what other big power monopolies are doing.

No. This is more of a PR gambit, corporate hagiography of the worst sort. It skips past the so-called origin of RG&E's rebirth (a little tale featuring Enron, gaming of the system by GOP-protected energy traders, and the tipping dominoes that led to to Democratic Gov Grey Davis' ouster by recall), as well current controversies such as PG&E's efforts to keep power generation eforts going in poor areas of San Francisco, and SF's potential competition with PG&E over potential municipal power generation. Barely mentioning the latter, it fails to note that PG&E, while indeed doing many things more progressively than its industry peers, is in a reactive position, forced by others in its domain to compete on the level of green power, ... More »