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Word comes this morning that Sempra Energy, with revenues falling in 2009 to only $8 billion down from around $11 billion each for 2007 and the Crash of 2008, is cutting jobs at corporate by shifting responsibilities down to its owned units, including San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E).
One can only hope that giving SDG&E more authority to manage its own business will help to improve its image, damaged after multiple fines to the California Public Utilities Commission for a variety of non-felonious wrongs, including investigatory obstruction and withholding information in a number of matters ranging from the Sunrise Powerlink to causes of 2007 wildfire complexes. The running total on CPUC fines over the last two years is running about $15 million, which does not include damage awards many times that amount for the deaths of 4 Marines in a helicopter crash caused by an unlit transmission tower.
Anyone interested in what the federal government thinks of SDG&E corporate responsibility should google "SDG&E guilty" to see if the US Dept. of Justice announcement of guilty verdicts still haunts our local power utility.
Word comes this morning that Sempra Energy, with revenues falling in 2009 to only $8 billion down from around $11 billion each for 2007 and the Crash of 2008, is cutting jobs at corporate by shifting responsibilities down to its owned units, including San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E).
One can only hope that giving SDG&E more authority to manage its own business will help to improve its image, damaged after multiple fines to the California Public Utilities Commission for a variety of non-felonious wrongs, including investigatory obstruction and withholding information in a number of matters ranging from the Sunrise Powerlink to causes of 2007 wildfire complexes. The running total on CPUC fines over the last two years is running about $15 million, which does not include damage awards many times that amount for the deaths of 4 Marines in a helicopter crash caused by an unlit transmission tower.
Anyone interested in what the federal government thinks of SDG&E corporate responsibility should google "SDG&E guilty" to see if the US Dept. of Justice announcement of guilty verdicts still haunts our local power utility.