Pacific Gas and Electric Company, incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. According to San Francisco, the Business is a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation.

There are approximately 20,000 workers who execute Pacific Gas and Electric Company's primary business--both the transmission and delivery of energy. The business offers natural gas and electric service to approximately 15 million people during a 70,000-square-mile service area in central and northern California.

Quick Fact

* Service area stretches from Eureka in the north to Bakersfield in the southwest, and by the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Sierra Nevada in the east

* 141,215 circuit miles of electric distribution lines and 18,616 circuit miles of interconnected transmission lines

* 42,141 kilometers of natural gas distribution pipelines and 6,438 kilometers of transportation pipelines

* 5.1 million electric customer accounts