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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549


FORM 10-K
(Mark One) 
ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 20202022
 
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from _________ to  ___________  

Commission
File Number
Exact Name of Registrant
as Specified In Its Charter
State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization
IRS Employer
Identification Number
1-12609PG&E CORPORATIONCalifornia94-3234914
1-2348PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANYCalifornia94-0742640

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77 Beale Street77 Beale Street
P.O. Box 770000P.O. Box 770000
San Francisco,California94117San Francisco,California94117
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
415973-1000415973-1000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

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300 Lakeside Drive300 Lakeside Drive
Oakland,California94612Oakland,California94612
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
415973-1000415973-1000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each classTrading Symbol(s)Name of each exchange on which registered
Common stock, no par valuePCGThe New York Stock Exchange
Equity UnitsPCGUThe New York Stock Exchange
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 5% series A redeemable6% nonredeemablePCG-PEPCG-PANYSE American LLC
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 5.50% nonredeemablePCG-PBNYSE American LLC
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 5% nonredeemablePCG-PCNYSE American LLC
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 5% redeemablePCG-PDNYSE American LLC
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 5% series A redeemablePCG-PENYSE American LLC
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 4.80% redeemablePCG-PGNYSE American LLC
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 4.50% redeemablePCG-PHNYSE American LLC
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 4.36% series A redeemablePCG-PINYSE American LLC
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 6% nonredeemablePCG-PANYSE American LLC
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 5.50% nonredeemablePCG-PBNYSE American LLC
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 5% nonredeemablePCG-PCNYSE American LLC

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: none




Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act:
PG&E Corporation:YesNo
Pacific Gas and Electric Company:YesNo

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act:
PG&E Corporation:YesNo
Pacific Gas and Electric Company:YesNo

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. 
PG&E Corporation:YesNo
Pacific Gas and Electric Company:YesNo
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).
PG&E Corporation:YesNo
Pacific Gas and Electric Company:YesNo

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).Act.
PG&E CorporationPacific Gas and Electric Company
Large accelerated filerLarge accelerated filer
Non-accelerated filerNon-accelerated filer
Smaller reporting companySmaller reporting company
Accelerated filerAccelerated filer
Emerging growth companyEmerging growth company

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.
PG&E Corporation:
Pacific Gas and Electric Company:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of
the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C.
7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report.
PG&E Corporation:
Pacific Gas and Electric Company:

If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements.
PG&E Corporation:
Pacific Gas and Electric Company:
Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b).
PG&E Corporation:
Pacific Gas and Electric Company:
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).
PG&E Corporation:YesNo
Pacific Gas and Electric Company:YesNo




Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed all documents and reports required to be filed by Section 12, 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 subsequent to the distribution of securities under a plan confirmed by a court.
PG&E Corporation:YesNo
Pacific Gas and Electric Company:YesNo

Aggregate market value of voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the registrants as of June 30, 2020,2022, the last business day of the most recently completed second fiscal quarter:
PG&E Corporation common stock                   $12,130$20,819 million
Pacific Gas and Electric Company common stock                    Wholly owned by PG&E Corporation

Common Stock outstanding as of February 16, 2023:
PG&E Corporation:2,466,208,388*
Pacific Gas and Electric Company:264,374,809
Common Stock outstanding as*Includes 187,743,590 shares of February 22, 2021:
common stock held by PG&E Corporation:1,984,683,820ShareCo LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PG&E Corporation, and 290,000,000 shares
of common stock held by Pacific Gas and Electric Company:Company.264,374,809shares (wholly owned by PG&E Corporation)



DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Portions of the documents listed below have been incorporated by reference into the indicated parts of this report, as specified in the responses to the item numbers involved:
Designated portions of the Joint Proxy Statement relating to the 20212023 Annual Meetings of ShareholdersPart III (Items 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14)


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UNITS OF MEASUREMENT
1 Kilowatt (kW)=One thousand watts
1 Kilowatt-Hour (kWh)=One kilowatt continuously for one hour
1 Megawatt (MW)=One thousand kilowatts
1 Megawatt-Hour (MWh)=One megawatt continuously for one hour
1 Gigawatt (GW)=One million kilowatts
1 Gigawatt-Hour (GWh)=One gigawatt continuously for one hour
1 Kilovolt (kV)=One thousand volts
1 MVA=One megavolt ampere
1 Mcf=One thousand cubic feet
1 MMcf=One million cubic feet
1 Bcf=One billion cubic feet
1 MDth=One thousand decatherms

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GLOSSARY
The following terms and abbreviations appearing in the text of this report have the meanings indicated below.
20202022 Form 10-KPG&E Corporation’s and Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s combinedthe Utility’s joint Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 20202022
2021 Form 10-KPG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s joint Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021
ABAssembly Bill
ABRAFUDCalternate base rateallowance for funds used during construction
AFUDCAmended ArticlesAllowanceAmended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of PG&E Corporation and the Utility, each filed on June 22, 2020, and for Funds Used During Construction
ALJadministrative law judge
ARaccounts receivablePG&E Corporation, as amended by the Certificate of Amendment of Articles of Incorporation, filed on May 24, 2022
AROasset retirement obligation
ASUaccounting standard update issued by the FASB (see below)
Backstop Partya third-party investor party to a Backstop Commitment LetterFinancial Accounting Standards Board
Bankruptcy Codethe United States Bankruptcy Code
Bankruptcy Courtthe U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California
BPPbundled procurement plan
CAISOCalifornia Independent System Operator Corporation
Cal FireCalifornia Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
CAPPCalifornia Arrearage Payment Program
CARBCalifornia Air Resources Board
CARECalifornia Alternate Rates for Energy Program
CCACommunity Choice Aggregator
CCPACalifornia Consumer Privacy Act of 2018
CECCalifornia Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
CEMACatastrophic Event Memorandum Account
Chapter 11chapterChapter 11 of titleTitle 11 of the U.S. Code
Chapter 11 Casesthe voluntary cases commenced by each of PG&E Corporation and the Utility under Chapter 11 on January 29, 2019
Confirmation Orderthe order confirming PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s and the Shareholder Proponents’ Joint Chapter 11 Plan, of Reorganization, dated as of June 20, 2020, with the Bankruptcy Court
Corporation Revolving Credit AgreementCredit Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2020, as amended, by and among PG&E Corporation, the several banks and other financial institutions or entities party thereto from time to time and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent
CHTCustomer Harm Threshold
CPEcentral procurement entities
CPIMCore Procurement Incentive Mechanism
CPPMACOVID-19 Pandemic Protections Memorandum Account
CPUCCalifornia Public Utilities Commission
CRRsCRRcongestion revenue rights
CUECVACoalition of California Utility Employeesclimate vulnerability assessment
CVAD&O InsuranceClimate Vulnerability Assessmentdirectors’ and officers’ liability insurance
DADirect Access
DERdistributed energy resources
Diablo CanyonDiablo Canyon nuclear power plant
DIP Credit AgreementDistrict CourtSenior Secured Superpriority Debtor in Possession Credit, Guaranty and Security Agreement, dated asUnited States District Court for the Northern District of February 1, 2019, among the Utility, as borrower, PG&E Corporation, as guarantor, JPM., as administrative agent, and Citibank, N.A., as collateral agentCalifornia
DOEU.S.United States Department of Energy
DOJUnited States Department of Justice
DTAdeferred tax asset
DTSCCalifornia Department of Toxic Substances Control
EffectiveDWRCalifornia Department of Water Resources
EMANIEuropean Mutual Association for Nuclear Insurance
Emergence DateJuly 1, 2020, the effective date of the Plan in the Chapter 11 Cases
EMANIEOEPEuropean Mutual Association for Nuclear InsuranceEnhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process
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EPAU.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPSearnings per common share
ERRAEPSSEnergy Resource Recovery Account
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Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings
EVEVMelectric vehicleenhanced vegetation management
FASBExchange ActFinancial Accounting Standards Board
FEMAFederal Emergency Management AgencySecurities Exchange Act of 1934
FERCFederal Energy Regulatory Commission
FHPMAFire Hazard Prevention Memorandum Account
Fire Victim TrustThe trust established pursuant to the Plan for the benefit of holders of the Fire Victim Claims into which the Aggregate Fire Victim Consideration (as defined in the Plan) has been, and will continue to be, funded
Forward Stock Purchase AgreementsFirst Mortgage BondsThe prepaid forward contracts between PG&E Corporation andbonds issued pursuant to the Backstop PartiesIndenture of Mortgage, dated as of June 19, 2020 between the Utility and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as amended and supplemented
FRMMAFire Risk Mitigation Memorandum Account
GAAPU.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
GHGgreenhouse gas
GOgeneral order
GRCgeneral rate case
GT&Sgas transmission and storage
HSMHFTDhazardous substance memorandum accounthigh fire threat district
HSMAHazardous Substance Memorandum Account
IRCInternal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
IOUsinvestor-owned utility(ies)
Investment AgreementKincade Amended ComplaintThe agreement between PG&E Corporation andamended criminal complaint filed by the PIPE investors dated as of June 7, 2020 relating toSonoma County District Attorney’s Office on January 28, 2022 in connection with the issuance and sale to the PIPE Investors of an aggregate of $3.25 billion of PG&E Corporation’s common stock
JPMJPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
Knightheadcertain funds and accounts managed by Knighthead Capital Management, LLC2019 Kincade fire
Lakeside Building300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, California, 94612
LCCLand Conservation Commitment
LIBORLondon Interbank Offered Rate
LSELSEsload serving entities
LSTCLTIPliabilities subject to compromise
LTIPPG&E Corporation 2014 Long-Term Incentive Plan
MD&AManagement’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations set forth in Part II, Item 7, of this Form 10-K
MGMAMicrogrids Memorandum Account
MGPmanufactured gas plants
the Monitorthird-party monitor retained as part of its compliance with the sentencing terms of the Utility’s January 27, 2017 federal criminal conviction
NAVnet asset value
NBCNon-Bypassable Charge
NDCTPNuclear Decommissioning Cost Triennial ProceedingsProceeding
NEILNuclear Electric Insurance Limited
NEMnet energy metering
Noteholder RSANew SharesRestructuring SupportShares of PG&E Corporation common stock held by ShareCo that may be exchanged for Plan Shares as contemplated by the Share Exchange and Tax Matters Agreement dated as of January 22, 2020 with certain holders of indebtedness of the Utility, among others
NRCNuclear Regulatory Commission
NTSBNational Transportation Safety Board
OESOEISState of California Office of Emergency ServicesEnergy Infrastructure Safety (successor to the Wildfire Safety Division of the CPUC)
OIIorder instituting investigation
OIRorder instituting rulemaking
OSAPacific GenerationOfficePacific Generation LLC, a subsidiary of the Safety Advocate, a division of the CPUC
PAOPublic Advocates Office of the California Public Utilities Commission (formerly known as Office of Ratepayer Advocates or ORA)Utility
PCAOBPublic Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)
PCIAPower Charge Indifference Adjustment
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PDproposed decision
PERAPublic Employees Retirement Association
Petition DateJanuary 29, 2019
PIPE Investora third-party investor party to the Investment Agreement
PlanPG&E Corporation and the Utility, Knighthead Capital Management, LLC, and the Shareholder Proponents’Abrams Capital Management, LP Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization, dated as of June 19, 2020
PODPlan SharesPresiding Officer’s DecisionShares of PG&E Corporation common stock issued to the Fire Victim Trust pursuant to the Plan
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PSAplan support agreement
PSPSPublic Safety Power Shutoff
QFQualifying facilities
RAMPRisk Assessment Mitigation Phase
RAResource Adequacy
Receivables Securitization ProgramThe accounts receivable securitization program entered into by the Utility on October 5, 2020, providing for the sale of a portion of the Utility’s accounts receivable and certain other related rights to the SPV, which, in turn, obtains loans secured by the receivables from financial institutions
ROEreturn on equity
ROU assetright-of-use asset
RPSRenewables Portfolio Standard
RSArestructuring support agreement
RTBARisk Transfer Balancing Account
RUBAResidential Uncollectibles Balancing Account
SBSenate Bill
SECU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities ActThe Securities Act of 1933, as amended
SEDSafety and Enforcement Division of the CPUC
Shareholder ProponentsKnighthead together with Abrams Capital Management, LP
SFGOThe Utility’s San Francisco General Office headquarters complex
SPDShare Exchange and
Tax Matters Agreement
Safety Policy Division ofShare Exchange and Tax Matters Agreement dated July 8, 2021 between PG&E Corporation, the CPUCUtility, ShareCo and the Fire Victim Trust
ShareCoPG&E ShareCo LLC, a limited liability company whose sole member is PG&E Corporation
SPVPG&E AR Facility, LLC
Subrogation RSARestructuring Support Agreement dated September 22, 2019 with certain holders of insurance subrogation claims, as amended
Tax ActTax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
TCCOfficial Committee of Tort Claimants
TCC RSARestructuring Support Agreement dated December 6, 2019 with the TCC and attorneys and other advisors and agents for certain holders of Fire Victim Claims (as defined therein), as amended
TEtransportation electrification
TOtransmission owner
TURNThe Utility Reform Network
USFSUnited States Forest Service
UtilityPacific Gas and Electric Company
Utility Revolving Credit AgreementCredit Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2020, as amended, by and among the Utility, the several banks and other financial institutions or entities party thereto from time to time and Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and Designated Agent
VIE(s)variable interest entity(ies)
VMBAVegetation Management Balancing Account
VSPvoluntary separation program
WEMAWildfire Expense Memorandum Account
Wildfire Fundstatewide fund established by AB 1054 that will be available for eligible electric utility
companies to pay eligible claims for liabilities arising from wildfires occurring after July 12,
2019 that are caused by the applicable electric utility company’s equipment
Wildfires OIIOrder Instituting Investigation into the 2017 Northern California Wildfires and the 2018 Camp Fire
WMBAWildfire Mitigation Balancing Account
WMCEWildfire Mitigation and Catastrophic Events
WMPwildfire mitigation plan
WMPMAWildfire Mitigation Plan Memorandum Account
WSDWildfire Safety Division

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This report contains forward-looking statements that are necessarily subject to various risks and uncertainties. These statements reflect management’s judgment and opinions that are based on current estimates, expectations, and projections about future events and assumptions regarding these events and management’s knowledge of facts as of the date of this report. These forward-looking statements relate to, among other matters, estimated losses, including penalties and fines associated with various investigations and proceedings; forecasts of capital expenditures; forecasts of expense reduction; estimates and assumptions used in critical accounting policies,estimates, including those relating to insurance receivable,receivables, regulatory assets and liabilities, environmental remediation, litigation, third-party claims, the Wildfire Fund, and other liabilities; and the level of future equity or debt issuances. These statements are also identified by words such as “assume,” “expect,” “intend,” “forecast,” “plan,” “project,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “anticipate,” “commit,” “goal,” “target,” “will,” “may,” “should,” “would,” “could,” “potential”“potential,” and similar expressions. PG&E Corporation and the Utility are not able to predict all the factors that may affect future results. Some of the factors that could cause future results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, or from historical results, include, but are not limited to:

PG&E Corporation’sthe extent to which the Wildfire Fund and revised prudency standard under AB 1054 effectively mitigate the Utility’s historical financial information not being indicativerisk of future financial performance as a result of the Chapter 11 Cases and the financial and other restructuring recently undergone by PG&E Corporation andliability for damages arising from catastrophic wildfires, including whether the Utility in connection with their emergence from Chapter 11;

maintains an approved WMP and a valid safety certification and whether the ability of PG&E Corporation and the Utility to raise financing for operations and investment;Wildfire Fund has sufficient remaining funds;

the risks and uncertainties associated with appealswildfires that have occurred or may occur in the Utility’s service area, including the wildfire that began on October 23, 2019 northeast of Geyserville in Sonoma County, California (the “2019 Kincade fire”), the Confirmation Order;

wildfire that began on September 27, 2020 in the risksarea of Zogg Mine Road and uncertainties associated withJenny Bird Lane, north of Igo in Shasta County, California (the “2020 Zogg fire”), the 2019 Kincade fire, includingwildfire that began on July 13, 2021 near the Cresta Dam in the Feather River Canyon in Plumas County, California (the “2021 Dixie fire”), the wildfire that began on September 6, 2022 near OxBow Reservoir in Placer County, California (the “2022 Mosquito fire”), and any other wildfires for which the causes have yet to be determined; the damage caused by such wildfires; the extent of the Utility’s liability in connection with such wildfires (including the 2019 Kincade fire and whetherrisk that the Utility willmay be able to timely recover related costs incurred therewith in excessfound liable for damages regardless of insurance;fault); investigations into such wildfires, including those being conducted by the timing ofCPUC; the insurance recoveries; the timing and outcome of the referral ofcriminal proceeding initiated against the Cal Fire reportUtility in connection therewith towith the Sonoma County District Attorney; and2020 Zogg fire; potential liabilities in connection with fines or penalties that could be imposed on the Utility if the CPUC or any other enforcement agency were to bring an enforcement action;action in respect of any such fire; the risk that the Utility is not able to recover costs from the Wildfire Fund or other third parties or through rates; and the effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s reputations of such wildfires, investigations, and proceedings;

the risks and uncertainties associated with any other wildfires, including the extent ofto which the Utility’s liability in connection with the 2020 Zogg fire, and the timing of the insurance recoveries; and with any other wildfires that have occurred and/or may occur in the Utility’s service territory for which the cause has yet to be determined;

the Utility Community Wildfire Safety Program’s ability to help reduce wildfire threats and improve safety as a result of climate-driven wildfires and extreme weather,mitigation initiatives are effective, including the Utility’s ability to comply with the targets and metrics set forth in its WMP; whether the Utility is ableor to retain or contract for the workforce necessary to execute its Community Wildfire Safety Program; andWMP; the effectiveness of its system hardening, including undergrounding; the cost of the program and the timing of theand outcome of any proceeding to recover such costs through rates;

the ability of PG&E Corporation and any determination by OEIS that the Utility to securitize $7.5 billion of costs related to the 2017 Northern California wildfires in a financing transaction that is designed to be rate neutral to customers;has not complied with its WMP;

the impact of the Utility’s implementation of its PSPS program, including the timing and outcome of the OII to Examine the Late 2019 Public Safety Power Shutoff Events and Order to Show Cause Against the Utility Related to Implementation of the October 2019 PSPS Events and the purported Public Safety Power Shutoff class action filed in December 2019, and whether any fines, or penalties, or civil liability for damages will be imposed on the Utility as a result; the costs in connection with PSPS events, the timing and outcome of any proceeding to recover such costs through rates, and the effects on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s reputations caused by implementation of the PSPS program;

whether the Utility may be liable for future wildfires,Utility’s ability to safely, reliably, and the impact of AB 1054 on potential losses in connection with such wildfires, including the CPUC’s implementation of the procedures for recovering such losses;efficiently construct, maintain, operate, protect, and decommission its facilities, and provide electricity and natural gas services safely and reliably;

significant changes to the riskselectric power and uncertainties associated withgas industries driven by technological advancements, electrification, and the requirement under AB 1054 thattransition to a decarbonized economy; the impact of reductions in Utility customer demand for electricity and natural gas, driven by customer departures to CCAs, DA providers, and legislative mandates to replace gas-fuel technologies; and whether the Utility maintain a valid safety certification pursuant to Section 8389(e)is successful in addressing the impact of the California Public Utilities Codegrowing distributed and the potential implicationsrenewable generation resources and changing customer demand for accessing the Wildfire Fundits natural gas and in related CPUC proceedings in the eventelectric services;

cyber or physical attacks, including acts of terrorism, war, and vandalism, on the Utility fails to maintain a valid safety certification,or its third-party vendors, contractors, or customers (or others with whom they have shared data) which could also result in operational disruption; the appointment by the CPUCmisappropriation or loss of an independent third-party monitor to oversee the Utility’s operations as partconfidential or proprietary assets, information or data, including customer, employee, financial, or operating system information, or intellectual property; corruption of the Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process;data; or potential costs, lost revenues, litigation, or reputational harm incurred in connection therewith;
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the risks and uncertainties associated with the Utility’s ability to access the Wildfire Fund, including that the Wildfire Fund has sufficient remaining funds;

the risks and uncertainties associated with certain indemnity obligations to current and former officers and directors, as well as potential indemnity obligations to underwriters for certainimpact of the Utility’s note offerings, in connection with three purported class actions that have been consolidated and denominated In re PG&E Corporation Securities Litigation, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Case No. 18-035509, which has been enjoined as to PG&E Corporation and the Utility pursuant to the Plan with such claims to be resolved by the Bankruptcy Court as part of the claims reconciliation process in the Chapter 11 Cases;

the timing and outcome of future regulatory and legislative developments, including future wildfire reforms, inverse condemnation reform,severe weather events and other wildfire mitigation measures or other reforms targeted at the Utility or its industry;

the severity, extent and duration of the global COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows, as well as on energy demand in the Utility’s service territory, the ability of the Utility to collect on customer invoices, the ability of the Utility to mitigate these effects,natural disasters, including with spending reductions, and the ability of the Utility to recover any losses incurred in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of workforce disruptions;

whether the Utility will be able to obtain full recovery of its significantly increased insurance premiums, and the timing of any such recovery;

whether the Utility can obtain wildfire insurance at a reasonable cost in the future, or at all, and whether insurance coverage is adequate for future losses or claims;

increased employee attrition as a result of the challenging political and operating environment facing PG&E Corporation and the Utility;

the timing and outcomes of the FERC TO18 and TO19 rate cases, 2018 and 2019 CEMA applications, WEMA application, WMCE application, future applications for cost recovery of amounts recorded to the FRMMA, CPPMA, WMPMA, VMBA, WMBA, and RTBA, future cost of capital proceedings,wildfires and other ratemaking and regulatory proceedings;

the outcome of the probation and the Monitorship imposed by the federal court after the Utility’s conviction in the federal criminal trial in 2017, the timing and outcomes of the debarment proceeding, potential reliability penalties or sanctions from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, or Western Electricity Coordinating Council, investigations that have been or may be commenced relating to the Utility’s compliance with natural gas- and electric- related laws and regulations, and the ultimate amount of fines, penalties, and remedial costs that the Utility may incur in connection with the outcomes including the costs of complying with any additional conditions of probation imposed in connection with the Utility’s federal criminal proceeding, such as expenses associated with any material expansion of the Utility’s vegetation management program, as well as the impact of additional conditions of probation on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s ability to make distributions to shareholders;

the effects on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s reputations caused by matters such as the CPUC’s investigations and enforcement proceedings and the Utility’s criminal guilty plea as described in Note 14 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8. under the heading “District Attorneys’ Offices Investigations”;

the outcome of future legislative or regulatory actions as part of the “Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process” or otherwise that may be taken, such as requiring the Utility to transfer ownership of the Utility’s assets to municipalities or other public entities, or implement corporate governance, operational or other changes;

whether the Utility can control its operating costs within the authorizedfires, storms, tornadoes, floods, extreme heat events, drought, earthquakes, lightning, tsunamis, rising sea levels, of spending, and timely recover its costs through rates; whether the Utility can continue implementing a streamlined organizational structure and achieve project savings, the extent to which the Utility incurs unrecoverable costs that are higher than the forecasts of such costs; and changes in cost forecasts or the scope and timing of planned work resulting from changes in customer demand for electricity and natural gas or other reasons;

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whether the Utility and its third-party vendors and contractors are able to protect the Utility’s operational networks and information technology systems from cyber- and physical attacks, or other internal or external hazards;

the timing and outcome in the Court of Appeals of the appeal of the FERC’s order denying rehearing on March 17, 2020 granting the Utility a 50-basis point ROE incentive adder for continued participation in the CAISO;

the outcome of current and future self-reports, investigations, or other enforcement proceedings that could be commenced or notices of violation that could be issued relating to the Utility’s compliance with laws, rules, regulations, or orders applicable to its operations, including the construction, expansion, or replacement of its electric and gas facilities, electric grid reliability, audit, inspection and maintenance practices, customer billing and privacy, physical and cybersecurity, environmental laws and regulations; and the outcome of existing and future SED notices of violations;

the impact of government regulations that the Utility is subject to, including environmental remediation laws, regulations, and orders; the ultimate amount of costs incurred to discharge the Utility’s known and unknown remediation obligations; and the extent to which the Utility is able to recover such compliance costs in rates or from other sources;

the impact of SB 100, signed into law on September 10, 2018, which increased the percentage from 50% to 60% of California’s electricity portfolio that must come from renewables by 2030; and establishes state policy that 100% of all retail electricity sales must come from renewable portfolio standard-eligible or carbon-free resources by 2045;

how the CPUC and the CARB implement state environmental laws relating to GHG, renewable energy targets, energy efficiency standards, distributed energy resources, electric vehicles, and similar matters, including whether the Utility is able to continue recovering associated compliance costs, such as the cost of emission allowances and offsets under cap-and-trade regulations; and whether the Utility is able to timely recover its associated investment costs;

the impact of the California governor’s executive order issued on January 26, 2018, to implement a new target of five million zero-emission vehicles on the road in California by 2030 and the California governor’s executive order issued on September 23, 2020, requiring sales of all new passenger vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035 and additional measures to eliminate harmful emissions from the transportation sector;

the ultimate amount of unrecoverable environmental costs the Utility incurs associated with the Utility’s natural gas compressor station site located near Hinkley, California and the Utility’s fossil fuel-fired generation sites;

the impact of new legislation or NRC regulations, recommendations, policies, decisions, or orders relating to the nuclear industry, including operations, seismic design, security, safety, relicensing, the storage of spent nuclear fuel, decommissioning, cooling water intake, or other issues; the impact of potential actions, such as legislation, taken by state agencies that may affect the Utility’s ability to continue operating Diablo Canyon until its planned retirement;

the impact of wildfires, droughts, floods, high winds, lightningmudslides, pandemics, solar events, electromagnetic events, wind events or other weather-related conditions, or events, climate change, or natural disasters, acts of terrorism, war, vandalism (including cyber-attacks), downed power lines, and other events that can cause unplanned outages, reduce generating output, disrupt the Utility’s service to customers, or damage or disrupt the facilities, operations, or information technology and systems owned by the Utility, its customers, or third parties on which the Utility relies, and the effectiveness of the Utility’s efforts to prevent, mitigate, or respond to such conditions or events; the reparation and other costs that the Utility may incur in connection with such conditions or events; the impact of the adequacy of the Utility’s emergency preparedness; whether the Utility incurs liability to third parties for property damage or personal injury caused by such events; whether the Utility is able to procure replacement power; and whether the Utility is subject to civil, criminal, or regulatory penalties in connection with such events;

existing and future regulation and federal, state or local legislation, their implementation, and their interpretation; the cost to comply with such regulation and legislation; and the extent to which the Utility recovers its associated compliance and investment costs, including those regarding:

wildfires, including inverse condemnation reform, wildfire insurance, and additional wildfire mitigation measures or other reforms targeted at the Utility or its industry;

the environment, including the costs incurred to discharge the Utility’s remediation obligations or the costs to comply with standards for GHG emissions, renewable energy targets, energy efficiency standards, distributed energy resources, and electric vehicles;

the nuclear industry, including operations, seismic design, security, safety, relicensing, the storage of spent nuclear fuel, decommissioning, and cooling water intake, and whether Diablo Canyon’s operations are extended; and the Utility’s insurance coverage is available for these typesability to continue operating Diablo Canyon until its planned retirement;

the regulation of claimsutilities and sufficienttheir affiliates, including the conditions that apply to coverPG&E Corporation as the Utility’s liability;holding company;

privacy and cyber security; and

taxes and tax audits;

the breakdowntiming and outcomes of the Utility’s pending and future ratemaking and regulatory proceedings, including the extent to which PG&E Corporation and the Utility are able to recover their costs through rates as recorded in memorandum accounts or failurebalancing accounts, or as otherwise requested; the Utility’s application to transfer its non-nuclear generation assets to Pacific Generation and the potential sale of equipment that can cause damages,a minority interest in Pacific Generation; and the transfer of ownership of the Utility’s assets to municipalities or other public entities, including fires,as a result of the City and unplanned outages; and County of San Francisco’s valuation petition;

whether the Utility will be subjectcan control its operating costs within the authorized levels of spending; whether the Utility can continue implementing the Lean operating system and achieve projected savings; the extent to investigations, penalties,which the Utility incurs unrecoverable costs that are higher than the forecasts of such costs; the risks and uncertainties associated with inflation; and changes in cost forecasts or the scope and timing of planned work resulting from changes in customer demand for electricity and natural gas or other costs in connection with such events;reasons;

the outcome of current and future legislative developmentsself-reports, investigations or other enforcement actions, or notices of violation that could be issued related to the Utility’s compliance with laws, rules, regulations, or orders applicable to its gas and electric operations; the construction, expansion, or replacement of its electric and gas facilities; electric grid reliability; audit, inspection and maintenance practices; customer billing and privacy; physical and cyber security protections; environmental laws and regulations; or otherwise, such as fines; penalties; remediation obligations; or the implementation of corporate governance, operational or other changes in connection with SB 350 (the Golden State Energy Act), a bill which was signed into law on June 30, 2020the EOEP;

the risks and authorizes the creation by the California governor of a new entity “Golden State Energy,” a nonprofit public benefit corporation, for the purpose of acquiringuncertainties associated with PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s assetssubstantial indebtedness and serving electric and gasthe limitations on their operating flexibility in the Utility’s service territory in the eventdocuments governing that the CPUC revokes the Utility’s Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity;indebtedness;

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whetherthe risks and uncertainties associated with the timing and outcomes of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s climate change adaptation strategies are successful;ongoing litigation, including appeals of the Confirmation Order; certain indemnity obligations to current and former officers and directors, as well as potential indemnity obligations to underwriters for certain of the Utility’s note offerings; three purported class actions that have been consolidated and denominated In re PG&E Corporation Securities Litigation, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Case No. 18-03509; the purported PSPS class action filed in December 2019; and other third-party claims, including the extent to which related costs can be recovered through insurance, rates, or from other third parties;

the impactability of PG&E Corporation and the Utility to securitize the remaining $1.385 billion of fire risk mitigation capital expenditures that reductionswere or will be incurred by the Utility;

the risks and uncertainties associated with any future substantial sales of shares of common stock of PG&E Corporation by existing shareholders, including the Fire Victim Trust;

whether PG&E Corporation or the Utility undergoes an “ownership change” within the meaning of Section 382 of the IRC, as a result of which tax attributes could be limited;

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s historical financial information not being indicative of future financial performance as a result of the Chapter 11 Cases and the financial and other restructuring undergone by PG&E Corporation and the Utility in connection with their emergence from Chapter 11;

the ultimate amount of unrecoverable environmental costs the Utility customer demand for electricity andincurs associated with the Utility’s natural gas driven by customer departures to CCAscompressor station site located near Hinkley, California and DA providers, have on the Utility’s ability to make and recover its investments through rates and earn its authorized return on equity, and whether the Utility is successful in addressing the impact of growing distributed and renewablefossil fuel-fired generation resources, and changing customer demand for its natural gas and electric services;sites;

the supply and price of electricity, natural gas, and nuclear fuel; the extent to which the Utility can manage and respond to the volatility of energy commodity prices; the ability of the Utility and its counterparties to post or return collateral in connection with price risk management activities; and whether the Utility is able to recover timely its electric generation and energy commodity costs through rates, including its renewable energy procurement costs;

the amountability of PG&E Corporation and timing of charges reflecting probable liabilities for third-party claims; the extent to which costs incurred in connection with third-party claims or litigation can be recovered through insurance, rates, or from other third parties; and whether the Utility can continue to obtain adequate insurance coverage for future losses or claims, especially followingaccess capital markets and other sources of debt and equity financing in a major event that causes widespread third-party losses;timely manner on acceptable terms;

the risks and uncertainties associated with any future substantial sales of shares of common stock ofrising rates for the Utility’s customers;

actions by credit rating agencies to downgrade PG&E Corporation by existing shareholders, includingCorporation’s or the Fire Victim Trust, the PIPE Investors and the Backstop Parties;Utility’s credit ratings;

the impactseverity, extent and duration of the regulation of utilitiesglobal COVID-19 pandemic and their holding companies, including how the CPUC interprets and enforces the financial and other conditions imposedits impact on PG&E Corporation when it becameCorporation’s and the Utility’s holding company,financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and whethercash flows, as well as on energy demand in the uncertaintyUtility’s service area, the ability of the Utility to collect on customer receivables, the ability of the Utility to mitigate these effects, including with spending reductions, the ability of the Utility to recover any losses incurred in connection with the Utility’s probation or enforcement matters will impact the Utility’s ability to make distributions to PG&E Corporation;

the outcome of federal or state tax auditsCOVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of any changes in federalworkforce disruptions caused either by illness of workers and their family members or state tax laws, policies,workforce attrition related to potential new workplace regulations or their interpretation;

whether PG&E Corporation or the Utility undergoes an “ownership change” within the meaning of Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,such as amended (the “Internal Revenue Code”), as a result of which tax attributes could be limited;

changes in the regulatory and economic environment, including potential changes affecting clean energy and tax policy, as a result of the current federal administration and Congress;vaccine mandates; and

the impact of changes in GAAP, standards, rules, or policies, including those related to regulatory accounting, and the impact of changes in their interpretation or application.

For more information about the significant risks that could affect the outcome of the forward-looking statements and PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s future financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows, see Item 1A. Risk Factors belowin this Form 10-K and a detailed discussion of these matters contained in Item 7. MD&A. PG&E Corporation and the Utility do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements, whether in response to new information, future events, or otherwise.

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PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and proxy statements, are available free of charge on both PG&E Corporation’s website, www.pgecorp.com, and the Utility's website, www.pge.com, as promptly as practicable after they are filed with, or furnished to, the SEC. Additionally, PG&E Corporation and the Utility routinely provide links to the Utility’s principal regulatory proceedings before the CPUC and the FERC at http://investor.pgecorp.com, under the “Regulatory Filings” tab, so that such filings are available to investors upon filing with the relevant agency. PG&E Corporation and the Utility also routinely post or provide direct links to presentations, documents, and other information that may be of interest to investors, including regarding dividends, at http://investor.pgecorp.com, under the “PG&E Progress,” “Chapter 11,” “Wildfire and Safety Updates” andUpdates,” “News & Events: Events & Presentations”Presentations,” and “Shareholders: Dividend Information” tabs, respectively, in order to publicly disseminate such information. Specifically, within two hours during business hours or four hours outside of business hours of the determination that an incident is attributable or allegedly attributable to the Utility’s electric facilities and has resulted in property damage estimated to exceed $50,000, a fatality or injury requiring overnight in-patient hospitalization, or significant public or media attention, the Utility is required to submit an electric incident report including information about such incident to the CPUC. The information included in an electric incident report is limited and may not include important information about the facts and circumstances about the incident due to the limited scope of the reporting requirements and timing of the report and is necessarily limited to information to which the Utility has access at the time of the report. Ignitions are also reportable under CPUC Decision 14-02-015 when they involve self-propagating fire of material other than electrical or communication facilities; the fire traveled greater than one linear meter from the ignition point; and the Utility has knowledge that the fire occurred. It is possible that any of these filings or information included therein could be deemed to be material information. The information contained on such website is not part of this or any other report that PG&E Corporation or the Utility files with, or furnishes to, the SEC. PG&E Corporation and the Utility are providing the address to this website solely for the information of investors and do not intend the address to be an active link. PG&E Corporation and the Utility also make available to investors information about the companies’ climate goals and progress in the Corporate Sustainability Report and Climate Strategy Report, which information is not incorporated by reference into this report.


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PART I

ITEM 1. BUSINESS

PG&E Corporation, incorporated in California in 1995, is a holding company whose primary operating subsidiary is Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a public utility operating in northernNorthern and centralCentral California. The Utility was incorporated in California in 1905. PG&E Corporation became the holding company of the Utility and its subsidiaries in 1997. The Utility generates revenues mainly through the sale and delivery of electricity and natural gas to customers. The Utility’s service area is shown in the graphic below.
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PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s operating revenues, income, and total assets can be found below in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

The principal executive offices of PG&E Corporation and the Utility are located at 77 Beale Street, P.O. Box 770000, San Francisco,300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, California 94177.94612. PG&E Corporation’s telephone number is (415) 973-1000 and the Utility’s telephone number is (415) 973-7000.

This is a combined Annual Report on Form 10-K for PG&E Corporation and the Utility. Each of PG&E Corporation and the Utility is a separate entity, with distinct creditors and claimants, and is subject to separate laws, rules, and regulations.
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Over the past several years, Northern California has experienced major wildfires. For more information about material wildfires, see Item 7. MD&A, and Note 1415 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

This 20202022 Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements that are necessarily subject to various risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of the significant risks that could affect the outcome of these forward-looking statements and PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s future financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows, see Item 1A. Risk Factors and the section entitled “Forward-Looking Statements” above.

Triple Bottom Line

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s purpose is to deliver for their hometowns, serve the planet, and lead with love. In support of this purpose, the companies employ a Lean operating model designed to drive more effective and responsive decision-making, reduce the difficulties many coworkers face in their day-to-day work, and deliver better outcomes for customers and communities.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility measure their progress toward the purpose by considering their impact on the “triple bottom line” of people, planet, and prosperity, which is underpinned by performance; this consideration takes into account not only the economic value they create for customers and investors, but also their responsibility to social and environmental goals. The triple bottom line is designed to balance the interests of the companies’ many stakeholders, and it reflects the broader societal impacts of the companies’ activities.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility will continue to consider the impact on the triple bottom line of people, planet, and prosperity in their daily operations as well as in their long-term strategic decisions. The Utility will continue to seek fair and timely regulatory treatment in order to support its customer-driven investment plan while pursuing cost-control measures that would allow it to maintain the affordability of its service. The Lean operating system is an important means of realizing PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s objective of achieving world class performance while delivering hometown service.

People

The people element of the triple bottom line represents PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s commitment to their workforce, their customers, the residents of local communities in which the companies do business, and other stakeholders.

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s goal is to continually reduce risk to keep customers, the communities they serve, and their workforce (both employees and contractors) safe. Their focus is on continuously building an organization where every work activity is designed to facilitate safe performance, every worker knows and practices safe behaviors, and every individual is encouraged to speak up and stop work if they see unsafe or risky behavior, and has confidence that their concerns and ideas will be heard and pursued. PG&E Corporation and the Utility are committed to significantly improving their safety performance by understanding their risks, prioritizing their work, using controls to reduce risks, and continuously measuring and improving risk reduction.

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s human capital resource objectives are to build and retain an engaged, well trained, diverse, and equitably-paid workforce. PG&E Corporation and the Utility place a high priority on delivering customer value and providing a hometown customer experience. The Utility’s customer-driven investment program is aimed at improving safety, increasing electric and gas reliability, and improving customer satisfaction.

For more information, see “Human Capital” below.

Planet

The planet element of the triple bottom line represents PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s commitment to protect and serve the environment. This commitment extends beyond compliance with various state and federal environmental, health, and safety laws and regulations. PG&E Corporation and the Utility believe that integrating and managing climate change and other environmental considerations in the companies’ business strategies creates long-term value for PG&E Corporation and the Utility, and for their customers, communities, coworkers, and other stakeholders. Mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change presents opportunities for growth for the Utility’s business and economic opportunity for the communities it serves.

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The Utility strives to be prepared to continue to deliver safe, clean, affordable, and reliable energy in the face of increasingly severe and extreme climate-driven natural hazards. To build resilience to these hazards, the Utility is working to systematically integrate the consideration of forward-looking climate data and tools in its decision-making. PG&E Corporation and the Utility also work with policymakers and regulators to advance effective climate adaptation policy in California, and work directly with local governments and communities on adaptation solutions.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility have committed to helping heal the planet. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Climate Strategy Report, which is available to the public, describes the companies’ climate goals and plans to meet those goals. To meet their longer-term climate goals, PG&E Corporation and the Utility intend to scale their efforts to decarbonize the electric system to accommodate a shift to vehicle electrification, integrate a proliferation of distributed energy resources, and achieve increased penetration of renewable energy combined with investments in the grid and energy storage.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility also plan to transition the gas system to cleaner fuels, increasingly target natural gas delivery for hard-to-electrify customer sectors, and support efforts to accelerate building electrification. The objective is to do so in an orderly manner to achieve a positive customer and community experience, while reducing natural gas system investments in targeted electrified communities.

The impacts of climate change on the Utility’s infrastructure are already a reality. Record-breaking extreme heat and heat waves are increasingly a regular occurrence throughout California. Peak electric loads are expected to increase with increasing temperatures due to direct impacts of ambient temperatures on equipment and direct impacts on electricity demand driven by rising air conditioning installation and usage, and increasingly driven in the future from widespread progress in adoption of beneficial electrification technologies. The Utility’s assets on the coast and in or near watersheds face potential increased exposures to coastal, riverine, and precipitation-related flooding because of climate-driven changes in precipitation and sea-level rise.

Climate change will also continue to intensify the potential for wildfires throughout California. The worsening conditions across California increase the likelihood and severity of wildfires, including those where the Utility’s equipment may be alleged to be associated with the fire’s ignition. Reducing risk will be even more important as climate change continues to exacerbate the risks facing the Utility. A key element of preparing the Utility for the physical risks of climate change is an updated and more detailed system-wide CVA of the Utility’s assets, operations, and services, which the Utility expects to file with the CPUC in 2024. The CVA is expected to improve the Utility’s understanding of its exposure to climate hazards and the sensitivity of assets and operations to these hazards.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility continue to pursue policies and programs that enable safe, reliable, and affordable clean and resilient energy for their customers. As a result of actions already taken by PG&E Corporation and the Utility, the companies have:

Delivered clean electricity to customers in 2022 that was more than 95% GHG free.

Helped customers avoid emissions and energy costs through robust energy efficiency programs.

Awarded contracts for more than 3.3 GWs of battery energy storage to be deployed over the next several years, strengthening California’s grid efficiency and reliability.

Installed approximately 340 charging ports for electric vehicles at schools, parks, public charging locations, and in support of fleets - with nearly half in disadvantaged communities - and received regulatory approval for new innovative pilots on vehicle grid integration, submetering, and dynamic rates.

Brought the total number of interconnected private solar customers to more than 700,000 and supported more than 50,000 customers who have installed battery storage at their homes or businesses.

Continued to advance decarbonization initiatives for the Utility’s natural gas delivery system, including meeting the CPUC-mandated methane emission reduction target ahead of schedule and accelerating initiatives to meet its voluntary 2030 reduction goal.

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The CPUC coordinates the planning of supply resources through the Integrated Resource Planning (“IRP”) proceeding and has determined that replacing the power generated by Diablo Canyon is the responsibility of all LSEs within the CAISO. Looking ahead, the Utility expects its GHG-free energy supply mix of renewable, large hydroelectric, and nuclear generation resources to decrease as, beginning in 2023, the Utility is required to offer for allocation or sale renewables portfolio standard-eligible (“RPS”) attributes that the Utility procured on behalf of customers that subsequently switched to non-Utility providers in order to comply with regulatory mandates and to manage customer affordability. Towards the end of the decade and beyond, the Utility’s GHG-free energy supply mix is expected to grow relative to 2025 levels as the Utility procures new GHG-free generation and storage to meet California’s IRP GHG emissions reduction targets and California’s clean energy goals. For more information, see “Electric Integrated Resource Planning and Related Procurement” below.

Prosperity

The prosperity element of the triple bottom line represents PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s commitment to meeting their financial objectives and providing economic development opportunities and benefits in the communities they serve. Management believes clean energy should be affordable for and inclusive of all economic backgrounds.

Under cost-of-service ratemaking, a utility’s earnings depend on the outcomes of its ratemaking proceedings and its ability to manage costs.

See “Ratemaking Mechanisms” below and “Regulatory Matters” in Item 7. MD&A for more information on specific CPUC and FERC proceedings.

Generally, differences between forecast costs and actual costs (discussed in “Utility Revenues and Costs that Impacted Earnings” in Results of Operations in Item 7. MD&A) can occur for numerous reasons, including the volume of work required and the impact of market forces on the cost of labor and materials. Differences in costs can also arise from changes in laws and regulations at both the state and federal level.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility are committed to taking steps to improve their credit ratings and metrics over time, including by reducing their debt. PG&E Corporation and the Utility have set goals to reduce their debt over time, including reducing PG&E Corporation’s debt by at least $2 billion by the end of 2026. PG&E Corporation and the Utility expect that reducing the consolidated debt will help them achieve investment grade credit ratings for their unsecured securities, for the benefit of both customers and investors. For more information, see Note 5 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8. Pursuant to SB 901, the Utility filed an application with the CPUC seeking authorization for a post-emergence transaction to recover $7.5 billion of 2017 wildfire claims costs, which was approved by the CPUC on February 28, 2022. PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC, a bankruptcy remote, limited liability company wholly owned by the Utility, issued $3.6 billion aggregate principal amount of Series 2022-A Recovery Bonds on May 10, 2022 and $3.9 billion aggregate principal amount of Series 2022-B Recovery Bonds on July 20, 2022. The net proceeds from both transactions were used to reimburse the Utility for previously incurred recovery costs, including the retirement of $5.0 billion of Utility debt and the repayment of a portion of the loans outstanding under the Utility's revolving credit facility pursuant to the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement. The Utility intends to use a portion of the remaining proceeds to fund the redemption of $1.0 billion of Utility debt. For more information, see “Application for Post-Emergence Securitization Transaction” in Item 7. MD&A.

On December 20, 2017, the Boards of Directors of PG&E Corporation and the Utility suspended quarterly cash dividends on both PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s common stock, as well as the Utility’s preferred stock. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s ability to issue dividends is subject to restrictions. On February 8, 2022, the Board of Directors of the Utility authorized the payment of all cumulative and unpaid dividends on the Utility’s preferred stock. On June 15, 2022, the Board of Directors of the Utility also reinstated the dividend on the Utility’s common stock. For more information, see “Dividends” in Item 7. MD&A.

Total capital expenditures (including accruals) recorded in 2022 were $9.6 billion. The Utility’s total capital expenditures (including accruals) are forecasted to be between $7.9 billion and $11.2 billion for 2023, between $7.9 billion and $12.2 billion for 2024, between $8.0 billion and $12.7 billion for 2025, between $8.1 billion and $13.3 billion for 2026, and between $8.1 billion and $13.8 billion for 2027. The completion of projects, the timing of expenditures, and the associated cost recovery may be affected by permitting requirements and delays, construction schedules, availability of labor, equipment and materials, financing, legal and regulatory approvals and developments, community requests or protests, weather, and other unforeseen conditions.

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The Utility expects to make additional capital expenditures, the recovery of which will be subject to future regulatory approval, including the 2023 GRC. These expenditures include capital expenditures exceeding amounts authorized in the 2020 GRC and 2019 GT&S, and expenditures to be included in a later stage of the 2023 GRC or separate applications. These expenditures are expected to primarily be for wildfire mitigation, transportation electrification, and the Lakeside Building. Additionally, $3.21 billion of fire risk mitigation capital expenditures will be excluded from the Utility’s equity rate base pursuant to AB 1054.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility are committed to keeping gas and electric services affordable for all customers. The Utility’s capital investment plan, increasing procurement of renewable power and energy storage, increasing environmental regulations, and the cumulative impact of other public policy requirements collectively place continuing upward pressure on customer rates. Certain CPUC proceedings could impact different types of customers differently. Similarly, although the Utility generally recovers its electricity and natural gas procurement costs through rates as “pass-through” costs, commodity prices rose substantially in 2022, relative to 2021. The Utility has set a goal to increase customer capital investments while also limiting customer impacts, including by reducing non-fuel Operating and maintenance costs by two percent per year and by seeking efficient financing. The Utility plans to meet its two percent non-fuel Operating and maintenance cost reduction goal through increased efficiency, including waste elimination through the Lean operating system. The Utility has a number of programs in place to assist low-income customers, such as the CARE program. Under the CARE program, income-qualified customers can receive a monthly discount of 20% or more on their gas and electric bill.

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Corporate Sustainability Report, which is available to the public, describes the companies’ progress toward world-class performance measured with the triple bottom line framework.

In 2021, the Utility spent $4.01 billion with certified diverse suppliers, representing 38.7% of its total spend.

Performance: Underpinning the Triple Bottom Line

PG&E Corporation and the Utility use the Lean operating system, which includes four basic “plays:” visual management; operating reviews; problem solving; and standard work. Visual management allows teams to see how they are performing against their most important metrics using real-time data. PG&E Corporation and the Utility hold daily, weekly, and monthly operating reviews designed to align the performance of workers closest to the work with the goals and objectives of senior leadership. These brief meetings help the Utility identify gaps and quickly develop plans to support the teams performing the work and give the Utility more visibility, control and predictability in its operations. Problem solving involves a structured approach to identifying, containing, analyzing, and solving problems in order to capitalize on opportunities. Standard work reduces costs and increases productivity by ensuring a consistent company-wide method for completing a task. For instance, the Lean operating system helped the Utility identify patterns in the conditions of ignitions and led to the implementation of EPSS and drove significant benefit and understanding in how PG&E Corporation and the Utility manage customer satisfaction. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s performance is also driven by an increased focus on alignment on shared outcomes among its leadership and within the organization. In 2023, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Lean deployment will focus on a fifth play, waste elimination, which enables the companies to identify and eliminate inefficiencies in both process and workflow in a sustainable manner, as well as the continued adoption of a performance playbook and improvements to financial visibility and controls.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility have implemented a regional service model to bring the Utility closer to the hometowns it serves. Through the regional service model, the Utility has restructured its service area into five regions, with leaders in each region to deliver improved public and employee safety, customer service, and operational reliability outcomes.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility are committed to designing an electric system that is resilient to climate change, decarbonized, and optimized to local and system needs.

California has experienced unprecedented weather conditions in recent years and the Utility’s service area remains susceptible to additional wildfire activity. In response, the Utility has implemented operational changes and investments that reduce wildfire risk, including:

Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings: EPSS adjusts the sensitivity of circuit protection devices on selected power lines to de-energize them more rapidly in the event of a disturbance to help prevent potential ignitions. After EPSS was initiated, both the size and number of CPUC-reportable ignitions were reduced substantially on EPSS-enabled circuits, compared to the prior three-year average.

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Public Safety Power Shutoffs: The PSPS program proactively de-energizes power lines in response to forecasted weather conditions. Since its inception in late 2017, the PSPS program has become more targeted because the Utility has developed more granular risk models, including adding consideration of vegetation management and maintenance tag statuses for scoping PSPS events. The Utility has also installed sectionalizers for more targeted de-energizations of circuits and transmission lines. In 2022, the Utility did not have any PSPS events.

Vegetation management: The Utility inspects its overhead electric distribution and transmission facilities on an annual basis to identify and clear vegetation that might grow or fall into utility equipment. The Utility is also increasing oversight and engagement with the contractors supporting vegetation management work.

Asset inspections: Since 2018, the Utility has reoriented its asset inspections programs toward asset condition and consequence risk, particularly wildfire risk, and these programs have become more thorough, standardized, digitized, and verifiable. The Utility uses risk-informed inspection cycles. In 2022, the Utility continued to refine its risk modeling, including further incorporating data from asset inspections. As a result of the improved inspection program, the Utility’s inspections in recent years have begun to more thoroughly identify equipment conditions.

System hardening: System hardening entails repairing, replacing, or eliminating existing power lines in HFTDs and installing stronger and more resilient equipment. As the Utility’s asset inspections have identified more equipment conditions, the Utility has hardened its system by correcting significantly more equipment conditions than in prior years. Hardening methods include replacing bare overhead conductor with covered conductor and installing stronger poles, removing lines, and serving customers through remote grids, or converting lines from overhead to underground. In 2021, the Utility announced a program to underground 10,000 miles of electric distribution lines in high wildfire risk areas. In 2022, the Utility undergrounded 180 miles of lines, which exceeded its plan to underground 175 miles of lines. Undergrounding can substantially reduce ignition risk and improve reliability during storms or periods of high wildfire risk. The Utility also brought online two additional “remote grids” in 2022, which allow distribution lines in HFTDs to be removed and replaced with locally sited resources. Remote grids can reduce costs and fire risks, while maintaining service to participating customers.

As a result of these measures, the Utility significantly reduced both the size and number of CPUC-reportable ignitions and number of acres burned in 2022, compared to prior years.

Even as the Utility works to mitigate wildfire risk, it also works to reduce the impact of those mitigations on its customers, including making the PSPS program less disruptive through sectionalizing devices for both distribution and transmission lines, temporary generation applications, and implementation of microgrids which enable portions of the grid to safely isolate areas from the broader grid and energize them during outages. For example, in 2022, the Utility prepared 12 distribution microgrids to operate with temporary generation if needed.

In 2022, the Utility expanded the EPSS program to all high fire risk areas. In addition, the Utility uses multiple weather models on a daily basis that indicate which circuits to enable with safety settings and which to put in normal protection settings, optimizing for maximum wildfire ignition risk reduction when needed and enhancing reliability benefits when wildfire risk is low. In 2022, the Utility also began reviewing and adjusting settings to improve coordination among devices on a circuit to reduce the number of customers impacted by an outage. In 2023, the Utility will expand its deployment of advanced technology to detect low-current faults, which is expected to further decrease wildfire ignition risk.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility are continuing to invest in a safe and reliable gas system and are working toward targeted electrification, greening the gas supply, and shaping California energy policy. The Utility has focused on continuously improving its gas operations safety record. Since the San Bruno natural gas pipeline explosion in 2010, the Utility’s asset safety efforts have included replacing distribution mains and transmission pipelines, as well as strength testing transmission pipelines. The Utility uses in-line inspections to assess the integrity of transmission pipelines. The Utility also uses safety and control systems to monitor, gather, and process real-time data on its gas system. In 2022, the Utility’s gas operations had two workforce serious injuries and fatalities (“SIF-A”) incidents and reductions in the number of injuries that result in days away, restricted or transferred duty per 200,000 hours worked (“DART”). The Utility’s gas system has not had a safety-related incident that affected the public and resulted in a fatality or injury since 2015 or 2018, respectively.

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The Utility has engaged in educating employees, contractors, and the public regarding safe digging programs and practices for their awareness during construction and when digging near the Utility’s underground gas and electric assets. The Utility also installed safety devices that automatically detect increasing pressure on systems and stop the flow of gas to avoid outages and overpressure events. Additionally, the Utility continues to streamline its efforts to respond to outages on a timely basis. The Utility’s outage response is designed to keep the public safe while limiting customer outages and returning service safely and as quickly as possible.

The Utility’s generation operations have focused on safety and reliability. In 2022, the Utility’s nuclear and non-nuclear generation operations achieved zero SIF-A incidents and reductions in DART. Challenged by a drought year, the Utility scheduled dispatch and rescheduled outages to maximize availability during the summer months when demand for electricity is highest. The Utility is working to implement a comprehensive non-nuclear generation asset management strategy and further mature its outage and project management capabilities.

In 2022, the Utility achieved International Organization for Standardization (“ISO”) 55001 certification for its electric operations and generation asset management systems. The Utility also achieved ISO 55001 re-certification for its gas operations asset management. ISO 55001 certification required the Utility to demonstrate that it has policies and procedures to manage its assets responsibly and effectively.

Regulatory Environment 

The Utility’s business is subject to the regulatory jurisdiction of various agencies at the federal, state, and local levels. At the state level, the Utility is regulated primarily by the CPUC. At the federal level, the Utility is subject to the jurisdiction ofregulated primarily by the FERC and the NRC. The Utility is also subject to the requirements of other federal, state and local regulatory agencies, including with respect to safety, the environment, and health, such as the NTSB.NTSB and OEIS.

This section and the “Environmental Regulation” and the “Ratemaking Mechanisms” sections below summarize some of the more significant laws, regulations, and regulatory proceedings affecting the Utility. (ForFor more information, see Item 1A. Risk Factors and “Regulatory Matters” underin Item 7. MD&A.)

PG&E Corporation is a “public utility holding company” as defined under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005 and is subject to regulatory oversight by the FERC. PG&E Corporation and its subsidiaries are exempt from all requirements of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005 other than the obligation to provide access to their books and records to the FERC and the CPUC for ratemaking purposes.

California Public Utilities Commission

The CPUC is a regulatory agency that regulates privately owned public utilities in California. The CPUC has jurisdiction over the rates and terms and conditions of service for the Utility’s electric and natural gas distribution operations, electric generation, and natural gas transmission and storage services. The CPUC has also has exercised jurisdiction over the Utility’s issuances of securities, dispositions of utility assets and facilities, energy purchases on behalf of the Utility’s electric and natural gas retail customers, rates of return, rates of depreciation, oversight of nuclear decommissioning, and aspects of the siting of facilities used in providing electric and natural gas utility service.

The CPUC enforces state laws and regulations that set forth safety requirements pertaining to the design, construction, testing, operation, and maintenance of utility gas and electric facilities.  The CPUC can impose penalties of up to $100,000 per day, per violation. The CPUC has wide discretion to determine the amount of penalties based on the totality of the circumstances, including such factors as the gravity of the violations;violations, the type of harm caused by the violations and the number of persons affected;affected, and the good faith of the entity charged in attempting to achieve compliance, after notification of a violation. The CPUC also is required to consider the appropriateness of the amount of the penalty to the size of the entity charged.

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The CPUC has delegated authority to the SED to issue citations and impose penalties for violations identified through audits, investigations, or self-reports. Under the current gas and electric citation programs adopted by the CPUC in September 2016, the SED has discretion whether to issue a penalty for each violation; but if it assesses a penalty for a violation, it has the authority to impose the maximum statutory penalty of $100,000 per day, with an administrative limit of $8 million per citation issued. The SED may, at its discretion, imposeSimilar to penalties on a daily basis, or on less than a daily basis, for violations that continued for more than one day. The SED hasimposed by the discretion either to address each violation in a distinct citation or to include multiple violations in a single citation regardless of whether the violations occurred in the same incident or are of a similar nature. PenaltyCPUC, penalty payments for citations issued pursuant to the gas and electric safety citation programs are the responsibility of shareholders of an issuer and may not be recovered in rates or otherwise directly or indirectly charged to customers. The CPUC has also authorized the SED to propose for CPUC approval administrative consent orders and administrative enforcement orders when the SED deems a formal OII unnecessary.

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The California State Legislature also directs the CPUC to implement state laws and policies, such as the laws relating to wildfires and wildfire cost recovery, increasing renewable energy resources, the development and widespread deployment of distributed generation and self-generation resources, the reduction of GHG emissions, the establishment of energy storage procurement targets, and the development of a state-wide electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The CPUC is responsible for approving funding and administration of state-mandated public purpose programs such as energy efficiency and other customer programs. The CPUC also conducts audits and reviews of the Utility’s accounting, performance, and compliance with regulatory guidelines.

The CPUC has imposed various conditions that govern the relationship between the Utility and PG&E Corporation and other affiliates, including financial conditions that require PG&E Corporation’s Board of Directors to give first priority to the capital requirements of the Utility, as determined to be necessary and prudent to meet the Utility’s obligation to serve or to operate the Utility in a prudent and efficient manner. (ForFor more information on specific CPUC enforcement matters and CPUC-implemented laws and policies and the related impact on PG&E Corporation and the Utility, see Item 1A. Risk Factors, and “Enforcement and Litigation Matters,” “Regulatory Matters,” “Legislative and Regulatory Initiatives” and “Liquidity and Financial Resources” in Item 7. MD&A and Note 1516 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and California Independent System Operator Corporation

The FERC has jurisdiction over the Utility’s electric transmission revenue requirements and rates, the licensing of substantially all of the Utility’s hydroelectric generation facilities, and the interstate sale and transportation of natural gas. The FERC regulates the interconnections of the Utility’s transmission systems with other electric systems and generation facilities, the tariffs and conditions of service of regional transmission organizations, and the terms and rates of wholesale electricity sales. The FERC also is charged with adopting and enforcing mandatory standards governing the reliability of the nation’s electric transmission grid, including standards to protect the nation’s bulk power system against potential disruptions from cyber and physical security breaches. The FERC’s approval is also required under Federal Power Act Section 203 before undertaking certain transactions, including most mergers and consolidations, certain transactions that result in a change in control of a utility, purchases of utility securities and dispositions of utility property. The FERC has authority to impose fines of up to $1 million per day for violations of certain federal statutes and regulations. (ForFor more information on specific FERC requirements and their impact on PG&E Corporation and the Utility, see Item 1A. Risk Factors, and “Regulatory Matters,” “Legislative and Regulatory Initiatives” and “Liquidity and Financial Resources” in Item 7. MD&A and Note 1516 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

The CAISO is the FERC-approved regional transmission organization for the Utility’s service territory.area. The CAISO controls the operation of the electric transmission system in most of California and a small part of Nevada and provides open access transmission service on a non-discriminatory basis. The CAISO is also responsible for planning transmission system additions, ensuring the maintenance of adequate reserves of generating capacity, ensuring that the reliability of the transmission system is maintained, and operating the wholesale power market in most of California and an interstate Energy Imbalance Market.energy imbalance market.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

The NRC oversees the licensing, construction, operation and decommissioning of nuclear facilities, including the Utility’s two nuclear generating units at Diablo Canyon and the Utility’s retired nuclear generating unit at Humboldt Bay. (SeeSee “Electricity Resources” below.) NRC regulations require extensive monitoring and review of the safety, radiological, seismic, environmental, and security aspects of these facilities. In the event of non-compliance, the NRC has the authority to impose fines or to force a shutdown of a nuclear plant, or both. NRC safety and security requirements have, in the past, necessitated substantial capital expenditures at Diablo Canyon, and substantial capital expenditures could be required in the future. (ForFor more information about Diablo Canyon, see Item 1A1A. Risk Factors and Note 1516 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

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Other Regulators

The California Energy CommissionCEC is the state’sCalifornia’s primary energy policy and planning agency. The CEC is responsible for licensing all thermal power plants over 50 MW within California. The CEC also is responsible for forecasts of future energy needs used by the CPUC in determining the adequacy of the utilities’ electricity procurement plans and for adopting building and appliance energy efficiency requirements.

The California Air Resources BoardCARB is the state agency responsible for setting and monitoring GHG and other emission limits. The CARB is also responsible for adopting and enforcing regulations to implement state law requirements to gradually reduce GHG emissions in California. (SeeSee “Environmental Regulation - Air Quality and Climate Change” below.)
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The National Transportation Safety BoardNTSB is an independent U.S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigations, including pipeline accidents. The NTSB also conducts special investigations and safety studies, and issues safety recommendations to prevent future accidents. As a result of its investigation into

The California Geologic Energy Management Division is the September 2010 San Bruno natural gas explosion, the NTSB issued 12 safety recommendations to the Utility,state agency responsible for establishing and also subsequently issued 28 safety recommendationsenforcing regulations for the operation of the Utility’s underground gas pipeline industry asstorage facilities.

The OEIS is a resultstate agency responsible for reviewing and approving the Utility’s WMP and for evaluating the Utility’s implementation of athe WMP. The OEIS is also responsible for reviewing and issuing the Utility’s annual safety study on integrity managementcertification, annually reviewing and approving the Utility’s executive compensation plan, conducting assessments of gas transmission pipelines in urban areas.the Utility’s safety culture, and conducting field inspections of wildfire mitigation activities.

In addition, the Utility obtains permits, authorizations, and licenses in connection with the construction and operation of the Utility’s generation facilities, electricity transmission lines, natural gas transportation pipelines, and gas compressor station facilities. The Utility also periodically obtains permits, authorizations, and licenses in connection with distribution of electricity and natural gas that grant the Utility rights to occupy and/or use public property for the operation of the Utility’s business and to conduct certain related operations. The Utility has franchise agreements with approximately 300 cities and counties that permit the Utility to install, operate, and maintain the Utility’s electric and natural gas facilities in the public streets and highways. In exchange for the right to use public streets and highways, the Utility pays annual fees to the cities and counties. In most cases, the Utility’s franchise agreements are for an indeterminate term, with no expiration date. (ForFor more information see Item 1A. Risk Factors.)

Third-party Monitor

On April 12, 2017, the Utility retained a third-party monitor (the “Monitor”) at the Utility’s expense as part of its compliance with the sentencing terms of the Utility’s January 27, 2017 federal criminal conviction, which sentenced the Utility to, among other things, a five-year corporate probation period and oversight by the Monitor for a period of five years, with the ability to apply for early termination after three years.  The goal of the Monitor is to help ensure that the Utility takes reasonable and appropriate steps to maintain the safety of its gas and electric operations and maintains effective ethics, compliance, and safety related incentive programs on a Utility-wide basis. (For more information see Item 1A. Risk Factors and “US District Court Matters and Probation” under “Enforcement and Litigation Matters” in Item 7. MD&A.)

Material Effects of Compliance with Material Governmental Regulations

As indicated above, the Utility’s business is subject to the regulatory jurisdiction of various agencies at the federal, state, and local levels. Compliance with such extensive government regulations requires substantial capital expenditures and has had in the past and may continue to have in the future a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, cash flows and competitive position. Generally, the Utility expectsFor more information about costs incurred to recover the cost of compliancecomply with government regulations from customers through its GRC proceedings, or other proceedings. To the extent the Utility incurs costs above authorized or incurs additional types of costs not included in rates, the Utility would expect to apply for recovery of such costs. Such recovery would be subject to the CPUC’s approval and could involve its reasonableness review.

Costs incurred in 2020 included costs associated with upgrading and maintaining the Utility’s electric and natural gas infrastructure in accordance with CPUC requirements and NTSB safety recommendations, costs in connection with participating in the Wildfire Fund under AB 1054, costs in connection with execution of wildfire mitigation efforts, the cost of complying with the licensing regulations of the FERC, and expenses under various other generation, distribution and storage regulations, the amount of which was substantial.

If the Utility is unable to recover these costs, or incurs fines or penalties as a result of non-compliance with such laws and regulations,related material effects on PG&E Corporation’sCorporation and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, cash flows and competitive position could be materially impacted. (For more information,Utility, see Item 1A. Risk Factors, and “Regulatory Matters” in Item 7. MD&A.)
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of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Environmental Regulation

The Utility’s operations are subject to extensive federal, state, and local laws and requirements relating to the protection of the environment and the safety and health of the Utility’s personnel and the public. These laws and requirements relate to a broad range of activities, including the remediation of hazardous and radioactive substances; the discharge of pollutants into the air, water, and soil; the reporting and reduction of CO2 and other GHG emissions; the transportation, handling, storage and disposal of spent nuclear fuel; and the environmental impacts of land use, including endangered species and habitat protection. The penalties for violation of these laws and requirements can be severe and may include significant fines, damages, and criminal or civil sanctions. These laws and requirements also may require the Utility, under certain circumstances, to interrupt or curtail operations. (SeeSee Item 1A. Risk Factors.) Generally, the Utility recovers most of the costs of complying with environmental laws and regulations inthrough the Utility’s rates, subject to reasonableness review. Environmental costs associated with the clean-up of most sites that contain hazardous substances are subject to a ratemaking mechanism described in Note 1516 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Hazardous WasteSubstance Compliance and Remediation

The Utility’s facilities are subject to various regulations adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),EPA, including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended. The Utility is also subject to the regulations adopted by other federal agencies responsible for implementing federal environmental laws. The Utility also must comply with environmental laws and regulations adopted by the State of California and various state and local agencies. These federal and state laws impose strict liability for the release of a hazardous substance on the (1) owner or operator of the site where the release occurred, (2) on companies that disposed of, or arranged for the disposal of, the hazardous substances, and (3) in some cases, their corporate successors. Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, these persons (known as “potentially responsible parties”) may be jointly and severally liable for the costs of cleaning up the hazardous substances, monitoring and paying for the harm caused to natural resources, and paying for the costs of health studies.

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The Utility has a comprehensive program in place to comply with these federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Under federal and California laws, the Utility may be responsible for remediation of hazardous substances even if it did not deposit those substances on the site. The Utility’s remediation activities are overseen by the California DTSC, several California regional water quality control boards, and various other federal, state, and local agencies. The Utility has incurred significant environmental remediation liabilities associated with former manufactured gas plantMGP sites, power plant sites, gas gathering sites, sites where natural gas compressor stations are located, and sites used by the Utility for the storage, recycling, or disposal of potentially hazardous substances. Groundwater at the Utility’s Hinkley and Topock natural gas compressor stations contains hexavalent chromium as a result of the Utility’s past operating practices. The Utility is responsible for remediating this groundwater contamination and for abating the effects of the contamination on the environment.

For more information about environmental remediation liabilities, see Note 1516 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Air Quality and Climate Change

The Utility’s electric generation plants, natural gas pipeline operations, vehicle fleet, and fuel storage tanks are subject to numerous air pollution control laws, including the federal Clean Air Act, as well as state and local statutes. These laws and regulations cover, among other pollutants, those contributing to the formation of ground-level ozone, carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter, and other emissions.

Federal Regulation

At the federal level, the EPA is charged with implementation and enforcement of the Clean Air Act. Although there have been several legislative attempts to address climate change through imposition of nationwide regulatory limits on GHG emissions, comprehensive federal legislation has not yet been enacted. In the absence of federal legislative action, the EPA has used its existing authority under the Clean Air Act to address GHG emissions.

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Tackling the climate crisis is a key priority of the Biden Administration, and the Administration has signaled its intent to use its executive and regulatory authorities to reduce emissions in line with science-based targets. On January 20, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Orderexecutive order directing the EPA to consider suspending, revising or rescinding the Trump Administration’s rule for methane emissions from new sources in the oil and gas sector and propose a companion regulation for existing sources, including the transmission, processing and storage segments of the industry. For power plants, the EPA is expected to propose a more stringent GHG standard for existing sources followingin the D.C. Circuit’s decisionwake of challenges to vacate and remand the Trump Administration’s Affordable Clean Energy rule on January 19, 2021.rule.

State Regulation

California’s AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 providesoriginally provided for the gradual reduction of state-wide GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The CARB has approved various regulations to achieve the 2020 target, including GHG emissions reporting and a state-wide, comprehensive cap-and-trade program that sets gradually declining limits (or “caps”) on the amount of GHGs that may be emitted by major GHG emission sources within different sectors of the economy.

The cap-and-trade program’s first compliance period, which began on January 1, 2013, appliedprogram applies to the electric generation, and large industrial, sectors. In the subsequent compliance period, which began on January 1, 2015, the scope of the regulation was expanded to include the natural gas, petroleum, and transportation sectors, effectively covering all of the state economy’s major sectors through 2020.sectors. The Utility’s compliance obligation as a natural gas supplier applies to the GHG emissions attributable to the combustion of natural gas delivered to the Utility’s customers other than large natural gas delivery customers that are separately regulated as covered entities and have their own compliance obligation.

In 2017, AB 398 extended theThe cap-and-trade program has been extended through January 1, 2031.2030. During each year of the program, the CARB issues emission allowances (i.e., the rights to emit GHGs) equal to the amount of GHG emissions allowed for that year. Entities with a compliance obligation can obtain allowances from the CARB at quarterly auctions or from third parties or exchanges. Complying entities may also satisfy a portion of their compliance obligation through the purchase of offset credits (e.g., credits for GHG reductions achieved by third parties, such as landowners, livestock owners, and farmers, that occur outside of the entities’ facilities through CARB-qualified offset projects such as reforestation or biomass projects). The Utility expects all costs and revenues associated with the GHG cap-and-trade program to be passed through to customers.

SB 32 (2016)
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California law requires that the CARB ensure a 40% reduction in GHGs by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. The California RPS program that requires utilities to gradually increase the amount of renewable energy delivered to their customers is also expected to help reduce GHG emissions in California. In September 2018, SB 100 was signed into law, which accelerated the state’sCalifornia’s RPS targets are 50% RPS target toby December 31, 2026 increased the RPS target toand 60% by December 31, 2030, and further amended the RPS statute toState has set a policy of meeting 100% of retail sales from eligible renewables and zero-carbon resources by December 31, 2045. Additionally, Executive Order B-55-18 setIn 2022, AB 1279 was signed into law, codifying a statewide goal to achieve economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045 and to maintain net negative emissions thereafter. Additionally in 2022, SB 1020 established targets that renewable and zero-carbon resources will supply 90% of utilities’ retail sales to customers by 2035 and 95% of retail sales by 2040. The Utility will be an active participant in regulatory proceedings to determine how the state will achieve carbon neutrality. For the percentage of the Utility’s estimated total net deliveries of electricity to customers in 2022, including estimated GHG-free and renewable energy percentages, see “Electric Utility Operations-Electricity Resources” below.

Climate Change Resilience Strategies

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions

During 2020,2022, the Utility continued its programs to mitigate the impact of the Utility’s operations (including customer energy usage) on the environment, consistent with the Utility’s commitment to a healthy environment and carbon neutral-energy system for all Californians.

Adapting to take actions to increase its resilience in lightthe Physical Impacts of Climate Change

Effectively managing physical climate risk will become increasingly critical as the physical impacts of climate change become increasingly frequent and severe over the coming years in California. The Utility’s climate resilience efforts continue to focus on characterizing and mitigating the physical impacts of climate change to the Utility’s infrastructure, assets, and operations. The Utility regularly reviewsis making substantial investments to build a more resilient system that can better withstand extreme weather and related emergencies. For more information on such investments, see “Performance: Underpinning the most relevant scientific literature on climate change such as rising sea levels, major storm events, increasing temperatures and heatwaves, wildfires, drought and land subsidence, to help the Utility identify and evaluate climate change-related risks and develop the necessary resilience strategies. The Utility maintains emergency response plans and procedures to address a range of near-term risks, including wildfires, extreme storms, and heat waves and uses its risk-assessment process to prioritize infrastructure investments for longer-term risks associated with climate change. The Utility also engages with leaders from business, government, academia, and non-profit organizations to share information and plan for the future.Triple Bottom Line” above.

The Utility’s preparations for the physical risks of climate change include an updated, more detailed, system‑wide CVA of the Utility’s assets, operations, and services, which will be completed in 2024 and filed with the CPUC. The updated CVA will improve the Utility’s understanding of its exposure to climate hazards in the near- and long-term and the sensitivity of assets and operations to these hazards. It will also inform the Utility’s understanding of the ease or difficulty of various options for adapting to changing conditions.

In the past few years, the Utility’s electric distribution system has experienced multiple major outage-causing events associated with extreme heat events and peak loads. Peak loads are expected to increase with increasing temperatures due to direct impacts of ambient temperatures on equipment and direct impacts on electricity demand driven by rising air conditioning installation and usage.

The Utility’s assets on the coast and in or near watersheds face potential increased exposures to coastal, riverine (fluvial), and precipitation related (pluvial) flooding because of climate‑driven changes in precipitation and sea level rise. The risk of damage to or interruptions of operations at facilities such as substations is predicted to increase over time due to sea level rise. Electric and gas equipment and safe access for operations must be prepared for these changing conditions.

Changing precipitation dynamics may impact the Utility’s hydroelectric generation. Diminishing future water availability and altered runoff timing during extreme drought poses risks to hydropower generation, operations, and revenue. Also, extreme rain events suggest enhanced risk of hydropower asset damage or failure associated with flooding, which in the worst cases (e.g., uncontrolled water release) may have catastrophic impacts.

Climate change will also continue to intensify the potential for wildfires throughout California. Models incorporating future temperature and precipitation projections suggest that landscape susceptibility to wildfire within the Utility’s service area will continue to increase over time, with an expansion of areas that may become HFTD and an intensification of risk within HFTDs. Climate change may also result in increased potential of lines to cause ignitions or to require PSPS events, as well as the potential for the Utility’s equipment to sustain damage from wildfires of any origin.

The Utility’s updated CVA will be used to inform changes to design and construction standards for equipment and facilities to increase infrastructure resilience to current and future extreme weather conditions. Results from the updated CVA will be incorporated into the Utility’s key risk and planning functions, as well as asset management strategy, to identify priority adaptive actions.
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The Utility is workingalso engaging with CPUC-designated disadvantaged and vulnerable communities throughout the CVA process to better understandensure that customer perspectives regarding energy system resilience are part of updating the current and future impacts of climate change. The Utility’s safety risks are included in its RAMP submittals with the CPUC. The Climate Resilience RAMP model indicated potential additional Utility safety consequences due to climate change, including in the near term.CVA. The Utility is conducting foundational workregional community engagement campaigns throughout its service area to help anticipate and plan for evolving conditions in terms of weather and climate-change related events. This work is guiding efforts to design a Utility-wide climate change risk integration strategy. This strategy will inform resource planning and investment, operational decisions, and potential additional programs to identify and pursue mitigations that will incorporate the resilience and safetyunderstand how some of the Utility’s assets, infrastructure, operations, employees,most vulnerable communities the Utility serves think about climate hazards and customers. The strategyadaptation. This information will be informed by a multi-year, system-wide CVA to better understand how climate-driven natural hazards will impacthelp the Utility’s assets, services,Utility plan adaptive climate action aligned with customer and operations.community perspectives.

With respectIn addition to electric operations, climate scientists project thatupdating the CVA, the Utility regularly reviews relevant scientific literature regarding climate change will lead to increased electricity demand dueincorporate appropriate information into its operations. For example, based on a recent report about potential major atmospheric river events, the Utility updated and modified its flooding emergency response plan.

The Utility’s commitment to more extremeincreasing resilience to climate change includes aligning its resources and frequent hot weather. Thebusiness strategy with California’s clean energy goals, the Utility’s climate strategy, and advocating for policies and programs that enable safe and reliable energy for the Utility’s customers in light of climate change. For example, the Utility believes its strategies to reduce GHG emissions through energy efficiency and demand response programs, infrastructure improvements, and the use of renewable energy and energy storage are strategies that will help it adapt to the expected changesincreases in demand for electricity. The Utility is making substantial investments to build a more resilient system that can better withstand extreme weather and related emergencies. Over the long term, the Utility also faces the risk of higher flooding and inundation potential at coastal and low elevation facilities due to projected sea level rise combined with high tides, storm runoff and storm surges. Inland areas, such as near the Sacramento Delta, will also be vulnerable to flooding amid changes to precipitation patterns and extreme storms.As the state continues to face increased risk of wildfires, the Utility’s activities, including vegetation management, will continue to play an important role to help reduce the risk of wildfire and its impact on electric and gas facilities.

Climate scientists predict that climate change will result in rising temperatures and changes in precipitation patterns in the Utility’s service territory, including decreasing snowpack. This could, in turn, affect the Utility’s hydroelectric generation. This issue is being analyzed as part of the Utility’s CVA. To plan for this change, the Utility is engaging with state and local stakeholders and is also adopting strategies such as maintaining higher winter carryover reservoir storage levels, reducing discretionary reservoir water releases, and collaborating on research and new modeling tools.

With respect to natural gas operations, both safety-related pipeline strength testing and normal pipeline maintenance and operations release the GHG methane into the atmosphere. The Utility has taken steps to reduce the release of methane by implementing techniques including drafting and cross-compression, which reduce the pressure and volume of natural gas within pipelines prior to venting.  In addition, the Utility continues to achieve reductions in methane emissions by implementing improvements in leak detection and repair, upgrades at metering and regulating stations, and maintenance and replacement of other pipeline materials.

Emissions Data

PG&E Corporation and the Utility track and report their annual environmental performance results across a broad spectrum of areas. The Utility reports its GHG emissions to the CARB and the EPA on a mandatory basis. On a voluntary basis, the Utility reports a more comprehensive emissions inventory to The Climate Registry, a non-profit organization. The Utility’s third-party verified voluntary GHG inventory reported to The Climate Registry for 2019,2021, which is the most recent data available, totaled about 46Scope 1 and 2 emissions of approximately 4.6 million metric tonnestons of CO2 equivalent (MMT CO2e) and Scope 3 emissions of approximately 42 MMT CO2e, the majority of which came from customer natural gas use.

The following table shows the 20192021 GHG emissions data the Utility reported to the CARB, under AB 32, which is the most recent data available. PG&E Corporation and the Utility also publish additional GHG emissions data in their annual Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report.
Source
Amount (metric tonnestons CO2 equivalent)
Fossil Fuel-Fired Plantsfuel-fired plants (1)
2,484,1272,485,379 
Natural Gas Compressor Stationsgas compressor stations and Storage Facilitiesstorage facilities (2)
344,810322,047 
Distribution Fugitive Natural Gas Emissionsfugitive natural gas emissions496,789589,343 
Customer Natural Gas Usenatural gas use (3)
42,058,49941,563,483 
(1) Includes nitrous oxide and methane emissions from the Utility’s generating stations.
(2) Includes emissions from compressor stations and storage facilities that are reportable to CARB.
(3) Includes emissions from the combustion of natural gas delivered to all entities on the Utility’s distribution system, with the exception of gas delivered to other natural gas local distribution companies.

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The Utility utilized the CEC’s Power Source Disclosure program methodology to calculate the CO2 emissions rate associated with the electricity delivered to retail customers in 2019. As required by AB 1110, the CEC modified the Power Source Disclosure program methodology in 2020 for the 2019 reporting year.2021. This modified methodology differed from prior reporting years and resulted in a third-party verified CO2 emissions rate for 2019 that was virtually GHG emissions free.of 99 pounds of CO2 per MWh.

Air Emissions Data for Utility-Owned Generation

In addition to GHG emissions data provided above, the table below sets forth information about the air emissions from the Utility’s owned generation facilities. PG&E Corporation and the Utility also publish air emissions data in their annual Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report.
20192018
Total NOx Emissions (tons)135 134 
NOx Emissions Rate (pounds/MWh)0.010.01
Total SO2 Emissions (tons)
14 15 
SO2 Emissions Rate (pounds/MWh)
0.001 0.001 
20212020
Total NOx emissions (tons)139 141 
NOx emissions rate (pounds/MWh)0.010.01
Total SO2 emissions (tons)
14 15 
SO2 emissions rate (pounds/MWh)
0.001 0.001 

Water Quality
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In 2014, the EPA issued final regulations to implement the requirements of the federal Clean Water Act that require cooling water intake structures at electric power plants, such as the nuclear generation facilities at Diablo Canyon, to reflect the best technology available to minimize adverse environmental impacts. Various industry and environmental groups challenged the federal regulations and they were upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. California’s once-through cooling policy adopted by the California Water Board in 2010 is considered to be at least as stringent as the new federal regulations and therefore governs implementation in California.

The California Water Board’s policy generally requires the installation of cooling towers or other significant measures to reduce the impact on marine life from existing power generation facilities in California by at least 85%. The policy also provided for an alternative compliance approach for nuclear plants if certain criteria were met. As required by the policy, the California Water Board appointed a committee to evaluate the feasibility and cost of using alternative technologies to achieve compliance at Diablo Canyon. The committee’s consultant submitted its final report to the California Water Board in September 2014. The report addressed feasibility, costs and timeframes to install alternative technologies at Diablo Canyon, such as cooling towers.

On June 20, 2016, the Utility entered into a joint proposal with certain parties to retire Diablo Canyon’s two nuclear power reactor units at the expiration of their current operating licenses in 2024 and 2025. The CPUC approved the retirement in January 2018. As a result of the planned retirement, the California Water Board will no longer need to address alternative compliance measures for Diablo Canyon. As required under the policy, the Utility will continue to pay an annual interim mitigation fee until operations cease in 2025.

Additionally, in December 2020, the Utility reached a settlement with the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board and the California Attorney General’s Office regarding the thermal component of the plant’s once-through cooling discharge. Under the settlement, which will take the form of a Consent Judgement filed in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court, the Utility will make a payment of $5.9 million, funding local water quality projects selected by the Central Coast Board.Nuclear Fuel Disposal

Nuclear Fuel Disposalpower plant operations produce gaseous, liquid, and solid radioactive wastes, which are covered by federal regulation. High-level radioactive wastes primarily include used nuclear fuel. Low-level waste consists primarily of demineralizer resins, paper, protective clothing, rags, tools, and equipment contaminated through use.

Under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)DOE and electric utilities with commercial nuclear power plants were authorized to enter into contracts under which the DOE would be required to dispose of the utilities’ spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste by January 1998, in exchange for fees paid by the utilities’ customers. The DOE has been unable to meet its contractual obligation with the Utility to dispose of nuclear waste from the Utility’s two nuclear generating units at Diablo Canyon and the retired nuclear facility at Humboldt Bay. As a result, the Utility constructed interim dry cask storage facilities to store its spent fuel onsite at Diablo Canyon and at Humboldt Bay until the DOE fulfills its contractual obligation to take possession of the spent fuel. The Utility and other nuclear power plant owners sued the DOE to recover the costs that they incurred to construct interim storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel.

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In September 2012, the U.S. Department of JusticeDOJ and the Utility executed a settlement agreement that provided a claims process by which the Utility submits annual requests for reimbursement of its ongoing spent fuel storage costs.  The claim for the period June 1, 20192021 through May 31, 2020,2022, totaled approximately $8.5$10.5 million and is currently under review by the DOE.  Amounts reimbursed by DOE are refunded to customers through rates. Considerable uncertainty continues to exist regarding when and whether the DOE will meet its contractual obligation to the Utility and other nuclear power plant owners to dispose of spent fuel.

Ratemaking Mechanisms

The Utility’sUtility operates under a “cost-of-service” ratemaking model, which means that rates for electric and natural gas utility services are generally set at levels that are intended to allow the Utility to recover its costs of providing service and to earn a return on invested capital (“cost-of-service ratemaking”). Before settingIn order to set rates, the CPUC and the FERC conduct proceedings to determine the amount that the Utility will be authorized to collect from its customers (“revenue requirements”). In the GRC proceedings, the CPUC also generally approves the level of capital spending on a forecasted basis. Revenue authorized by the CPUC through GRC proceedings is intended to provide the Utility a reasonable opportunity to recover its costs and earn a return on its investments in generation and distribution assets and general plant (also referred to as “rate base”). The Utility’s revenue requirements consist primarily of a base amount set to enable the Utility to recover its reasonable operating expenses (e.g., maintenance, administration and general expenses) and capital costs (e.g., depreciation, and financing expenses).

The Utility’s costs of equity and long-term debt are generally approved in the CPUC’s cost of capital proceedings. In addition, the CPUC authorizes the Utility to collect revenues to recover costs that the Utility is allowed to “pass-through”“pass through” to customers (referred to as “Utility Revenues and Costs that did not Impact Earnings” in Item 7. MD&A), including its costs to procure electricity and natural gas for customers and nuclear fuel, to administer public purpose and customer programs, and to decommission its nuclear facilities.programs. FERC revenue requirements are set through a FERC-approved formula rate.

The Utility’s rate of return on electric transmission assets is determined in the FERC TO proceedings. The rate of return on all other Utility assets is set in the CPUC’s cost of capital proceeding. Other than certain gas transmission and storage revenues, the Utility’s base revenues are “decoupled” from its sales volume through certain regulatory balancing accounts, or revenue adjustment mechanisms, that are designed to allow the Utility to fully collect its authorized base revenue requirements.requirements regardless of sales volume. As a result, the Utility’s base revenues are not impacted by fluctuations in sales resulting from, for example, weather or economic conditions. The Utility’s earnings primarily depend on its ability to manage its base operating and capital costs (referred to as “Utility Revenues and Costs that Impacted Earnings” in Item 7. MD&A) within its authorized base revenue requirements.

Due to the seasonal nature of the Utility’s business and rate design, customer electric bills are generally higher during summer months (May to October) because of higher demand, driven by air conditioning loads.  Customer bills related to gas service are generally increasehigher during the winter months (November to March) to account for the gas peakbecause of higher demand due to heating.

From time to time, the CPUC may use incentive ratemaking mechanisms that provide the Utility an opportunity to earn some additional revenues. For example, the Utility has earned incentives for the successful implementation of energy efficiency programs.

See “Regulatory Matters” in Item 7. MD&A for more information on specific CPUC proceedings.

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Base Revenues

General Rate Cases

The GRC is the primary proceeding in which the CPUC determines the amount of base revenue requirements that the Utility is authorized to collect from customers to recover the Utility’s anticipated costs including return on rate base, related to its electric distribution, natural gas distribution, and Utility-owned electric generation operations. Theoperations and return on rate base. In the past, the CPUC has generally conductsconducted a GRC every three or four years. Starting with the 2023 GRC, the CPUC will conductnow conducts a GRC every 4 years.four years that includes the Utility’s costs of its gas transmission and storage facilities. The CPUC approves the annual revenue requirements for the first year (or “test year”) of the GRC period and typically authorizes the Utility to receive annual increases in revenue requirements for the subsequent years of the GRC period (known as “attrition years”). Attrition year rate adjustments are generally providedauthorized for cost increases related to increases in invested capital and inflation. Parties in the Utility’s GRC include the PAOPublic Advocates Office of the CPUC (formerly known as Office of Ratepayer Advocates or ORA) and TURN, which generally represent the overall interests of residential customers, as well as numerous intervenors that represent other business, community, customer, environmental, and union interests.

On January 16, 2020, the CPUC approved a final decision in its OIR to Develop a Risk-Based Decision-Making Framework to Evaluate Safety and Reliability Improvements and Revise the GRC Plan, as a result of which the Utility will combine its GRC and GT&S rate cases starting with the 2023 GRC. (For For more information about the Utility’s GRC, see “Regulatory Matters - 2017 General Rate Case” and “Regulatory Matters - 20202023 General Rate Case” in Item 7. MD&A.)

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Natural Gas Transmission and Storage Rate Cases

The CPUC determines the Utility’s authorized revenue requirements and rates for its natural gas transmission and storage services in the GT&S rate case.  The CPUC generally has conducted a GT&S rate case every three or four years.  Similar to the GRC, the CPUC approves the annual revenue requirements for the first year (or “test year”) of the GT&S rate case period and typically determines annual increases in revenue requirements for attrition years of the GT&S rate case period.  Parties in the Utility’s GT&S rate case include the PAO and TURN.

As previously mentioned, on January 16, 2020, the CPUC approved a final decision that requires the Utility to combine its GRC and GT&S rate cases starting with the 2023 GRC. (For more information, see “Regulatory Matters - 2015 Gas Transmission and Storage Rate Case” and “Regulatory Matters - 2019 Gas Transmission and Storage Rate Case” in Item 7. MD&A.)  

Cost of Capital Proceedings

The CPUC periodically conducts a cost of capital proceeding to authorize the Utility’s capital structure and rates of return for its electric generation, electric and natural gas distribution, and natural gas transmission and storage rate base. On December 19, 2019, the CPUC issuedThe CPUC’s cost of capital proceedings generally take place in a final decision that authorizes the Utility’s capital structure through 2022, consisting of 52% common equity, 47.5% long-term debt,consolidated proceeding with California’s other large investor-owned electric and 0.5% preferred stock. The CPUC also set the authorized ROE through 2023 at 10.25% and resetgas utilities. For more information about the cost of debt to 5.16%. The CPUC also authorized the continuationcapital proceedings, see “Regulatory Matters - Cost of an adjustment mechanism to allow the Utility’s cost of debt and ROE to be adjusted if the utility bond index changes by certain thresholds, which are reviewed annually. On August 20, 2020, the CPUC updated the Utility’s authorized cost of long-term debt from 5.16% to 4.17% as a result of the Chapter 11 exit financing.Capital Proceedings” in Item 7. MD&A.

Electricity Transmission Owner Rate Cases

The FERC determines the amount of authorized revenue requirements, including the rate of return on electric transmission assets, that the Utility may collect in rates in the TO rate case. On December 30, 2020,In its TO rate cases, the FERC approvedUtility uses a final settlementformula rate methodology, which includes an authorized revenue requirement and rate base for a given year but also provides for an annual update of the Utility’sprevious year’s revenue requirement and rates in accordance with the terms of the FERC-approved formula. Under the formula rate.rate mechanism, transmission revenue requirements are updated to the actual cost of service annually as part of the true-up process. Differences between amounts collected and determined under the formula rate are either collected from or refunded to customers. The FERC-approved formula rate will be effective through December 31, 2023. These FERC-approved rates are included by the CPUC in the Utility’s retail electric rates and by the CAISO in its Transmission Access Chargestransmission access charges to wholesale customers. (ForFor more information, see “Regulatory Matters - Transmission Owner Rate Cases” in Item 7. MD&A.) The Utility also recovers a portion of its revenue requirements for its wholesale electric transmission costs through charges collected under specific contracts with wholesale transmission customers that the Utility entered into before the CAISO began its operations. These wholesale customers are charged individualized rates based on the terms of their contracts.

Program-Specific Memorandum Account and Balancing Account Costs

Periodically, costs arise that could not have been anticipated byoutside of the Utility during CPUC GRC rate requestsproceedings or that have been deliberately excluded therefrom. These costs may result from catastrophic events, changes in regulation, new programs, or extraordinary changes in operating practices. The Utility may seek authority to track incremental costs in a memorandum account, and the CPUC may authorize recovery of costs tracked in memorandum accounts if the costs are deemed incremental and prudently incurred. Thesereasonable. For instance, these accounts allow the Utility to track the costs associated with work related to disaster and wildfire response, and other wildfire prevention-related costs. WhileRecovery of the Utility expects such costs to be recoverable, rate recoverytracked in these memorandum accounts in rates requires CPUC authorization in separate proceedings or through a GRC for which the Utility may be unable to predict the outcome. (ForAlternatively, the Utility may seek authority to track incremental costs related to these non-GRC programs in balancing accounts. The CPUC may authorize recovery of costs tracked in the balancing accounts on either a “one-way” basis, which typically only allows actual costs to be recovered up to a pre-established cap, or a “two-way” basis, which typically allows actual costs to be recovered, and in some cases subject to further CPUC review. For more information, see “Regulatory Matters - Application forCost Recovery of Costs Recorded in the Wildfire Expense Memorandum Account,” “Regulatory Matters - Catastrophic Event Memorandum Accounts and Applications,” and “Regulatory Matters - Wildfire Mitigation Memorandum and Balancing Accounts”Proceedings” in Item 7. MD&A.)&A and Note 4 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

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Revenues to Recover Energy Procurement and Other Pass-Through Costs

Electricity Procurement Costs

California IOUs are responsible for procuring electrical capacity required to meet bundled customer demand, plus applicable reserve margins, that are not satisfied from their own generation facilities and existing electric contracts.margins. The utilities are responsible for scheduling and bidding electric generation resources, including certain electricity procured from third parties into the wholesale market, to meet customer demand according to which resources are the least expensive (i.e., using the principles of “least-cost dispatch”). In addition, the utilities are required to obtain CPUC approval of their BPPsBundled Procurement Plans (“BPPs”) based on long-term demand forecasts. In October 2015, the CPUC approved the Utility’s most recent comprehensive BPP. It washas been revised since its initial approval, and the revised version will remain in effect, as revisedsubject to any further revisions, until superseded by a subsequent CPUC-approved plan.
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California law allows electric utilities to recover the costs incurred in compliance with their CPUC-approved BPPs without further after-the-fact reasonableness review by the CPUC. The CPUC may disallow costs associated with electricity purchases if the costs were not incurred in compliance with the CPUC-approved plan or if the CPUC determines that the utility failed to follow the principles of least-cost dispatch. Additionally, the CPUC may disallow the costvalue of replacement power procuredlost generation due to unplanned outages at utility-owned generation facilities.

The Utility recovers its electric procurement costs annually primarily through balancing accounts. (SeeSee Note 4 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.) Each year, the CPUC reviews the Utility’s forecasted procurement costs related to power purchase agreements, derivative instruments, GHG emissions costs, and generation fuel expense, and approves a forecasted revenue requirement. The CPUC may adjust the Utility’s retail electric rates more frequently if the forecasted aggregate over-collections or under-collections in the energy resource recovery accountEnergy Resource Recovery Account, net of bundled service customer Portfolio Allocation Balancing Account balances, exceed five percent of its prior year electric procurement and Utility-owned generation revenues. The CPUC performs an annual compliance review of the procurement transactions recordedrecovered in various balancing accounts, including the ERRA.Energy Resource Recovery Account and the Portfolio Allocation Balancing Account.

The CPUC has approved various power purchase agreements that the Utility has entered into with third parties in accordance with the Utility’s CPUC-approved BPP, to meet mandatory renewable energy targets, and to comply with resource adequacyRA requirements. (ForFor more information, see “Electric Utility Operations - Electricity Resources” below as well as Note 1516 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

The Utility is also responsible, as the central procurement entity (“CPE”) for its distribution service area, for seeking to procure the entire amount of required local RA on behalf of all CPUC-jurisdictional LSEs in its distribution service area. CPUC decisions grant the Utility, acting as CPE, discretion to defer procurement of local resources to the CAISO’s backstop mechanisms if bid costs are deemed unreasonably high. The Utility, as the CPE, will not be assessed fines or penalties for failing to procure resources to meet the local RA requirements and deferring local procurement to the CAISO backstop mechanism, as long as the CPE exercised reasonable efforts to secure capacity and certain specified requirements are met. In addition, the Utility, as the CPE, has been ordered or authorized to seek to procure specific local capacity products pursuant to CPUC decisions. In connection with its CPE function, the Utility is responsible for making compliance demonstrations to the CPUC and the CAISO. The Utility recovers its administrative and procurement costs associated with its CPE function through a balancing account. Each year, the CPUC reviews the Utility’s forecasted administrative costs related to the CPE function and approves a forecasted revenue requirement associated with the administrative costs. The CPUC performs an annual compliance review of the CPE function, including procurement transactions with terms of five years or less (for which costs incurred in compliance with certain prescribed criteria are deemed reasonable and pre-approved without further after-the-fact reasonableness review). Procurement transactions with terms exceeding five years are reviewed separately. The CPUC may disallow costs associated with the CPE function that were not incurred in compliance with the CPUC’s decisions and guidance.

The CPUC has also approved the Power Charge Indifference Adjustment (“PCIA”). The PCIA is a cost recovery mechanism to ensure that customers who switch from the Utility’s bundled service to a non-Utility provider, such as a DA or CCA provider, pay their share of the above market costs associated with long-term power purchase commitments and Utility-owned generation made on their behalf.

Natural Gas Procurement, Storage, and Transportation Costs

The Utility recovers the cost of gas used in generation facilities as a cost of electricity that is recovered annually through retail electric rates.

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The Utility sets the natural gas procurement rate for small commercial and residential customers (referred to as “core” customers) monthly, based on the forecasted costs of natural gas, core pipeline capacity and storage costs. The Utility recovers the cost of gas purchased on behalf of core customers as well as the cost of derivative instruments for its core gas portfolio, through its retail gas rates, subject to limits as set forth in its CPIM described below. The Utility reflects the difference between actual natural gas purchase costs and forecasted natural gas purchase costs in several natural gas balancing accounts, with under-collections and over-collections taken into account in subsequent monthly rate changes.

The CPIM protects the Utility against after-the-fact reasonableness reviews of its gas procurement costs for its core gas portfolio. Under the CPIM, the Utility’s natural gas purchase costs for a fixed 12-month period are compared to an aggregate market-based benchmark based on a weighted average of published monthly and daily natural gas price indices at the points where the Utility typically purchases natural gas. Costs that fall within a tolerance band, which is 99% to 102% of the commodity benchmark, are considered reasonable and are fully recovered in customers’through rates. One-half of the costs above 102% of the benchmark are recoverable in customers’through rates, and the Utility’s customers receive in their rates 80% of any savings resulting from the Utility’s cost of natural gas that is less than 99% of the benchmark. The Utility retains the remaining amount of these savings as incentive revenues, subject to a cap equal to 1.5% of total natural gas commodity costs. While this mechanism remains in place, changes in the price of natural gas, consistent with the market-based benchmark, are not expected to materially impact net income.

The Utility incurs transportation costs under various agreements with interstate and Canadian third-party transportation service providers. These providers transport natural gas from the points at which the Utility takes delivery of natural gas (typically in Canada, the U.S. Rocky Mountains, and the southwestern United States) to the points at which the Utility’s natural gas transportation system begins.  These agreements are governed by the FERC-approved tariffs that detail rates, rules, and terms of service for the provision of natural gas transportation services to the Utility on interstate and Canadian pipelines. The FERC approves the United States tariffs that shippers, including the Utility, pay for pipeline service, and the applicable Canadian tariffs are approved by the National Energy Board, a Canadian regulatory agency. The transportation costs the Utility incurs under these agreements are recovered through CPUC-approved rates as core natural gas procurement costs or as a cost of electricity.

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Costs Associated with Public Purpose and Customer Programs

The CPUC authorizes the Utility to recover the costs of various public purpose and other customer programs through the collection of rates from most Utility customers.  These programs relate to energy efficiency, demand response, distributed generation, energy research and development, and other matters.  Additionally, the CPUC has authorized the Utility to provide discounted rates for specified types of customers, such as for low-income customers under the California Alternate Rates for Energy (“CARE”)CARE program, which is paid for by the Utility’s other customers.

Nuclear Decommissioning Costs

The Utility’s nuclear power facilities consist of two units at Diablo Canyon and the retired facility at Humboldt Bay. Nuclear decommissioning requires the safe removal of nuclear facilities from service and the reduction of residual radioactivity to a level that permits termination of the NRC license and release of the property for unrestricted use. Nuclear decommissioning costs are generally collected in advance through rates and are held in nuclear decommissioning trusts to be used for the eventual decommissioning of each nuclear unit. The Utility files an application with the CPUC every three years requesting approval of the Utility’s updated estimated decommissioning costs and any rate change necessary to fully fund the nuclear decommissioning trusts to the levels needed to decommission the Utility’s nuclear plants. If the nuclear decommissioning trusts are overfunded, the amount of such overfunding will be returned to customers. Pursuant to Public Utilities Code Section 8325, to the extent the monies available for decommissioning are insufficient to pay for all reasonable and prudent decommissioning costs, the CPUC must authorize the electric utility to collect these charges from its customers.

For costs related to AssetAROs see “Asset Retirement Obligations see “Nuclear Decommissioning Obligation”Obligations” in Note 3 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

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Human Capital

Employees and Contractors

AtAs of December 31, 2020,2022, PG&E Corporation had 10 employees and the Utility had approximately 24,00026,000 regular employees, 8 of whom were employees of PG&E Corporation.employees. Of the Utility’s regular employees, approximately 15,00016,000 are covered by collective bargaining agreements with the local chapters of three labor unions: the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (“IBEW”) Local 1245; the Engineers and Scientists of California (“ESC”) IFPTE 20; and the Service Employees International Union Local 24/7 (“SEIU”). The collective bargaining agreements currently in effect for the IBEW Local 1245 and1245; ESC Local 2020; and SEIU, United Service Workers West will expire on December 31, 2025. The agreements increase wages annually by 3.75% from 2022 through 2025 and maintain current contributions to specified benefits. The IBEW, ESC, and ESCSEIU represent approximately 63%62% of the Utility’s employee workforce and support several areas of the Utility’s business, including gas and electric operations. The term of the SEIU bargaining agreement ends on December 31, 2021. The Utility intends to initiate general negotiations of the SEIU bargaining agreementenjoys stable and productive relationships with its unions and did not experience any work stoppages in summer of 2021.2022.

PG&E Corporation, on average has approximately 10Corporation’s employees allare primarily at the executive management level, which experienced significant employee turnover throughout the course of its Chapter 11 Cases in 2019 and 2020. The Utility generally has a stable workforce, which translated into low voluntary turnover during that period. The Utility’s turnover rates for 2022 and 2021 were 7.1% and 5.8%, respectively. Approximately 42% of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s employees have a tenure of more than 10 years, resulting inwith an average tenure of 1211 years. Currently, approximately 23%Approximately 19% of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s employees are eligible to retire. (PG&E Corporation and the Utility define retirement age as 55 years and older.)

The Utility’s contractors and subcontractors include approximately 42,000 individuals from approximately 1,200 contractor companies.

Human Capital Management

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s human capital resource objectives are to build and retain an engaged, well trained, diverse, and diverseequitable workforce. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Boards of Directors are responsible for overseeing management’s development and execution of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s human capital strategy. Among other things, the Utility provides career opportunities through its Power Pathway™ workforce development program. Launched in 2008, PowerPathway is a workforce development model to enlarge the talent pool of local, qualified, diverse candidates for skilled craft and utility industry jobs through training program partnerships with educational, community-based and government organizations. PowerPathway helps people throughout the Utility service territory, including women and military veterans, prepare and compete for high demand jobs in the utility and energy industry. Students receive approximately eight weeks of industry-informed curriculum to ensure the academic, job specific, employability skills and physical training necessary to effectively compete for entry-level employment. Programs may also include hands-on training and on-the-job training.

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To build employee engagement, the Utility has a variety of both executive-level and employee-led initiatives and programs. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s executive teams meet regularly to discuss and evaluate the state of employee talent, determine which programs are driving engagement and performance, and clarify the specific skills, behaviors, and values that should be cultivated. Each year, the Utility honors employees whose work embodies safety, diversity, andequity, inclusion, belonging, environmental leadership, and community service. The Utility conducts a biennialan annual employee engagement survey quarterly pulse surveys and voluntary upward feedback surveys to measure and trackimprove employee engagement progress.

Every year, PG&E Corporation and the Utility offer or require technical, leadership, and employee training. For example, PG&E Corporation and the Utility provide employeestraining, which includes a range of technical training for employees on the knowledge and skills required to perform their jobs safely using approved tools and work procedures. In addition, employees are required to complete an annual compliance and ethics training and a Code of Conduct training, both of which are intended to promote a culture in which employees are encouraged to speak up with any concerns or ideas for continuous improvement. In addition, the Utility offers a variety of other trainings and education opportunities.

Among other programs, the Utility provides career opportunities through its PowerPathway™ workforce development program. Launched in 2008, PowerPathway is a workforce development model to enlarge the talent pool of local, qualified, diverse candidates for skilled craft and utility industry jobs through training program partnerships with educational, community-based and government organizations. PowerPathway helps people throughout the Utility’s service area, including women and military veterans, prepare and compete for high demand jobs in the utility and energy industry. Students receive approximately eight weeks of industry-informed curriculum to ensure the academic, job specific, employability skills and physical training necessary to effectively compete for entry-level employment. Programs may also include hands-on training and on-the-job training.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility also provide integrated solutions and programs that cover employee health and wellness and that encompass physical, emotional, and financial health, including an on-site health clinic, an annual health screening, and health management tools and resources, in addition to more traditional programs.

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PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial incentives offered to employees include a Short-Term Incentive Plan (“STIP”), an at-risk part of employee compensation designed to reward eligible employees for achieving specific performance goals. The 20202022 STIP was focused on company objectives of safety, customer impact, and financial health.

AnyAll PG&E Corporation orand Utility officer compensation currently is funded by shareholders.

Safety

The Utility has developed a five-yearUtility’s strategy to deliver on safety outcomes focuses on workforce, safety strategy that includes two major pillars: systems and culture. Systems referspublic safety. In 2023, in addition to risk management, equipment, processes and procedures. Culture refers to employee engagement, adherence to established requirements, a sense of urgency for safety, and leadership. Focus areas indeploying the Utility’s workplace safety strategy include: an enterprise safety management system, enhancedthe Utility targets mitigations to the highest risk management, contractor management, improvement of safety technical standards, musculoskeletal disorder programs and ergonomics, safety audits, data management, systems and reporting, and safety culture.work. The Utility uses a variety of metrics to track workforce safety performance, including the number of injuries that result in days away, restricted or transferred duty per 200,000 hours worked (“DART”). In 2020, the Utility’s DART was 1.34, which was 35% lower than in 2019 and its lowest rate in the past five years.

In addition to employee safety, a key area of the Utility’s workforce safety strategy includes strengthening contractor safety. The Utility’s Contractor Safety Program requires contractors performing medium- and high-risk work to meet prequalification requirements to perform work for or on behalf of the Utility. The Utility’s contractors and subcontractors include approximately 26,000 individuals from approximately 2,200 contractor companies. For employees and contractors performing medium- and high-risk work, the Utility’s safety metrics include the number of workforce serious injuriesSIF-A incidents and fatalities (“SIF-A”) andthe SIF-P rate, which measures events that could have resulted in a SIF-A per 200,000 hours worked (the “SIF-P rate”).worked. In 2020,2022, the Utility had 10seven SIF-A events,incidents, which resulted in fivethree fatalities and sevenfour serious injuries, and a SIF-P rate of 0.10,0.11. Additionally, the Utility measures DART. In 2022, the Utility’s DART was 0.67, which was 29%34% lower than in 2019. The Utility began including contractors in2021 and its SIF-Plowest rate in June 2020.the past five years.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have continued to monitor activities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization,Organization. PG&E Corporation and the Utility have updated the Utility’stheir protocols and actions in accordance with guidance from these organizations, following state and withlocal health and safety regulations, and in consultation fromwith the Utility’s medical director. PG&E Corporation and the Utility have also remained focused on protecting the health and safety of their employees, contractors and the Utility’s customers, while continuing to perform critical utility work, and have continued to monitor and track the impact of the pandemic, modifying or adopting new policies in support of their employees’ health and safety as pandemic conditions and governmental response have changed. For example, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have directed employees to work remotely from home where possible, implemented new face coverings and physical distancing policies, required virtual ergonomic evaluations to ensure that employees now working from home so do safely and ergonomically, provided additional COVID-19 safety resources for employees who perform utility work in the field, and updated several of their employee benefits as a result of COVID-19, including healthcare benefits, and interim time off and leave policies that support the care and new educational environment of children during the pandemic.

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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and InclusionBelonging

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s goal is to foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture and workforce.environment that enables all of their coworkers to bring their best selves to work so that they can provide exceptional customer service. These efforts are led by PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Chief Diversity Officer,Executive Vice President, People, Shared Services and Supply Chain, with support from the senior leadershipexecutive team. The CompliancePeople and Public PolicyCompensation Committee of PG&E Corporation’s Board of Directors reviews the companies’ diversity, equity, inclusion, and inclusionbelonging practices and performance.

Key elements of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s approach include engaging employees, targeted employee developmentactive programming to level the playing field for diverse talent, an ongoing commitment to diversity among our leadership team, and furtheringheighten cultural competency, encourage understanding and role-modeling inclusion. In 2020, women, minoritiesappreciation of diversity, and military veterans accounted for approximately 27%, 46%integrate thoughtful content into training and 7%, respectively, of total PG&E Corporation and Utility employees.performance support materials.

In addition,Additionally, the Utility’s 11 Employee Resource Groups and three Engineering Network Groups promote its business objectivesexecute enterprise-wide available programming, certain coworkers lead efforts within their departments, and support a culture of diversity and inclusion by fosteringother specialized teams facilitate dialogue across the companies. These efforts foster employee belonging supportingand support an environment of inclusion that values and respects diversity in the workforce,workforce.

In 2022, women, minorities, and promoting positive relationships withmilitary veterans accounted for approximately 26%, 49% and 7%, respectively, of total PG&E Corporation and Utility employees. Approximately 8% of the communitiesUtility’s employees are younger than 30, 62% are between the ages of 30 and customers the Utility serves.49, and 30% are 50 or older.

Electric Utility Operations

The Utility generates electricity and provides electric transmission and distribution services throughout its service territoryarea in northern and central California to residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers. The Utility provides “bundled” services (i.e., electricity, transmission and distribution services) to customersservices in its service territory.area. Customers also can obtain electricity from alternative providers such as municipalities or CCAs, as well as from self-generation resources, such as rooftop solar installations. (ForFor more information, see “Regulatory Matters” in Item 7. MD&A.)

Electricity Resources

The Utility is required to maintain adequate capacity adequate to meet its customers’ demand for electricity (“load”), including peak demand and planning and operating reserves, deliverable to the locations and at times as may be necessary to provide reliable electric service. The Utility is responsible for scheduling and bidding electric generation resources, including certain electricity procured from third parties into the wholesale market, to meet customer demand according to which resources are the least expensive.demand.

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The following table shows the percentage of the Utility’s estimated total net deliveries of electricity to customers in 20202022 represented by each major electric resource, and further discussed below. The Utility’s deliveries were primarily from renewable energy resources that qualify under California’s RPS and other GHG-free resources (i.e., nuclear;nuclear, and large hydroelectric generation). California’s RPS requirements and SB 100 goal to serve 100% of retail electricity sales with GHG-free resources by 2045 are discussed further below and in the Environmental Regulation section.section above.

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Total 2020The total estimated electricity generated, procured, and sold (net) - 35,838, as of December 31, 2022 was 30,307 GWh (1):and comprised of the following:
Percent of Bundled Retail Sales (estimated procurement)
CEC Reporting Methodology Reduction(2)
Percent of Bundled Retail Sales (estimated Power Content Label) (2)
Percent of customer retail sales (estimated procurement)
CEC reporting methodology adjustment(2)
Percent of customer retail sales (estimated Power Content Label) (2)
Owned Generation Facilities
Owned generation facilitiesOwned generation facilities
Renewable (3)
Renewable (3)
1.3 %— %1.3 %
Renewable (3)
%— %%
NuclearNuclear42.8 %— %42.8 %Nuclear49 %— %49 %
Large Hydroelectric9.7 %— %9.7 %
Large hydroelectricLarge hydroelectric%— %%
Fossil fuel-fired (4)
Fossil fuel-fired (4)
17.9 %12.2 %5.7 %
Fossil fuel-fired (4)
18 %(16)%%
Total Total71.7 %12.2 %59.5 % Total76 %(16)%60 %
Third-Party Purchase Agreements
Third-party purchase agreementsThird-party purchase agreements
Renewable (3)
Renewable (3)
34.3 %— %34.3 %
Renewable (3)
38 %— %38 %
Large Hydroelectric0.5 %— %0.5 %
Large hydroelectricLarge hydroelectric— %— %— %
Fossil fuel-fired (4)
Fossil fuel-fired (4)
18.0 %12.3 %5.7 %
Fossil fuel-fired (4)
16 %(14)%%
TotalTotal52.8 %12.3 %40.5 %Total54 %(14)%40 %
Others, Net (2)(5)
(24.5)%(24.5)% %
Others, net (2)(5)
Others, net (2)(5)
(30)%30 % %
TOTALTOTAL100.0 % %100.0 %TOTAL100 % %100 %
Total Renewable Energy Resources (3)
35.6 % %35.6 %
Total renewable energy resources (3)
Total renewable energy resources (3)
40 % %40 %
GHG-free resources (6)
GHG-free resources (6)
96 % %96 %
(1) This amount excludes electricity provided by direct accessDA providers and CCAs that procure their own supplies of electricity for their respective customers.
(2) The allocation of “Others, Net”net” in the “CEC Reporting Methodology Reduction” and “Power Content Label” columns is consistent with CEC guidelines, applied to specified electric generation and procurement volumes (i.e., fossil fuel-fired, nuclear, large hydroelectric, and renewable). Total reported generation and procurement volumes equate to actual electric retail sales.
(3) Amounts include biopower (e.g., biogas, biomass), solar, wind, certain hydroelectric (i.e., 30MW or less), and geothermal facilities. The eligible renewable percentages above do not reflect RPS compliance, which is determined using a different methodology.
(4) Amounts consist primarily of natural gas facilities.
(5) Amount is mainly comprised of net CAISO open market (sales)/purchases.
(6) Amount is comprised of renewable, nuclear, and large hydroelectric facility resources generated, procured, and sold.

Renewable Energy Resources

California law established an RPS that requires load-serving entities,LSEs, such as the Utility, to gradually increase the amount of renewable energy they deliver to their customers. In October 2015, the California Governor signed SB 350 the Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act of 2015 into law. SB 350 became effective January 1, 2016, and increasesincreased the amount of renewable energy that must be delivered by most load-serving entities,LSEs, including the Utility, to their customers from 33% of their total annual retail sales by the end of the 2017-2020 compliance period, to 50% of their total annual retail sales by the end of the 2028- 20302028-2030 compliance period, and in each three-year compliance period thereafter, unless changed by legislative action. SB 350 provides compliance flexibility and waiver mechanisms, including increased flexibility to apply excess renewable energy procurement in one compliance period to future compliance periods. In September 2018, the California Governor signed SB 100 into law, increasing from 50% to 60% of California’s electricity portfolio that must come from renewables by 2030; and established state policy that 100% of all retail electricity sales must come from RPS-eligible or carbon-free resources by 2045. The Utility may in the future incur additional costs to procure renewable energy to meet the new renewable energy targets, which the Utility expects will continue to be recoverable from customersthrough rates as “pass-through” costs. The Utility also may be subject to penalties for failure to meet the higher targets. The CPUC is required to open a new rulemaking proceeding to adopt regulations to implement the higher renewable targets.

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Renewable generation resources, for purposes of the RPS requirements, include bioenergy such as biogas and biomass, certain hydroelectric facilities (30 MW or less), wind, solar, and geothermal energy. RPS requirements are based on procurement, which aligns with the methodology presented in the first column of the table above. Procurement from renewable energy sources was estimated to comprise 40% of total annual retail sales in 2022.

The estimated total renewable deliveries as 35.6% in 2020. In accordanceof December 31, 2022, shown above was 12,163 GWh and comprised of the following:
Type
Percent of Customer Retail Sales (estimated procurement)(1)(2)
Biopower%
Geothermal— %
RPS-Eligible Small Hydroelectric%
Solar24 %
Wind%
Total40%
(1) Estimated renewable procurement amounts are expected to be consistent with the Power Content Label methodology presented in the table above, an estimated 35.6% of the Utility’s energy deliveries was from renewable energy sources.

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The estimated total 2020 renewable deliveries shown above were comprised of the following:
TypeGWhPercent of Bundled Retail Sales (estimated procurement)
Percent of Bundled Retail Sales (estimated Power Content Label) (1)
Biopower1,008 2.8 %2.8 %
Geothermal920 2.6 %2.6 %
RPS-Eligible Small Hydroelectric436 1.2 %1.2 %
Solar5,784 16.1 %16.1 %
Wind4,617 12.9 %12.9 %
Total12,765 35.6 %35.6 %
(1)Reportingreporting and adjustments, based on current CEC guidelines.
(2) Estimated renewable procurement percentages above and renewable compliance percentages are expected to be consistent; however, final RPS compliance reporting is subject to a different methodology and may result in some differences between the two percentages.

Energy Storage

As requiredEnergy storage improves system reliability and supports California’s decarbonization goals by California law, theintegrating increased levels of renewable energy. The CPUC has established a multi-year energy storage procurement framework, including energy storage procurement targets to be achieved by each load-serving entity under the CPUC jurisdiction, including the Utility. Under the adopted energy storage procurement framework,which the Utility iswas required to procure 580 MW of qualifying storage capacity by the end of 2021,2020, with all energy storage projects required to be operational by the end of 2024.

The CPUC also adopted biennial interim storage targets for the Utility, beginning in 2014 and ending in 2020. Under the adopted framework, the Utility is required to submit biennial energy storage procurement plans to describe its strategy to meet its interim and total energy storage targets. As of December 31, 2020,2022, the Utility had metwas on track to meet its storage targets.goals by the end of 2024.

Additionally, the Utility has been actively procuring energy storage to meet critical reliability needs. The CPUC previously approved more than 1,100 MW of storage to come online in 2022 and 2023. In January 2022, the Utility also requested CPUC approval for another 1,600 MW of storage to be completed by the summer of 2024, which would bring the Utility’s total energy storage system capacity to more than 3,330 MW. Finally, the Utility is soliciting 200 MW of long-duration storage, which is storage with at least eight hours of discharge capacity, to have these resources online between 2026 and 2028.

Owned Generation Facilities

At December 31, 2020,2022, the Utility owned the following generation facilities, all located in California, listed by energy source and further described below:
Generation TypeCounty LocationNumber of UnitsNet Operating Capacity (MW)
Nuclear (1):
  Diablo CanyonSan Luis Obispo2,240 
Hydroelectric (2):
  Conventional16 counties in northern and central California100 2,655 
  Helms pumped storageFresno1,212 
Fossil fuel-fired:
  Colusa Generating StationColusa657 
  Gateway Generating StationContra Costa580 
  Humboldt Bay Generating StationHumboldt10 163 
Fuel Cell:
  CSU East Bay Fuel CellAlameda
  SF State Fuel CellSan Francisco
Photovoltaic (3):
Various13 152 
Total133 7,662 
Generation TypeCounty LocationNumber of UnitsNet Operating Capacity (MW)
Nuclear (1):
  Diablo CanyonSan Luis Obispo2,240 
Hydroelectric (2):
  Conventional16 counties in northern and central California99 2,645 
  Helms pumped storageFresno1,212 
Fossil fuel-fired:
  Colusa Generating StationColusa657 
  Gateway Generating StationContra Costa580 
  Humboldt Bay Generating StationHumboldt10 163 
Elkhorn Battery Energy Storage SystemMonterey County183 
Photovoltaic (3):
Various13 152 
Total130 7,832 
(1) The Utility’s Diablo Canyon power plant consists of two nuclear power reactor units, Units 1 and 2. The NRC operating licenses currently expire in 2024 and 2025, respectively. On January 11, 2018, the CPUC approved the Utility’s application to retire Unit 1 by 2024 and Unit 2 by 2025.For more information, see “Extension of Diablo Canyon Operations” in Item 7. MD&A below.
(2) The Utility’s hydroelectric system consists of 103102 generating units at 6463 powerhouses. All of the Utility’s powerhouses are licensed by the FERC (except for two small powerhouses not subject to the FERC’s licensing requirements), with license terms between 30 and 50 years.
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(3) The Utility’s large photovoltaic facilities are Cantua solar station (20 MW), Five Points solar station (15 MW), Gates solar station (20 MW), Giffen solar station (10 MW), Guernsey solar station (20 MW), Huron solar station (20 MW ),MW), Stroud solar station (20 MW), West Gates solar station (10 MW), and Westside solar station (15 MW). All of these facilities are located in Fresno County, except for Guernsey solar station, which is located in Kings County.

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Generation Resources from Third Parties

The Utility has entered into various agreements to purchase power and electric capacity, including agreements for renewable energy resources, in accordance with its CPUC-approved procurement plan. (SeeSee “Ratemaking Mechanisms” above.) For more information regarding the Utility’s power purchase agreements, see Note 1516 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Electricity Transmission

AtAs of December 31, 2020,2022, the Utility owned approximately 18,000 circuit miles of interconnected transmission lines operating at voltages ranging from 60 kV to 500 kV. The Utility also operated 3533 electric transmission substations with a capacity of approximately 66,00065,000 MVA. The Utility’s electric transmission system is interconnected with electric power systems in the Western Electricity Coordinating Council, which includes many western states, the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, and parts of Mexico.

Decisions about expansions and maintenance of the transmission system can be influenced by decisions of the Utility’s regulators and the CAISO.

Electricity Distribution

The Utility’s electric distribution network consists of approximately 108,000 circuit miles of distribution lines (of which, as of December 31, 2020,2022, approximately 25% are underground and approximately 75% are overhead), 6867 transmission switching substations, and 758752 distribution substations with a capacity of approximately 32,00036,000 MVA. The Utility’s distribution network interconnects with its transmission system, primarily at switching and distribution substations, where equipment reduces the high-voltage transmission voltages to lower voltages, ranging from 44 kV to 2.4 kV, suitable for distribution to the Utility’s customers.

These distribution substations serve as the central hubs for the Utility’s electric distribution network. Emanating from each substation are primary and secondary distribution lines connected to local transformers and switching equipment that link distribution lines and provide delivery to end-users. In some cases, the Utility sells electricity from its distribution facilities to entities, such as municipal and other utilities, that resell the electricity. The Utility operates electric distribution control center facilities in Concord, Rocklin, and Fresno, California; these control centers form a key part of the Utility’s efforts to create a smarter, more resilient grid.

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Electricity Operating Statistics

The following table shows certain of the Utility’s operating statistics from 20182020 to 20202022 for electricity sold or delivered, including the classification of revenues by type of service. No single customer of the Utility accounted for 10% or more of consolidated revenues for electricity sold in 2020, 20192022, 2021 or 2018.
202020192018
Customers (average for the year)5,498,044 5,457,101 5,428,318 
Deliveries (in GWh) (1) 
78,497 78,070 79,774 
Revenues (in millions):
   Residential$5,523 $4,847 $5,051 
   Commercial4,722 4,756 4,908 
   Industrial1,530 1,493 1,532 
   Agricultural1,471 1,106 1,234 
   Public street and highway lighting69 67 72 
   Other (2)
(130)168 (720)
      Subtotal13,185 12,437 12,077 
Regulatory balancing accounts (3)
673 303 636 
Total operating revenues$13,858 $12,740 $12,713 
Selected Statistics:
Average annual residential usage (kWh)6,179 5,750 5,772 
Average billed revenues per kWh:
Residential$0.1852 $0.1762 $0.1838 
Commercial0.1730 0.1585 0.1627 
Industrial0.1085 0.1015 0.1010 
Agricultural0.2210 0.2172 0.1968 
Net plant investment per customer$8,889 $8,375 $7,950 
2020.
202220212020
Customers (average for the year)5,562,223 5,539,969 5,498,044 
Deliveries (in GWh) (1) 
77,769 78,588 78,497 
Revenues (in millions):
   Residential$6,130 $6,089 $5,523 
   Commercial5,416 5,042 4,722 
   Industrial1,626 1,493 1,530 
   Agricultural1,830 1,565 1,471 
   Public street and highway lighting77 73 69 
   Other, net (2)
(247)(84)(130)
      Subtotal14,832 14,178 13,185 
Regulatory balancing accounts (3)
228 953 673 
Total operating revenues$15,060 $15,131 $13,858 
Selected Statistics:
Average annual residential usage (kWh)5,564 5,889 6,179 
Average billed revenues per kWh:
Residential$0.2253 $0.2125 $0.1852 
Commercial0.1896 0.1802 0.1730 
Industrial0.1177 0.1075 0.1085 
Agricultural0.2435 0.2104 0.2210 
Net plant investment per customer$9,967 $9,199 $8,889 
(1) These amounts include electricity provided by direct accessDA providers and CCAs that procure their own supplies of electricity for their respective customers.
(2) This activity is primarily related to provisions for rate refundsthe change in unbilled revenue and unbilled electric revenue,amounts subject to refund, partially offset by other miscellaneous revenue items.
(3) These amounts represent revenues authorized to be billed.

Natural Gas Utility Operations

The Utility provides natural gas transportation services to “core” customers (i.e., small commercial and residential customers) and to “non-core” customers (i.e., industrial, large commercial, and natural gas-fired electric generation facilities) that are connected to the Utility’s gas system in its service territory.area.  Core customers can purchase natural gas procurement service (i.e., natural gas supply) from either the Utility or non-utility third-party gas procurement service providers (referred to as “core transport agents”).  When core customers purchase gas supply from a core transport agent, the Utility continues to provide gas delivery, metering, and billing services to customers.  When the Utility provides both transportation and procurement services, the Utility refers to the combined service as “bundled” natural gas service.  Currently, moreMore than 96% of core customers, representing approximately 84%85% of the annual core market demand, receive bundled natural gas service from the Utility.

The Utility generally does not provide procurement service to non-core customers, which must purchase their gas supplies from third-party suppliers, unless the customer is a natural gas-fired generation facility with which the Utility has a power purchase agreement that includes its generation fuel expense. The Utility offers backbone gas transmission, gas delivery (local transmission and distribution), and gas storage services as separate and distinct services to its non-core customers.  Access to the Utility’s backbone gas transmission system is available for all natural gas marketers and shippers, as well as non-core customers.  The Utility also delivers gas to off-system customers (i.e., outside of the Utility’s service territory)area) and to third-party natural gas storage customers.

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Natural Gas Supplies

The Utility can receive natural gas from all the major natural gas basins in western North America, including basins in western Canada, the Rocky Mountains, and the southwestern United States. The Utility can also receive natural gas from fields in California. The Utility purchases natural gas to serve its core customers directly from producers and marketers in both Canada and the United States. The contract lengths and natural gas sources of the Utility’s portfolio of natural gas purchase contracts have varied generally based on market conditions. During 2020,2022, the Utility purchased approximately 282,000296,000 MMcf of natural gas (net of the sale of excess supply of gas). Substantially all of this natural gas was purchased under contracts with a term of one year or less. The Utility’s largest individual supplier represented approximately 17%47% of the total natural gas volume the Utility purchased during 2020.2022.

Natural Gas System Assets

The Utility owns and operates an integrated natural gas transmission, storage, and distribution system that includes most of northern and central California. At December 31, 2020,2022, the Utility’s natural gas system consisted of approximately 43,50044,000 miles of distribution pipelines, over 6,300 miles of backbone and local transmission pipelines, and various storage facilities. The Utility owns and operates eight natural gas compressor stations on its backbone transmission system and one smallcompressor station on its local transmission system that are used to move gas through the Utility’s pipelines. The Utility’s backbone transmission system composed primarily of Lines 300, 400, and 401, is used to transport gas from the Utility’s interconnection with interstate pipelines, other local distribution companies, and California gas fields to the Utility’s local transmission and distribution systems.

The Utility has firm transportation agreements for deliverythe transportation of natural gas from various natural gas supply points and interconnection points to the Utility’s natural gas transportation system. These agreements provide transportation service from western Canada to the United States-Canada border, with TransCanada NOVA Gas Transmission, Ltd. interconnecting downstream with TransCanada Foothills Pipe Lines Ltd., B.C. System. The Foothills system interconnects atfrom the United States-Canada border to the pipeline system owned by Gas Transmission Northwest, LLC, which provides natural gas transportation services to a point of interconnection with the Utility’s natural gas transportation system on the Oregon-California border near Malin, Oregon. The Utility also has firm transportation agreements with Ruby Pipeline, LLC to transport natural gas from the U.S. Rocky Mountains to thean interconnection point with the Utility’s natural gas transportation system in the area of Malin, Oregon, at the California border. Similarly,Oregon-California border, from the Utility has a firmU.S. Rocky Mountains to an interconnection point with the Utility’s natural gas transportation agreement with Transwestern Pipeline Company, LLC to transport natural gassystem at the Oregon-California border, and from supply points in the southwestern United States to interconnection points with the Utility’s natural gas transportation system in the area of California near Topock, Arizona. (For more information regarding the Utility’s natural gas transportation agreements, see Note 1516 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

The Utility owns and operates three underground natural gas storage fields and has a 25% interest in a fourth storage field, all of which are connected to the Utility’s gas transmission system.  In 2019, the CPUC approved the discontinuation, through closure or sale, of operations at two of the Utility’s owned and operated gas storage fields, Pleasant Creek and Los Medanos. The Utility expects to sell Pleasant Creek in 2023 in accordance with the CPUC’s final decision in the 2019 GT&S rate case. The Utility intends to retain the Los Medanos field to further support system supply reliability as proposed in the 2023 GRC. The Utility owns and operates compressors and other facilities at these storage fields that are used to inject gas into the fields for storage and later for withdrawal.  In addition, four independent storage operators are interconnected to the Utility’s northernNorthern California gas transmission system. In 2019, the CPUC approved the discontinuation (through closure or sale) of operations at two gas storage fields.

In 2020,2022, the Utility continued upgrading transmission pipeline to allow for the use of in-line inspection tools and continuedsubstantially completed its work on the final recommendation from the NTSB’s 2010-11 San Bruno investigation to hydrostaticallyconfirm testing or perform a hydrostatic test for all Class 3 and Class 4 pipelines and all high consequence pipeline mileage. The Utility currently plans to complete this NTSB recommendation by 2022 for remaining short pipeline segments that include tie-in pieces, fittings or smaller diameter off-takes from the larger transmission pipelines.

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Natural Gas Operating Statistics

The following table shows the Utility’s operating statistics from 20182020 through 20202022 (excluding subsidiaries) for natural gas, including the classification of revenues by type of service. No single customer of the Utility accounted for 10% or more of consolidated revenues for bundled gas sales in 2020, 20192022, 2021 or 2018.
202020192018
Customers (average for the year) (1)
4,545,700 4,518,209 4,495,279 
Gas purchased (MMcf)226,746 227,621 219,061 
Average price of natural gas purchased$2.02 $2.08 $2.02 
Bundled gas sales (MMcf):
  Residential162,682 162,876 156,917 
  Commercial49,834 54,479 51,357 
Total Bundled Gas Sales212,516 217,355 208,274 
Revenues (in millions):
Bundled gas sales:
  Residential$2,517 $2,325 $2,042 
  Commercial597 605 537 
  Other61 123 75 
Bundled gas revenues3,175 3,053 2,654 
Transportation service only revenue1,211 1,249 1,151 
      Subtotal4,386 4,302 3,805 
  Regulatory balancing accounts (2)
225 87 242 
Total operating revenues$4,611 $4,389 $4,047 
Selected Statistics:
Average annual residential usage (Mcf)37 38 38 
Average billed bundled gas sales revenues per Mcf:
  Residential$15.09 $13.88 $12.67 
  Commercial10.61 9.72 9.04 
Net plant investment per customer$3,794 $3,522 $3,417 
2020.
202220212020
Customers (average for the year) (1)
4,585,126 4,563,747 4,545,700 
Gas purchased (MMcf)227,128 226,037 226,746 
Average price of natural gas purchased (price per Mcf)$7.42 $3.19 $2.02 
Bundled gas sales (MMcf):
  Residential160,449 162,205 162,682 
  Commercial57,066 54,262 49,834 
Total Bundled Gas Sales217,515 216,467 212,516 
Revenues (in millions):
Bundled gas sales:
  Residential$3,353 $2,759 $2,517 
  Commercial1,005 713 597 
  Other163 140 61 
Bundled gas revenues4,521 3,612 3,175 
Transportation service only revenue1,534 1,346 1,211 
      Subtotal6,055 4,958 4,386 
  Regulatory balancing accounts (2)
565 553 225 
Total operating revenues$6,620 $5,511 $4,611 
Selected Statistics:
Average annual residential usage (Mcf)37 37 37 
Average billed bundled gas sales revenues per Mcf:
  Residential$20.22 $16.54 $15.09 
  Commercial15.19 11.63 10.61 
Net plant investment per customer$4,522 $4,130 $3,794 
(1) These amounts include natural gas provided by core transport agents and CCAs that procure their own supplies of natural gas for their respective customers.
(2) These amounts represent revenues authorized to be billed.

Competition

CompetitionTrends in Market Demand and Competitive Conditions in the Electricity Industry

The Utility expects customer electric load to increase in coming years primarily as a result of electrification of buildings and transportation. The Utility is not able to predict how quickly this electrification will occur. The Utility expects customer demand for gas to decrease in the coming years, primarily in response to policies supporting California’s climate goals.

California law allows qualifying non-residential electric customers of IOUs to purchase electricity from energy service providers rather than from the utilities up to certain annual limits specified for each utility. This arrangement is known as “direct access,” or DA. In 2018, the California legislature passed a bill to expand the annual statewide DA cap by 4,000 GWh, and directed the CPUC to consider whether DA should be further expanded, and to present a report on this matter to the legislature by June 30, 2020. In addition, California law permits cities, counties, and certain other public agencies that have qualified to become a CCA to generate and/or purchase electricity for their local residents and businesses. By law, a CCA can procure electricity for all of its residents and businesses that do not affirmatively elect to continue to receive electricity generated or procured by a utility. In 2019, the CPUC issued an order implementing the 4,000 GWh increase for DA transactions, including an apportionment to the Utility’s service area of approximately 1,873 GWh.

On September 28, 2020, the CPUC issued a report recommending that further expansion of DA be conditioned on energy service providers’ demonstrated compliance with the following: (1) Integrated Resource Plan filings and meeting all procurement requirements, (2) RPS obligations for the 2021-2024 compliance period and (3) RA requirements including multi-year local, year-ahead flexible and system, and month-ahead system and flexible obligations.  The report also recommends setting an initial re-opening schedule in increments equal to 10% of eligible non-residential load per year beginning no earlier than 2024. The CPUC plans to issue a proposed decision in connection therewith in early 2021 and subsequently present its report to the California legislature.

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The Utility continues to provide transmission, distribution, metering, and billing services to direct accessDA customers at the election of their energy service provider. The CCA customers continue to obtain transmission, distribution, metering, and billing services from the Utility. In addition to collecting charges for transmission, distribution, metering, and billing services that it provides, the Utility is able to collect charges intended to recover the generation-related costs that the Utility incurred on behalf of direct accessDA and CCA customers while they were the Utility’s customers. The Utility remains the electricity provider of last resort for these customers. SB 520 (codified at Section 387 of the Public Utilities Code), which was signed by the governor and became law on October 2, 2019,Code allows for a request to transfer the responsibilities of the provider of last resort obligation from IOUs to other entities.

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The Utility is also impacted by the increasing viability of distributed generation and energy storage. The levels of self-generation of electricity by customers (primarily solar installations) and the use of customer net energy metering (NEM),enrollment in NEM, which allows self-generating customers employing qualifying renewable resources to receive bill credits at the full retail rate, are increasing, putting upward rate pressure on remaining customers. New NEM customers, as well as customers interconnecting on the successor to the NEM tariffs, are required to pay an interconnection fee, utilize time of use rates, and are required to pay certain non-bypassable charges to help fund some of the costs of low income, energy efficiency, and other programs that other customers pay. Significantly higher bills for remaining customers may result in a decline of the number of such customers as they may seek alternative energy providers or adopt self-generation technologies. The CPUC initiated a proceedingSee “Rising rates for the Utility’s customers could result in circumstances in which the Utility is unable to revisit the NEM tarifffully recover costs or earn its authorized ROE” in 2020Item 1A. Risk Factors and has indicated that it anticipates reaching a decision on a revised tariff by the end of 2021.“Regulatory Matters - OIR to Revisit Net Energy Metering Tariffs” in Item 7. MD&A.

Further, in some circumstances, governmental entities such as cities and irrigation districts whichmay have authority under the state constitution or state statute to provide retail electric service directly to consumers. Those entities may rely upon FERC open access tariffs and Utility infrastructure to deliver energy to them at wholesale rates for resale at retail to existing or potential new Utility customers. These entities may also seek to acquire the Utility’s transmission or distribution facilities through eminent domain. In 2020, one such entity communicated an interestdomain for use in acquiring certainserving electricity at retail to existing or potential new Utility customers. As a result, the Utility could lose customers (residential, commercial, and industrial) in the municipality. See “Jurisdictions may attempt to acquire the Utility’s assets through a voluntary sale during the Chapter 11 Cases.eminent domain” in Item 1A. Risk Factors. It is also expected that some of the governmental entitiespublicly-owned utilities will constructbuild new or duplicate transmission or new distribution facilities to serve existing or potential new Utility customers. In some instances, microgrid formation is a key factor in a community’s choice to engage governmental entities.

The effect of such types of retail competition generally is to reduce the number of utility customers, leading to a reduction in the Utility’s rate base.

The Utility also competes for the opportunity to develop and construct certain types of electric transmission facilities within, or interconnected to, its service territoryarea through a competitive bidding process managed by the CAISO.

The effect of such types of retail competition generally is to reduce the number of utility customers, leading to a reduction in the amount of electricity purchased from the Utility.

(For risks in connection with increasing competition, see Item 1A. Risk Factors.)

Competition in the Natural Gas Industry

The Utility competes with other natural gas pipeline companies for customers transporting natural gas into the southern California market on the basis of transportation rates, access to competitively priced supplies of natural gas, and the quality and reliability of transportation services. The Utility also competes for storage services with other third-party storage providers, primarily in northernNorthern California.

ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial results can be affected by many factors, including estimates and assumptions used in the critical accounting policiesestimates described in Item 7. MD&A, that can cause their actual financial results to differ materially from historical results or from anticipated future financial results.  The following discussion of key risk factors should be considered in evaluating an investment in PG&E Corporation and the Utility and should be read in conjunction with Item 7. MD&A and the Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes in Part II, Item 8, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of this 20202022 Form 10-K.  Any of these factors, in whole or in part, could materially affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

Risk Factors Summary

The following is a summary of the principal risks that could adversely affect our business, operations, and financial results. These risks are discussed more fully below.

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Risks related to post-chapter 11 environment and financial condition, including risks related to:

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s substantial indebtedness following the Reorganization;

Restrictions in indebtedness documents;

Appeals of the Confirmation Order;

Potential additional dilution to holders of PG&E Corporation common stock;

Any substantial sale of stock by existing stockholders;

Ownership and transfer restrictions associated with PG&E Corporation common stock;

Tax-related risks and uncertainties, including a potential “grantor trust” election for the Fire Victim Trust;

Restrictions on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s ability to issue dividends;

PG&E Corporation’s reliance on dividends, distributions and other payments; and

The COVID-19 pandemic.

Risks related to wildfires, including risks related to:

The Utility’s abilityextent to maintain itswhich the Wildfire Fund and revised recoverability standard under AB 1054 safety certification and access toeffectively mitigate the Wildfire Fund;risk of liability for damages arising from catastrophic wildfires;

The 2019 Kincade fire, the 2020 Zogg fire, the 2019 Kincade2021 Dixie fire, the 2022 Mosquito fire, or future wildfires;

Recovery of excess costs in connection with wildfires; and
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The doctrine of inverse condemnation; and

Implementation of the PSPS program.

Risks related to the outcome of enforcement matters, investigations, and regulatory proceedings, including risks related to:

Terms of the Utility’s probation or further modifications to the conditions of probation;

The Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process;

Legislative and regulatory developments;

Outcomes of the CPUC’s investigative enforcement proceedings, other known enforcement matters, and other ongoing state and federal investigations and requests for information;

Outcomes of regulatory and ratemaking proceedings and the Utility’s ability to manage its operating expenses and capital expenditures; and

The Utility’s continuing ability to recover “pass-through” costs.wildfire mitigation initiatives.

Risks related to operations and information technology, including risks related to:

The hazardous nature of the Utility’s electricity and natural gas operations;

The Utility’s insurance coverage;

Changes in the electric power and gas industries;

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A cyber incident, cyber security breach, severe natural event or physical attack on the Utility’s operational networks and information technology systems; andattack;

The operation and decommissioning of the Utility’s nuclear generation facilities.facilities; and

Attracting and retaining specialty personnel.

Risks related to environmental factors, including risks related to:

Severe weather conditions, extended drought and shifting climate patternschange and events resulting from these conditions (including wildfires); and

Extensive environmental laws and changes in or liabilities under these laws; andlaws.

State climate policy requirements.

GeneralRisks related to enforcement matters, investigations, and regulatory proceedings, including risks including related to:

Availability of the services of a qualified workforceThe Enhanced Oversight and to maintain satisfactory collective bargaining agreements.Enforcement Process;

Risks Related to Post-Chapter 11 EnvironmentLegislative and Financial Conditionregulatory developments;

Outcomes of enforcement proceedings in connection with extensive regulations to which the Utility is subject; and

Outcomes of regulatory and ratemaking proceedings and the Utility’s ability to manage its costs.

Risks related to financial conditions, including risks related to:

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s substantial indebtedness following the emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases may adversely affect their financial health and operating flexibility.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility have a substantial amount of indebtedness as a result of the reorganization transactions in connection with implementation of the Plan, most of which is secured by liens on certain assets of PG&E Corporation and the Utility. As of December 31, 2020, PG&E Corporation had approximately $4.71 billion of outstanding indebtedness (such indebtedness consisting of the 2028 Notes, the 2030 Notes and borrowings under the PG&E Corporation Term Loan), and the Utility had approximately $31.9 billion of outstanding indebtedness (such indebtedness including the Utility Reinstated Senior Notes, the New Utility Senior Notes, the Mortgage Bonds, and the Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement). In addition, PG&E Corporation had $500 million of additional borrowing capacity under the Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement, and the Utility had $1.9 billion of additional borrowing capacity under the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement. In addition, the Utility had outstanding preferred stock with an aggregate liquidation preference of $252 million.

Since PG&E Corporation and the Utility have a high level of debt, a substantial portion of cash flow from operations will be used to make payments on this debt. Furthermore, since a significant percentage of the Utility’s assets are used to secure its debt, this reduces the amount of collateral available for future secured debt or credit support and reduces its flexibility in operating these secured assets. This relatively high level of debt and related security could have other important consequences for PG&E Corporation and the Utility, including:

limiting their ability or increasing the costs to refinance their indebtedness;

limiting their ability to borrow additional amounts for working capital, capital expenditures, debt service requirements, execution of their business strategy or other purposes;Restrictions in indebtedness documents;

limiting their ability to use operating cash flow in other areasAppeals of their business;the Confirmation Order;

increasing their vulnerability to general adverse economic and industry conditions, including increases in interest rates, particularly given their substantial indebtedness that bears interest at variable rates, as well as to catastrophic events; and

limiting their ability to capitalize on business opportunities.

Under the terms of the agreements and indentures governing their respective indebtedness, PG&E Corporation and the Utility are permitted to incurPotential additional indebtedness, some of which could be secured (subject to compliance with certain tests) and which could further accentuate these risks. As a result of the high level of indebtedness, PG&E Corporation and the Utility may be unable to generate sufficient cash through operations to service such debt, and may need to refinance such indebtedness at or prior to maturity and be unable to obtain financing on suitable terms or at all, any of which could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s business, financial condition and results of operations.



The documents that govern PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s indebtedness contain restrictions that limit their flexibility in operating their business.

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s material financing agreements, including certain of their respective credit agreements and indentures, contain various covenants restricting, among other things, their ability to:

incur or assume indebtedness or guarantees of indebtedness;

incur or assume liens;

sell or dispose of all or substantially all of its property or business;

merge or consolidate with other companies;

enter into any sale leaseback transactions; and

enter into swap agreements.

The restrictions contained in these material financing agreements could affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s ability to operate their business and may limit their ability to react to market conditions or take advantage of potential business opportunities as they arise. For example, such restrictions could adversely affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s ability to finance their operations and expenditures, make strategic acquisitions, investments or alliances, sell assets, restructure their organization or finance their capital needs. Additionally, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s ability to comply with these covenants and restrictions may be affected by events beyond their control, including, but not limited to, prevailing regulatory, economic, financial and industry conditions.

Parties have appealed the Confirmation Order.

Following entry of the Confirmation Order confirming the Plan, certain parties filed notices of appeal with respect to the Confirmation Order. While a number of such appeals have been dismissed, there can be no assurance that any of the remaining appeals will not be successful and, if successful, that any such appeal would not have a material adverse effect on PG&E Corporation and the Utility.

PG&E Corporation may be required to issue shares with respect to HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims, which would result in dilution to holders of PG&E Corporation common stock, or pay a material amount of cash with respect to allowed Subordinated Debt Claims.stock;

On the Effective Date, PG&E Corporation issued to the Fire Victim Trust a number of shares of common stock equal to 22.19% of the outstanding common stock on such date. As further described in “Satisfaction of HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims and Subordinated Debt Claims” in Note 14 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8, PG&E Corporation may be required to issue shares of its common stock in satisfaction of allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims. If such issuance is required, it may be determined that, under the Plan, the Fire Victim Trust should receive additional shares of PG&E Corporation common stock such that it would have owned 22.19% of the outstanding common stock of reorganized PG&E Corporation on the Effective Date, assuming that such issuance of shares in satisfaction of the HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims had occurred on the Effective Date. Any such issuances will result in dilution to anyone who holds shares of PG&E Corporation common stock prior to such issuance and may cause the trading price of PG&E Corporation shares to decline.

Additionally, PG&E Corporation may be required to pay a material amount of cash with respect to allowed Subordinated Debt Claims (as defined in “Satisfaction of HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims and Subordinated Debt Claims” in Note 14 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8). Such payment may have a material adverse impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s business, financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.

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Any substantial sale of stock by existing stockholders could depress the market value of PG&E Corporation’s common stock, thereby devaluing the market price and causing investors to risk losing all or part of their investment.stockholders;

Certain existing stockholders,Ownership and transfer restrictions associated with PG&E Corporation common stock;

Tax-related risks and uncertainties, including the grantor trust election for the Fire Victim Trust, the PIPE Investors and the Backstop Parties, hold a large number of the outstanding shares of PG&E Corporation. PG&E Corporation can make no prediction as to the effect, if any, that sales of shares, or the availability of shares for future sale, will have on the prevailing market price of shares of PG&E Corporation common stock. Sales of substantial amounts of shares of common stock in the public market, or the perception that such sales could occur, could depress prevailing market prices for such shares. Such sales may also make it more difficult for PG&E Corporation to sell equity securities or equity-linked securities in the future at a time and price which it deems appropriate.Trust;

PG&E Corporation may also sell additional shares of common stock in subsequent offerings or issue additional shares of common stock or securities convertible into shares of PG&E Corporation common stock. The issuance of any shares of PG&E Corporation common stock in future financings, acquisitions upon conversion or exercise of convertible securities, or otherwise may result in a reduction of the book value and market price of PG&E Corporation's outstanding common stock. If PG&E Corporation issues any such additional shares, the issuance will cause a reduction in the proportionate ownership and voting power of all current shareholders. PG&E Corporation cannot predict the size of future issuances of shares of PG&E Corporation common stock or securities convertible into shares of PG&E Corporation common stock or, for any issuance, the effect, if any, that such future issuances will have on the market price of PG&E Corporation's common stock.

PG&E Corporation common stock is subject to ownership and transfer restrictions intended to preserve PG&E Corporation’s ability to use its net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes.

PG&E Corporation has incurred and may also continue to incur in connection with the Plan significant net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes, the amount and availability of which are subject to certain qualifications, limitations and uncertainties. The Amended Articles (as defined below) impose certain restrictions on the transferability and ownership of PG&E Corporation common stock and preferred stock (together, the “capital stock”) and other interests designated as “stock” of PG&E Corporation by the Board of Directors as disclosed in an SEC filing (such stock and other interests, the “Equity Securities,” and such restrictions on transferability and ownership, the “Ownership Restrictions”) in order to reduce the possibility of an equity ownership shift that could result in limitations on PG&E Corporation’s ability to utilize net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes from prior taxable years or periods for federal income tax purposes. Any acquisition of PG&E Corporation capital stock that results in a shareholder being in violation of these restrictions may not be valid.

Subject to certain exceptions, the Ownership Restrictions restrict (i) any person or entity (including certain groups of persons) from directly or indirectly acquiring or accumulating 4.75% or more of the outstanding Equity Securities and (ii) the ability of any person or entity (including certain groups of persons) already owning, directly or indirectly, 4.75% or more of the Equity Securities to increase their proportionate interest in the Equity Securities (but see the immediately following risk factor for more information). Any transferee receiving Equity Securities that would result in a violation of the Ownership Restrictions will not be recognized as a shareholder of PG&E Corporation or entitled to any rights of shareholders, including, without limitation, the right to vote and to receive dividends or distributions, whether liquidating or otherwise, in each case, with respect to the Equity Securities causing the violation.

The Ownership Restrictions remain in effect until the earliest of (i) the repeal, amendment or modification of Section 382 (and any comparable successor provision) of the Internal Revenue Code, in a manner that renders the restrictions imposed by Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code no longer applicable to PG&E Corporation, (ii) the beginning of a taxable year in which the Board of Directors of PG&E Corporation determines that no tax benefits attributable to net operating losses or other tax attributes are available, (iii) the date selected by the Board of Directors if it determines that the limitation amount imposed by Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code as of such date in the event of an “ownership change” of PG&E Corporation (as defined in Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code and Treasury Regulation Sections 1.1502-91 et seq.) would not be materially less than the net operating loss carryforwards or “net unrealized built-in loss” (within the meaning of Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code and Treasury Regulation Sections 1.1502-91 et seq.) of PG&E Corporation and (iv) the date selected by the Board of Directors if it determines that it is in the best interests of PG&E Corporation’s shareholders for the Ownership Restrictions to be removed or released. The Ownership Restrictions may also be waived by the Board of Directors on a case by case basis.



If PG&E Corporation elects to treat the Fire Victim Trust as a “grantor trust,” the application of the Ownership Restrictions, as defined in PG&E Corporation’s Amended Articles of Incorporation, will be determined on the basis of a number of shares outstanding that could differ materially from the number of shares reported as outstanding on the cover page of its periodic reports under the Exchange Act.

The Plan contemplates that the Fire Victim Trust will be treated as a “qualified settlement fund” for U.S. federal income tax purposes, subject to PG&E Corporation’s ability to elect to treat the Fire Victim Trust as a “grantor trust” for U.S. federal income tax purposes instead. In January 2021, PG&E Corporation received an IRS ruling that states the Utility is eligible to make a grantor trust election with respect to the Fire Victim Trust and addressed certain, but not all, related issues. PG&E Corporation believes benefits associated with “grantor trust” treatment could be realized, but only if PG&E Corporation and the Fire Victim Trust can meet certain requirements of the Internal Revenue Code and Treasury Regulations thereunder, relating to sales of PG&E Corporation stock.

If PG&E Corporation were to elect to treat the Fire Victim Trust as a “grantor trust,” any shares owned by the Fire Victim Trust would effectively be excluded from the total number of outstanding Equity Securities when calculating a Person’s Percentage Ownership (as defined in the Amended Articles) for purposes of the Ownership Restrictions. For example, whereas the number of outstanding shares of PG&E Corporation common stock for corporate purposes as of February 22, 2021, was 1,984,683,820 shares, for purposes of the Ownership Restrictions, the number of outstanding common stock as of February 22, 2021, would be 1,506,940,230 (the number of outstanding shares of PG&E Corporation common stock less the number of shares of common stock owned by the Fire Victim Trust as of February 22, 2021). PG&E Corporation does not control the number of shares held by the Fire Victim Trust and is not able to determine in advance the number of shares the Fire Victim Trust will hold. PG&E Corporation intends to periodically make available to investors information about the number of shares of common stock held by the Fire Victim Trust as of a specified date for purposes of the Ownership Restrictions, including in its Quarterly Reports and Annual Reports filed with the SEC.

PG&E Corporation expects to publicly announce its determination on whether it will elect to treat the Fire Victim Trust as a “grantor trust” no later than April 1, 2021. In the event PG&E Corporation decides to make a “grantor trust” election with respect to the Fire Victim Trust, PG&E Corporation intends to enforce the Ownership Restrictions as described in the foregoing paragraph (excluding any shares owned by the Fire Victim Trust from the number of outstanding Equity Securities), including with respect to Transfers (as defined in the Amended Articles) occurring before such announcement. However, it is anticipated that the Board of Directors of PG&E Corporation will exempt Transfers to shareholders occurring prior to July 30, 2020 (the date PG&E Corporation initially announced it was considering treating the Fire Victim Trust as a grantor trust in its Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2020), solely to the extent that such Transfers would have complied with the Ownership Restrictions if the Ownership Restrictions were applied on the basis that the shares owned by the Fire Victim Trust were treated as outstanding Equity Securities. For the avoidance of doubt, all other Transfers of Equity Securities (including acquisitions from and after the July 30, 2020 by shareholders benefiting from an exemption described in the preceding sentence) will continue to be subject to the Ownership Restrictions. All current and prospective shareholders are advised to consider the foregoing in determining their ownership and acquisition of PG&E Corporation common stock.

The abilityinability of PG&E Corporation to use some or all of its net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes to offset future income may be limited.income;

As of December 31, 2020, PG&E Corporation had net operating loss carryforwards for PG&E Corporation’s consolidated group for U.S. federal and California income tax purposes of approximately $28.5 billion and $25.4 billion, respectively, and PG&E Corporation incurred and may also continue to incur in connection with the Plan significant net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes. The ability of PG&E Corporation to use some or all of these net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes may be subject to certain limitations. Under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code (which also applies for California state income tax purposes), if a corporation (or a consolidated group) undergoes an “ownership change,” such net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes may be subject to certain limitations. In general, an ownership change occurs if the aggregate stock ownership of certain shareholders (generally five percent shareholders, applying certain look-through and aggregation rules) increases by more than 50% over such shareholders’ lowest percentage ownership during the testing period (generally three years).

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As of the date of this report, it is more likely than not that PG&E Corporation has not undergone an ownership change and its net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes are not limited by Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code. However, whether PG&E Corporation underwent or will undergo an ownership change as a result of the transactions in PG&E Corporation’s equity that occurred pursuant to the Plan dependsRestrictions on several factors outside PG&E Corporation’s control and the application of certain laws that are uncertain in several respects. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that the IRS would not successfully assert that PG&E Corporation has undergone or will undergo an ownership change pursuant to the Plan. In addition, even if these transactions did not cause an ownership change, they may increase the likelihood that PG&E Corporation may undergo an ownership change in the future. If the IRS successfully asserts that PG&E Corporation did undergo, or PG&E Corporation otherwise does undergo, an ownership change, the limitation on its net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code could be material to its operations.

In particular, limitations imposed on PG&E Corporation’s ability to utilize net operating loss carryforwards or other tax attributes could cause U.S. federal and California income taxes to be paid earlier than would be paid if such limitations were not in effect and could cause such net operating loss carryforwards or other tax attributes to expire unused, in each case reducing or eliminating the benefit of such net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes. Specifically, PG&E Corporation’s ability to utilize its net operating loss carryforwards is critical to a successful rate-neutral securitization transaction, the proceeds of which are expected to be used to satisfy the Utility’s obligations to the Fire Victim Trust, and to PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s commitmentability to make certain operating and capital expenditures. Failure to consummate a securitization transaction or obtain alternative sources of capital could have a material adverse effect on PG&E Corporation and the Utility and the value of PG&E Corporation common stock.issue dividends;

The ability of PG&E Corporation to pay dividends on shares of PG&E Corporation common stock is subject to restrictions.

In response to concerns raised by the California Governor, PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed the Case Resolution Contingency Process Motion with the Bankruptcy Court setting forth certain commitments in connection with the confirmation process and implementation of the Plan, including, among other things, limitations on the ability of PG&E Corporation to pay dividends on shares of its common stock (the “Dividend Restriction”). The Dividend Restriction provides that PG&E Corporation may not pay dividends on shares of its common stock until it recognizes $6.2 billion in Non-GAAP Core Earnings following the Effective Date. “Non-GAAP Core Earnings” means GAAP earnings adjusted for certain non-core items. Additionally, the ruling of the court overseeing the Utility’s probation dated April 3, 2019 places further restrictions on the ability of PG&E Corporation and the Utility to issue dividends. Under those terms of probation, no dividends may be issued until the Utility is fully in compliance with all applicable laws concerning vegetation management and clearance requirements, as well as the vegetation management and enhanced vegetation management targets and metrics in the Utility’s WMP.

Subject to the foregoing restrictions, any decision to declare and pay dividends in the future will be made at the discretion of the Board of Directors and will depend on, among other things, PG&E Corporation’s results of operations, financial condition, cash requirements, contractual restrictions and other factors that the Board of Directors may deem relevant.



PG&E Corporation is a holding company and reliesreliance on dividends, distributions and other payments advances and transfers of funds from the Utility to meet its obligations.Utility;

PG&E Corporation conducts its operations primarily through its subsidiary, the Utility, and substantially all of PG&E Corporation’s consolidated assets are held by the Utility. Accordingly, PG&E Corporation’s cash flow and itsRestrictions on shareholders ability to meet its debt service obligations under its existing and future indebtedness are largely dependent upon the earnings and cash flows of the Utility and the distribution or other payment of these earnings and cash flows to PG&E Corporation in the form of dividends or loans or advances and repayment of loans and advances from the Utility. The ability of the Utility to pay dividends or make other advances, distributions and transfers of funds will depend on its results of operations and may be restricted by, among other things, applicable laws limiting the amount of funds available for payment of dividends, the conditions of the Utility’s probation proceeding and certain restrictive covenants contained in the agreements of those subsidiaries. Additionally, the Utility must use its resources to satisfy its own obligations, including its obligation to serve customers, to pay principal and interest on outstanding debt, to pay preferred stock dividends and meet its obligations to employees and creditors, before it can distribute cash to PG&E Corporation. Under the Utility’s Articles of Incorporation, the Utility cannot pay common stock dividends unless all cumulative preferred dividends on the Utility’s preferred stock have been paid. In addition, the CPUC has imposed various conditions that govern the relationship between PG&E Corporation and the Utility, including financial conditions that require the Board of Directors to give first priority to the capital requirements of the Utility, as determined to be necessary and prudent to meet the Utility’s obligation to serve or to operate the Utility in a prudent and efficient manner. It is uncertain when PG&E Corporation and the Utility will commence the payment of dividends on their common stock and when the Utility will commence the payment of dividends on its preferred stock. The deterioration of income from, or other available assets of, the Utility for any reason could limit or impair the Utility’s ability to pay dividends or other distributions to PG&E Corporation, which could, in turn, materially and adversely affect PG&E Corporation’s ability to meet its obligations.

California law and certain provisions in the Amended Articles and the amended and restated bylaws of PG&E Corporation (the “Amended Bylaws”) may prevent efforts by shareholders to change the direction or management of the Company.

The Amended Articles and the Amended Bylaws contain provisions that may make the acquisition of PG&E Corporation more difficult without the approval of the Board of Directors, including, but not limited to, the following:

until 2024, the Board of Directors will be divided into two equal classes, with members of each class elected in different years for different terms;Corporation;

only holders of shares who are entitled to cast ten percent or more of the votes can request a special meeting of the shareholders,The COVID-19 pandemic;

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Increased customer rates; and any such request must satisfy the requirements specified in the Amended Bylaws; action by shareholders may otherwise only be taken at an annual or special meeting duly called by or at the direction of a majority of the Board of Directors;

advance notice for all shareholder proposals is required; andInflation.

any person acquiring PG&E Corporation Equity Securities will be restricted from owning more than 4.75% of such Equity Securities, subject to certain expectations as may be determined by the Board of Directors of PG&E Corporation.

These and other provisions in the Amended Articles, the Amended Bylaws and California law could make it more difficult for shareholders or potential acquirers to obtain control of the Board of Directors or initiate actions that are opposed by the then-current Board of Directors, including delay or impede a merger, tender offer or proxy contest involving PG&E Corporation. The existence of these provisions could negatively affect the price of PG&E Corporation common stock and limit opportunities for shareholders to realize value in a corporate transaction.

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PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows have been and could continue to be significantly affected by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows have been (beginning in March 2020) and could continue to be significantly affected by the outbreak of COVID-19, but the extent of such impact is uncertain. In December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus (COVID-19) was reported to have surfaced in Wuhan, China, resulting in significant disruptions to manufacturing, supply chain, markets, and travel world-wide. On January 30, 2020, the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a public health emergency of international concern and on March 12, 2020, announced the outbreak was a pandemic. In response to the California Governor’s emergency proclamation on March 4, 2020, the Utility extended a disconnection moratorium to residential and small business customers. On April 16, 2020, the CPUC approved a resolution requiring utilities to extend this disconnection moratorium through April 16, 2021. On February 11, 2021, the CPUC extended the moratorium for residential and small business customers to June 30, 2021. On December 21, 2020, a CPUC ALJ issued a ruling seeking comments on an approach to implement a temporary moratorium on service disconnections for medium-large commercial and industrial customers. On February 11, 2021, the CPUC initiated a rulemaking proceeding to consider arrearage relief for utility customers who will have outstanding utility bills when the moratorium on service disconnections ends, some of the costs of which could be funded by shareholders.

While the extent of the impact of the current COVID-19 outbreak on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s business and financial results is uncertain, the consequences of a continued and prolonged outbreak and resulting government and regulatory orders have had and could continue to have a further negative impact on the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows.

The outbreak of COVID-19 and the resulting economic conditions, including but not limited to the shelter-in-place orders, as such orders may be imposed from time to time, and resulting decrease in economic and industrial activity in the Utility’s service territory have and will continue to have a significant adverse impact on the Utility’s customers; these circumstances have impacted and will continue to impact the Utility for a period of time that PG&E Corporation and the Utility are unable to predict. For example, the economic downturn has resulted in a reduction in customer receipts and collection delays in the second, third and fourth quarters of 2020.

The Utility’s customer energy accounts receivable balances over 30 days outstanding as of December 31, 2020 were approximately $825 million, or $478 million higher as compared to the balances as of December 31, 2019. The Utility is unable to estimate the portion of the increase directly attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Utility expects to continue experiencing an impact on monthly cash collections in 2021 and for as long as current COVID-19 circumstances persist.

On April 16, 2020, the CPUC passed a resolution requiring COVID-19 related emergency customer protection measures starting from the March 4, 2020 Emergency Proclamation and consistent with the March 16, 2020 Executive Order, through April 16, 2021. On February 11, 2021, the CPUC approved a resolution extending these protections to June 30, 2021. The April 16, 2020 resolution allows associated costs to be tracked in a memorandum account, the CPPMA. The CPPMA allows tracking of residential and small business customers’ incremental uncollectible costs. It is anticipated that implementation of the February 11, 2021 resolution will provide for the same treatment. In addition, the Utility’s 2020 GRC final decision would continue the Utility’s existing mechanism to address uncollectibles, which allows the Utility to readjust its uncollectibles rate on an annual basis based on the most recent 10-year average of uncollectibles. In addition, the June 11, 2020 decision in the OIR to Consider New Approaches to Disconnections and Reconnections to Improve Energy Access and Contain Costs (Disconnections OIR) provides for a two-way balancing account for residential uncollectibles and memorandum account for OIR implementation costs. The Utility is unable to predict whether these measures will allow for future recovery of these amounts.

In addition, the Utility has experienced average reductions of approximately two percent in electric load and approximately two percent in core gas load on a weather-adjusted basis from mid-March 2020 through December 2020, resulting in an estimated $430 million reduction in billed revenues for the mid-March 2019 to the December 2020 period. On January 1, 2021, electric rates were reset using sales that were adjusted for COVID-19 impacts and significant ongoing shortfalls are not currently expected in 2021. PG&E Corporation and the Utility are currently unable to quantify the long-term potential impact of the changes in customer collections or changes in energy demand on earnings and cash flows due, in part, to uncertainties regarding the timing, duration and intensity of the COVID-19 outbreak and the resulting economic downturn. Although the CPUC authorized the establishment of memorandum and balancing accounts to track costs associated with customer protection measures, the timing of regulatory relief, if any, and ultimately cost recovery from such accounts or otherwise, are uncertain.

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The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic downturn have resulted and will continue to result in workforce disruptions, both in personnel availability (including a reduction in contract labor resources) and deployment. In preparation for the return of a few teams to their offices, the Utility has issued a “Return to PG&E Playbook” that explains the safety-related steps the company is taking, as well as the steps that PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s employees should take. The guidance includes important reminders of policies on personal hygiene, travel, reporting exposure or illness, and other topics.

Although the Utility continues to prioritize customer and community safety, these disruptions necessitate changes to the Utility’s operating and capital expenditure plans, which could lead to project delays or service disruptions in certain programs. Delays in production and shipping of materials used in the Utility’s operations may also impact operations.

In addition, as discussed above, a group of local government entities and organizations filed a Joint Motion asking the CPUC to require utilities to comply with additional requirements when implementing PSPS events while local areas are sheltering-in-place due to COVID-19. The requested requirements included providing back-up generation to essential services and allowing local governments to veto PSPS events for their areas. The Utility and other entities (including the other IOUs) filed responses on April 20, 2020, requesting that the CPUC deny the motion, and the moving parties and other entities filed responses on April 24, 2020. On August 24, 2020, the ALJ issued a decision holding the April 13, 2020 joint motion in abeyance, finding that the May 28, 2020 decision dealt with many of the issues raised. If the motion were reinstated in the future, a CPUC decision could restrict or impose additional requirements on the Utility in implementing PSPS events.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility expect additional financial impacts in the future as a result of COVID-19. Potential longer-term impacts of COVID-19 on PG&E Corporation or the Utility include the potential for higher credit spreads and borrowing costs and incremental financing needs. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s analysis of the potential impact of COVID-19 is ongoing and subject to change. PG&E Corporation and the Utility are unable to predict the timing, duration or intensity of the COVID-19 situation, the timing, duration or intensity of any resurgence of COVID-19 and any variant strains of the COVID-19 virus, the effectiveness and intensity of measures to contain COVID-19 (including availability and effectiveness of vaccines), and the effects of the COVID-19 situation on the business, financial condition and results of operations of PG&E Corporation and the Utility and on the business and general economic conditions in the State of California and the United States of America.

Risks Related to Wildfires

PG&E Corporation’s
The Wildfire Fund and other provisions of AB 1054 may not effectively mitigate the Utility’s financial results could be materially affected ifrisk of liability for damages arising from catastrophic wildfires.

If the Utility does not maintainhave an approved WMP, the Utility will not be issued a safety certification and will consequently not benefit from the presumption of prudency or the AB 1054 disallowance cap. Under AB 1054, the Utility is required to maintain a safety certification or is otherwise unableissued by the OEIS to access the Wildfire Fund.

On January 14, 2021, the WSD issued the Utility’s 2020 Safety Certification, which under AB 1054 entitles the Utility tobe eligible for certain benefits, including eligibility for a cap on Wildfire Fund reimbursement and for a reformed prudent manager standard. The 2020 Safety Certification is valid for 12 months, or until a timely request for a new safety certification is acted upon, whichever occurs later.

The AB 1054 Wildfire Fund disallowance cap, which caps the amount of liability that the Utility could be required to bear for a catastrophic wildfire, is inapplicable if the Wildfire Fund administrator determines that the electric utility company’s actions or inactions that resulted in the applicable wildfire constituted “conscious or willful disregard for the rights and safety of others,” or the electric utility company fails to maintain a valid safety certification at the time the applicable wildfire ignited. The inability to maintain an AB 1054 safety certification and, as a result, the inaccessibility of the disallowance cap on reimbursement to the Wildfire Fund, could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows. In addition, if the Utility has failedfails to maintain a valid safety certificatecertification at the time a wildfire ignites, the initial burden of proof in a prudency proceeding shifts from intervenors to the Utility. The Utility will be required to reimburse amounts that are determined by the CPUC not to be just and reasonable. For more information on the disallowance cap, see Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Furthermore, the Wildfire Fund will only be available for payment of eligible claims so long as there are sufficient funds remaining in the Wildfire Fund. Such funds could be depleted more quickly than expected, including as a result of claims made by California’s other participating electric utility companies. PG&E Corporation andIf the Utility will not benefit from all of the features ofis unable to maintain an AB 1054 safety certification or if the Wildfire Fund is exhausted, whichthe inability to access the Wildfire Fund could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows. Also, the Utility will not be able to obtain any recovery from the Wildfire Fund for wildfire-related losses in any year that do not exceed the greater of $1.0 billion in the aggregate and the amount of insurance coverage required under AB 1054.

The costs of participating in the Wildfire Fund are expected to exceed $6.7 billion over the anticipated ten-year contribution period for the fund. The timing and amount of any potential charges associated with the Utility’s contributions would also depend on various factors. In addition, there could also be a significant delay between the occurrence of a wildfire and the timing on which the Utility recognizes impairment for the reduction in future coverage, due to the lack of data available to the Utility following a catastrophic event, especially if the wildfire occurs in the service area of another participating electric utility. Participation in the Wildfire Fund is expected to have a material impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows, and there can be no assurance that the benefits of participating in the Wildfire Fund ultimately outweigh these substantial costs.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility could be materially affectedliable as a result of the 2019 Kincade fire, the 2020 Zogg fire, or future wildfires.

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected as a result of the 2019 Kincade2021 Dixie fire, the 2020 Zogg2022 Mosquito fire, or future wildfires.

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Based on the facts and circumstances available as of the date of this report, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have determined that it is probable they will incur a losslosses in connection with the 2019 Kincade fire, and the 2020 Zogg fire, the 2021 Dixie fire, and the 2022 Mosquito fire. Although PG&E Corporation and the Utility have recorded liabilities for probable losses in connection with such wildfires,these fires, these liability estimates correspond to the lower end of the range of reasonably estimable losses, do not include several categories of potential damages that are not reasonably estimable, and are subject to change based on new information.

Although there are a number of unknown facts surrounding Cal Fire’s causation determinationdeterminations of the 2019 Kincade fire, and Cal Fire’s investigation of the 2020 Zogg fire, the 2021 Dixie fire, and the 2022 Mosquito fire, the Utility could be subject to significant liability in excess of insurance coverage or amounts available under the Wildfire Fund under AB 1054recoveries that would be expected to have a material impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows. PG&E Corporation and the Utility have also received and have responded or are responding to document, data, and other information requests from the CPUC’s SED, relating to the 2019 Kincade fireDOJ, and the 2020 Zogg fire. Furthermore, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office and the Shasta County District Attorney’s Officelaw enforcement agencies that are conducting investigations into the 2019 Kincade fire and the 2020 Zogg fire, respectively.investigating these wildfires. PG&E Corporation and the Utility could be the subject of additional investigations, lawsuits, or enforcement actions in connection with the 2019 Kincade fire, the 2020 Zogg fire, the 2021 Dixie fire, the 2022 Mosquito fire, or futureother wildfires. For more information, see Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

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Criminal charges have been filed against the Utility in connection with the 2020 Zogg fire. Under California law (including Penal Code section 1202.4), if the Utility were convicted of any of the charges, the sentencing court must order the Utility to “make restitution to the victim or victims in an amount established by court order” that is “sufficient to fully reimburse the victim or victims for every determined economic loss incurred as the result of” the Utility’s underlying conduct, in addition to interest and the victim’s or victims’ attorneys’ fees. This requirement for full reimbursement of economic loss is not waivable by either the government or the victims and is not offset by any compensation that the victims have received or may receive from their insurance carriers. If convicted of any of the charges, the Utility currently believes that its total losses associated with the 2020 Zogg fire could materially exceed the accrued estimated liabilities that PG&E Corporation and the Utility have recorded to reflect the lower end of the range of the reasonably estimable range of losses. The Utility is unable to determine a reasonable estimate of the amount of such additional losses. The Utility does not expect that any of its liability insurance would be available to cover restitution payments ordered by the court presiding over the criminal proceeding.

There have been numerous other wildfires in the Utility’s service area, of which the Utility has not been alleged or determined to be a cause. The Utility could be alleged or determined to be a cause of one or more of these wildfires.

Additionally, under the doctrine of inverse condemnation, courts have imposed liability against utilities on the grounds that losses borne by the person whose property was damaged through a public-use undertaking should be spread across the community that benefited from such undertaking, even if the utility is unable to recover these costs through rates. In fact, in December 2017, the CPUC denied recovery of costs that San Diego Gas & Electric Company stated it had incurred as a result of the doctrine of inverse condemnation. Legal challenges to that denial were unsuccessful. Plaintiffs have asserted and continue to assert the doctrine of inverse condemnation in lawsuits related to certain wildfires that occurred in the Utility’s service area. Inverse condemnation imposes strict liability (including liability for attorneys’ fees) for damages as a result of the design, construction and maintenance of utility facilities, including utilities’ electric transmission lines. While the Utility continues to dispute the applicability of inverse condemnation to the Utility, there can be no assurance that the Utility will be successful in challenging the applicability of inverse condemnation in the 2019 Kincade fire, the 2020 Zogg fire, the 2021 Dixie fire, the 2022 Mosquito fire, or other litigation against PG&E Corporation or the Utility.

Although the Utility has taken extensive measures to reduce the threat of future wildfires, the potential that the Utility’s equipment will be involved in the ignition of future wildfires, including catastrophic wildfires, is significant. This risk may be attributable to, and exacerbated by, a variety of factors, including climate (in particular, extended periods of seasonal dryness coupled with periods of high wind velocities and other storms), infrastructure, and vegetation conditions. See “Risks related to environmental factors—Severe weather conditions, extended drought and shifting climate patterns could materially affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.” Despite significant investment in mitigation measures to improve infrastructure and manage vegetation, as well as implementation of de-energization strategies, the Utility may not be successful in mitigating the risk of future wildfires. Once an ignition has occurred, the Utility is unable to control the extent of damages. The extent of damages for a wildfire is primarily determined by environmental conditions (including weather and vegetation conditions), third-party suppression efforts, and the location of the wildfire.

In addition, the 2019 Kincade fire and the 2020 Zogg firewildfires have had and along with any future wildfires could continue to have (as a result of any future wildfires) adverse consequences on the Utility’s probation proceeding, the Utility’s proceedings with the CPUC and the FERC (including the Safety Culture OII), and the FERC, and future regulatory proceedings, including future applications with the OEIS for the safety certification required by AB 1054. PG&E Corporation and the Utility may also suffer additional reputational harm and face an even more challenging operating, political, and regulatory environment as a result of the 2019 Kincade fire, the 2020 Zogg fire, the 2021 Dixie fire, the 2022 Mosquito fire, or any future wildfires. For more information about the 2019 Kincade fire, and the 2020 Zogg fire, the 2021 Dixie fire, and the 2022 Mosquito fire, see Note 14 “Wildfire-Related Contingencies”15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8.

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The Utility ismay be unable to recover all or a significant portion of its costs in excess costsof insurance coverage in connection with wildfires, through rates, or from the 2020 Zogg fire and 2019 Kincade fire through ratemaking mechanisms andWildfire Fund in a timely manner, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected.manner.

The Utility could incur substantial costs in excess of insurance coverage or amounts potentially available under the Wildfire Fund under AB 1054 in the future in connection with the 2019 Kincade fire, and the 2020 Zogg fire, the 2021 Dixie fire, and the 2022 Mosquito fire.

There can be no assurance that the Utility will be allowed to recover costs in excess of insurance includingor amounts potentially available under the Wildfire Fund under AB 1054 in the future either through FERC TO rates or as costs recorded in those accounts into the future,WEMA, even if a court decision were to determine that the Utility is liable as a result of the application of the doctrine of inverse condemnation.

The inability to recover all or a significant portion of costs in excess of insurance through increases in rates andor by collecting such rates in a timely manner could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows. For more information on wildfire recovery risk, see “The Wildfire Fund and other provisions of AB 1054 may not effectively mitigate the risk of liability for damages arising from catastrophic wildfires” above and Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

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The doctrine of inverse condemnation, if applied by courts in litigation to which PG&E Corporation or the Utility are subject, could significantly expand the potential liabilities from such litigation and materially affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.may not effectively implement its wildfire mitigation initiatives.

California law includesThe Utility’s infrastructure is aging and poses risks to safety and system reliability. Although the Utility spends significant resources on initiatives designed to mitigate wildfire risks, there is no assurance that these initiatives will be successful or effective in reducing wildfire-related losses. The Utility will face a doctrinehigher likelihood of inverse condemnation that is routinely invokedcatastrophic wildfires in California. Inverse condemnation imposes strict liability (including liability for attorneys’ fees) for damages as a result ofits service area if it cannot effectively implement these efforts and its WMPs. For example, the design, constructionUtility may not be able to effectively implement its WMPs if it experiences unanticipated difficulties relative to sourcing, engaging, training, overseeing, and maintenance of utility facilities, including utilities’ electric transmission lines. Courts have imposed liabilityretaining contract workers it needs to fulfill its mitigation obligations under the doctrine of inverse condemnation in legal actions brought by property holders against utilitiesWMPs. The CPUC will assess penalties on the groundsUtility if there is a finding that losses borne by the person whose property was damaged through a public use undertaking should be spread across the community that benefitted from such undertaking, and based on the assumption that utilities have the ability to recover these costs from their customers. Plaintiffs have asserted and continue to assert the doctrine of inverse condemnation in lawsuits related to certain wildfires that occurred in the Utility’s service territory, including the 2019 Kincade fire and the 2020 Zogg fire. While the Utility currently continueshas failed to dispute the applicability of inverse condemnation to the Utility, theresubstantially comply with its WMPs.

There can be no assurance that the UtilityUtility’s wildfire mitigation initiatives will be successfuleffective. For instance, a wildfire may be ignited and spread even in challenging the applicabilityconditions that do not trigger proactive de-energization according to criteria for initiating a PSPS event or where EPSS has been implemented on Utility equipment. The Utility’s inspections of inverse condemnation in the 2019 Kincade fire, the 2020 Zogg firevegetation near its assets may not detect structural weaknesses within a tree or other litigation against PG&E Corporation orissues. If the Utility.Utility’s wildfire mitigation initiatives are not effective, a wildfire could be ignited and spread.

For example, a court could determine that the doctrine of inverse condemnation applies even in the absence of an open CPUC proceeding for cost recovery, or before a potential cost recovery decision is issued by the CPUC. Although the imposition of liability under the doctrine of inverse condemnation is premised on the assumption that utilities have the ability to automatically recover these costs from their customers, there can be no assurance that the CPUC would authorize cost recovery whether or not a previous court decision had imposed liability on a utility under the doctrine of inverse condemnation. (In December 2017, the CPUC denied recovery of costs that San Diego Gas & Electric Company stated it had incurred as a result of the doctrine of inverse condemnation, holding that the inverse condemnation principles of strict liability are not relevant to the CPUC’s prudent manager standard. That determination was challenged by San Diego Gas & Electric as well as by the Utility and Southern California Edison. In October 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case, effectively ending the challenge.)

If PG&E Corporation or the Utility were to be found liable for damages under the doctrine of inverse condemnation, but the Utility was unable to secure a cost recovery decision from the CPUC to pay for such costs through increases in rates or to collect such rates in a timely manner, the financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows of PG&E Corporation and the Utility would be materially affected by potential losses resulting from the impact of the 2019 Kincade fire, the 2020 Zogg fire or any future wildfires. (See “PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected as a result of the 2019 Kincade fire, the 2020 Zogg fire or future wildfires.” above.)

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial results could be materially affected as a result of the Utility’s implementation of its PSPS program.

As outlined in the 2020 WMP, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have adopted theThe PSPS program to proactively de-energize lines that traverse areas under elevated and extreme risks for wildfire when forecasts predict extreme fire-threat conditions. The Utility carried out nine PSPS events in 2019 and six in 2020. In addition to the 2019 and 2020 PSPS events, the Utility expects that PSPS events will be necessary in 2021 and future years.

These PSPS events havehas been subject to significant scrutiny and criticism by various stakeholders, including the California Governor, the CPUCcustomers, regulators, and the court overseeing the Utility’s probation.lawmakers. The Utility also is the subject of a scrutiny by the CPUC and of a class action litigation in connection with the 2019 PSPS events that was filed in the Bankruptcy Court in December of 2019. On August 14, 2020, the assigned ALJ issued a scoping memo and ruling in the 2019 ERRA Compliance proceeding that established a Phase II of the proceeding to address the impacts of PSPS events that occurred in the Utility’s service territory in 2019 and how the PSPS impacted its revenue collections. To date, the assigned ALJ has not initiated the Phase II.events.

44In addition, on a risk-informed basis, the Utility is making efforts to reduce the frequency and impacts of PSPS. The Utility may be subject to mandated changes to, or restrictions on, its operational practices, regulatory fines and penalties, claims for damages, and reputational harm if the Utility does not execute PSPS in compliance with applicable rules and regulations. The Utility establishes the criteria under which it implements PSPS in its territory. To the extent the Utility’s criteria for implementing PSPS are not sufficient to mitigate the risk of wildfires, the Utility does not fully implement PSPS when criteria are met due to other overriding conditions or the Utility’s regulators mandate changes to, or restrictions on, its criteria or other operational PSPS practices, the Utility will face a higher likelihood of catastrophic wildfires in its territory during high-risk weather conditions.


PG&E Corporation and the Utility cannot predict the timing and outcome of the various proceedings and litigation in connection with the PSPS events.its wildfire mitigation initiatives. PG&E Corporation and the Utility could be subject to additional investigations, regulatory proceedings, or other enforcement actions as well as to additional litigation and claims by customers as a result of the Utility’s implementation of its PSPS program,wildfire mitigation initiatives, which could result in fines, penalties, customer rebates, other payments, or other payments.the Utility’s failure to obtain cost recovery for amounts expended on these initiatives. The amount of any fines, penalties, customer rebates or other payments (if PG&E Corporation or the Utility were to issue any credits, rebates or other payments in connection with any other PSPS events (whether past events or in the future))wildfire mitigation initiatives or liability for damagesdamages) could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows. In addition, the PSPS program hasand EPSS programs have had an adverse impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s reputation with customers, regulators and policymakers and future PSPS events and EPSS outages may increase these negative perceptions. (ForFor more information, see “Regulatory Matters” in Item 7. MD&A).

Risks Related to the Outcome of Other Enforcement Matters, Investigations, and Regulatory Proceedings

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected in the event of further non-compliance with the terms of probation or in the event of further modifications to the conditions of probation.

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected in the event of further non-compliance with the terms of probation or in the event of further modifications to the conditions of probation. On January 26, 2017, following the federal criminal trial against the Utility in connection with the San Bruno explosion, in which the Utility was found guilty on six felony counts, the Utility was sentenced to, among other things, a five-year corporate probation period and oversight by a third-party monitor for a period of five years, with the ability to apply for early termination after three years.

From 2018 to 2020, the court overseeing the Utility’s probation issued various orders related to the Utility’s probation, including a finding that the Utility had violated a condition of its probation with respect to reporting requirements, and imposing new conditions of probation. For more information about the Utility’s probation and the court’s orders, see “Enforcement Matters” in Item 7. MD&A.

The Utility could incur material costs, not recoverable through rates, in the event of further non-compliance with the terms of its probation and in connection with the monitorship (including but not limited to costs resulting from recommendations of the third-party monitor). The Utility could also incur material costs, not recoverable through rates, in the event of further modifications to the conditions of its probation, such as those proposed by the court overseeing the Utility’s probation on December 29, 2020 and February 4, 2021, relating to de-energizing certain distribution circuits during PSPS events based on the presence of certain vegetation, and on February 18, 2021, relating to removing all trees or portions thereof, without regard to their health, if they are leaning towards a distribution line and could either fall on the line or contact the line from the side.

The outcome of probation could harm the Utility’s relationships with customers, regulators, legislators, communities, business partners, or other constituencies and make it more difficult to recruit qualified personnel and senior management. Further, it could negatively affect the outcome of future ratemaking and regulatory proceedings and result in increased regulatory or legislative scrutiny, including with respect to various aspects of how the Utility’s business is conducted or organized. (See “Enforcement and Litigation Matters” in Item 7. MD&A.)

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial results could be materially affected as a result of an Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process.

On November 24, 2020, the Utility received a letter (the “Letter”) from the President of the CPUC, expressing concerns related to the Utility’s vegetation management and asset management activities and explaining potential implications with respect to the Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process adopted by the CPUC in its decision approving PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Plan, as well as the Utility’s annual safety certification under AB 1054. According to the Letter, the President of the CPUC has “directed CPUC staff to conduct fact-finding to determine whether a recommendation to place [the Utility] into the enhanced oversight and enforcement process is warranted.” On January 14, 2021, the WSD issued the Utility’s 2020 Safety Certification pursuant to AB 1054. The safety certification is separate from the CPUC’s enforcement authority and does not preclude the CPUC from pursuing remedies for safety or other applicable violations.

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The Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process is a six-step process with potentially escalating CPUC oversight and enforcement measures based on specific “triggering events” identified for each of the six steps. If the Utility is placed into the Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process, it will be subject to additional reporting requirements and additional monitoring and oversight by the CPUC. Higher steps of the process (Steps 3-6) also contemplate additional enforcement mechanisms, including appointment of an independent third-party monitor, appointment of a chief restructuring officer, pursuit of the receivership remedy, and review of the Utility’s Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (i.e., its license to operate as a utility). The process contains provisions for the Utility to cure and exit the process if it can satisfy specific criteria. The Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process states that the Utility should presumptively move through the steps of the process sequentially, but the CPUC may place the Utility into the appropriate step of the process upon occurrence of a specified triggering event.

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial results could be materially affected as a result of legislative and regulatory developments.

Pursuant to Article 5.8 of the Public Utilities Code, on April 30, 2020, the Utility filed an application with the CPUC seeking authorization for a post-emergence transaction to securitize $7.5 billion of 2017 wildfire claims costs that is designed to be rate neutral to customers, with the proceeds used to pay or reimburse the Utility for the payment of wildfire claims costs associated with the 2017 Northern California wildfires. As a result of the proposed transaction, the Utility would retire $6.0 billion of Utility debt and accelerate a $592 million payment due to the Fire Victim Trust. Failure to consummate a securitization transaction could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows. (See “Regulatory Matters - Other Regulatory Proceedings” in Item 7. MD&A.)

In addition, the Public Utilities Code requires utilities to submit annual WMPs for approval by the CPUC on a schedule to be established by the CPUC. If the CPUC rejects the Utility’s WMP submittal, the Utility would become unable to obtain an AB 1054 safety certification and, as a result, become unable to access the Wildfire Fund, which could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows. The statute establishes factors to be considered by the CPUC when setting penalties for failure to substantially comply with the plan. Failure to substantially comply with the plan could result in fines and other penalties imposed on the Utility that could be material. (See “Regulatory Matters – Other Regulatory Proceedings” in Item 7. MD&A.)

On July 12, 2019, the California Governor signed into law AB 1054, which, among other policy reforms, provides for the establishment of a statewide fund that is available for eligible electric utility companies to pay eligible claims for liabilities arising from wildfires occurring after July 12, 2019 that are caused by the applicable electric utility company’s equipment. Although PG&E Corporation and the Utility contributed in accordance with AB 1054, an initial contribution of approximately $4.8 billion and first annual contribution of approximately $193 million to the Wildfire Fund on the Effective Date of the Plan to allow participation of the Utility therein, the impact of AB 1054 on PG&E Corporation and the Utility is subject to numerous uncertainties, including the Utility’s ability to demonstrate to the CPUC that wildfire-related costs paid from the Wildfire Fund are just and reasonable, subject to a disallowance cap, and that the Wildfire Fund has sufficient remaining funds. The Wildfire Fund will only be available for payment of eligible claims so long as there are sufficient funds remaining in the Wildfire Fund. Such funds could be depleted more quickly than expected, including as a result of claims made by California’s other participating electric utility companies. (See also, “PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial results could be materially affected if the Utility does not maintain an AB1054 safety certification or is otherwise unable to access the Wildfire Fund.” above.)

The costs of participating in the Wildfire Fund are expected to exceed $6.7 billion over the anticipated ten-year life of the fund. The timing and amount of any potential charges associated with the Utility’s contributions would also depend on various factors. In addition, there could also be a significant delay between the occurrence of a wildfire and the timing on which the Utility recognizes impairment for the reduction in future coverage, due to the lack of data available to the Utility following a catastrophic event, especially if the wildfire occurs in the service territory of another participating electric utility. Participation in the Wildfire Fund is expected to have a material impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows, and there can be no assurance that the benefits of participating in the Wildfire Fund ultimately outweigh these substantial costs.

Finally, AB 1054 revised some of the SB 901 requirements regarding WMPs, including creating a WSD to review future plans and that plans should cover a three-year period.

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In June 2018, the State of California enacted the CCPA, which went into effect on January 1, 2020, with a 12-month look-back period requiring compliance by January 1, 2019. On October 11, 2019, the State of California announced proposed regulations which provide guidance on the requirements of the CCPA. The CCPA requires companies that process information on California residents to make new disclosures to consumers about their data collection, use and sharing practices, allows consumers to opt out of certain data sharing with third parties and provides a new cause of action for data breaches. The CCPA provides for financial penalties in the event of non-compliance and statutory damages in the event of a data security breach. On November 3, 2020, Californians voted to approve Proposition 24, a ballot measure that creates the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). The CPRA, which will become effective on January 1, 2023, amends and expands the CCPA. Failure to comply with the CCPA and the CPRA could result in fines imposed on PG&E Corporation and the Utility that could be material.

Also, on September 10, 2018, the California Governor signed into law SB 100 (the 100 Percent Clean Energy Act of 2018), which increased the percentage from 50% to 60% of California’s electricity portfolio that must come from renewables by 2030; and establishes state policy that 100% of all retail electricity sales must come from renewable portfolio standard-eligible or carbon-free resources by 2045. Failure to comply with SB 100 could result in fines imposed on PG&E Corporation and the Utility that could be material and could also result in negative publicity.

Finally, on June 30, 2020, the California Governor signed into law SB 350 (the Golden State Energy Act), a bill which authorizes the creation by the Governor of a new entity, “Golden State Energy,” a nonprofit public benefit corporation, for the purpose of acquiring the Utility’s assets and serving electric and gas in the Utility’s service territory only in the event that the CPUC determines that the Utility’s Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity should be revoked pursuant to any process or procedures adopted by the CPUC in its decision approving PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Plan of Reorganization.

The Utility is subject to extensive regulations and the risk of enforcement proceedings in connection with compliance with such regulations. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected by the outcomes of the CPUC’s investigative enforcement proceedings against the Utility, other known enforcement matters, and other ongoing state and federal investigations and requests for information.

The Utility is subject to extensive regulations, including federal, state and local energy, environmental and other laws and regulations, and the risk of enforcement proceedings in connection with compliance with such regulations. The Utility could incur material charges, including fines and other penalties, in connection with the order to show cause related to the 2019 PSPS events, the OII related to the 2019 PSPS events, the safety culture OII, and other matters that the CPUC’s SED may be investigating. The SED could launch investigations at any time on any issue it deems appropriate.

The Utility could be subject to additional regulatory or governmental enforcement action in the future with respect to compliance with federal, state or local laws, regulations or orders that could result in additional fines, penalties or customer refunds, including those regarding renewable energy and resource adequacy requirements; customer billing; customer service; affiliate transactions; vegetation management; design, construction, operating and maintenance practices; safety and inspection practices; compliance with CPUC general orders or other applicable CPUC decisions or regulations; federal electric reliability standards; and environmental compliance. CPUC staff could also impose penalties on the Utility in the future in accordance with its authority under the gas and electric safety citation programs. The amount of such fines, penalties, or customer refunds could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

The Utility also is a target of a number of investigations, in addition to certain investigations in connection with the wildfires. (See “Risks Related to Wildfires,” above.) The Utility is unable to predict the outcome of pending investigations, including whether any charges will be brought against the Utility, or the amount of any costs and expenses associated with such investigations.

If these investigations result in enforcement action against the Utility, the Utility could incur additional fines or penalties the amount of which could be substantial and, in the event of a judgment against the Utility, suffer further ongoing negative consequences. Furthermore, a negative outcome in any of these investigations, or future enforcement actions, could negatively affect the outcome of future ratemaking and regulatory proceedings to which the Utility may be subject; for example, by enabling parties to challenge the Utility’s request to recover costs that the parties allege are somehow related to the Utility’s violations. (See also “PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected in the event of further non-compliance with the terms of probation or in the event of modifications to the conditions of probation” above.)

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PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial results primarily depend on the outcomes of regulatory and ratemaking proceedings and the Utility’s ability to manage its operating expenses and capital expenditures so that it is able to earn its authorized rate of return in a timely manner.

As a regulated entity, the Utility’s rates are set by the CPUC or the FERC on a prospective basis and are generally designed to allow the Utility to collect sufficient revenues to recover reasonable costs of providing service, including a return on its capital investments. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial results could be materially affected if the CPUC or the FERC does not authorize sufficient revenues for the Utility to safely and reliably serve its customers and earn its authorized ROE. The outcome of the Utility’s ratemaking proceedings can be affected by many factors, including the level of opposition by intervening parties; potential rate impacts; increasing levels of regulatory review; changes in the political, regulatory, or legislative environments; and the opinions of the Utility’s regulators, consumer and other stakeholder organizations, and customers, about the Utility’s ability to provide safe, reliable, and affordable electric and gas services. Further, an increase in the amount of capacity located in the Utility’s service territory that is procured by the CAISO could increase the Utility’s costs of procuring capacity needed for reliable service to its customers.

In addition to the amount of authorized revenues, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial results could be materially affected if the Utility’s actual costs to safely and reliably serve its customers differ from authorized or forecast costs. The Utility may incur additional costs for many reasons including changing market circumstances, unanticipated events (such as wildfires, storms, earthquakes, accidents, or catastrophic or other events affecting the Utility’s operations), or compliance with new state laws or policies. Although the Utility may be allowed to recover some or all of the additional costs, there may be a substantial delay between when the Utility incurs the costs and when the Utility is authorized to collect revenues to recover such costs. Alternatively, the CPUC or the FERC may disallow costs that they determine were not reasonably or prudently incurred by the Utility.

The Utility also is required to incur costs to comply with legislative and regulatory requirements and initiatives, such as those relating to the development of a state-wide electric vehicle charging infrastructure, the deployment of distributed energy resources, implementation of demand response and customer energy efficiency programs, energy storage and renewable energy targets, underground gas storage, and the construction of the California high-speed rail project. The Utility’s ability to recover costs, including its investments, associated with these and other legislative and regulatory initiatives will depend, in large part, on the final form of legislative or regulatory requirements, and the associated ratemaking mechanisms associated with these initiatives, including the timely adjustment of such mechanisms to reflect any lowered customer demand for the Utility’s electricity and natural gas services.

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial results depend upon the Utility’s continuing ability to recover “pass-through” costs, including electricity and natural gas procurement costs, from customers in a timely manner. The CPUC may disallow procurement costs for a variety of reasons. In addition, the Utility’s ability to recover these costs could be affected by the loss of Utility customers and decreased new customer growth, if the CPUC fails to adjust the Utility’s rates to reflect such events.

The Utility meets customer demand for electricity from a variety of sources, including electricity generated from the Utility’s own generation facilities, electricity provided by third parties under power purchase agreements, and purchases on the wholesale electricity market. The Utility must manage these sources using the commercial and CPUC regulatory principles of “least cost dispatch” and prudent administration of power purchase agreements in compliance with its CPUC-approved long-term procurement plan. The CPUC could disallow procurement costs incurred by the Utility if the CPUC determines that the Utility did not comply with these principles or if the Utility did not comply with its procurement plan.

Further, the contractual prices for electricity under the Utility’s current or future power purchase agreements could become uneconomic in the future for a variety of reasons, including developments in alternative energy technology, increased self-generation by customers, an increase in distributed generation, and lower customer demand due to adverse economic conditions or the loss of the Utility’s customers to other retail providers. Despite the CPUC’s current approval of the contracts, the CPUC could disallow contract costs in the future if it determines that the terms of such contracts, including price, do not meet the CPUC reasonableness standard.

The Utility’s ability to recover the costs it incurs in the wholesale electricity market may be affected by whether the CAISO wholesale electricity market continues to function effectively. Although market mechanisms are designed to limit excessive prices, these market mechanisms could fail, or the related systems and software on which the market mechanisms rely may not perform as intended which could result in excessive market prices. The CPUC could prohibit the Utility from passing through the higher costs of electricity to customers.

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Further, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial results could be affected by the loss of Utility customers and decreasing bundled load that occurs through municipalization of the Utility’s facilities, an increase in the number of CCAs that provide electricity to their residents, and an increase in the number of consumers who become direct access customers of alternative generation providers. (See “Competition in the Electricity Industry” in Item 1.) As the number of bundled customers (i.e., those customers who receive electricity and distribution service from the Utility) declines, the rates for remaining customers could increase as the Utility would have a smaller customer base from which to recover certain procurement costs. Although the Utility is permitted to collect non-bypassable charges for above market generation-related costs incurred on behalf of former customers, the charges may not be sufficient for the Utility to fully recover these costs. In addition, the Utility’s ability to collect non-bypassable charges has been, and may continue to be, challenged by certain customer groups. Furthermore, if the former customers return to receiving electricity supply from the Utility, the Utility could incur costs to meet their electricity needs that it may not be able to timely recover through rates or that it may not be able to recover at all.

In addition, increasing levels of self-generation of electricity by customers (primarily solar installations) and the use of customer NEM, which allows self-generating customers to receive bill credits for surplus power at the full retail rate, puts upward rate pressure on remaining customers, who may incur significantly higher bills due to an increase in customers seeking alternative energy providers.

A confluence of technology-related cost declines and sustained federal or state subsidies could make a combination of distributed generation and energy storage a viable, cost-effective alternative to the Utility’s bundled electric service which could further threaten the Utility’s ability to recover its generation, transmission, and distribution investments. If the number of the Utility’s customers decreases or grows at a slower rate than anticipated, the Utility’s level of authorized capital investment could decline as well, leading to a slower growth in rate base and earnings. Reduced energy demand or significantly slowed growth in demand due to customer migration to other energy providers, adoption of energy efficient technology, conservation, increasing levels of distributed generation and self-generation, unless substantially offset through regulatory cost allocations, could materially affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s business, financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

Further, changes in commodity prices also may have an adverse effect on the Utility’s ability to timely recover its operating costs and earn its authorized ROE. Although the Utility generally recovers its electricity and natural gas procurement costs from customers as “pass-through” costs, a significant and sustained rise in commodity prices could create overall rate pressures that make it more difficult for the Utility to recover its costs that are not categorized as “pass-through” costs. To relieve some of this upward rate pressure, the CPUC could authorize lower revenues than the Utility requested or disallow full cost recovery.

If the Utility is unable to recover a material portion of its procurement costs and/or if the CPUC fails to adjust the Utility’s rates to reflect the impact of changing loads, the wide deployment of distributed generation, and the development of new electricity generation and energy storage technologies, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected.

Risks Related to Operations and Information Technology

The Utility’s electricity and natural gas operations are inherently hazardous and involve significant risks which, if they materialize, can materially affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.risks.

The Utility owns and operates extensive electricity and natural gas facilities, including two nuclear generation units and an extensive hydroelectric generating system. (SeeSee “Electric Utility Operations” and “Natural Gas Utility Operations” in Item 1. Business above.) The Utility’s ability to earn its authorized ROE depends on its ability to efficiently maintain, operate, and protect its facilities, and provide electricity and natural gas services safely and reliably. The Utility undertakes substantial capital investment projects to construct, replace, and improve its electricity and natural gas facilities. In addition, the Utility is obligated to decommission its electricity generation facilities at the end of their useful operating lives,lives. For more information, see “The operation and decommissioning of the Utility’s nuclear generation facilities expose it to potentially significant liabilities and the CPUC approved retirement of Diablo Canyon by 2024 and 2025.Utility may not be able to fully recover its costs if regulatory requirements or operating conditions change or the facilities cease operations before the licenses expire” below.

The Utility’s ability to safely and reliablyefficiently construct, maintain, operate, maintain, constructprotect, and decommission its facilities, and provide electricity and natural gas services safely and reliably is subject to numerous risks, many of which are beyond the Utility’s control, including those that arise from:

the breakdown or failure of equipment, electric transmission or distribution lines, or natural gas transmission and distribution pipelines or other assets or group of assets, that can cause explosions, fires, public or workforce safety issues, large scale system disruption or other catastrophic events;
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an overpressure event occurring on natural gas facilities due to equipment failure, incorrect operating procedures or failure to follow correct operating procedures, or welding or fabrication-related defects, that results in the failure of downstream transmission pipelines or distribution assets and uncontained natural gas flow;

the failure to maintain adequate capacity to meet customer demand on the gas system that results in customer curtailments, controlled/controlled or uncontrolled gas outages, gas surges back into homes, serious personal injury or loss of life;

a prolonged statewide electrical black-out that results in damage to the Utility’s equipment or damage to property owned by customers or other third parties;

the failure to fully identify, evaluate, and control workplace hazards that result in serious injury or loss of life for employees, contractors, or the public, environmental damage, or reputational damage;

the release of radioactive materials caused by a nuclear accident, seismic activity, natural disaster, or terrorist act;

the failure of a large dam or other major hydroelectric facility, or the failure of one or more levees that protect land on which the Utility’s assets are built;

the failure to take expeditious or sufficient action to mitigate operating conditions, facilities, or equipment, that the Utility has identified, or reasonably should have identified, as unsafe, which failure then leads to a catastrophic event (such as a wildfire or natural gas explosion);

inadequate emergency preparedness plans and the failure to respond effectively to a catastrophic event that can lead to public or employee harm or extended outages;

operator or other human error;

a motor vehicle or aviation incident involving a Utility vehicle or aircraft, respectively (or one operated on behalf of the Utility) resulting in serious injuries to or fatalities of the workforce or the public, property damage, or other consequences;

an ineffective records management program that results in the failure to construct, operate and maintain a utility system safely and prudently;

construction performed by third parties that damages the Utility’s underground or overhead facilities, including, for example, ground excavations or “dig-ins” that damage the Utility’s underground pipelines;pipelines, the risk of which may be exacerbated if the Utility does not have an effective contract management system;

the release of hazardous or toxic substances into the air, water, or soil, including, for example, gas leaks from natural gas storage facilities; flaking lead-based paint from the Utility’s facilities, and leaking or spilled insulating fluid from electrical equipment; and

attacks by third parties, including cyber-attacks, acts of terrorism, vandalism, or war. For more information, see “The Utility’s operational networks and information technology systems could be impacted by a cyber incident, cyber security breach, severe natural event or physical attack” below.

The occurrence of any of these events could interrupt fuel supplies;supplies, affect demand for electricity or natural gas;gas, cause unplanned outages or reduce generating output;output, damage the Utility’s assets or operations;operations, damage the assets or operations of third parties on which the Utility relies;relies, damage property owned by customers or others;others, and cause personal injury or death. As a result, the Utility could incur costs to purchase replacement power, to repair assets and restore service, and to compensate third parties. Any of such incidents also could lead to significant claims against the Utility.

Further, although the Utility often enters into agreements for third-party contractors to perform work, such as patrolling and inspection of facilities, vegetation management, or the construction or demolition or facilities, and the Utility may have less control over contractors than its employees. The Utility may retain liability for the quality and completion of the contractor’s work and can be subject to penalties or other enforcement action if the contractor violates applicable laws, rules, regulations, or orders. The Utility may also be subject to liability, penalties or other enforcement action as a result of personal injury or death caused by third-party contractor actions.actions or inactions.
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Insurance, equipment warranties, or other contractual indemnification requirements may not be sufficient or effective to provide full or even partial recovery under all circumstances or against all hazards or liabilities to which the Utility may become subject. An uninsured loss could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.
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The Utility’s insurance coverage may not be sufficient to cover losses caused by an operating failure or catastrophic events, including severe weather events and events resulting from these conditions (including wildfires), or may not be available at a reasonable cost, or available at all.

The Utility has experienced increased costs and difficulties in obtaining insurance coverage for wildfires and other risks that could arise from the Utility’s ordinary operations. PG&E Corporation, the Utility or its contractors and customers could continue to experience coverage reductions and/or increased insurance costs in future years. No assurance can be given that future losses will not exceed the limits of the Utility’s insurance coverage. Uninsured losses and increases in the cost of insurance may not be recoverable in customer rates. A loss that is not fully insured or cannot be recovered in customer rates could materially affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

As a result of the potential application to IOUs of a strict liability standard under the doctrine of inverse condemnation, recent losses recorded by insurance companies, past wildfires and the risk of increased wildfires including as a result of climate change, the Utility may not be able to obtain sufficient insurance coverage in the future at a reasonable cost, or at all. In addition, the Utility is unable to predict whether it would be allowed to recover in rates the increased costs of insurance or the costs of any uninsured losses. Also, the Utility will not be able to obtain any recovery from the Wildfire Fund for wildfire-related losses in any year that do not exceed the greater of $1.0 billion in the aggregate and the amount of insurance coverage required under AB 1054. The Wildfire Fund would be available to the Utility to pay eligible claims for liabilities arising from future wildfires and would serve as an alternative to traditional insurance products, provided that the Utility satisfies the conditions to the Utility’s ongoing participation in the Wildfire Fund set forth in AB 1054 and that the Wildfire Fund has sufficient remaining funds. (See “Insurance Coverage” in Note 14 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

If the amount of insurance is insufficient or otherwise unavailable, or if the Utility is unable to obtain insurance at a reasonable cost or recover in rates the costs of any uninsured losses, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected.

The electric power and gas industries are undergoing significant changes driven by technological advancements and a decarbonized economy, which could materially affect the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.economy.

The electric power industry is undergoing transformative change driven by technological advancements enabling customer choice (for example, customer-owned generation and energy storage) and state climate policy supporting a decarbonized economy. The electric grid is a critical enabler of the adoption of new energy technologies that support California’s climate change and GHG reduction objectives, which continue to be publicly supported by California policymakers. California's environmental policy objectives are accelerating the pace and scope of the industry change. For instance, SB 100, which was signed into law on September 10, 2018, increases from 50% to 60%, the percentage of California’s electricity portfolio that must come from renewables by 2030. SB 100 establishes a further goal to have an electric grid that is entirely powered by clean energy by 2045. California utilities also are experiencing increasing deployment by customers and third parties of DERs,distributed energy resources, such as on-site solar generation, electric vehicles, energy storage, fuel cells, energy efficiency, and demand response technologies. These developments will require modernization of the electric distribution grid to, among other things, accommodate two-way flows of electricity, increase the grid’s capacity, and interconnect DERs.

In order to enable the California clean energy economy, sustained investments are required in grid modernization, renewable integration projects, energy efficiency programs, energy storage options, EVelectric vehicle infrastructure and state infrastructure modernization (e.g., rail and water projects).

To this end, the The Utility may be unable to effectively adapt to these potential business and regulatory changes, for instance by failing to meet customer demand for new business interconnections in a timely manner. The CPUC is also conducting proceedings to:to evaluate changes to the planning and operation of the electric distribution grid in order to prepare for higher penetration of DERsdistributed energy resources and consider future grid modernization and grid reinforcement investments; evaluate if traditional grid investments can be deferred by DERs,distributed energy resources, and if feasible, what, if any, compensation to utilities would be appropriate for enabling those investments; and clarify the role of the electric distribution grid operator. The CPUC also authorized development of two new, five-year programs aimed at accelerating widespread electric vehicle adoptionIf the Utility is unable to effectively adapt to these potential business and combating climate change. The new programs will increase fast charging options for consumers as well as electric charging infrastructure for non-light-duty fleet vehicles.regulatory changes its business model and its ability to execute on its strategy could be materially impacted.

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In addition, in light of the state’s commitment to clean energy and carbon neutral economy by 2045,Various jurisdictions within California has recently proposed public policies that prohibithave enacted prohibitions or restrict therestrictions on use and consumption of natural gas, for example in buildings, that will have for effect to reduce the use of natural gas. Reducing natural gas use could lead to a reduction in the gas customer base and a diminished need for gas infrastructure and, as a result, could lead to certain gas assets no longer bebeing “used and useful,” potentially causing substantial investment value of gas assets to be stranded. (Understranded (under CPUC precedent, when an asset no longer meets the standard of “used and useful,” the asset is removed from rate base, which may resultresults in a reduction in associated rate recovery.)recovery). However, while natural gas demand is projected to decline over time, the costs of operating a safe and reliable gas delivery system in California have been increasing, among other things, to cover the cost of long-term pipeline safety enhancements. Inability by the Utility to recover inthrough rates its investments into the natural gas system while still ensuring gas system safety and reliability could materially affect the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

TheThese industry changes, costs associated with complying with new regulatory developments and initiatives and with technological advancements, or the Utility’s inability to successfully adapt to changes in the electric and gas industry, could materially affect the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

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The Utility’s operational networks and information technology systems could be impacted by a cyber incident, cyber security breach, severe natural event, or physical attack on the Utility’s operational networks and information technology systems could have a material effect on its financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.attack.

The Utility’s electricity and natural gas systems rely on a complex, interconnected network of generation, transmission, distribution, control, and communication technologies, which can be damaged by natural events-such as severe weather or seismic events-and by malicious events, such as cyber and physical attacks. Private and public entities, such as the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, and the U.S. Federalfederal government, including the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Energy, and the White House, have noted that cyber-attacks targeting utility systems are increasing in sophistication, magnitude, and frequency. The Utility’s operational networks also may face new cyber security risks due to modernizing and interconnecting the existing infrastructure with new technologies and control systems. Any failure or decrease in the functionality of the Utility’s operational networks could cause harm to the public or employees, significantly disrupt operations, negatively impact the Utility’s ability to safely generate, transport, deliver and store energy and gas or otherwise operate in the most safe and efficient manner or at all, and damage the Utility’s assets or operations or those of third parties.

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The Utility also relies on complex information technology systems that allow it to create, collect, use, disclose, store and otherwise process sensitive information, including the Utility’s financial information, customer energy usage and billing information, and personal information regarding customers, employees and their dependents, contractors, and other individuals. In addition, theThe Utility often relies on third-party vendors to host, maintain, modify, and update its systems, and to provide other services to the Utility or the Utility’s customers. In addition, the Utility is increasingly being required to disclose large amounts of data (including customer energy usage and personal information regarding customers) to support changes to California’s electricity market related to grid modernization and customer choice. These third-party vendors could cease to exist, fail to establish adequate processes to protect the Utility’s systems and information, or experience security incidents or inadequate security measures. Any incidents or disruptions in the Utility’s information technology systems could impact the Utility’s ability to track or collect revenues and to maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting.

The Utility and its third-party vendors have been subject to, and will likely continue to be subject to, breaches and attempts to gain unauthorized access to the Utility’s information technology systems or confidential data (including information about customers and employees), or to disrupt the Utility’s operations. None of these breaches or attempts has individually or in the aggregate resulted in a security incident with a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows. Despite implementation of security and control measures, there can be no assurance that the Utility will be able to prevent unauthorized access to its operational networks, information technology systems or data, or the disruption of its operations. Such events could subject the Utility to significant expenses, claims by customers or third parties, government inquiries, penalties for violation of applicable privacy laws, investigations, and regulatory actions that could result in material fines and penalties, loss of customers and harm to PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s reputation, any of which could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

The Utility maintains cyber liability insurance that covers certain damages caused by cyber incidents. However, there is no guaranteeassurance that adequate insurance will continue to be available at rates the Utility believes are reasonable or that the costs of responding to and recovering from a cyber incident will be covered by insurance or recoverable inthrough rates.

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The operation and decommissioning of the Utility’s nuclear generation facilities expose it to potentially significant liabilities, and the Utility may not be able to fully recover its costs if regulatory requirements or operating conditions change or the facilities cease operations before the licenses expire.

The operation of the Utility’s nuclear generation facilities exposes it to potentially significant liabilities from environmental, health, and financial risks, such as risks relating to operation of the Diablo Canyon nuclear generation units as well as the storage, handling, and disposal of spent nuclear fuel, and the release of radioactive materials caused by a nuclear accident, seismic activity, natural disaster, or terrorist act. If the Utility incurs losses that are either not covered by insurance or exceed the amount of insurance coverage available, such losses could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows. In addition, the Utility may be required under federal law to pay up to $275 million of liabilities arising out of each nuclear incident occurring not only at the Utility’s Diablo Canyon facility but at any other nuclear power plant in the United States.

On January 11, 2018, the CPUC approved the retirement of Diablo Canyon units by 2024 and 2025. However, theThe Utility continues to face public concern about the safety of nuclear generation and nuclear fuel. Some of these nuclear opposition groups regularly file petitions at the NRC and in other forums challenging the actions of the NRC and urging governmental entities to adopt laws or policies in opposition to nuclear power. Although an action in opposition may ultimately fail, regulatory proceedings may take longer to conclude and be more costly to complete. It is also possible that public pressure could grow leading to adverse changes in legislation, regulations, orders, or their interpretation. As a result, operations at the Utility’s two nuclear generation units at Diablo Canyon could cease before their respective current licenses expire in 2024 and 2025.2025 or prior to the expiration of any renewed license and extended operations period. In such an instance, the Utility could be required to record a charge for the remaining amount of its unrecovered investment and such charge could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

In addition,If Diablo Canyon is retired by 2025, in order to retain highly skilled personnel necessary to safely operate Diablo Canyon during the remaining years of operations, the Utility will incur costs in connection with (i) an employee retention program to ensure adequate staffing levels at Diablo Canyon, which program has been approved by the CPUC, and (ii) an employee retraining and development program, to facilitate redeployment of a portion of Diablo Canyon personnel to the decommissioning project and elsewhere in the Utility. There can be no assurance that the Utility will be successful in retaining highly skilled personnel under its employee programs.

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The Utility is pursuing the extension of operations at Diablo Canyon through no later than 2030. If Diablo Canyon enters extended operations, the Utility will face operational challenges resulting from a shortened planning period. For instance, the Utility may be unable to procure an adequate supply of nuclear fuel. For more information, see “Extension of Diablo Canyon Operations” under “Legislative and Regulatory Initiatives” in Item 7. MD&A.

The Utility has incurred, and may continue to incur, substantial costs to comply with NRC regulations and orders. (SeeSee “Regulatory Environment” in Item 1. Business above.) If the Utility were unable to recover these costs, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected. The Utility may determine that it cannot comply with the new regulations or orders in a feasible and economic manner and voluntarily cease operations; alternatively, the NRC may order the Utility to cease operations until the Utility can comply with new regulations, orders, or decisions. The Utility may incur a material charge if it ceases operations at Diablo Canyon’s two nuclear generation units before their respective current licenses expire in 2024 and 2025. AtAs of December 31, 2020,2022, the Utility’s unrecovered investment in Diablo Canyon was $1.4 billion.$840 million.

The Utility also has an obligation to decommission its electricity generation facilities, including its nuclear facilities, as well as gas transmission system assets, at the end of their useful lives. (See Note 3: Summary of Significant Accounting Policies -See “Asset Retirement Obligations” in Note 3 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statement in Item 8.) The CPUC authorizes the Utility to recover its estimatedUtility’s costs to decommission its nuclear facilities through nuclear decommissioning chargesare subject to reasonableness review by the CPUC. The Utility will be responsible for any costs that are collected from customers and held in nuclear decommissioning trusts to be used for the eventual decommissioning of each nuclear unit.CPUC determines were not reasonably incurred. If the Utility’s actual decommissioning costs, including the amounts held in the nuclear decommissioning trusts, exceed estimated costs, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected.

Diablo Canyon Unit 2 has experienced four outages between July 2020 and February 24, 2021, each due or related to malfunctions within the main generator associated with excessive vibrations.If the
The Utility ismay be unable to adequately address the vibration issues in the Unit 2 generator, it may be required to operate Unit 2 at reduced operating levels or take the unit out of service for additional inspection, maintenance, or replacement of the affected component.Actions that may be necessary in response to the vibrations affecting the generator, or the occurrence or length of future outages, may result in incremental costs or forgone power market revenues. The Utility will also be subject to a review of the reasonableness of its actions before the CPUC. If additional outages occur in the future, or if Unit 2’s planned spring 2021 refueling outage is extended due to the inspectionsattract and replacement of the affected component, the Utility may incur additional incremental costs or forgo additional power market revenues. Furthermore, the cost of such actions may exceed current estimates, such costs may not be fully recovered from insurance through NEIL, or the costs may not be recovered through regulatory processes or otherwise. These amounts could be material and have a material effect on the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows.
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retain specialty personnel.

Risks RelatedThe Utility’s workforce is aging, and many employees are or will become eligible to Environmental Factorsretire within the next few years. Although the Utility has undertaken efforts to recruit and train new field service personnel, the Utility may be faced with a shortage of experienced and qualified personnel in certain specialty operational positions.Additionally, the Utility could experience labor disruptions from personnel in those positions. If the Utility were to experience such a shortage or disruptions, work stoppages could occur.

Severe weather conditions, extended drought and shifting climate patternsAny such occurrences could materially affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

Risks Related to Environmental Factors

Severe weather conditions, extended drought, and climate change could materially affect PG&E Corporation and the Utility.

Extreme weather, drought and shifting climate patterns have intensified the challenges associated with many of the other risks facing PG&E Corporation and the Utility, particularly wildfire management in California. The Utility’s service territoryarea encompasses some of the most densely forested areas in California and, as a consequence, is subject to higher risk from vegetation-related ignition events than other California IOUs. Further, environmental extremes, such as drought conditions and extreme heat followed by periods of wet weather, can drive additional vegetation growth (which can then fuel fires) and influence both the likelihood and severity of extraordinary wildfire events. In particular, the risk posed by wildfires, including during the recent wildfire seasons, has increased in the Utility’s service area as a result of a prioran ongoing extended period of drought, bark beetle infestations in the California forest, and wildfire fuel increases due to rising temperatures and record rainfall following the drought, and strong wind events, among other environmental factors. As of December 31, 2022, more than 81% of California is experiencing severe to extreme drought. Moderate or severe drought conditions occur and can persist in virtually all of the Utility’s service area. More than half of the Utility’s service area is in an HFTD. Contributing factors other than environmental can include local land use policies and historical forestry management practices. The combined effects of extreme weather and climate change also impact this risk. According to CalFire, as of December 12, 2020, over 9,639 fires have burned 4,359,517 acres, more than four percent of the state’s roughly 100 million acres of land, making 2020 the largest wildfire season recorded in California’s modern history. In January 2018, the CPUC approved a statewide fire-threat map that shows that approximately half of the Utility’s service territoryarea is facing “elevated” or “extreme” fire danger. Approximately 25,000 circuit miles of the Utility’s nearly 81,00080,000 distribution overhead circuit miles and approximately 5,500 miles of the nearly 18,000 transmission overhead circuit miles are in such high-fire threat areas,HFTDs, significantly more in total than other California IOUs.

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Severe weather events and other natural disasters, including wildfires and other fires, storms, tornadoes, floods, extreme heat waves,events, drought, earthquakes, lightning, tsunamis, rising sea levels, pandemics, solar events, electromagnetic events, wind events or other weather-related conditions, climate change, or natural disasters, such as wildfires, could result in severe business disruptions, prolonged power outages, property damage, injuries orand loss of life, significant decreases in revenues and earnings, and/orand significant additional costs to PG&E Corporation and the Utility. Any such event could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows. Any of such eventsevent also could lead to significant claims against the Utility. Further, these events could result in regulatory penalties and disallowances, particularly if the Utility encounters difficulties in restoring power to its customers on a timely basis or if the related losses are found to be the result of the Utility’s practices and/or the failure of electric and other equipment of the Utility.

Further, the Utility has been studying the potential effects of climate change (increased temperatures, changingseverity and frequency of storm events, sea level rise, land subsidence, change in temperature extremes, changes in precipitation patterns rising sea levels)and drought, and wildfire) on its assets, operations, and services, as part of its CVA. Following completion of this assessment,and the Utility is developing adaptation plans to set forth a strategy for those events and conditions that the Utility believes are most significant. Scientists project that climate change will increase electricity demandConsequences of these climate-driven events may vary widely and could include increased stress on the energy supply network due to more extreme, persistentnew patterns of demand, reduced hydroelectric output, physical damage to the Utility’s infrastructure, higher operational costs, and hot weather.an increase in the number and duration of customer outages and safety consequences for both employees and customers. As a result, the Utility’s hydroelectric generation could change, and the Utility would need to consider managing or acquiring additional generation. If the Utility increases its reliance on conventional generation resources to replace hydroelectric generation and to meet increased customer demand, it may become more costly for the Utility to comply with GHG emissions limits. In addition, climate hazards such as heatwaves, wind storms,windstorms, and flooding caused by rising sea levels and extreme storms could damage the Utility’s facilities, including gas, generation, and electric transmission and distribution assets. The Utility could incur substantial costs to repair or replace facilities, restore service, or compensate customers and other third parties for damages or injuries. The Utility anticipates that the increased costs would be recovered through rates, but as rate pressures increase, the likelihood of disallowance or non-recovery may increase. See “Rising rates for the Utility’s customers could result in circumstances in which the Utility is unable to fully recover costs or earn its authorized ROE” below.

Events or conditions caused by climate change could have a greatermaterial impact on the Utility’s operations than the Utility’s studies suggest and could result in lower revenues or increased expenses, or both. If the CPUC fails to adjust the Utility’s rates to reflect the impact of events or conditions caused by climate change, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected.

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The Utility’s operations are subject to extensive environmental laws, and changes in or liabilities under thesesuch laws could adversely affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial results.change.

The Utility’s operations are subject to extensive federal, state, and local environmental laws, regulations, and orders, relating to air quality, water quality and usage, remediation of hazardous wastes, and the protection and conservation of natural resources and wildlife. The Utility incurs significant capital, operating, and other costs associated with compliance with these environmental statutes, rules, and regulations. The Utility has been in the past, and may be in the future, required to pay for environmental remediation costs at sites where it is identified as a potentially responsible party under federal and state environmental laws. Although the Utility has recorded liabilities for known environmental obligations, these costs can be difficult to estimate due to uncertainties about the extent of contamination, remediation alternatives, the applicable remediation levels, and the financial ability of other potentially responsible parties. (ForFor more information, see Note 1516 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

Environmental remediation costs could increase in the future as a result of new legislation, the current trend toward more stringent standards, andor stricter and more expansive application of existing environmental regulations. Failure to comply with these laws and regulations, or failure to comply with the terms of licenses or permits issued by environmental or regulatory agencies, could expose the Utility to claims by third parties or the imposition of civil or criminal fines or other sanctions.

The CPUC has authorized the Utility to recover its environmental remediation costs for certain sites through various ratemaking mechanisms. One of these mechanisms allows the Utility rate recovery for 90% of its hazardous substance remediation costs for certain approved sites without a reasonableness review. The CPUC may discontinue or change these ratemaking mechanisms in the future, or the Utility may incur environmental costs that exceed amounts the CPUC has authorized the Utility to recover inthrough rates.

Some of the Utility’s environmental costs, such as the remediation costs associated with the Hinkley natural gas compressor site, are not recoverable through rates or insurance. (SeeSee “Environmental Regulation” in Item 1. and Note 1516 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.) The Utility’s costs to remediate groundwater contamination near the Hinkley natural gas compressor site and to abate the effects of the contamination, changes in estimated costs, and the extent to which actual remediation costs differ from recorded liabilities have had, and may continue to have, a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial results. Their financialcondition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.


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Risks Related to Other Enforcement Matters, Investigations, and Regulatory Proceedings

PG&E Corporation and the Utility are subject to the Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process.

The EOEP is a six-step process with potentially escalating CPUC oversight and enforcement measures based on specific “triggering events” identified for each of the six steps. If the Utility is placed into the EOEP, it will be subject to additional reporting requirements and additional monitoring and oversight by the CPUC. Higher steps of the process (steps 3 through 6) also contemplate additional enforcement mechanisms, including appointment of an independent third-party monitor, appointment of a chief restructuring officer, pursuit of the receivership remedy, and review of the Utility’s Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (i.e., its license to operate as a utility). The process contains provisions for the Utility to cure and exit the process if it can satisfy specific criteria. The EOEP states that the Utility should presumptively move through the steps of the process sequentially, but the CPUC may place the Utility into the appropriate step of the process upon occurrence of a specified triggering event.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility could be materially affected by legislative and regulatory developments.

The Utility and its operations are subject to extensive federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and orders. The Utility incurs significant capital, operating, and other costs associated with compliance with these rules. These rules could change, which could change the Utility��s compliance obligations and the costs to comply with these rules. Non-compliance with these rules could result in the imposition of material fines on PG&E Corporation and the Utility, other regulatory exposure, significant litigation, and reputational harm, which could materially affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

Wildfire

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected if the Wildfire Fund does not effectively mitigate the financial risk of liability for damages arising from catastrophic wildfires where the Utility’s facilities are a substantial cause. See “The Wildfire Fund and other provisions of AB 1054 may not effectively mitigate the risk of liability for damages arising from catastrophic wildfires.” above.

Privacy

In June 2018, the State of California enacted the CCPA, which went into effect on January 1, 2020, with a 12-month look-back period requiring compliance by January 1, 2019. The State of California announced enacted regulations in August 2020 and March 2021 which provide guidance on the requirements of the CCPA. The CCPA requires companies that process information on California residents to make new disclosures to consumers about their data collection, use and sharing practices, allows consumers to opt out of certain data sharing with third parties and provides a new cause of action for data breaches. The CCPA provides for financial penalties in the event of non-compliance and statutory damages in the event of a data security breach. On November 3, 2020, Californians voted to approve Proposition 24, a ballot measure that creates the California Privacy Rights Act (the “CPRA”), which amended and expanded the CCPA. The State of California enacted the CPRA in November 2020, with most provisions operative as of January 1, 2023 and applicable to personal information collected beginning January 1, 2022. Final CPRA regulations are in development. Failure to comply with the CCPA and the CPRA could result in litigation, audits, and the imposition of material fines on PG&E Corporation and the Utility.

Additionally, PG&E Corporation and the Utility collect and retain certain personal information of their customers, shareholders, and employees in connection with their business. Although PG&E Corporation and the Utility invest in risk management and information security measures, the personal information that they collect, as well as other commercially-sensitive data that they possess, could become compromised because of certain events, including a cyber incident, the insufficiency or failure of such measures, human error, the misappropriation of data, or the occurrence of any of the foregoing at any third party with which PG&E Corporation or the Utility has shared information. If any of these events were to transpire, it could subject PG&E Corporation and the Utility to financial liability.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility are subject to federal and state privacy laws, which grant consumers rights and protections, including, among other things, the ability to opt out of receiving certain communications and certain data sharing with third parties.

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Environmental

The environmental rules to which the Utility’s operations are subject relate to air quality, water quality and usage, remediation of hazardous substances, and the protection and conservation of natural resources and wildlife.

Also, SB 100 (the 100 Percent Clean Energy Act of 2018) increased the percentage from 50% to 60% of California’s electricity portfolio that must come from renewables by 2030; and established state policy that 100% of all retail electricity sales must come from renewable portfolio standard-eligible or carbon-free resources by 2045. Failure to comply with SB 100 could result in fines imposed on PG&E Corporation and the Utility that could be material.

The Utility is subject to extensive regulations and the risk of enforcement proceedings in connection with compliance with such regulations.

The Utility is subject to extensive regulations, including federal, state, and local energy, environmental and other laws and regulations, and the risk of enforcement proceedings in connection with compliance with such regulations. The Utility could incur material charges, including fines and other penalties, in connection with the Safety Culture OII (as defined in “Order Instituting an Investigation into PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Safety Culture” under “Regulatory Matters” in Item 7. MD&A) and other matters that the CPUC’s SED may be investigating. The SED could launch investigations at any time on any issue it deems appropriate. In addition, OEIS has authority to approve and oversee compliance with the WMP and may determine that the Utility has failed to substantially comply with its WMP.

The Utility could be subject to additional regulatory or governmental enforcement action in the future with respect to compliance with federal, state, or local laws, regulations or orders that could result in additional fines, penalties or customer refunds, including those regarding renewable energy and RA requirements; customer billing; customer service; affiliate transactions; vegetation management; design, construction, operating and maintenance practices; safety and inspection practices; compliance with CPUC GOs or other applicable CPUC decisions or regulations; whether the Utility is able to achieve the targets in its WMPs; federal electric reliability standards; and environmental compliance. CPUC staff could also impose penalties on the Utility in the future in accordance with its authority under the gas and electric safety citation programs. The amount of such fines, penalties, or customer refunds depends on a variety of factors and could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

The Utility also is a target of a number of investigations, in addition to certain investigations in connection with the wildfires. See “Risks Related to Wildfires” above. The Utility is unable to predict the outcome of pending investigations, including whether any charges will be brought against the Utility, or the amount of any costs and expenses associated with such investigations.

If these investigations result in enforcement action against the Utility, the Utility could incur additional fines or penalties, the amount of which could be substantial, and, in the event of a judgment against the Utility, suffer further ongoing negative consequences. Furthermore, a negative outcome in any of these investigations, or future enforcement actions, could negatively affect the outcome of future ratemaking and regulatory proceedings to which the Utility may be subject; for example, by enabling parties to challenge the Utility’s request to recover costs that the parties allege are somehow related to the Utility’s violations.

The Utility’s ratemaking and cost recovery proceedings may not authorize sufficient revenues, or the Utility’s actual costs could exceed its authorized or forecasted costs due to various factors, including if the Utility is not able to manage its costs effectively.

The Utility’s financial results depend on its ability to earn a reasonable return on capital, including long-term debt and equity, and to recover costs from its customers, through the rates it charges its customers as approved by the CPUC and the FERC. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected if the CPUC or the FERC does not authorize sufficient revenues for the Utility or if the amount of actual costs incurred differs from the forecast or authorized costs embedded in rates. The outcome of the Utility’s ratemaking proceedings can be affected by many factors, including the level of opposition by intervening parties; potential rate impacts; increasing levels of regulatory review; changes in estimated coststhe political, regulatory, or legislative environments; and by the extentopinions of the Utility’s regulators, consumer and other stakeholder organizations, and customers, about the Utility’s ability to whichprovide safe, reliable, and affordable electric and gas services. If the CPUC does not authorize sufficient funding for investments in the Utility’s infrastructure, it may negatively impact the Utility's ability to modernize the grid and make it resilient to risks related to climate change, including wildfires.

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In addition to the amount of authorized revenues, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected if the Utility’s actual remediation costs differ from recorded liabilities.authorized or forecast costs. The Utility’s ability to recover its costs and earn a reasonable rate of return can be affected by many factors, including the time delay between when costs are incurred and when those costs are recovered through rates. The CPUC or the FERC may not allow the Utility to recover costs on the basis that such costs were not reasonably or prudently incurred or for other reasons. Further, the Utility may be required to incur expenses before the relevant regulatory agency approves the recovery of such costs. For example, the Utility has incurred, and continues to incur, costs to strengthen its wildfire mitigation and prevention efforts before it is clear whether such costs will be recoverable through rates. Also, the CPUC may deny recovery of uninsured wildfire-related costs incurred by the Utility if the CPUC determines that the Utility was not prudent.

State climate policy requires reductionsThe Utility may incur additional costs or receive reduced revenue for many reasons including changing market circumstances, unanticipated events (such as wildfires, storms, earthquakes, accidents, or catastrophic or other events affecting the Utility’s operations), increased self-generation by customers, an increase in greenhouse gas emissionsdistributed generation, lower customer demand due to adverse economic conditions, the loss of 40%the Utility’s customers to other retail providers like CCAs or DA providers, whether the CAISO wholesale electricity market continues to function effectively, returning customers, or compliance with new state laws or policies. See “Trends in Market Demand and Competitive Conditions in the Electricity Industry” in Item 1.

Jurisdictions may attempt to acquire the Utility’s assets through eminent domain.

Jurisdictions may attempt to acquire the Utility’s assets through eminent domain (“municipalization”). In particular, the City and County of San Francisco (“San Francisco”) has submitted a petition with the CPUC seeking a valuation of the Utility’s electric assets in San Francisco and has expressed intent to acquire such assets. While San Francisco would still need to, among other things, initiate and prevail in an eminent domain action in state court to acquire the Utility’s assets, there is no guarantee that the Utility would be successful in defending against such an action or related regulatory proceeding. If municipalization proceedings are permitted to move forward and are successful, the Utility would be entitled to receive the fair market value of the assets that are subject to the takeover effort, but the valuation issues in any municipalization proceeding would be highly contentious and could result in the Utility receiving less than what it believes is just compensation for the applicable assets. Any assets acquired by a third party through eminent domain would be excluded from the Utility’s rate base, reducing the Utility’s revenues and opportunity to earn a return on such assets. Assets that are targeted for municipalization generally are located in geographic areas that have a lower cost of service relative to billed revenues, so municipalization could negatively impact the affordability of the Utility’s service for remaining Utility customers served outside of those geographic areas. A successful municipalization attempt could also encourage similar attempts by other municipalities which, if successful, would further divide the Utility’s assets and reduce the Utility’s rate base, profitability, and affordability for remaining Utility customers. It is also unclear how the CPUC would allocate the compensation received by the Utility for its assets between shareholders and customers. As a result of these factors, municipalization could materially affect the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flow.

Risks Related to PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Environment and Financial Condition

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s substantial indebtedness may adversely affect their financial health and operating flexibility.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility have a substantial amount of indebtedness, most of which is secured by liens on certain assets of PG&E Corporation and the Utility. As of December 31, 2022, PG&E Corporation had approximately $4.68 billion of outstanding indebtedness (such indebtedness consisting of PG&E Corporation’s $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2028, $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2030, and 80%borrowings under the $2.75 billion secured term loan agreement entered into in June 2020), and the Utility had approximately $45.6 billion of outstanding indebtedness. In addition, PG&E Corporation had $500 million of additional borrowing capacity under the Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement, and the Utility had $1.5 billion of additional borrowing capacity under the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement. In addition, the Utility had outstanding preferred stock with an aggregate liquidation preference of $252 million.

Since PG&E Corporation and the Utility have a high level of debt, a substantial portion of cash flow from operations will be used to make payments on this debt. Furthermore, since a significant percentage of the Utility’s assets are used to secure its debt, this reduces the amount of collateral available for future secured debt or credit support and reduces its flexibility in operating these secured assets. This relatively high level of debt and related security could have other important consequences for PG&E Corporation and the Utility, including:

limiting their ability or increasing the costs to refinance their indebtedness;
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limiting their ability to borrow additional amounts for working capital, capital expenditures, debt service requirements, execution of their business strategy or other purposes;

limiting their ability to use operating cash flow in other areas of their business;

increasing their vulnerability to general adverse economic and industry conditions, including increases in interest rates, particularly given their substantial indebtedness that bears interest at variable rates, as well as to catastrophic events; and

limiting their ability to capitalize on business opportunities.

Under the terms of the agreements and indentures governing their respective indebtedness, PG&E Corporation and the Utility are permitted to incur additional indebtedness, some of which could be secured (subject to compliance with certain tests) and which could further accentuate these risks. As a result of the high level of indebtedness, PG&E Corporation and the Utility may be unable to generate sufficient cash through operations to service such debt, and may need to refinance such indebtedness at or prior to maturity and be unable to obtain financing on suitable terms or at all. As a capital-intensive company, the Utility relies on access to the capital markets. If the Utility were unable to access the capital markets or the cost of financing were to substantially increase, its financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected. The Utility’s ability to obtain financing, as well as its ability to refinance debt and make scheduled payments of principal and interest, are dependent on numerous factors, including the Utility’s levels of indebtedness, maintenance of acceptable credit ratings, financial performance, liquidity and cash flow, and other market conditions. The Utility’s inability to service its substantial debt or access the financial markets on reasonable terms could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

The documents that govern PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s indebtedness limit their flexibility in operating their business.

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s material financing agreements, including certain of their respective credit agreements and indentures, contain various covenants restricting, among other things, their ability to:

incur or assume indebtedness or guarantees of indebtedness;

incur or assume liens;

sell or dispose of all or substantially all of its property or business;

merge or consolidate with other companies;

enter into any sale leaseback transactions; and

enter into swap agreements.

The restrictions contained in these material financing agreements could affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s ability to operate their business and may limit their ability to react to market conditions or take advantage of potential business opportunities as they arise. For example, such restrictions could adversely affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s ability to finance their operations and expenditures, make strategic acquisitions, investments, or alliances, sell assets, restructure their organization, or finance their capital needs. Additionally, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s ability to comply with these covenants and restrictions may be affected by 2050. Various proposalsevents beyond their control, including prevailing regulatory, economic, financial and industry conditions.

Parties have appealed the Confirmation Order.

Following entry of the Confirmation Order confirming the Plan, certain parties filed notices of appeal with respect to the Confirmation Order. While a number of such appeals have been dismissed, there can be no assurance that any of the remaining appeals will not be successful and, if successful, that any such appeal would not have a material adverse effect on PG&E Corporation and the Utility. See Note 2 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

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PG&E Corporation may be required to issue shares with respect to HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims, which would result in dilution to holders of PG&E Corporation common stock, or pay a material amount of cash with respect to allowed Subordinated Debt Claims.

On the Emergence Date, PG&E Corporation issued to the Fire Victim Trust a number of shares of common stock equal to 22.19% of the outstanding common stock on such date. As further described in “Satisfaction of HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims and Subordinated Debt Claims” in Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8, PG&E Corporation may be required to issue shares of its common stock in satisfaction of allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims. If such issuance is required, it may be determined that, under the Plan, the Fire Victim Trust should receive additional shares of PG&E Corporation common stock such that it would have owned 22.19% of the outstanding common stock of reorganized PG&E Corporation on the Emergence Date, assuming that such issuance of shares in satisfaction of the HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims had occurred on the Emergence Date. Any such issuances will result in dilution to anyone who holds shares of PG&E Corporation common stock prior to such issuance and may cause the trading price of PG&E Corporation shares to decline.

Additionally, PG&E Corporation may be required to pay a material amount of cash with respect to allowed Subordinated Debt Claims (as defined in “Satisfaction of HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims and Subordinated Debt Claims” in Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8). Such payment may have a material adverse impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

Any substantial sale of stock by existing stockholders could depress the market value of PG&E Corporation’s common stock, thereby devaluing the market price.

Certain stockholders, including the Fire Victim Trust, received a large number of shares in the Chapter 11 Cases and may continue to hold shares of PG&E Corporation. PG&E Corporation can make no prediction as to the effect, if any, that sales of shares, or the availability of shares for addressing these reductionsfuture sale, will have on the potentialprevailing market price of shares of PG&E Corporation common stock. Sales of substantial amounts of shares of common stock in the public market, or the perception that such sales could occur, could depress prevailing market prices for such shares. Such sales may also make it more difficult for PG&E Corporation to sell equity securities or equity-linked securities in the future at a time and price which it deems appropriate.

PG&E Corporation may also sell additional shares of common stock in subsequent offerings or issue additional shares of common stock or securities convertible into shares of PG&E Corporation common stock. The issuance of any shares of PG&E Corporation common stock in future financings, acquisitions upon conversion or exercise of convertible securities, or otherwise may result in a reduction of the book value and market price of PG&E Corporation’s outstanding common stock. If PG&E Corporation issues any such additional shares, the issuance will cause a reduction in the proportionate ownership and voting power of all current shareholders. PG&E Corporation cannot predict the size of future issuances of shares of PG&E Corporation common stock or securities convertible into shares of PG&E Corporation common stock or, for any issuance, the effect, if any, that such future issuances will have on the market price of PG&E Corporation’s common stock.

PG&E Corporation common stock is subject to ownership and transfer restrictions intended to preserve PG&E Corporation’s ability to use its net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes.

PG&E Corporation has incurred and may also continue to incur, in connection with the Plan, significant net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes, the amount and availability of which are subject to certain qualifications, limitations and uncertainties. The Amended Articles (as defined below) impose certain restrictions on the transferability and ownership of PG&E Corporation common stock and preferred stock (together, the “capital stock”) and other interests designated as “stock” of PG&E Corporation by the Board of Directors as disclosed in an SEC filing (such stock and other interests, the “Equity Securities,” and such restrictions on transferability and ownership, the “Ownership Restrictions”) in order to reduce natural gas usagethe possibility of an equity ownership shift that could result in limitations on PG&E Corporation’s ability to utilize net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes from prior taxable years or periods for federal income tax purposes. Any acquisition of PG&E Corporation capital stock that results in a shareholder being in violation of these restrictions may not be valid.

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Subject to certain exceptions, the Ownership Restrictions restrict (i) any person or entity (including certain groups of persons) from directly or indirectly acquiring or accumulating 4.75% or more of the outstanding Equity Securities and (ii) the ability of any person or entity (including certain groups of persons) already owning, directly or indirectly, 4.75% or more of the Equity Securities to increase natural gas costs,their proportionate interest in the Equity Securities. For more information, see “Because PG&E Corporation and the Utility have elected to treat the Fire Victim Trust as a grantor trust, the application of the Ownership Restrictions, as defined in PG&E Corporation’s Amended Articles of Incorporation, will be determined on the basis of a number of shares outstanding that could differ materially from the number of shares reported as outstanding on the cover page of its periodic reports under the Exchange Act” below. Any transferee receiving Equity Securities that would result in a violation of the Ownership Restrictions will not be recognized as a shareholder of PG&E Corporation or entitled to any rights of shareholders, including, without limitation, the right to vote and to receive dividends or distributions, whether liquidating or otherwise, in each case, with respect to the Equity Securities causing the violation.

The Ownership Restrictions remain in effect until the earliest of (i) the repeal, amendment, or modification of Section 382 (and any comparable successor provision) of the IRC, in a manner that renders the restrictions imposed by Section 382 of the IRC no longer applicable to PG&E Corporation, (ii) the beginning of a taxable year in which the Board of Directors of PG&E Corporation determines that no tax benefits attributable to net operating losses or other tax attributes are available, (iii) the date selected by the Board of Directors if it determines that the limitation amount imposed by Section 382 of the IRC as of such date in the event of an “ownership change” of PG&E Corporation (as defined in Section 382 of the IRC and Treasury Regulation Sections 1.1502-91 et seq.) would not be materially less than the net operating loss carryforwards or “net unrealized built-in loss” (within the meaning of Section 382 of the IRC and Treasury Regulation Sections 1.1502-91 et seq.) of PG&E Corporation, and (iv) the date selected by the Board of Directors if it determines that it is in the best interests of PG&E Corporation’s shareholders for the Ownership Restrictions to be removed or released. The Ownership Restrictions may also be waived by the Board of Directors on a case by case basis.

Because PG&E Corporation and the Utility have elected to treat the Fire Victim Trust as a grantor trust, the application of the Ownership Restrictions, as defined in PG&E Corporation’s Amended Articles of Incorporation, will be determined on the basis of a number of shares outstanding that could differ materially from the number of shares reported as outstanding on the cover page of its periodic reports under the Exchange Act.

The Plan contemplated that the Fire Victim Trust would be treated as a “qualified settlement fund” for U.S. federal and state income tax purposes, subject to PG&E Corporation’s ability to elect to treat the Fire Victim Trust as a grantor trust for U.S. federal and state income tax purposes instead. On July 8, 2021, PG&E Corporation, the Utility, ShareCo, and the Fire Victim Trust entered into the Share Exchange and Tax Matters Agreement, pursuant to which PG&E Corporation and the Utility made a grantor trust election for the Fire Victim Trust effective retroactively to the inception of the Fire Victim Trust.

As a result of the grantor trust election, shares of PG&E Corporation common stock owned by the Fire Victim Trust are treated as held by the Utility and, in turn attributed to PG&E Corporation for income tax purposes. Consequently, any shares owned by the Fire Victim Trust are effectively excluded from the total number of outstanding equity securities when calculating a person’s Percentage Stock Ownership (as defined in the Amended Articles) for purposes of the Ownership Restrictions. See “Tax Matters” in Item 7. MD&A for an example of these calculations. PG&E Corporation does not control the number of shares held by the Fire Victim Trust and is not able to determine in advance the number of shares the Fire Victim Trust will hold. PG&E Corporation intends to periodically make available to investors information about the number of shares of common stock held by the Fire Victim Trust, the Utility, and ShareCo as of a specified date for purposes of the Ownership Restrictions, including in its Quarterly Reports and Annual Reports filed with the SEC.

PG&E Corporation intends to enforce the Ownership Restrictions as described in the foregoing paragraph (calculated as excluding any shares owned by the Fire Victim Trust, the Utility, and ShareCo from the number of outstanding equity securities). All current and prospective shareholders are advised to consider the foregoing in determining their ownership and acquisition of PG&E Corporation common stock.

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PG&E Corporation may not be able to use some or all of its net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes to
offset future income.

As of December 31, 2022, PG&E Corporation had net operating loss carryforwards for PG&E Corporation’s consolidated group for U.S. federal and California income tax purposes of approximately $26.6 billion and $25.2 billion, respectively, and PG&E Corporation incurred and may also continue to incur, in connection with the Plan, significant net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes. The ability of PG&E Corporation to use some or all of these net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes may be subject to certain limitations. Under Section 382 of the IRC (which also applies for California state income tax purposes), if a corporation (or a consolidated group) undergoes an “ownership change,” such net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes may be subject to certain limitations. In general, an ownership change occurs if the aggregate stock ownership of certain shareholders (generally five percent shareholders, applying certain look-through and aggregation rules) increases by more than 50% over such shareholders’ lowest percentage ownership during the testing period (generally three years).

As of the date of this report, it is more likely than not that PG&E Corporation has not undergone an ownership change and its net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes are not limited by Section 382 of the IRC. However, whether PG&E Corporation underwent or will undergo an ownership change as a result of the transactions in PG&E Corporation’s equity that occurred pursuant to the Plan depends on several factors outside PG&E Corporation’s control and the application of certain laws that are uncertain in several respects. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that the Internal Revenue Service would not successfully assert that PG&E Corporation has undergone or will undergo an ownership change pursuant to the Plan. In addition, even if these transactions did not cause an ownership change, they may increase the likelihood that PG&E Corporation may undergo an ownership change in the future. If the Internal Revenue Service successfully asserts that PG&E Corporation did undergo, or PG&E Corporation otherwise does undergo, an ownership change, the limitation on its net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes under Section 382 of the IRC could be material to PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

In particular, limitations imposed on PG&E Corporation’s ability to utilize net operating loss carryforwards or other tax attributes could cause U.S. federal and California income taxes to be paid earlier than would be paid if such limitations were not in effect and could cause such net operating loss carryforwards or other tax attributes to expire unused, in each case reducing or eliminating the benefit of such net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes. In addition, PG&E Corporation’s ability to utilize its net operating loss carryforwards to fund a customer credit trust is critical to whether the impact of the fixed recovery charges paid by customers pursuant to the SB 901 securitization transactions will be neutral, on average, to such customers. Further, PG&E Corporation’s ability to utilize its net operating loss carryforwards is critical to PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s commitment to make certain operating and capital expenditures. Failure to obtain alternative sources of capital could have a material adverse effect on PG&E Corporation and the Utility and the value of PG&E Corporation common stock.

PG&E Corporation’s ability to pay dividends on shares of its common stock is subject to restrictions.

Pursuant to the Confirmation Order, PG&E Corporation may not pay dividends on shares of its common stock until it recognizes $6.2 billion in Non-GAAP Core Earnings following the Emergence Date. “Non-GAAP Core Earnings” means GAAP earnings adjusted for certain non-core items as described in the Plan.

Subject to the foregoing restrictions, any decision to declare and pay dividends in the future will be made at the discretion of natural gas services. ThePG&E Corporation’s Board of Directors and will depend on, among other things, PG&E Corporation’s results of operations, financial condition, cash requirements, contractual restrictions, and other factors that the Board of Directors may deem relevant.

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PG&E Corporation is a holding company and relies on dividends, distributions and other payments, advances, and transfers of funds from the Utility to meet its obligations.

PG&E Corporation conducts its operations primarily through its subsidiary, the Utility, and substantially all of PG&E Corporation’s consolidated assets are held by the Utility. Accordingly, PG&E Corporation’s cash flow and its ability to meet its debt service obligations under its existing and future recoveryindebtedness are largely dependent upon the earnings and cash flows of the increased costs associatedUtility and the distribution or other payment of these earnings and cash flows to PG&E Corporation in the form of dividends or loans or advances and repayment of loans and advances from the Utility. The ability of the Utility to pay dividends or make other advances, distributions, and transfers of funds will depend on its results of operations and may be restricted by, among other things, applicable laws limiting the amount of funds available for payment of dividends and certain restrictive covenants contained in the agreements of those subsidiaries. Additionally, the Utility must use its resources to satisfy its own obligations, including its obligation to serve customers, to pay principal and interest on outstanding debt, to pay preferred stock dividends, and to meet its obligations to employees and creditors, before it can distribute cash to PG&E Corporation. In addition, the CPUC has imposed various conditions that govern the relationship between PG&E Corporation and the Utility, including financial conditions that require the Board of Directors to give first priority to the capital requirements of the Utility, as determined to be necessary and prudent to meet the Utility’s obligation to serve or to operate the Utility in a prudent and efficient manner. PG&E Corporation is unable to predict when it will commence the payment of dividends on its common stock. The deterioration of income from, or other available assets of, the Utility for any reason could limit or impair the Utility’s ability to pay dividends or other distributions to PG&E Corporation, which could, in turn, materially and adversely affect PG&E Corporation’s ability to meet its obligations.

California law and certain provisions in the Amended Articles and the amended and restated bylaws of PG&E Corporation (the “Amended Bylaws”) may prevent efforts by shareholders to change the direction or management of PG&E Corporation.

The Amended Articles and the Amended Bylaws contain provisions that may make the acquisition of PG&E Corporation more difficult without the approval of the Board of Directors, including the following:

until 2024, the Board of Directors will be divided into two equal classes, with compliancemembers of each class elected in different years for different terms;

only holders of shares who are entitled to cast ten percent or more of the votes can request a special meeting of the shareholders, and any such request must satisfy the requirements specified in the Amended Bylaws; action by shareholders may otherwise only be taken at an annual or special meeting duly called by or at the direction of a majority of the Board of Directors, or action by written consent signed by shareholders owning at least the number of votes necessary to authorize the action at a meeting where all shares entitled to vote were present;

advance notice for all shareholder proposals is required; and

any person acquiring PG&E Corporation Equity Securities will be restricted from owning 4.75% or more of such Equity Securities (as determined for federal income tax purposes (see “Tax Matters” in Item 7. MD&A)), subject to certain exceptions as may be determined by the Board of Directors of PG&E Corporation.

These and other provisions in the Amended Articles, the Amended Bylaws, and California law could make it more difficult for shareholders or potential acquirers to obtain control of the Board of Directors or initiate actions that are opposed by the then-current Board of Directors, including delaying or impeding merger, tender offer, or proxy contest involving PG&E Corporation. The existence of these provisions could negatively affect the price of PG&E Corporation common stock and limit opportunities for shareholders to realize value in a corporate transaction.

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows have been and could continue to be significantly affected by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows have been (beginning in March 2020) and could continue to be significantly affected by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic (and its variants), but the extent of such impact is uncertain.

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PG&E Corporation and the Utility continue to evaluate the impact of the current COVID-19 outbreak on their business and financial results. The CARBconsequences of a continued and prolonged outbreak and resulting governmental and regulatory orders have had and could continue to have a negative impact on the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic conditions, and resulting decrease in economic and industrial activity in the Utility’s service area, have and will continue to have a significant adverse impact on the Utility’s customers. These circumstances have impacted and will continue to impact the Utility for a period of time that PG&E Corporation and the Utility are unable to predict. For example, the economic downturn has resulted in a reduction in customer receipts and collection delays throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Utility’s accounts receivable balances over 30 days outstanding as of December 31, 2022 were approximately $1.1 billion, or $890 million higher as compared to the balances as of December 31, 2019. The Utility is unable to estimate the state’s primary regulatorportion of the increase directly attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Utility expects to continue experiencing an impact on monthly cash collections for GHG emissionas long as current COVID-19 circumstances persist.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility are unable to quantify the long-term potential impact of the changes in customer collections or changes in energy demand on earnings and cash flows due, in part, to uncertainties regarding the timing, duration and intensity of the COVID-19 outbreak and the resulting economic downturn. Although the CPUC authorized the establishment of memorandum and balancing accounts to track costs associated with customer protection measures, the timing of regulatory relief, if any, and ultimate cost recovery from such accounts or otherwise, are uncertain.

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic downturn have resulted and may continue to result in workforce disruptions, both in personnel availability (including a reduction in contract labor resources) and deployment. Increased governmental regulation of the COVID-19 pandemic protections, including vaccination mandates or testing requirements for workers, could result in employee attrition, workforce disruptions and increased supplier and contractor costs.

Although the Utility continues to prioritize customer and community safety, these disruptions necessitate changes to the Utility’s operating and capital expenditure plans, which could lead to project delays or service disruptions in certain programs. Delays in production and shipping of materials used in the Utility’s operations may also impact operations.

The Utility has experienced shortages in certain materials, longer lead times and delivery delays as a result of domestic and international raw material and labor shortages. If these disruptions to the supply chain persist or worsen, the Utility may be delayed or prevented from completing planned maintenance and capital projects work.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility expect additional financial impacts in the future as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Potential longer-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on PG&E Corporation or the Utility include the potential for higher credit spreads, borrowing costs and incremental financing needs. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s analysis of the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing and subject to change. PG&E Corporation and the Utility are unable to predict the timing, duration or intensity of the COVID-19 pandemic situation and any resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic and any variant strains of the COVID-19 virus, the effectiveness and intensity of measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic (including availability and effectiveness of vaccines), and the effects of the COVID-19 situation on the business, financial condition and results of operations of PG&E Corporation and the Utility and on the business and general economic conditions in the State of California and the United States of America.

Rising rates for the Utility’s customers could result in circumstances in which the Utility is unable to fully recover costs or earn its authorized ROE.

The rates paid by the Utility’s customers are impacted by the Utility’s costs, commodity prices, and broader energy trends. The Utility’s capital investment plan, increasing procurement of renewable power and energy storage, increasing environmental regulations, leveling demand, and the cumulative impact of other public policy requirements, collectively place continuing upward pressure on customer rates. In particular, the Utility will need to make substantial, sustained investments to its infrastructure to adapt to climate change. For more information on factors that could cause the Utility’s costs to increase, see “The Utility’s ratemaking and cost recovery proceedings may not authorize sufficient revenues, or the Utility’s actual costs could exceed its authorized or forecasted costs due to various factors, including if the Utility is not able to manage its costs effectively” above. If customer rates increase, the CPUC may face greater pressure to approve lesser amounts in the Utility’s ratemaking or cost recovery proceedings.

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The Utility generally recovers its electricity and natural gas procurement costs through rates as “pass-through” costs. Increases in the Utility’s commodity costs directly impact customer bills.

Increasing levels of self-generation of electricity by customers (primarily solar installations) and customer enrollment in NEM, which allows self-generating customers to receive bill credits for power exported to the grid at the full retail rate, shifts costs to other customers. Under this structure, NEM customers do not pay their proportionate share of the cost of maintaining and operating the electric transmission and distribution system, including costs associated with funding social equity programs, subject to certain exceptions, while still receiving electricity from the system when their self-generation is inadequate to meet their electricity needs. These unpaid costs are subsidized by customers not participating in NEM. Accordingly, as more electric customers switch to NEM and self-generate energy, the burden on the remaining customers increases, which in turn encourages more self-generation, further increasing rate pressure on existing non-NEM customers.

Other long-term trends could also increase costs for gas customers. Natural gas providers have beensuppliers are subject to compliance with CARB’s Cap-and-Trade Program since 2015,cap-and-trade program, and natural gas end-use customers have an increasing exposure to carbon costs under the Programprogram through 2030 when(when the full cost will be reflected in customer bills. CARB’s Scoping Planbills). CARB may also proposes various methods of reducing GHG emissions from natural gas. These include morerequire aggressive energy efficiency programs to reduce natural gas end use, increaseduse. Increased renewable portfolio standards generation in the electric sector reducing noncorecould reduce electric generation gas load, and replacement ofload. Additionally, customers replacing natural gas appliances with electric appliances leadingwill lead to further reduced demand. These natural gas load reductions may be partially offset by CARB’s proposals to deploy natural gas to replace wood fuel in home heating and diesel in transportation applications. CARB also proposes a displacement of some conventional natural gas with above-market renewable natural gas.demand. The combination of reduced load and increased costs to maintain the gas system could result in higher natural gas customer bills and a potential mandate to deliver renewable natural gas could lead to cost recovery risk.bills. In addition, some local city governments have passed ordinances restricting use of natural gas in new construction and, if other jurisdictions follow suit, this could affect future demand for the provision of natural gas. If fewer customers receive gas from the Utility, the Utility’s gas system maintenance costs, many of which cannot be reduced in the short term even if gas quantities decrease, would be borne by fewer customers. Finally, a mandate to purchase renewable natural gas for core customers could lead to increased costs for core customers if utilities are competing with the transportation sector for supplies of renewable natural gas.

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General Risk FactorsA confluence of technology-related cost declines and sustained federal or state subsidies could make a combination of distributed generation and energy storage a viable, cost-effective alternative to the Utility’s bundled electric service which could further reduce energy demand. Reduced energy demand or significantly slowed growth in demand due to customer migration to other energy providers, adoption of energy efficient technology, conservation, increasing levels of distributed generation and self-generation, unless substantially offset through regulatory cost allocations, could increase the energy rates for other customers.

The Utility’s success depends onIf rates were to rise too rapidly, customer usage could decline. This decline would decrease the availabilityvolume of the services of a qualified workforce and its ability to maintain satisfactory collective bargaining agreementssales, among which cover a substantial number of employees. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s resultscosts are allocated, and increase rates.

To relieve some of this upward rate pressure, the CPUC may suffer ifauthorize lower revenues than the Utility requested or increase the period over which the Utility is unableallowed to attract and retain qualified personnel and senior management talent, or if prolonged labor disruptions occur.

recover amounts, which could impact the Utility’s ability to timely recover its operating costs. The Utility’s workforce is aging,level of authorized capital investment could decline as well, leading to a slower growth in rate base and many employees are or will become eligible to retire within the next few years. Although the Utility has undertaken efforts to recruit and train new field service personnel, the Utility may be faced withearnings. As a shortage of experienced and qualified personnel. The majority of the Utility’s employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements with three unions. Labor disruptions could occur depending on the outcome of negotiations to renew the terms of these agreements with the unions or if tentative new agreements are not ratified by their members. In addition, some of the remaining non-represented Utility employees could join one of these unions in the future.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility also may face challenges in attracting and retaining senior management talent especially if they are unable to restore the reputational harm generated by the negative publicity stemming from the ongoing enforcement proceedings and the recent Chapter 11 Cases. Any such occurrences could materially affectresult, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected.

Inflation may negatively impact PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial conditions, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility have observed that prices for equipment, materials, supplies, employee labor, contractor services, and variable-rate debt have increased. Long-term inflationary pressures may result in such prices continuing to increase more quickly than expected. Increases in inflation raises costs for labor, materials and services, and PG&E Corporation and the Utility may be unable to secure these resources on economically acceptable terms or offset such costs with increased revenues, operating efficiencies, or cost savings, which may adversely impact PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial conditions, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

None.

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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES

The Utility owns or has obtained the right to occupy and/or use real property comprising the Utility’s electricity and natural gas distribution facilities, electric generation facilities, natural gas gathering facilities and generation facilities, and natural gas and electricity transmission facilities, which are described in Item 1. Business, under “Electric Utility Operations” and “Natural Gas Utility Operations.” The Utility occupies or uses real property primarily through various leases, easements, rights-of-way, permits, or licenses from private landowners or governmental authorities. In total, the Utility occupies 119 million square feet of real property, including 97 million square feet owned by the Utility. The Utility’s corporate headquarters comprises approximately 1.7 million square feet located in several Utility-owned buildings in San Francisco, California. The Utility intends to sell its current corporate headquarters office space generally located at 77 Beale Street, 215 Market Street, 245 Market StreetOn September 17, 2021, the sale of the SFGO closed and 50 Main Street, San Francisco, California, and associated properties owned by the Utility andentered into a leaseback agreement with the new SFGO owner (the “Leaseback Agreement”) to lease back certain space within the SFGO to allow for additional time to relocate critical facilities to other Utility sites. The Leaseback Agreement commenced on September 30, 2020,17, 2021 and continues through various dates for the Utility filed an application seekingvarious leased spaces, with December 31, 2023 being the required CPUC approval.latest lease expiration date. On October 23, 2020, the Utility entered into an office lease agreement with BA2 300 Lakeside LLC for approximately 910,000 rentable square feet of space within the building located at 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, California, 94612 (“Lakeside Building”)Building to serve as the Utility’s principal administrative headquarters. The term of the lease will beginbegan on or about March 1,April 8, 2022 and will grantthe lease grants the Utility an option to purchase the legal parcel that contains the Lakeside Building. For more information, see Note 153 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

PG&E Corporation also leasesleased approximately 42,000 square feet of office space from a third party in San Francisco, California. This lease will expire inexpired, and the leased premises were surrendered at the end of February 2022.

The Utility currently owns approximately 158,000148,000 acres of land, including approximately 128,000121,000 acres of watershed lands. In 2002, the Utility agreed to implement its LCCLand Conservation Commitment (“LCC”) to permanently preserve the six “beneficial public values” on all the watershed lands through conservation easements or equivalent protections, as well as to make approximately 40,000 acres of the watershed lands available for donation to qualified organizations. The six “beneficial public values” being preserved by the LCC include: natural habitat of fish, wildlife, and plants; open space; outdoor recreation by the general public; sustainable forestry; agricultural uses; and historic values. The Utility’s goal is to implement all the LCC transactions needed to implement the LCC by the end of 2022,2023, subject to securing all required regulatory approvals.

ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

PG&E Corporation and the Utility are parties to various lawsuits and regulatory proceedings in the ordinary course of their business.  For more information regarding material lawsuits and proceedings, see “Litigation Matters” in Item 7. MD&A: “Enforcement and Litigation Matters,”&A, Item 1A. Risk Factors and Notes 2, 14,15, and 1516 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

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During the quarter ended December 31, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility increased their quantitative threshold for disclosure of environmental proceedings from $100,000 in prior years to $1 million as a result of amendments to disclosure requirements in Regulation S-K.

ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

Not applicable. 

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INFORMATION ABOUT OUR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

The following individuals serve as executive officers of PG&E Corporation, as of February 25, 2021.22, 2023. Except as otherwise noted, all positions have been held at PG&E Corporation.
NameAgePositions Held Over Last Five YearsTime in Position
Patricia K. Poppe5254Chief Executive OfficerJanuary 4, 2021 to present
President and Chief Executive Officer, CMS Energy CorporationJuly 2016 to December 2020
Vice President, of customer experience, ratesCustomer Experience, Rates and regulation ofRegulations, Consumers CMS Energy CorporationCompanyJanuary 2011 to July 2016
Christopher A. Foster4244Executive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerMarch 20, 2021 to present
Vice President and Interim Chief Financial OfficerSeptember 26, 2020 to presentMarch 20, 2021
Vice President, Treasury and Investor RelationsMarch 9, 2020 to September 25, 2020
Senior positions within PG&E Corporation’s Investor Relations department, including as its Vice President starting in December 2018November 2017 to March 8, 2020
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Senior positions within PG&E Corporation and the Utility, including Director, Integrated Grid Planning and Innovation from June 2016 to October 2017 and Chief of Staff, Office of the Chairman and CEO, from June 2014 to May 2016September 6, 2011 to October 2017
Carla J. Peterman44Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Chief Sustainability OfficerOctober 1, 2021 to present
Executive Vice President, Corporate AffairsJune 1, 2021 to September 30, 2021
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Regulatory
Affairs, Southern California Edison
September 2019 to May 2021
Commissioner, California Public Utilities CommissionDecember 2012 to December 2018
Julius Cox51Executive Vice President, People, Shared Services and Supply Chain, PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric CompanyFebruary 1, 2021 to present
Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer, American Electric PowerOctober 2019 to January 2021
Executive Vice President & Chief Transformation Officer, Dynegy Inc.September 2017 to April 2018
Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer, Dynegy Inc.October 2014 to September 2017
Ajay Waghray61Senior Vice President and Chief Information OfficerSeptember 21, 2020 to present
Founder, Agni Growth Ventures, LLCJanuary 2019 to September 2021
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Assurant Inc.May 2016 to December 2018
Sumeet Singh44Executive Vice President, Chief Risk and Chief Safety Officer, PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric CompanyJanuary 1, 2022 to present
Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric CompanyFebruary 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021
Interim President and Chief Risk Officer, Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, PG&E CorporationJanuary 1, 2021 to January 31, 2021
Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric CompanyAugust 2020 to December 31, 2021
Gas Safety & Integrity Officer, Energy, Picarro, Inc.February 2020 to August 2020
Senior positions within the Utility including Vice President, Asset, Risk Management and Community Wildfire Safety Program from May 2019 to January 2020, Vice President, Community Wildfire Safety Program, from September 2018 to May 2019, Vice President, Gas Asset and Risk Management from September 2015 to August 2018September 2015 to January 2020
John R. Simon58Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Ethics & Compliance OfficerAugust 15, 2020 to present
Executive Vice President, Law, Strategy, and PolicyJune 2019 to August 2020
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Executive Vice PresidentMay 2019 to June 2019
Interim Chief Executive OfficerJanuary 2019 to May 2019
Executive Vice President and General CounselMarch 2017 to January 2019
Executive Vice President, Corporate Services and Human ResourcesAugust 2015 to February 2017
Adam L. Wright4345Executive Vice President, Operations and Chief Operating Officer, Pacific Gas and Electric CompanyFebruary 1, 2021 to present
Chief Executive Officer and President, MidAmerican Energy CompanyJanuary 2018 to January 26, 2021
President of MidAmerican Funding LLCJanuary 2018 to January 26, 2021
Vice President, Gas Delivery, MidAmerican Energy CompanyMay 2015 to January 2018
Vice President, Wind Generation & Development, MidAmerican Energy CompanyJanuary 2012 to May 2015
John R. SimonMarlene M. Santos5662Executive Vice President General Counsel and Chief Ethics & ComplianceCustomer Officer, Pacific Gas and Electric CompanyAugustMarch 15, 20202021 to present
Executive Vice President, Law, Strategy, and PolicyGulf Power CompanyJune 3,January 2019 to August 15, 2020March 2021
Chief Integration Officer, NextEra Energy, Inc.March 2015 to December 2018
Jason M. Glickman42Executive Vice President, Engineering, Planning, and Strategy, Pacific Gas and Electric CompanyMay 2, 20193, 2021 to June 2, 2019present
Interim Chief Executive OfficerGlobal Head of Utilities and Renewables, Bain & CompanyJanuary 13, 2019March 2020 to May 1, 2019April 2021
Executive Vice President and General CounselPartner, Bain & CompanyMarch 1, 2017January 2014 to January 13, 2019April 2021
Executive Vice President, Corporate Services and Human ResourcesConsultant, Bain & CompanyAugust 18, 20152007 to February 28, 2017December 2013

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The following individuals serve as executive officers of the Utility as of February 25, 2021.22, 2023. Except as otherwise noted, all positions have been held at the Utility.


Adam L. Wright4345Executive Vice President, Operations and Chief Operating OfficerFebruary 1, 2021 to present
Chief Executive Officer and President, MidAmerican Energy CompanyJanuary 2018 to January 26, 2021
President of MidAmerican Funding LLCJanuary 2018 to January 26, 2021
Vice President, Gas Delivery, MidAmerican Energy CompanyMay 2015 to January 2018
Vice President, Wind Generation & Development, MidAmerican Energy CompanyJanuary 2012 to May 2015
David S. ThomasonMarlene M. Santos4562Executive Vice President and Chief Customer OfficerMarch 15, 2021 to present
President, Gulf Power CompanyJanuary 2019 to March 2021
Chief Integration Officer, NextEra Energy, Inc.March 2015 to December 2018
Jason M. Glickman42Executive Vice President, Engineering, Planning, and StrategyMay 3, 2021 to present
Global Head of Utilities and Renewables, Bain & CompanyMarch 2020 to April 2021
Partner, Bain & CompanyJanuary 2014 to April 2021
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Consultant, Bain & CompanyAugust 2007 to December 2013
Stephanie N. Williams40Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Controller, Pacific Gas and Electric CompanyJune 1, 2016January 10, 2023 to present
Vice President, Finance and Controller, PG&E CorporationPlanningJuneJanuary 2020 to January 10, 2023
Senior Director, Business Finance Electric OperationsMarch 2019 to January 10, 2022
Director, Business FinanceOctober 2014 to February 2019
Julius Cox51Executive Vice President, People, Shared Services and Supply Chain, PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric CompanyFebruary 1, 20162021 to present
Senior Director, Financial Forecasting and AnalysisVice President & Chief Human Resources Officer, American Electric PowerMarch 2, 2015October 2019 to May 31, 2016January 2021
Executive Vice President & Chief Transformation Officer, Dynegy Inc.September 2017 to April 2018
Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer, Dynegy Inc.October 2014 to September 2017
Sumeet Singh44Executive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer and Chief Safety Officer, PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric CompanyJanuary 1, 2022 to present
Senior Director, Corporate AccountingVice President and Chief Risk Officer, PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric CompanyMarch 2, 2014February 1, 2021 to MarchDecember 31, 2021
Interim President and Chief Risk Officer, Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, PG&E CorporationJanuary 1, 2021 to January 31, 2021
Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric CompanyAugust 2020 to December 31, 2021
Gas Safety & Integrity Officer, Energy, Picarro, Inc.February 2020 to August 2020
Senior positions within the Utility including Vice President, Asset, Risk Management and Community Wildfire Safety Program from May 2019 to January 2020, Vice President, Community Wildfire Safety Program, from September 2018 to May 2019, Vice President, Gas Asset and Risk Management from September 2015 to August 2018September 2015 to January 2020

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PART II

ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED SHAREHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

As of February 22, 2021,16, 2023, there were 46,53643,782 holders of record of PG&E Corporation common stock. A substantially greater number of holders of PG&E Corporation common stock are “street name” or beneficial holders, whose shares of record are held by banks, brokers, and other financial institutions. PG&E Corporation common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is traded under the symbol “PCG.” Shares of common stock of the Utility are wholly owned by PG&E Corporation. On December 20, 2017, the Boards of Directors of PG&E Corporation and do not trade in the Utility suspended quarterly cashpublic market.

For information regarding dividends, on both PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s common stock, beginning the fourth quarter of 2017, as well as the Utility’s preferred stock, beginning the three-month period ending January 31, 2018. (Seesee “Liquidity and Financial Resources - Dividends” in Item 7. MD&A and PG&E Corporation’s Consolidated Statements of Equity, the Utility’s Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity, and Note 6 and Note 78 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

Sales of Unregistered Equity SecuritiesShare Exchanges

During the quarter ended December 31, 2020,On July 8, 2021, PG&E Corporation, did not make any equity contributionsthe Utility, ShareCo and the Fire Victim Trust entered into the Share Exchange and Tax Matters Agreement, pursuant to which PG&E Corporation and the Utility made a “grantor trust” election for the Fire Victim Trust effective retroactively to the Utility. Also,inception of the Fire Victim Trust. As a result of the grantor trust election, shares of PG&E Corporation did not make any salescommon stock owned by the Fire Victim Trust are treated as held by the Utility and, in turn attributed to PG&E Corporation for income tax purposes. On the dates and in the amounts set forth in the table below, the Fire Victim Trust exchanged a total of unregistered securities during290,000,000 Plan Shares, for an equal number of New Shares in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020manner contemplated by the Share Exchange and Tax Matters Agreement; in each case, the Fire Victim Trust thereafter reported that were not previously disclosed in a quarterly report on Form 10-Q or a current report on Form 8-K.it sold the applicable New Shares.
DateShares Exchanged
January 31, 202240,000,000 
April 14, 202260,000,000 
October 4, 202235,000,000 
October 27, 202235,000,000 
December 12, 202260,000,000 
January 9, 202360,000,000 
Total Shares Exchanged290,000,000

Issuer PurchasesEach exchange was effected in reliance on the exemption from registration under Section 3(a)(10) of Equitythe Securities

During Act. See “Tax Matters” in Item 7. MD&A below and “Share Exchange and Tax Matters Agreement” in Note 6 of the quarter ended December 31, 2020, PG&E Corporation did not redeem or repurchase any sharesNotes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of common stock or equity units outstanding. PG&E Corporation does not have any preferred stock outstanding. Also, during the quarter ended December 31, 2020,2021 Form 10-K for a detailed discussion of the Utility did not redeem or repurchase any sharesexchange and the terms of its various series of preferred stock outstanding.the Share Exchange and Tax Matters Agreement, respectively.

ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA[RESERVED]

Not applicable.

ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

OVERVIEW

PG&E Corporation is a holding company whose primary operating subsidiary is Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a public utility serving northern and central California.  The Utility generates revenues mainly through the sale and delivery of electricity and natural gas to customers.

The Utility’s base revenue requirements are set by the CPUC in its GRC and GT&S rate case based on forecast costs. Differences between forecast costs and actual costs can occur for numerous reasons, including the volume of work required and the impact of market forces on the cost of labor and materials. Differences in costs can also arise from changes in laws and regulations at both the state and federal level. Generally, differences between actual costs and forecast costs affect the Utility’s ability to earn its authorized return (referred to as “Utility Revenues and Costs that Impacted Earnings” in Results of Operations below). The Utility’s base transmission revenue requirements are recovered through a formula rate approved by the FERC that trues up forecast and actual costs. For certain operating costs, such as costs associated with pension benefits, the Utility is authorized to track the difference between actual amounts and forecast amounts and recover or refund the difference through rates (referred to as “Utility Revenues and Costs that did not Impact Earnings” in Results of Operations below). The Utility also collects revenue requirements to recover certain costs that the CPUC has authorized the Utility to pass on to customers, such as the costs to procure electricity or natural gas for its customers. Therefore, although these costs can fluctuate, they generally do not impact net income (referred to as “Utility Revenues and Costs that did not Impact Earnings” in Results of Operations below). See “Ratemaking Mechanisms” in Item 1. Business for further discussion.

This is a combined report of PG&E Corporation and the Utility and includes separate Consolidated Financial Statements for each of these two entities. This combined MD&A should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements and the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8.

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Key Factors Affecting Financial Results

PG&E Corporation and the Utility believe that their financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows may be materially affected by the following factors:

The Uncertainties in Connection with Wildfires, Wildfire Mitigation, and Associated Cost Recovery. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows may be materially affected by the costs and effectiveness of the Utility’s wildfire mitigation initiatives; the extent of damages from wildfires that do occur; the financial impacts of wildfires; and PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s ability to mitigate those financial impacts with insurance, the Wildfire Fund, and regulatory recovery.

In response to the wildfire threat facing California, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have taken aggressive steps to mitigate the threat of catastrophic wildfires. The Utility’s wildfire mitigation initiatives include EPSS, PSPS, vegetation management, asset inspections, and system hardening. In particular, in 2022 the Utility expanded the EPSS program to all high fire risk areas. The Utility is also focused on undergrounding more lines each year while using economies of scale to make undergrounding more cost efficient. These initiatives significantly reduced the number of CPUC-reportable ignitions and the number of acres burned. The success of the Utility’s wildfire mitigation efforts depends on many factors, including whether the Utility is able to retain or contract for the workforce necessary to execute its wildfire mitigation actions.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility have incurred and will continue to incur substantial expenditures in connection with these initiatives. For more information on incurred expenditures, see Note 4 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8. The extent to which the Utility will be able to recover these expenditures and other potential costs through rates is uncertain. If additional requirements are imposed that go beyond current expectations, such requirements could have a substantial impact on the costs of the Utility’s wildfire mitigation initiatives.

The Utility is subject to a number of legal and regulatory requirements related to its wildfire mitigation efforts, which require periodic inspections of electric assets and ongoing reporting related to this work. Although the Utility believes that it has complied substantially with these requirements, it is undertaking a review and has identified instances of noncompliance. The Utility intends to update the CPUC and OEIS as its review progresses. The Utility could face fines, penalties, enforcement action, or other adverse legal or regulatory consequences for the late inspections or other noncompliance related to wildfire mitigation efforts. See “Self-Reports to the CPUC” in “Regulatory Matters” below.

Despite these extensive measures, the potential that the Utility’s equipment will be involved in the ignition of future wildfires, including catastrophic wildfires, is significant. This risk may be attributable to, and exacerbated by, a variety of factors, including climate (in particular extended periods of seasonal dryness coupled with periods of high wind velocities and other storms), infrastructure, and vegetation conditions. Once an ignition has occurred, the Utility is unable to control the extent of damages, which is primarily determined by environmental conditions (including weather and vegetation conditions), third-party suppression efforts, and the location of the wildfire.

The financial impact of past wildfires is significant. As of December 31, 2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility had recorded aggregate liabilities of $1.025 billion, $400 million, $1.175 billion, and $100 million for claims in connection with the 2019 Kincade fire, the 2020 Zogg fire, the 2021 Dixie fire, and the 2022 Mosquito fire, respectively, and in each case before available insurance, and, in the case of the 2021 Dixie fire and the 2022 Mosquito fire, other probable cost recoveries. These liability amounts correspond to the lower end of the range of reasonably estimable probable losses but do not include all categories of potential damages and losses.

On September 24, 2021, the Shasta County District Attorney’s Office charged the Utility with 31 counts in connection with the 2020 Zogg fire, of which the court has dismissed 20 counts. If the Utility were to be convicted of any of the remaining charges, the Utility could be subject to material fines, penalties, and restitution, as well as non-monetary remedies such as oversight requirements. Accordingly, depending on which charges the Utility were to be convicted of, its total losses associated with the 2020 Zogg fire could materially exceed the $400 million of aggregate liability that PG&E Corporation and the Utility have recorded.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility may be able to mitigate the financial impact of future wildfires in excess of insurance coverage through the Wildfire Fund, or cost recovery through rates. Each of these mitigations involves uncertainties, and liabilities could exceed available recoveries. See “Loss Recoveries” in Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.
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Chapter 11 Proceedings
Recorded liabilities in connection with the 2019 Kincade fire and Emergencethe 2021 Dixie fire have already exceeded potential amounts recoverable under applicable insurance policies. As of December 31, 2022, the Utility has recorded insurance receivables of $430 million for the 2019 Kincade fire, $370 million for the 2020 Zogg fire, $530 million for the 2021 Dixie fire, and $45 million for the 2022 Mosquito fire. Additionally, the Utility does not expect that any of its liability insurance would cover restitution payments, if such payments were ordered by the court presiding over the criminal proceeding in connection with the 2020 Zogg fire.

OnIf the Petition Date,eligible claims for liabilities arising from wildfires were to exceed $1.0 billion in any Wildfire Fund coverage year (“Coverage Year”), the Utility may be eligible to make a claim against the Wildfire Fund under AB 1054 for such excess amount. The Wildfire Fund is available to the Utility to pay eligible claims for liabilities arising from wildfires, provided that the Utility satisfies the conditions to the Utility’s ongoing participation in the Wildfire Fund set forth in AB 1054 and that the Wildfire Fund has sufficient remaining funds. However, the impact of AB 1054 on PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11is subject to numerous uncertainties, including the Utility’s ability to demonstrate to the CPUC that wildfire-related costs paid from the Wildfire Fund were just and reasonable and therefore not subject to reimbursement, and whether the benefits of participating in the Bankruptcy Court. OnWildfire Fund ultimately outweigh its substantial costs. Finally, recoveries for the Effective Date, PG&E Corporation and2019 Kincade fire would be subject to a 40% limitation on the allowed amount of claims arising before emergence from bankruptcy. As of December 31, 2022, the Utility emerged from Chapter 11, pursuanthas recorded a Wildfire Fund receivable of $175 million for the 2021 Dixie fire. See “Wildfire Fund under AB 1054” in Note 15 of the Notes to the Plan, which was approved by the Bankruptcy CourtConsolidated Financial Statements in the Confirmation Order. However, certain parties have filed notices of appeal with respect to the Confirmation Order, including provisions related to the injunction contained in the Plan that channels certain pre-petition fire-related claims to trusts to be satisfied from the trusts’ assets.Item 8.

For more information aboutThe Utility will be permitted to recover its wildfire-related claims and legal fees through rates only if the Chapter 11 Cases, Chapter 11 emergenceCPUC or the FERC, as applicable, determines that the Utility has met the prudency standard. The revised prudency standard under AB 1054 has not been interpreted or applied by the CPUC, and it is possible that the related transactions, see “LiquidityCPUC could interpret the standard or apply it to the relevant facts differently from how the Utility has interpreted and Financial Resources” belowapplied the standard, in which case the Utility may not be able to recover all or a portion of expenses that it has recorded as receivables. As of December 31, 2022, the Utility has recorded receivables for regulatory recovery of $503 million for the 2021 Dixie fire and Notes 2, 5$60 million for the 2022 Mosquito fire. See “2021 Dixie Fire,” and 6“2022 Mosquito Fire” in Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of this 2020 Form 10-K.for more information.

The Timing and Outcome of Ratemaking and Other Proceedings. Regulatory ratemaking proceedings are a key aspect of the Utility’s business. The Utility’s revenue requirements consist primarily of a base amount set to enable the Utility to recover its reasonable operating expenses (e.g., maintenance, administrative and general expenses) and capital costs (e.g., depreciation and financing expenses). In addition, the CPUC authorizes the Utility to collect revenues to recover costs that the Utility is allowed to pass through to customers (referred to as “Utility Revenues and Costs that did not Impact Earnings” below), including its costs to procure electricity and natural gas for customers and to administer public purpose and customer programs. Although the Utility generally seeks to recover its recorded costs on a timely basis, in recent years, the amount of the costs recorded in memorandum and balancing accounts has increased. The Utility has also applied to transfer its non-nuclear generation assets to Pacific Generation and potentially sell a minority interest in Pacific Generation. The outcome of regulatory proceedings can be affected by many factors, including intervening parties’ testimonies, potential rate impacts, the regulatory and political environments, and other factors. See Notes 4 and 16 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 and “Regulatory Matters” below.

The Outcome of Other Enforcement, Litigation, and Regulatory Matters, and Other Government Proposals. The Utility is subject to enforcement, litigation, and regulatory matters, including those described above, the Safety Culture OII, EOEP proceedings, and actions in connection with the Utility’s WMP, and safety and other self-reports. See Note 16 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8. In addition, the Utility’s business profile and financial results could be impacted by the outcome of recent calls for municipalization of part or all of the Utility’s businesses, actions by municipalities and other public entities to acquire the electric assets of the Utility within their respective jurisdictions and calls for state intervention, including the possibility of a state takeover of the Utility. See “Jurisdictions may attempt to acquire the Utility’s assets through eminent domain” in Item 1A. Risk Factors for more information. These matters could result in penalties, additional regulatory requirements, or changes to the Utility’s operations. PG&E Corporation and the Utility seek to limit these matters by implementing a robust compliance program and by delivering excellent customer experiences.

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PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Ability to Control Operating Costs. Under cost-of-service ratemaking, a utility’s earnings depend on its ability to manage costs within the amounts authorized for recovery in its ratemaking proceedings. The Utility has set a goal to increase its capital investments to meet safety and climate goals, while also reducing non-fuel Operating and maintenance costs by two percent per year. The Utility’s ability to meet this goal depends on whether the Utility can improve the planning and execution of its work by continuing to implement the Lean operating system.

For more information about the risks that could materially affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows, or that could cause future results to differ from historical results, see Item 1A. Risk Factors.  In addition, this annual report contains forward-looking statements that are necessarily subject to various risks and uncertainties.  These statements reflect management’s judgment and opinions that are based on current estimates, expectations, and projections about future events and assumptions regarding these events and management’s knowledge of facts as of the date of this report.  See “Forward-Looking Statements” above for a list of some of the factors that may cause actual results to differ materially.  PG&E Corporation and the Utility are unable to predict all the factors that may affect future results and do not undertake an obligation to update forward-looking statements, whether in response to new information, future events, or otherwise.

Tax Matters

As a result of the Plan, which includes wildfire settlement payments made in the third quarter of 2020, PG&E Corporation had a U.S. federal net operating loss carryforward of approximately $28.5$26.6 billion and stateCalifornia net operating loss carryforward of $25.4approximately $25.2 billion at the endas of 2020.December 31, 2022.

Under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code,IRC, if a corporation (or a consolidated group) undergoes an “ownership change,” net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes may be subject to certain limitations. In general, an ownership change occurs if the aggregate stock ownership of certain shareholders (generally five percent shareholders, applying certain look-through and aggregation rules) increases by more than 50% over such shareholders’ lowest percentage ownership during the testing period (generally three years). PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Amended Articles limit Transfers (as defined in the Amended Articles) that increase a person’s or entity’s (including certain groups of persons) ownership of PG&E Corporation’s equity securities to 4.75% or more than 4.75% prior to the Restriction Release Date (as defined in the Amended Articles) without approval by the Board of Directors.Directors of PG&E Corporation (the “Ownership Restrictions”). As discussed below under “Update on Ownership Restrictions in PG&E Corporation’s Amended Articles,” due to the calculation of the percentage ownership may differ depending on whetherelection to treat the Fire Victim Trust is treated as a qualified settlementgrantor trust or grantor trust.

for income tax purposes, the calculation of Percentage Stock Ownership (as defined in the Amended Articles) will effectively be based on a reduced number of shares outstanding, namely the total number of outstanding equity securities less the number of equity securities held by the Fire Victim Trust, the Utility, and ShareCo. As of the date of this report, it is more likely than not that PG&E Corporation has not undergone an ownership change, and consequently, its net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes are not limited by Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code.IRC.

In 2019, $6.75 billionFurthermore, the activities of the liability to be paid to the Fire Victim Trust inare treated as activities of the Utility for tax purposes. Accordingly, PG&E Corporation’s common stock was accrued by the Utility. BecauseCorporation will recognize income tax benefits and the corresponding tax deduction generally occurs no earlier than payment, the Utility established a deferred tax asset for the accrual in 2019. On July 1, 2020, the Utility issued toDTA as the Fire Victim Trust 477.0 millionsells shares of PG&E Corporation’s common stock. On the date of transfer, the shares transferred to the Fire Victim Trust were valued at $4.53 billion, $2.2 billion less than the $6.75 billion that had been accrued as a liability in the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. Therefore, in the quarter ended June 30, 2020, the Utility recorded a charge of $619 million to adjust the measurement of the deferred tax asset to reflect the tax-effected difference between the accrual of $6.75 billion and the tax deduction of $4.53 billion for the transfer of PG&E Corporation’s shares to the Fire Victim Trust.

In addition, the tax deduction recorded reflects PG&E Corporation’s conclusion as of December 31, 2020 that it is more likely than not that the Fire Victim Trust will be treated as a “qualified settlement fund” for U.S. federal income tax purposes, in which case the corresponding tax deduction will have occurred at the time the PG&E Corporation common stock, was transferred to the Fire Victim Trust. In January 2021, PG&E Corporation received an IRS ruling that states the Utility is eligible to make a grantor trust election for U.S. federal income tax purposes with respect to the Fire Victim Trust and addressed certain, but not all, related issues. As discussed further below under “Update on Ownership Restrictions in PG&E Corporation’s Amended Articles,” PG&E Corporation believes benefits associated with “grantor trust” treatment could be realized, but only if PG&E Corporation and the Fire Victim Trust can meet certain requirementsamounts of the Internal Revenue Codesuch benefits and Treasury Regulations thereunder, relating to sales of PG&E Corporation common stock. PG&E Corporation expects to elect grantor trust treatment, subject to entering into a definitive agreement with the Fire Victim Trust. There can be no assurance that such an agreement will be reached or that PG&E Corporation will be able to avail itself of the benefits of a grantor trust election.

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At December 31, 2020, PG&E Corporation’s Consolidated Financial Statements reflect “qualified settlement fund” treatment. If PG&E Corporation were to make a “grantor trust” election for the Fire Victim Trust, the Utility’s tax deduction will occur instead at the time the Fire Victim Trust pays the fire victims andassets will be impacted by the price at which the Fire Victim Trust sells the shares. The value of the deduction may be materially differentshares, rather than the value ofprice at the deduction iftime such shares were transferred to the Fire Victim Trust. At various dates throughout 2022, the Fire Victim Trust were to be treated as a “qualified settlement fund.” Additionally, $5.4 billionexchanged Plan Shares for an equal number of cashNew Shares in the manner contemplated by the Share Exchange and $4.54 billionTax Matters Agreement; in each case, the Fire Victim Trust thereafter reported that it sold the applicable New Shares. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Fire Victim Trust’s sale of PG&E Corporation common stock in the aggregate $10.0 billion that was transferred to the Fire Victim Trustamount of 230,000,000 shares resulted in 2020 will not be deductible foran aggregate tax purposes until the trust pays the fire victims. Consequently,benefit of $870 million recorded in PG&E Corporation’s net operating loss will decrease by approximately $10.0 billion and result in a $1.3 billion charge, net of tax, decreasing net deferred tax assets by $1.3 billion on itsthe Utility’s Consolidated Financial Statements for activity through December 31, 2020. PG&E Corporation will subsequently recognize income tax benefits and the corresponding deferred tax asset as the Fire Victim Trust sells the shares.Statements.

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Update on Ownership Restrictions in PG&E Corporation’s Amended Articles

The Plan contemplates thatAs a result of the Fire Victim Trust will be treated as a “qualified settlement fund” for U.S. federal income tax purposes, subject to PG&E Corporation’s ability to elect to treat the Fire Victim Trust as a “grantor trust” for U.S. federal income tax purposes instead. Based on the facts known to date,grantor trust election, shares of PG&E Corporation believes benefits associated with the “grantor trust” treatment could be realized for U.S. federal income tax purposes. (See “Tax Matters” above for more information.)

If PG&E Corporation were to make a “grantor trust” election with respect to the Fire Victim Trust, then any sharescommon stock owned by the Fire Victim Trust wouldare treated as held by the Utility and, in turn, attributed to PG&E Corporation for income tax purposes. Consequently, any shares of PG&E Corporation common stock owned by the Fire Victim Trust, along with any shares owned by the Utility directly, are effectively be excluded from the total number of outstanding equity securities when calculating a person’s percentage ownershipPercentage Stock Ownership (as defined in the Amended Articles) for purposes of the 4.75 percent4.75% ownership limitation in PG&E Corporation's charter.the Amended Articles. Shares owned by ShareCo are also effectively excluded because ShareCo is a disregarded entity for income tax purposes. For example, although PG&E Corporation had 1,984,683,8202,466,208,388 shares outstanding as of February 22, 2021,16, 2023, only 1,506,940,2301,800,721,208 shares (the number of outstanding shares of common stock less the number of shares held by the Fire Victim Trust) wouldTrust, the Utility, and ShareCo) count as outstanding for purposes of the ownership restrictions in the Amended Articles. As such, based on the total number of outstanding equity securities and taking into account the shares of PG&E Corporation common stock known to have been sold by the Fire Victim Trust as of February 22, 2021,16, 2023, a person’s effective Percentage Stock Ownership limitation for purposes of the Amended Articles as of February 16, 2023 was 3.46% of outstanding shares. As of February 16, 2023, to the knowledge of PG&E Corporation, the Fire Victim Trust had not sold any290,000,000 shares of PG&E Corporation common stock.

Summary of Changes in Net Income and Earnings per Share

PG&E Corporation’s net loss attributable to common shareholders was $1.3 billion in 2020, compared to $7.7 billion in 2019. PG&E Corporation recognized charges of $56 million and $195 million, net of probable insurance recoveries, for claims in connection with the 2020 Zogg fire and the 2019 Kincade fire, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2020, compared to charges of $11.4 billion for claims in connection with the 2018 Camp fire, the 2017 Northern California wildfires and the 2015 Butte fire for the year ended December 31, 2019. Additionally, PG&E Corporation recognized $1.1 billion of expense related to the Backstop Commitment Premium Shares and $452 million of expense related to the Additional Backstop Premium Shares for the year ended December 31, 2020, with no similar amounts in 2019.

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Key Factors Affecting Financial Results

PG&E Corporation and the Utility believe that their financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows may be materially affected by the following factors:

The Uncertainties in Connection with Any Future Wildfires, Wildfire Insurance, and AB 1054. While PG&E Corporation and the Utility cannot predict the occurrence, timing or extent of damages in connection with future wildfires, factors such as environmental conditions (including weather and vegetation conditions) and the efficacy of wildfire risk mitigation initiatives are expected to influence the frequency and severity of future wildfires. To the extent that future wildfires occurstock in the Utility’s service territory, the Utility may incur costs associated with the investigations of the causes and origins of such fires, even if it is subsequently determined that such fires were not caused by the Utility’s facilities. The financial impact of future wildfires could be mitigated through insurance, the Wildfire Fund or other forms of cost recovery. However, the Utility may not be able to obtain sufficient wildfire insurance coverage at a reasonable cost, and any such coverage may include limitations that could result in substantial uninsured losses depending on the amount and type of damages resulting from covered events. In July and August 2020, the Utility renewed its liability insurance coverage for wildfire events in the aggregate amount of $867.5 million (subject to an initial self-insured retention of $60 million), comprised of $825 million for the period of August 1, 2020 to July 31, 2021 and $42.5 million in reinsurance for the period of July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021. Various coverage limitations applicable to different insurance layers could result in material uninsured costs in the future depending on the amount and type of damages resulting from covered events. The Utility will not be able to obtain any recovery from the Wildfire Fund for wildfire-related losses in any year that do not exceed the greater of $1.0 billion in the aggregate and the amount of insurance coverage required under AB 1054. In addition, the policy reforms contemplated by AB 1054 are likely to affect the financial impact of future wildfires on PG&E Corporation and the Utility should any such wildfires occur. The Wildfire Fund is available to the Utility to pay eligible claims for liabilities arising from future wildfires and serves as an alternative to traditional insurance products, provided that the Utility satisfies the conditions to the Utility’s ongoing participation in the Wildfire Fund set forth in AB 1054 and that the Wildfire Fund has sufficient remaining funds. (See “Insurance Coverage” in Note 14 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

However, the impact of AB 1054 on PG&E Corporation and the Utility is subject to numerous uncertainties, including the Utility’s ability to demonstrate to the CPUC that wildfire-related costs paid from the Wildfire Fund were just and reasonable, and whether the benefits of participating in the Wildfire Fund ultimately outweigh its substantial costs. Finally, even if the Utility satisfies the ongoing eligibility and other requirements set forth in AB 1054, for eligible claims against the Utility arising from wildfires that occurred between July 12, 2019 and the Utility’s emergence from Chapter 11 on July 1, 2020, the availability of the Wildfire Fund to pay such claims would be capped at 40% of the amount of such claims. (See “Wildfire Fund under AB 1054” in Note 14 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

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aggregate.The Uncertainties Regarding the Impact of Public Safety Power Shutoffs. The Utility’s wildfire risk mitigation initiatives involve substantial and ongoing expenditures and could involve other costs. The extent to which the Utility will be able to recover these expenditures and potential other costs through rates is uncertain. The PSPS program, one of the Utility’s wildfire risk mitigation initiatives outlined in the 2019 WMP and included in the 2020-2022 WMP, has been the subject of significant scrutiny and criticism by various stakeholders, including the California governor, the CPUC and the court overseeing the Utility’s probation. On November 12, 2019, the CPUC issued an order to show cause against the Utility related to implementation of the October 2019 PSPS events, and on November 13, 2019, the CPUC instituted an OII to examine California’s IOUs late 2019 PSPS events and to consider enforcement actions. In their comments submitted to the CPUC on October 16, 2020 in the OII to Examine the Late 2019 Public Safety Power Shutoff Events, TURN, an intervenor in this proceeding, proposed that the CPUC should treat each customer affected by a PSPS event, for which the IOU has not adequately demonstrated that the benefits outweigh the public safety risks, as a separate offense. Under the CPUC rules, each offense would be subject to a penalty of no less than $500 and no more than $100,000. On October 30, 2020, Cal Advocates, an intervenor in the Order to Show Cause Against the Utility Related to Implementation of the October 2019 PSPS Events proposed financial penalties against the Utility of $166 million. If adopted by the CPUC, such penalties could be expected to have a material impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows. The PSPS program has had an adverse impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s reputation with customers, regulators and policymakers and future PSPS events may increase these negative perceptions. In addition to the 2019 PSPS events, the Utility initiated several PSPS events in the third and fourth quarters of 2020 and one in January 2021 and expects that additional PSPS events will be necessary in future years. (See “OII to Examine the Late 2019 Public Safety Power Shutoff Events” and “OIR to Examine Electric Utility De-energization of Power Lines in Dangerous Conditions” in “Regulatory Matters” below.)

The Costs and Execution of Other Wildfire Mitigation Efforts. In response to the wildfire threat facing California, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have taken aggressive steps to mitigate the threat of catastrophic wildfires, the spread of wildfires should they occur and the impact of PSPS events. PG&E Corporation and the Utility incurred approximately $2.6 billion in connection with the 2019 WMP and incurred approximately $2.9 billion in 2020 in connection with the 2020-2022 WMP. Although the Utility may seek cost recovery for certain of these expenses and capital expenditures, the Utility has agreed in the Wildfires OII not to seek rate recovery of certain wildfire-related expenses and capital expenditures that it has incurred or will incur in the amount of $1.823 billion in future applications.

While PG&E Corporation and the Utility are committed to taking aggressive wildfire mitigation actions, if additional requirements are imposed that go beyond current expectations, such requirements could have a substantial impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows. For example, the Court overseeing the Utility’s probation in connection with the Utility’s federal criminal proceeding has imposed numerous obligations on the Utility related to its business and operations. The success of the Utility’s wildfire mitigation efforts depends on many factors, including on whether the Utility is able to retain or contract for the workforce necessary to execute its wildfire mitigation actions. (See “U.S. District Court Matters and Probation” and “2020 General Rate Case” below and “Order Instituting Investigation into the 2017 Northern California Wildfires and the 2018 Camp Fire” in Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

The Timing and Outcome of Ratemaking Proceedings. The Utility’s financial results may be impacted by the timing and outcome of its FERC TO18 and TO19 rate cases, WMCE application, and its ability to timely recover costs not currently in rates, including costs already incurred and future costs tracked in its CEMA, WEMA, WMPMA, FRMMA, CPPMA, VMBA, WMBA, and RTBA. The outcome of regulatory proceedings can be affected by many factors, including intervening parties’ testimonies, potential rate impacts, the Utility’s reputation, the regulatory and political environments, and other factors. The Utility’s ability to seek cost recovery will also be limited as a result of the outcome of the Wildfires OII. (See Notes 4 and 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 and “Regulatory Matters” below.)

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The Impact of the 2019 Kincade Fire. Claims related to the 2019 Kincade fire that were not satisfied in full as of the Effective Date were not discharged in connection with emerging from Chapter 11. On July 16, 2020, Cal Fire issued a press release stating that it had determined that “the Kincade fire was caused by electrical transmission lines owned and operated by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E).” Accordingly, if PG&E Corporation or the Utility were determined to be liable for the 2019 Kincade fire, such liabilities could be significant and could exceed or be excluded from the amounts available under applicable insurance policies or the Wildfire Fund under AB 1054, which could have a material impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows. As of December 31, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility had recorded a loss of $625 million for the 2019 Kincade fire (before available insurance), which amount corresponds to the lower end of the range of reasonably estimable probable losses, but does not include all categories of potential damages. If the liability for the 2019 Kincade fire were to exceed $1.0 billion, it is possible the Utility would be eligible to make a claim to the Wildfire Fund under AB 1054 for such excess amount, subject to a 40% cap on the amount of such claim. As of December 31, 2020, the Utility had also recorded an insurance receivable for $430 million. (See “2019 Kincade Fire” in Note 14 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 for more information.)

The Impact of the 2020 Zogg Fire. There have been numerous wildfires in the Utility’s service territory during the 2020 wildfire season. If the Utility were alleged or determined to be a cause of one or more of these wildfires, this allegation or determination could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows. On October 9, 2020 Cal Fire informed the Utility that it had taken possession of Utility equipment as part of Cal Fire’s ongoing investigation into the 2020 Zogg fire. The investigation is preliminary and Cal Fire has not issued a determination of cause, but if PG&E Corporation or the Utility were determined to be liable for the 2020 Zogg fire, such liabilities could be significant and could exceed or be excluded from the amounts available under applicable insurance policies or the Wildfire Fund under AB 1054, which could be expected to have a material impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows. As of December 31, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility had recorded a loss of $275 million for the 2020 Zogg fire (before available insurance), which amount corresponds to the lower end of the range of reasonably estimable probable losses, but does not include all categories of potential damages. As of December 31, 2020, the Utility had also recorded an insurance receivable for $219 million in connection with the 2020 Zogg fire. (For more information see “2020 Zogg Fire” in Note 14 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows have been and could continue to be significantly affected by the outbreak of COVID-19. The principal areas of near-term impact include liquidity, financial results and business operations, stemming primarily from the ongoing economic hardship of the Utility’s customers, the moratorium on service disconnections for residential and small business customers, the CPUC’s “Emergency Authorization and Order Directing Utilities to Implement Emergency Customer COVID-19 Protections” and an observed reduction in non-residential electrical load. The Utility continues to monitor the overall impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; however, the Utility expects a significant impact on monthly cash collections as long as current circumstances persist. This impact to liquidity may be partially offset by reductions in discretionary spending or potential regulatory impacts. As of December 31, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility had access to approximately $2.8 billion of total liquidity comprised of approximately $261 million of Utility cash, $223 million of PG&E Corporation cash and $2.4 billion of availability under the Utility and PG&E Corporation credit facilities. Other potential impacts of COVID-19 on PG&E Corporation and the Utility include operational disruptions, workforce disruptions, both in personnel availability (including a reduction in contract labor resources) and deployment, delays in production and shipping of materials used in the Utility’s operations, a reduction in revenue due to the cost of capital adjustment mechanism, the potential for higher credit spreads and borrowing costs and incremental financing needs. As discussed below under the heading “COVID-19 Pandemic Protections Memorandum Account,” the Utility has established a memorandum account for tracking costs related to the CPUC’s emergency authorization and order, which, as of December 31, 2020, was $84 million. The Utility intends to seek recovery of this balance in a future application, subject to CPUC reasonableness review. For more information on the impact of COVID-19 on PG&E Corporation and the Utility, see “PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows have been and could continue to be significantly affected by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic” in Item 1A Risk Factors in Part I.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility expect additional financial impacts in the future as a result of COVID-19. PG&E Corporation and the Utility continue to evaluate the overall impact of COVID-19 and their analysis is subject to change.

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The Outcome of Other Enforcement, Litigation, and Regulatory Matters, and Other Government Proposals. The Utility’s financial results may continue to be impacted by the outcome of other current and future enforcement, litigation, and regulatory matters, including those described above as well as the outcome of the Safety Culture OII, the sentencing terms of the Utility’s January 27, 2017 federal criminal conviction, including the oversight of the Utility’s probation and the potential recommendations by the Monitor, and potential penalties in connection with the Utility’s safety and other self-reports. (See Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.) In addition, the Utility’s business profile and financial results could be impacted by the outcome of recent calls for municipalization of part or all of the Utility’s businesses, offers by municipalities and other public entities to acquire the electric assets of the Utility within their respective jurisdictions and calls for state intervention, including the possibility of a state takeover of the Utility. PG&E Corporation and the Utility cannot predict the nature, occurrence, timing or extent of any such scenario, and there can be no assurance that any such scenario would not involve significant ownership or management changes to PG&E Corporation or the Utility, including by the state of California. Further, certain parties filed notices of appeal with respect to the Confirmation Order, including provisions related to the injunction contained in the Plan that channels certain pre-petition fire-related claims to trusts to be satisfied from the trusts’ assets. There can be no assurance that any such appeal will not be successful and, if successful, that any such appeal would not have a material adverse effect on PG&E Corporation and the Utility.

The Uncertainties in Connection with a Potential Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process. On November 24, 2020, the Utility received a letter (the “Letter”) from the President of the CPUC, related to the Utility’s vegetation and asset management activities and the CPUC’s Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process. If the Utility is placed into the Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process, it will be subject to additional reporting requirements, monitoring, and oversight by the CPUC.

For more information about the risks that could materially affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows, or that could cause future results to differ from historical results, see “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in this 2020 Form 10-K.  In addition, this annual report contains forward-looking statements that are necessarily subject to various risks and uncertainties.  These statements reflect management’s judgment and opinions that are based on current estimates, expectations, and projections about future events and assumptions regarding these events and management’s knowledge of facts as of the date of this report.  See the section entitled “Forward-Looking Statements” above for a list of some of the factors that may cause actual results to differ materially.  PG&E Corporation and the Utility are unable to predict all the factors that may affect future results and do not undertake an obligation to update forward-looking statements, whether in response to new information, future events, or otherwise.

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following discussion presents PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s operating results for 2020, 2019,2022 and 2018.2021.  See “Key Factors Affecting Financial Results” above for further discussion about factors that could affect future results of operations.

See “Results of Operations” in Item 7 of the 2021 Form 10-K for discussion of results of operations for 2021 compared to 2020.

PG&E Corporation

The consolidated results of operations consist primarily of results related to the Utility, which are discussed in the “Utility” section below.  The following table provides a summary of net income (loss) available for common shareholders:
(in millions)202020192018
Consolidated Total$(1,318)$(7,656)$(6,851)
PG&E Corporation(1,715)(20)(19)
Utility$397 $(7,636)$(6,832)
(in millions)20222021
Consolidated Total$1,800 $(102)
PG&E Corporation(412)(226)
Utility2,212 124 

PG&E Corporation’s net loss increased in 2020, as compared to 2019 and primarily consists of income taxes and interest expense on long-term debt, and reorganization items,debt. The increase in PG&E Corporation’s net including approximately $1.5 billion in expense relatedloss for 2022, as compared to the Backstop Commitment Premium Shares and Additional Backstop Premium Shares, which2021, is not deductible for tax purposes.primarily due to increased interest rates on long-term debt.

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Utility

The table below shows certain items from the Utility’s Consolidated Statements of Income for 2020, 2019,2022 and 2018.2021.  The table separately identifies the revenues and costs that impacted earnings from those that did not impact earnings.  In general, expenses the Utility is authorized to pass through directly to customers (such as costs to purchase electricity and natural gas, as well as costs to fund public purpose programs) and the corresponding amount of revenues collected to recover those pass-through costs do not impact earnings.

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Revenues that impact earnings are primarily those that have been authorized by the CPUC and the FERC to recover the Utility’s costs to own and operate its assets and to provide the Utility an opportunity to earn its authorized rate of return on rate base.  Expenses that impact earnings are primarily those that the Utility incurs to own and operate its assets.
 202020192018
 Revenues and Costs: Revenues and Costs: Revenues and Costs: 
(in millions)That Impacted EarningsThat Did Not Impact EarningsTotal UtilityThat Impacted EarningsThat Did Not Impact EarningsTotal UtilityThat Impacted EarningsThat Did Not Impact EarningsTotal Utility
Electric operating revenues$8,979 $4,879 $13,858 $8,634 $4,106 $12,740 $7,859 $4,854 $12,713 
Natural gas operating revenues3,460 1,151 4,611 3,259 1,130 4,389 3,046 1,001 4,047 
Total operating revenues12,439 6,030 18,469 11,893 5,236 17,129 10,905 5,855 16,760 
Cost of electricity— 3,116 3,116 — 3,095 3,095 — 3,828 3,828 
Cost of natural gas— 782 782 — 734 734 — 671 671 
Operating and maintenance6,399 2,308 8,707 7,167 1,583 8,750 5,475 1,678 7,153 
Wildfire-related claims, net of insurance recoveries251 — 251 11,435 — 11,435 11,771 — 11,771 
Wildfire fund expense413 — 413 — — — — — — 
Depreciation, amortization, and decommissioning3,469 — 3,469 3,233 — 3,233 3,036 — 3,036 
Total operating expenses10,532 6,206 16,738 21,835 5,412 27,247 20,282 6,177 26,459 
Operating income (loss)1,907 (176)1,731 (9,942)(176)(10,118)(9,377)(322)(9,699)
Interest income39 — 39 82 — 82 74 — 74 
Interest expense (1,111)— (1,111)(912)— (912)(914)— (914)
Other income, net294 176 470 63 176 239 104 322 426 
Reorganization items, net(310)— (310)(320)— (320)— — — 
Income (loss) before income taxes$819 $— $819 $(11,029)$— $(11,029)$(10,113)$— $(10,113)
Income tax provision (benefit) (1)
  408   (3,407)  (3,295)
Net income (loss)  411   (7,622)  (6,818)
Preferred stock dividend requirement (1)
  14   14   14 
Income (loss) Attributable to Common Stock  $397   $(7,636)  $(6,832)
 20222021
 Revenues and Costs: Revenues and Costs: 
(in millions)That Impacted EarningsThat Did Not Impact EarningsTotal UtilityThat Impacted EarningsThat Did Not Impact EarningsTotal Utility
Electric operating revenues$10,357 $4,703 $15,060 $9,542 $5,589 $15,131 
Natural gas operating revenues3,939 2,681 6,620 3,753 1,758 5,511 
Total operating revenues14,296 7,384 21,680 13,295 7,347 20,642 
Cost of electricity— 2,756 2,756 — 3,232 3,232 
Cost of natural gas— 2,100 2,100 — 1,149 1,149 
Operating and maintenance6,737 2,988 9,725 6,820 3,374 10,194 
SB 901 securitization charges, net608 — 608 — — — 
Wildfire-related claims, net of insurance recoveries237 — 237 258 — 258 
Wildfire Fund expense477 — 477 517 — 517 
Depreciation, amortization, and decommissioning3,856 — 3,856 3,403 — 3,403 
Total operating expenses11,915 7,844 19,759 10,998 7,755 18,753 
Operating income (loss)2,381 (460)1,921 2,297 (408)1,889 
Interest income162 — 162 22 22 
Interest expense (1,658)— (1,658)(1,373)— (1,373)
Other income, net135 460 595 104 408 512 
Reorganization items, net— — — (12)— (12)
Income before income taxes$1,020 $— $1,020 $1,038 $— $1,038 
Income tax provision (benefit) (1)
  (1,206)  900 
Net income  2,226   138 
Preferred stock dividend requirement (1)
  14   14 
Income Attributable to Common Stock  $2,212   $124 
(1) These items impacted earnings.

Utility Revenues and Costs that Impacted Earnings

The following discussion presents the Utility’s operating results for 2020, 2019,2022 and 2018,2021, focusing on revenues and expenses that impacted earnings for these periods.

Operating Revenues

The Utility’s electric and natural gas operating revenues that impacted earnings increased $546 million,by $1.0 billion, or 5%8%, in 20202022 compared to 2019,2021, primarily due to the recognition of approximately $310 million in revenues related to the settlement agreement for the 2018 CEMA application (see “2018 CEMA Application” below), the recognition of approximately $180 million in revenues related to the final decision approving $356.3 million in revenue requirements for capital expenditures incurred in the period from 2011 through 2014 for its GT&S system (see “2015 Gas Transmission and Storage Rate Case” below), increased base revenues authorized in the 2020 GRC, and 2019 GT&S rate cases, additional revenues recorded pursuant toas authorized through the TO20 rate case,FERC formula rate. In addition, the Utility recognized approximately $113 million in nuclear decommissioning revenues in 2022 with no comparable revenues in 2021. This is consistent with the 2018 NDCTP final decision that authorized no decommissioning revenues for 2021 and CEMA$113 million in revenues in 2022. These increases were partially offset by a decrease of approximately $180 million of previously deferred revenues recognized in conjunction with interim rate relief.

The Utility’s electric and natural gas operating revenues that impacted earnings increased $988 million, or 9%,relief collected in 2019 compared to 2018, primarily due to increased revenues authorized in2021 associated with the 2017 GRC and 2019 GT&S rate cases, and revenues recorded pursuant to the TO20 rate case.2020 WMCE application (see “2020 WMCE Application” below).

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Operating and Maintenance

The Utility’s operating and maintenance expenses that impacted earnings decreased $768by $83 million, or 11%1%, in 20202022 compared to 2019, primarily due2021, as a result of operating cost efficiencies and decreases in the recognition of previously deferred costs including $90 million related to a reductionresidential uncollectibles and approximately $180 million recognized in accelerated transmission inspection and repair costs of approximately $460 million. Additionally, in 2019conjunction with interim rate relief associated with the 2020 WMCE application (see “2020 WMCE Application” below). In addition, during the year ended December 31, 2021, the Utility recorded $398a $124 million charge related to the Wildfires OIISeptember 21, 2021 joint motion for approval of settlement and $237 million in disallowed costs for previously incurred capital expenditures in excess of adopted amountsagreement associated with the 2020 WMCE filing, with no comparable charge in the 2019 GT&S rate casesame period in 2019, with no similar charges in 2020.2022. These decreases were partially offset by an increasethe recognition of $223approximately $310 million inof previously deferred expenses, which were authorized by the settlement agreement for the 2018 CEMA costs recorded in conjunction with interim rate reliefapplication (see “2018 CEMA Application” below) (the Utility amortized $298 million in deferred CEMA costs in 2020, compared to $75 million amortized in 2019). The Utility also experienced increased insurance premium costs in the year ended December 31, 2020,2022, compared to 2019.the same period in 2021.

The Utility’s operating and maintenance expenses
SB 901 Securitization Charges, Net

SB 901 securitization charges, net, that impacted earnings increased $1,692by $608 million, or 31%100%, in 20192022 compared to 2018, primarily due to $773 million in costs related to enhanced and accelerated inspections and repairs of transmission and distribution assets, with no similar charges in2021. During the same period in 2018. Additionally,year ended December 31, 2022, the Utility recorded $398$608 million in 2019net SB 901 securitization charges, for inception of the regulatory asset and liability pursuant to the CHT decision, as well as tax benefits realized within income tax expense in the current year related to the Wildfires OII settlement,Fire Victim Trust’s sale of PG&E Corporation common stock, with no similar charge in the same period in 2018. Also, the Utility recorded $237 million in disallowed costs for previously incurred capital expenditures in excess of adopted amounts in the 2019 GT&S rate case, with no similarcomparable charges in 2018.2021. For more information, see Note 6 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 below.

Wildfire-related claims, net
Wildfire-Related Claims, Net of insurance recoveriesRecoveries

Costs related to wildfires that impacted earnings decreased by $11.2 billion,$21 million, or 98%8%, in 20202022 compared to 2019.2021. The Utility recognized pre-tax charges of $625$225 million related to the 2019 Kincade fire, partially offset by $430$100 million of probable insurance recoveries,related to the 2022 Mosquito fire, $25 million related to the 2021 Dixie fire, and pre-tax charges of $275$25 million related to the 2020 Zogg fire in the year ended December 31, 2022. These charges were partially offset by $219$95 million of probable recoveries through insurance and the WEMA related to the 2022 Mosquito fire and $25 million in probable recoveries through the Wildfire Fund related to the 2021 Dixie fire. The Utility recognized pre-tax charges of $1.15 billion related to the 2021 Dixie fire, $175 million related to the 2019 Kincade fire, and $100 million related to the 2020 Zogg fire in the year ended December 31, 2021, partially offset by $1.06 billion of probable recoveries through insurance, the WEMA, and the Wildfire Fund related to the 2021 Dixie fire and $100 million of probable insurance recoveries in 2020. The Utility recognized charges of $11.4 billion in 2019, for wildfire-related claims primarily associated with the 2018 Camp fire and 2017 Northern California wildfires.

Costs related to wildfires that impacted earnings decreased by $336 million, or 3%,the 2020 Zogg fire in 2019 compared to 2018. The Utility recognized charges of $11.4 billion and $11.8 billionthe year ended December 31, 2021. See “Loss Recoveries” in 2019 and 2018, respectively, for wildfire-related claims, net of probable insurance recoveries, primarily associated with the 2018 Camp fire and 2017 Northern California wildfires.

(See Item 1A. Risk Factors and Note 1415 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)8 below.

Wildfire fund expenseIn addition to the probable wildfire-related recoveries noted above, the Utility has recorded $125 million of probable recoveries through FERC TO formula rates, which are recorded as a reduction to regulatory liabilities and are not captured in wildfire-related claims.

Wildfire fund expense that impacted earnings increased by $413 million, or 100%, in 2020 compared to 2019. In 2020, the Utility became eligible to participate in the Wildfire FundSee Item 1A. Risk Factors and as a result recorded amortization and accretion expense related to the Wildfire Fund coverage received from the effective date of AB 1054 through December 31, 2020.

(See Notes 3 and 14Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

Wildfire Fund Expense

Wildfire Fund expense that impacted earnings decreased by $40 million, or 8%, in 2022 compared to 2021, primarily due to accelerated amortization of the Wildfire Fund asset recorded in 2021 as a result of the Wildfire Fund receivable accrued in relation to the 2021 Dixie fire, with no material amounts recorded in 2022.

See Notes 3 and 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Depreciation, Amortization, and Decommissioning

The Utility’s depreciation, amortization, and decommissioning expenses increased by $236$453 million, or 7%13%, in 20202022 compared to 2019,2021, primarily due to an increase in net capital additions and an increase in depreciation rates associated withdecommissioning expense beginning in January 2022 primarily as a result of the TO20final 2018 NDCTP decision.

The Utility’s depreciation, amortization, and decommissioning expenses increased by $197 million, or 6%, in 2019 compared to 2018, primarily due to capital additions.

Interest Income

The Utility’s interest income that impacted earnings decreasedincreased by $43$140 million, or 52%636%, in 20202022 compared to 2019. Interest income decreased by $8 million, or 11%, in 2019 compared2021, primarily due to 2018. The Utility’shigher interest income is primarily affected by changes inrates earned on regulatory balancing accounts and changes in interest rates.accounts.

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Interest Expense

Interest expense that impacted earnings increased by $199$285 million, or 22%21%, in 20202022 compared to 2019,2021, primarily due to the issuance of newadditional long-term debt and an increase in 2020 in connection with the emergence from Chapter 11.interest rates on variable-rate debt.

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The Utility’s interest expense decreased by $2 million, or 0%, in 2019 compared to 2018. Beginning January 29, 2019 in connection with the Chapter 11 Cases, the Utility ceased recording interest on outstanding pre-petition debt subject to compromise. In the fourth quarter of 2019, following the Bankruptcy Court’s December 30, 2019 memorandum decision in which it ruled that the holders of allowed unsecured claims are entitled to post-petition interest at the federal judgment rate of 2.59%, and pursuant to the terms of the Noteholder RSA, the Utility concluded that interest was probable of being an allowed claim and resumed recording interest on pre-petition debt subject to compromise.

Other Income, Net

Changes to Other income, net increasedthat impact earnings are primarily driven by $231 million, or 367%,fluctuations in 2020 compared to 2019, primarily due to lower pension expense resulting from higher than expected returnthe balance of construction work in progress that impact the equity component of AFUDC, and gains and losses on plan assets.equity securities held by the customer credit trust.

The Utility’s other income, net decreased by $41 million, or 39%, in 2019 compared to 2018, primarily due to a decrease in AFUDC due to a decrease in equity ratio resulting from wildfire loss accruals.

Reorganization items, net

There was no material change to reorganization items, net that impacted earnings in 2020 compared to 2019.

Reorganization items, net increased by $320 million, or 100%, in 2019 compared to 2018, due to $370 million of expenses directly associated with the Utility’s Chapter 11 filing, partially offset by interest income of $50 million, with no corresponding charges in 2018.

Income Tax Provision (Benefit)

Income tax provisionbenefit increased by $3.8$2.1 billion in 20202022 compared to 2019,2021, primarily due to a pre-tax loss in 2019 compared to pre-tax income in 2020. Additionally, there waswrite-off of a $619 million adjustment from the measurement of the deferred tax assetDTA associated with the difference between the liability recorded related to the TCC RSA and the ultimate value of PG&E Corporation stock contributed tograntor trust election for the Fire Victim Trust in 2020.the year ended December 31, 2021 and a benefit recognized related to the sale of shares in the Fire Victim Trust in the year ended December 31, 2022.

The Utility’s income tax benefit increased $112 million in 2019 compared to 2018, primarily due to higher pre-tax losses. 

The following table reconciles the income tax expense at the federal statutory rate to the income tax provision:
202020192018
Federal statutory income tax rate21.0 %21.0 %21.0 %
Increase (decrease) in income tax rate resulting from:
State income tax (net of federal benefit) (1)
19.1 %7.5 %7.9 %
Effect of regulatory treatment of fixed asset differences (2)
(44.9)%2.8 %3.6 %
Tax credits(1.7)%0.1 %0.1 %
Bankruptcy and emergence (3)
54.1 %— %— %
Other, net (4)
2.2 %(0.5)%— %
Effective tax rate49.8 %30.9 %32.6 %
20222021
Federal statutory income tax rate21.0 %21.0 %
Increase (decrease) in income tax rate resulting from:
State income tax (net of federal benefit) (1)
(26.9)%24.1 %
Effect of regulatory treatment of fixed asset differences (2)
(49.2)%(51.6)%
Tax credits(1.3)%(1.2)%
Fire Victim Trust (3)
(64.0)%91.9 %
Other, net2.2 %2.6 %
Effective tax rate(118.2)%86.8 %
(1) Includes the effect of state flow-through ratemaking treatment.treatment and the effect of the grantor trust election.
(2) Includes the effect of federal flow-through ratemaking treatment for certain property-related costs. For these temporary tax differences, the Utility recognizes the deferred tax impact in the current period and recordsrecord offsetting regulatory assets and liabilities. Therefore, the Utility’s effective tax rate is impacted as these differences arise and reverse. The Utility recognizes such differences as regulatory assets or liabilities as it is probable that these amounts will be recovered from or returned to customers in future rates. The amounts also reflect the impact of the amortization of excess deferred tax benefits to be refunded to customers as a result of the Tax Act passed in December 2017.Act.
(3)Includes an adjustmentthe tax benefit of the measurementsale of the deferred tax asset associated with the difference between the liability recorded related to the TCC RSA and the ultimate value of PG&E Corporation stock contributed toshares by the Fire Victim Trust.
(4) These amounts primarily representTrust in 2022 and the impacttax effect of tax audit settlementsthe grantor trust election for the Fire Victim Trust in 2021. See “Tax Matters” above and non-tax deductible costsNote 7 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in 2020 and 2019.Item 8.

Utility Revenues and Costs that did not Impact Earnings

Fluctuations in revenues that did not impact earnings are primarily driven by procurement costs. See below for more information.

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Cost of Electricity

The Utility’s cost of electricity includes the cost of power purchased from third parties (including renewable energy resources), fuel and associated transmission costs used in its own generation facilities, fuel and associated transmission costs supplied to other facilities under power purchase agreements, costs to comply with California’s cap-and-trade program, and realized gains and losses on price risk management activities. Cost of electricity also includes net sales (Utility owned generation and third parties) in the CAISO electricity markets. (SeeSee Note 1011 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.) The Utility’s total purchased power is driven by customer demand, net CAISO electricity market activities (purchases or sales), the availability of the Utility’s own generation facilities (including Diablo Canyon and its hydroelectric plants), and the cost-effectiveness of each source of electricity. The cost of electricity decreased in 2022 as compared to 2021. This was primarily due to decreased customer demand and higher energy sales to the CAISO, partially offset by higher fuel prices.
(in millions)(in millions)202020192018(in millions)20222021
Cost of purchased power, netCost of purchased power, net$2,854 $2,809 $3,531 Cost of purchased power, net$2,283 $2,883 
Fuel used in own generation facilitiesFuel used in own generation facilities262 286 297 Fuel used in own generation facilities473 349 
Total cost of electricityTotal cost of electricity$3,116 $3,095 $3,828 Total cost of electricity$2,756 $3,232 

Cost of Natural Gas

The Utility’s cost of natural gas includes the costs of procurement, storage and transportation of natural gas, costs to comply with California’s cap-and-trade program, and realized gains and losses on price risk management activities. (SeeSee Note 1011 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.) The Utility’s cost of natural gas is impactedincreased in 2022 as compared to 2021 due to increased customer demand and higher market prices. This was driven primarily by the market price ofbelow-normal winter temperatures and prolonged drought conditions, resulting in lower California and Pacific Northwest hydro-electric generation output and higher demand from natural-gas fired generation. Lower natural gas changes in the cost of storage levels and transportation, and changes in customer demand. regional pipeline constraints also contributed to higher natural gas prices.
(in millions)(in millions)202020192018(in millions)20222021
Cost of natural gas soldCost of natural gas sold$648 $622 $561 Cost of natural gas sold$1,957 $1,010 
Transportation cost of natural gas soldTransportation cost of natural gas sold134 112 110 Transportation cost of natural gas sold143 139 
Total cost of natural gasTotal cost of natural gas$782 $734 $671 Total cost of natural gas$2,100 $1,149 

Operating and Maintenance Expenses

The Utility’s operating expenses that did not impact earnings include certain costs that the Utility is authorized to recover as incurred.  If the Utility were to spend more than authorized amounts, these expenses could have an impact toon earnings.

Other Income, Net

The Utility’s other income, net that did not impact earnings includes pension and other post-retirement benefit costs that fluctuate primarily from market and interest rate changes.

Nuclear Operations

Capacity factors, which are significantly affected by the number and duration of refueling and non-refueling outages, reflect the availability of Diablo Canyon’s generation to the California electricity market. Management analyzes capacity factors by comparing Diablo Canyon’s actual generation to forecasted annual capacity factors, which reflect planned refueling outages, curtailments for condenser cleaning, allowances for minor curtailments resulting from equipment issues, and curtailments for major ocean storms.

Apart from cost-of-service ratemaking and beginning on September 2, 2022, the Utility is entitled to receive a monthly performance-based disbursement. For more information, see “Extension of Diablo Canyon Operations” below.

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The Utility manages its scheduled refueling outages with the objective of minimizing their duration and maintaining high nuclear generating capacity factors, resulting in a stable generation base for the Utility’s wholesale and retail power marketing activities. During scheduled refueling outages, the Utility performs maintenance and equipment upgrades to minimize the occurrence of unplanned outages and to maintain safe, reliable operations. For the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, Diablo Canyon achieved an average capacity factor of 90% and 84%, respectively. As previously disclosed, Diablo Canyon Unit 2 experienced five outages between July 2020 and April 2021, each due or related to excessive vibrations within the main generator.

In addition to the maintenance and equipment upgrades performed by the Utility during scheduled refueling outages, the Utility has extensive operating and security procedures in place to assure the safe operation of Diablo Canyon. The Utility also has extensive safety systems in place designed to protect the plant, personnel, and surrounding area in the unlikely event of an accident or other incident.

LIQUIDITY AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES

Overview

As a result of PG&E Corporation’sCorporation and the Utility’s emergence from Chapter 11 on July 1, 2020, substantial doubt has been alleviated regarding the Company’s abilityUtility expect to meet its obligations as they become due within one year after the date the financial statements were issued.have sufficient liquidity to fund their present and future commitments.

As of and subsequent to the Effective Date, theThe Utility’s ability to fund operations, finance capital expenditures, make scheduled principal and interest payments, and make distributions to PG&E Corporation depends on the levels of its operating cash flows and access to the capital and credit markets. The CPUC authorizes the Utility’s capital structure, the aggregate amount of long-term and short-term debt that the Utility may issue, and the revenue requirements the Utility is able to collect to recover its cost of capital. The Utility generally utilizes retained earnings, equity contributions from PG&E Corporation and long-term debt issuances to maintain its CPUC-authorized long-term capital structure consisting of 52% equity and 48% debt and preferred stock and relies on short-term debt, including its revolving credit facilities, to fund temporary financing needs. On May 28, 2020, the CPUC approved a final decision in the Chapter 11 Proceedings OII, which, among other things, grants the Utility a temporary, five-year waiver from compliance with its authorized capital structure for the financing in place upon the Utility’s emergence from Chapter 11.

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PG&E Corporation’s ability to fund operations, make scheduled principal and interest payments, and fund equity contributions to the Utility depends on the level of cash on hand, cash distributions received from the Utility, and PG&E Corporation’s access to the capital and credit markets.

In 2019, as a result of the initiation of the Chapter 11 Cases, each of Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P withdrew its credit ratings for PG&E Corporation and the Utility. As a result of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s credit ratings ceasing to be rated at investment grade, the Utility was required to post collateral under certain of its commodity purchase agreements and certain other obligations. On June 15, 2020, Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P recommenced rating the Utility and PG&E Corporation.

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s credit ratings may be affected by the ultimate outcome of pending enforcement and litigation matters. Credit rating downgrades may increaseimpact the cost and availability of short-term borrowing,borrowings, including credit facilities, and long-term debt costs. In addition, some of the Utility’s commodity contracts contain collateral posting provisions tied to the Utility’s credit rating from each of the major credit rating agencies. The collateral posting provisions for some of the Utility’s power and natural gas commodity, and transportation and service agreements state that if the Utility’s credit ratings were to fall below investment grade, the Utility would be required to post additional cash immediately to fully collateralize some or all of its net liability positions.

As a resultPG&E Corporation and the Utility have various contractual commitments which impact cash requirements. These commitments are discussed in “Purchase Commitments” in Note 16 of the outbreak ofNotes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

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Arrearages Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows have been and could continue to be significantly affected. The Utility continues to evaluateaffected by the overall impactoutbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic; however, the Utility expects a significant impact on monthly cash collections as long as current circumstances persist, including the moratorium on service disconnections for residential and small business customers and an observed reduction in non-residential electrical load. The Utility’s customer energy accounts receivable balances over 30 days outstanding as of December 31, 2020, were approximately $825 million, or $478 million higher as compared to the balances as of December 31, 2019. The Utility is unable to estimate the portion of the increase directly attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Utility expects to continue experiencing an impact on monthly cash collections in 2021 and for as long as current COVID-19 circumstances persist. The reduction in cash collections from customers may be partially offset by reductions in discretionary spending or potential regulatory impacts.

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of variant strains of the virus (including Delta and Omicron), and the resulting economic conditions and government orders have had and will continue to have a significant adverse impact on the Utility’s customers and, as a result, these circumstances have impacted and will continue to impact the Utility for an indeterminate period of time. AlthoughIn particular, the Utility is seeking regulatory reliefcontinues to mitigateexperience increased arrearages. The principal areas of near-term impact include liquidity, financial results and business operations, stemming primarily from the impactongoing economic hardship of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, there can be no assurance that any relief is forthcoming or that, if any relief measures are implemented, the timing that any such relief would impact the Utility. On April 16, 2020,Utility’s customers, an annual cap set by the CPUC approved a resolution that authorizes utilities to establish memorandum accounts to track incremental costs associated with complying withon the customer protections described withinnumber of service disconnections for residential customers, and the resolution. On May 1, 2020, the Utility filed an advice letter with the CPUC, describing all reasonable and necessary actions to implement emergency customer protections through April 16, 2021, which was subsequently updated on June 2, 2020, and July 15, 2020, to modify and clarify the filing based on CPUC guidance. On July 27, 2020, the CPUC approved the Utility’s advice letter. (SeeCPUC’s “Emergency Authorization and Order Directing Utilities to Implement Emergency Customer COVID-19 Protections”Protections.” The Utility resumed non-residential and residential service disconnections as of October 13, 2022. The Utility’s accounts receivable balances over 30 days outstanding as of December 31, 2022, were approximately $1.1 billion, or $890 million higher as compared to the balance as of December 31, 2019. The Utility is unable to estimate the portion of the increase directly attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As of December 31, 2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility had access to approximately $2.9 billion of total liquidity comprised of approximately $609 million of Utility cash, $125 million of PG&E Corporation cash and $2.2 billion of availability under PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s revolving credit facilities. The 2022 cost of capital application was filed off-cycle based on the extraordinary event of the COVID-19 pandemic and related government response. See “Cost of Capital Proceedings” below for more information.)

The Utility established the CPPMA for tracking costs related to the CPUC’s emergency authorization and order for the period the CPPMA was in effect. As of December 31, 2022, the CPPMA totaled $26 million and is reflected in Long-term regulatory assets on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. In addition to the $26 million recorded to the CPPMA, the Utility recorded approximately $126 million of under-collections from residential customers from March 4, 2020 to December 31, 2022 to the RUBA, which has been approved by the CPUC and is reflected in Regulatory balancing accounts receivable on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

On June 30, 2022, the Governor of California signed AB 205, which included authorization for additional incremental CAPP funding of $958 million for California IOUs. The Utility received approximately $200 million in November 2022 to reduce the amounts owed by customer accounts in arrears. The amount of funding was determined by the California Department of Community Services and Development, which is the agency responsible for administering the CAPP.

Because electric rates have been set using a sales forecast that has been adjusted for impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, PG&E Corporation and the Utility do not expect significant variances between the forecast of electric usage and actual electric usage due to COVID-19 in 2023. Consequently, PG&E Corporation and the Utility do not expect the COVID-19 pandemic to result in undercollections.

The COVID-19 pandemic may continue to impact PG&E Corporation and the Utility financially, and PG&E Corporation and the Utility will continue to monitor the overall impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Restricted Cash

Cash and cash equivalents consist of cash and short-term, highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less.  PG&E Corporation and the Utility maintain separate bank accounts and primarily invest their cash in money market funds. In addition to cash and cash equivalents, the Utility holds restricted cash that primarily consists of cash held in escrowAB 1054 and SB 901 fixed recovery charge collections that are to be used to pay bankruptcy related professional fees.service the associated bonds. 

Financial Resources
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DIP Credit Agreement

In connection with the Chapter 11 Cases, PG&E Corporation and the Utility entered into the DIP Credit Agreement, which received final approval from the Bankruptcy Court on March 27, 2019.

On July 1, 2020, the DIP Facilities (as defined in the DIP Credit Agreement) were repaid in full and all commitments thereunder were terminated in connection with emergence from Chapter 11.Financial Resources

Equity Financings

On July 23, 2020,April 30, 2021, PG&E Corporation sent a notice of termination to the managers of the Amended and Restatedentered into an Equity Distribution Agreement dated as of February 17, 2017, effectively terminatingwith the agreement on that date. As ofAgents, the termination date for this agreement, there were no issuances under this agreement.
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In connection with its emergence from Chapter 11, in July 2020, PG&E Corporation issued for gross proceeds of approximately $9.0 billion (i) 423.4 million shares of its common stock (the “Common Stock Offering”), (ii) 342.1 million shares of common stock to the PIPE Investors pursuant to the Investment Agreement, (iii) prepaid forward contracts between PG&E CorporationForward Sellers and the Backstop Parties datedForward Purchasers (each as of June 19, 2020 (the “Forward Stock Purchase Agreements”) and (iv) 14.5 million of its equity units (the “Equity Units” and such offeringdefined in “At the “Equity Unit Offering”).

In August 2020, PG&E Corporation issued (i) 1.45 millionMarket Equity Units to the Equity Units Underwriters upon their exercise of their over-allotment option to purchase up to 1.45 million additional Equity Units (such issuance, the “Additional Units Issuance”) and (ii) 42.3 million shares to the Backstop Parties pursuant to the Forward Stock Purchase Agreements (with the balance of the Forward Stock Purchase Agreements being redeemed with the cash proceeds of these additional Equity Units).

The prepaid forward stock purchase contract portion of the Equity Units issued in July and August 2020 represents the right of the unitholders to receive, on the settlement date, between 125 million and 153 million shares, and between 12.5 million and 15.3 million shares, respectively, of PG&E Corporation common stock, based on the value of PG&E Corporation common stock. The common stock received will be based on the value of PG&E Corporation common stock over a measurement period specified in the purchase contracts and subject to certain adjustments as provided therein. The settlement date of the purchase contracts is August 16, 2023, subject to acceleration or postponement as provided in the purchase contracts. Such gross proceeds were used to fund distributions under the Plan.

For the year ended December 31, 2020, PG&E Corporation made equity contributions to the Utility of $12.9 billion in cash and 478 million shares of PG&E Corporation common stock. Such shares were transferred to the Fire Victim Trust.

Debt Financings

Utility

On June 19, 2020, the Utility completed the sale of (i) $500 million aggregate principal amount of Floating Rate First Mortgage Bonds due June 16, 2022, (ii) $2.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 1.75% First Mortgage Bonds due June 16, 2022, (iii) $1 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.10% First Mortgage Bonds due August 1, 2027, (iv) $2 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.50% First Mortgage Bonds due February 1, 2031, (v) $1 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.30% First Mortgage Bonds due August 1, 2040, and (vi) $1.925 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.50% First Mortgage Bonds due August 1, 2050 (collectively, the “Mortgage Bonds”). The proceeds of the Mortgage Bonds were deposited into an account at The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Escrow Agent, which proceeds were held by the Escrow Agent as collateral pursuant to an escrow agreement by and between the Escrow Agent and the Utility. On July 1, 2020, the net proceeds from the sale of the Mortgage Bonds were released from escrow and, together with the net proceeds from certain other Plan financing transactions, were used to effectuate the reorganization of the Utility and PG&E Corporation in accordance with the terms and conditions contained in the Plan.

On the Effective Date, pursuant to the Plan, the Utility issued approximately $11.9 billion of its first mortgage bonds (collectively, the “New Mortgage Bonds”) in satisfaction of certain of its pre-petition senior unsecured debt.

On the Effective Date, pursuant to the Plan, the Utility reinstated approximately $9.6 billion aggregate principal amount of the Utility Reinstated Senior Notes. On the Effective Date, each series of the Utility Reinstated Senior Notes was collateralized by the Utility’s delivery of a first mortgage bond in a corresponding principal amount to the applicable trustee for the benefit of the holders of the Utility Reinstated Senior Notes.

The Mortgage Bonds, the New Mortgage Bonds and the Utility Reinstated Senior Notes are secured by a first priority lien, subject to permitted liens, on substantially all of the Utility’s real property and certain tangible property related to its facilities. The Mortgage Bonds, the New Mortgage Bonds and the Utility Reinstated Senior Notes are the Utility’s senior obligations and rank equally in right of payment with the Utility’s other existing or future first mortgage bonds issued under the Utility’s mortgage indenture.

On the Effective Date, by operation of the Plan, all outstanding obligations under the Utility Short-Term Senior Notes, the Utility Long-Term Senior Notes and the Utility Funded Debt were cancelled and the applicable agreements governing such obligations were terminated.

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On November 16, 2020, the Utility completed the sale of $1.45 billion aggregate principal amount of floating rate first mortgage bonds due November 15, 2021. Proceeds from the sale of the mortgage bonds were used for general corporate purposes, including the repayment of borrowings outstanding under the Receivables Securitization Program and under the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement.

For more information, see “Other Short-term Borrowings” and “Long-term Debt”Distribution Program” in Note 57 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.8), establishing an at the market equity distribution program, pursuant to which PG&E Corporation, through the Agents, may offer and sell from time to time shares of PG&E Corporation’s common stock having an aggregate gross sales price of up to $400 million. The Equity Distribution Agreement provides that, in addition to the issuance and sale of shares of common stock by PG&E Corporation to or through the Agents, PG&E Corporation may enter into Forward Sale Agreements (as defined in “At the Market Equity Distribution Program” in Note 7 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8) with the Forward Purchasers. On October 31, 2022, PG&E Corporation suspended the At the Market Equity Distribution Program until further notice. As of the suspension date for this program, PG&E Corporation had not sold any shares pursuant to the Equity Distribution Agreement.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility plan to meet their capital requirements for 2023 through internally generated funds and the issuance of long-term debt, short-term debt, and the potential sale of a minority interest in Pacific Generation. (See “Application with Pacific Generation LLC for Approval to Transfer Non-Nuclear Generation Assets” below.) PG&E Corporation does not plan to issue any equity securities in 2023 or 2024. Factors that could affect PG&E Corporation’s planned equity issuances include liquidity and cash flow needs, capital expenditures, interest rates, the timing and outcome of ratemaking proceedings, and the timing and terms of other financings, including the potential sale of a minority interest in Pacific Generation.

On June 23, 2020, PG&E Corporation obtained a $2.75 billion secured term loan (the “PG&E Corporation Term Loan”) under a term loan credit agreement (the “Term Loan Agreement”). The PG&E Corporation Term Loan matures on June 23, 2025, unless extended by PG&E Corporation pursuant to the terms of the Term Loan Agreement. The proceeds of the PG&E Corporation Term Loan were initially deposited into an account at The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Escrow Agent, which proceeds were held by the Escrow Agent as collateral pursuant to an escrow agreement by and among the Collateral Agent, the Escrow Agent, the Administrative Agent and PG&E Corporation. On July 1, 2020, the net proceeds from the PG&E Corporation Term Loan were released from escrow and were used to fund, in part, the transactions contemplated under the Plan.

In accordance with the Term Loan Credit Agreement, PG&E Corporation is required to repay the principal amount outstanding on the PG&E Corporation Term Loan in an amount equal to $6.875 million on the last business day of each quarter.Debt Financings

On February 1, 2021, PG&E Corporation entered into a repricing amendment with18, 2022, the lenders under the Term Loan Credit Agreement pursuant to which, among other things, the applicable interest rate was reduced.

Additionally, on June 23, 2020, PG&E CorporationUtility completed the sale of (i) $1 billion aggregate principal amount of 5.00% Senior Secured Notes3.25% First Mortgage Bonds due July 1, 20282024, (ii) $400 million aggregate principal amount of 4.20% First Mortgage Bonds due 2029, (iii) $450 million aggregate principal amount of 4.40% First Mortgage Bonds due 2032 and (iv) $550 million aggregate principal amount of 5.25% First Mortgage Bonds due 2052. The proceeds were used for the prepayment of a portion of the 18-month tranche loans pursuant to an existing term loan credit agreement (the “2020 Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement”), in an amount equal to $1.0 billion, and for general corporate purposes.

On June 8, 2022, the Utility issued $450 million aggregate principal amount of 4.950% First Mortgage Bonds due June 8, 2025, $450 million aggregate principal amount of 5.450% First Mortgage Bonds due June 15, 2027, and $600 million aggregate principal amount of 5.90% First Mortgage Bonds due June 15, 2032. The proceeds were used for the repayment of borrowings outstanding under the Utility’s revolving credit facility pursuant to the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement.

On January 6, 2023, the Utility completed the sale of (i) $750 million aggregate principal amount of 6.150% First Mortgage Bonds due 2033 and (ii) $1$750 million aggregate principal amount of 6.750% First Mortgage Bonds due 2053. The proceeds were used for the repayment of a portion of the loans outstanding under the Utility’s revolving credit facility pursuant to the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement.

SB 901 Securitization

On May 10, 2022, PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC issued $3.6 billion aggregate principal amount of 5.25% Senior Secured Notes due July 1, 2030 (collectively, the “Notes”senior secured recovery bonds (the “Series 2022-A Recovery Bonds”). The Series 2022-A Recovery Bonds were issued in five tranches:
TrancheAmountInterest RateFinal Maturity Date
A-1$540,000,000 3.594 %June 1, 2032
A-2$540,000,000 4.263 %June 1, 2038
A-3$360,000,000 4.377 %June 3, 2041
A-4$1,260,000,000 4.451 %December 1, 2049
A-5$900,000,000 4.674 %December 1, 2053

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The net proceeds were used to fund the redemption of all $500 million aggregate principal amount of the Notes were initially deposited into an account atUtility’s Floating Rate First Mortgage Bonds due June 16, 2022 on May 16, 2022 and the redemption of all $2.5 billion aggregate principal amount of the Utility’s 1.75% First Mortgage Bonds due June 16, 2022 on May 16, 2022. The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Escrow Agent, which proceeds were held byUtility used the Escrow Agent as collateral pursuant to an escrow agreement by and amount the Escrow Agent and PG&E Corporation. On July 1, 2020, the netremaining proceeds from the saleissuance of the Notes were released from escrow and, together withSeries 2022-A Recovery Bonds for the net proceeds from certain other Plan financing transactions, were usedrepayment of a portion of loans outstanding under the Utility’s revolving credit facility pursuant to effectuate the reorganization of PG&E Corporation and the Utility in accordance with the terms and conditions contained in the Plan.Revolving Credit Agreement.

On the Effective Date,July 20, 2022, PG&E Corporation repaid and terminated $350Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC issued $3.9 billion aggregate principal amount of senior secured recovery bonds (the “Series 2022-B Recovery Bonds”). The Series 2022-B Recovery Bonds were issued in five tranches:
TrancheAmountInterest RateFinal Maturity Date
B-1$613,080,000 4.022 %June 1, 2033
B-2$600,000,000 4.722 %June 1, 2039
B-3$500,040,000 5.081 %June 3, 2043
B-4$1,149,960,000 5.212 %December 1, 2049
B-5$1,036,920,000 5.099 %June 1, 2054

The net proceeds were used to fund (1) the redemption of all $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of the Utility’s 1.367% First Mortgage Bonds due March 10, 2023 on July 25, 2022, (2) the prepayment of all $500 million of borrowings, plus interest, fees and other expenses arisingloans outstanding under or in connection with the 2022A Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement dated as defined below, and (3) the repayment of April 16, 2018, amonga portion of loans outstanding under the Utility’s revolving credit facility pursuant to the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement. The Utility also intends to use a portion of the remaining proceeds to fund the redemption of all $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of the Utility’s 3.25% First Mortgage Bonds due 2024.

AB 1054 Securitization

On November 30, 2022, PG&E Corporation, as borrower,Recovery Funding LLC issued approximately $983 million of Series 2022-A Senior Secured Recovery Bonds. The senior secured recovery bonds were issued in three tranches: (1) approximately $215 million with an interest rate of 5.045% due July 15, 2034, (2) approximately $200 million with an interest rate of 5.256% due January 15, 2040, and (3) approximately $568 million with an interest rate of 5.536% due July 15, 2049. The net proceeds were used by the several lenders party thereto and Mizuho Bank Ltd., as administrative agent.Utility to fund fire risk mitigation capital expenditures that were incurred by the Utility from the period beginning October 2021 through October 2022.

For more information, see “Long-Term Debt”“AB 1054” in Note 5 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Credit Facilities

As of December 31, 2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility had $500 million and $1.5 billion available under their respective $500 million and $4.4 billion revolving credit facilities. The Utility also has access to the Receivables Securitization Program, under which the Utility may borrow the lesser of the facility limit and the facility availability. The facility limit fluctuates between $1.0 billion and $1.5 billion depending on the periods set forth in the amendment. Further, the facility availability may vary based on the amount of accounts receivable that the Utility owns that are eligible for sale to the SPV and the portion of those accounts receivable that are sold to the SPV that are eligible for advances by the lenders under the Receivables Securitization Program from time to time.

Utility

On March 31, 2022, the Utility prepaid in full the remaining portion of the 18-month tranche loans pursuant to the 2020 Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement, in a principal amount equal to $298 million. As a result of such prepayment, the 2020 Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement was terminated and is no longer outstanding.

On April 4, 2022, the Utility entered into a term loan credit agreement (the “2022A Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement”), comprised of 364-day tranche loans in the aggregate principal amount of $500 million (the “364-Day 2022A Tranche Loans”). On July 21, 2022, the 364-Day 2022A Tranche Loans were prepaid in full with a portion of the proceeds from issuance of the Series 2022-B Recovery Bonds. As a result of such prepayment, the 2022A Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement was terminated and is no longer outstanding.

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On April 20, 2022, the Utility entered into a term loan credit agreement (the “2022B Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement”), comprised of 364-day tranche loans in the aggregate principal amount of $125 million (the “364-Day 2022B Tranche Loans”) and two-year tranche loans in the aggregate principal amount of $400 million (the “2-Year 2022B Tranche Loans”). The 364-Day 2022B Tranche Loans have a maturity date of April 19, 2023 and the 2-Year 2022B Tranche Loans have a maturity date of April 19, 2024. The 364-Day 2022B Tranche Loans and the 2-Year 2022B Tranche Loans bear interest based on the Utility’s election of either (1) the Term Secured Overnight Financing Rate (plus a 0.10% credit spread adjustment) plus an applicable margin of 1.25%, or (2) the base rate plus an applicable margin of 0.25%. The Utility borrowed the entire amount of the 364-Day 2022B Tranche Loans and the 2-Year 2022B Tranche Loans on April 20, 2022.

On April 20, 2022, the Utility entered into an amendment to the Receivables Securitization Program to, among other things, add an uncommitted incremental facility which, subject to certain conditions precedent, allows the SPV to request an increase in the facility limit by an additional $500 million to an aggregate amount of $1.5 billion. On August 12, 2022, the SPV made such a request to increase the facility limit, and the facility limit was subsequently increased to $1.5 billion on August 22, 2022. On September 30, 2022, the Utility entered into an amendment to the Receivables Securitization Program to, among other things, (i) extend the scheduled termination date to September 30, 2024 and (ii) implement a seasonal facility limit. After giving effect to the amendment, the facility limit fluctuates between $1.0 billion and $1.5 billion based on the periods set forth in the amendment.

On July 1, 2020, the Utility entered into a $3.5 billion revolving credit agreement (the “Utility Revolving Credit Agreement”) with JPM., and Citibank, N.A. as co-administrative agents and Citibank, N.A., as designated agent. The Utility Revolving Credit Agreement has tenor of three years, subject to two one-year extension options. The proceeds from the borrowings under the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement, were usedwhich it subsequently amended. On October 4, 2022, the Utility further amended the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement to, fund, in part, transactions contemplated underamong other things, (i) increase the Planaggregate commitments provided by the lenders to $4.4 billion and are intended(ii) extend the maturity date of such agreement to finance working capital needs, capital expenditures and other general corporate purposesJune 22, 2027 (subject to a one-year extension at the option of the Utility and its subsidiaries.Utility).

In addition, onPG&E Corporation

On July 1, 2020, PG&E Corporation entered into the Utility obtained a $3 billion secured term loan under a term loan credit agreement (the “Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement”) with JPM, as administrative agent, and the other lenders from time to time party thereto. The facilities under the Utility Term LoanCorporation Revolving Credit Agreement, consist of a $1.5 billion 364-day term loan facility (the “Utility 364-Day Term Loan Facility”) and a $1.5 billion 18-month term loan facility (the “Utility 18-Month Term Loan Facility”). The maturity date forwhich it subsequently amended. On October 4, 2022, PG&E Corporation further amended the Utility 364-Day Term Loan Facility is June 30, 2021 andCorporation Revolving Credit Agreement to, among other things, extend the maturity date forof such agreement to June 22, 2025 (subject to a one-year extension at the Utility 18-Month Term Loan Facility is January 1, 2022. The proceeds from the loans under the Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement were used to fund, in part, transactions contemplated under the Plan.

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At December 31, 2020, the Utility had $3.0 billionoption of debt outstanding under the Term Loan Credit Agreement and had $1.9 billion available under the $3.5 billion Utility Revolving Credit Agreement.PG&E Corporation).

For more information, see “Credit Facilities” in Note 5 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

PG&E CorporationIntercompany Note Payable

On July 1, 2020,August 11, 2021, PG&E Corporation entered into a $500borrowed $145 million revolving credit agreement (the “Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement”) with JPM, as administrative agent and collateral agent. The Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement has a maturity date three years after its Effective Date, subject to two one-year extensions at the option of PG&E Corporation. The proceeds from loans under the Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement will be used to finance working capital needs, capital expenditures and other general corporate purposes of PG&E Corporation and its subsidiaries.

On the Effective Date, PG&E Corporation repaid and terminated $300 million of outstanding borrowings under the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of April 27, 2015, among PG&E Corporation, as borrower, the several lenders party thereto and Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent.

At December 31, 2020, PG&E Corporation did not have any borrowings outstanding under the Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement.

For more information, see “Credit Facilities” in Note 5 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Receivables Securitization Program

On October 5, 2020, the Utility, in its individual capacity and in its capacity as initial servicer, entered into an accounts receivable securitization program (the “Receivables Securitization Program”), providing for the sale of a portion of the Utility’s accounts receivable to the SPV, a limited liability company wholly owned by the Utility. Pursuant to the Receivables Securitization Program, the Utility sells certain of its receivables and certain related rights to payment and obligations of the Utility with respect to such receivables and certain other related rights to the SPV, which, in turn, obtains loans secured by the receivables from financial institutions (the “Lenders”). The Utility has pledged to the Lenders 100% of the equity interests in the SPV as security for the repayment of the loans. The aggregate principal amount of the loans made by the Lenders cannot exceed $1 billion outstanding at any time.

The loans under the Receivables Securitization Program bear interest based on a spread over LIBOR dependent on the tranche period thereto and any breakage fees accrued. The receivables financing agreement contains customary LIBOR benchmark replacement language giving the administrative agent, with consent from the SPV as to the successor rate, the right to determine such successor rate. The Receivables Securitization Program contains certain customary representations and warranties and affirmative and negative covenants, including as to the eligibility of the receivables being sold by the Utility and securing the loans made by the Lenders, as well as customary reserve requirements, Receivables Securitization Program termination events, and servicer defaults. The Receivables Securitization Program termination events permit the Lenders to terminate the agreement upon the occurrence of certain specified events, including failure by the SPV to pay amounts when due, certain defaults on indebtedness under the Utility’s credit facility, certain judgments, a change of control, certain events negatively affecting the overall credit quality of transferred receivables and bankruptcy and insolvency events.

The Receivables Securitization Program is scheduled to terminate on October 5, 2022, unless extended or earlier terminated, at which time no further advances will be available and the obligations thereunder must be repaid in full no later than (i) the date that is 180 days following such date or (ii) such earlier date on which the loans under the program become due and payable.

In general, the proceeds from the sale of the accounts receivable are used by the SPV to pay the purchase price for accounts receivables it acquires from the Utility and may be used to fund capital expenditures, repay borrowings on the Utility Revolving Credit Facility, satisfy maturing debt obligations, as well as fund working capital needs and other approved uses.under an interest bearing 364-day intercompany note due August 10, 2022. On June 17, 2022, this loan was repaid in full.

Although the SPV is a wholly owned consolidated subsidiary of the Utility, the SPV is legally separate from the Utility. The assets of the SPV (including the accounts receivable) are not available to creditors of the Utility or PG&E Corporation, and the accounts receivables are not legally assets of the Utility or PG&E Corporation. The Receivables Securitization Program is accounted for as a secured financing. The pledged receivables and the corresponding debt are included in Accounts receivable and Long-term debt, respectively, on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

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Dividends

On December 20, 2017, the Boards of Directors of PG&E Corporation and the Utility suspended quarterly cash dividends on both PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s common stock, beginning the fourth quarter of 2017, as well as the Utility’s preferred stock, beginning the three-month period ending January 31, 2018.

On April 3, 2019,February 8, 2022, the court overseeing the Utility’s probation issued an order imposing new conditionsBoard of probation, including forgoing issuing “any dividends until [the Utility] is in compliance with all applicable vegetation management requirements” under applicable law and the Utility’s WMP.

On March 20, 2020, PG&E Corporation andDirectors of the Utility filed a Case Resolution Contingency Process Motion withauthorized the Bankruptcy Court that includes a dividend restriction for PG&E Corporation. According to the dividend restriction, PG&E Corporation “will not pay common dividends until it has recognized $6.2 billion in non-GAAP core earnings following the Effective Date”payment of the Plan. The Bankruptcy Court entered the order approving the motion on April 9, 2020.

In addition, the Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement requires that PG&E Corporation (1) maintain a ratio of total consolidated debt to consolidated capitalization of no greater than 70% as of the end of each fiscal quarter and (2) if revolving loans are outstanding as of the end of a fiscal quarter, a ratio of adjusted cash to fixed charges, as of the end of such fiscal quarter, of at least 150% prior to the date that PG&E Corporation first declares a cash dividend on its common stock and at least 100% thereafter.

Under the Utility’s Articles of Incorporation, the Utility cannot pay common stock dividends unless all cumulative preferredand unpaid dividends on the Utility’s preferred stock have been paid. Additionally,as of January 31, 2022 totaling $59.1 million, which was paid on May 13, 2022, to holders of record on April 29, 2022. In addition to the CPUC requiresdividends paid in arrears, the Utility to maintain a capital structure composedpaid approximately $11 million of at least 52% equitydividends on average.redeemable preferred stock during the year ended December 31, 2022. On May 28, 2020,December 15, 2022, the CPUC approved a final decision in the Chapter 11 Proceedings OII, which, among other things, grantsBoard of Directors of the Utility a temporary, five-year waiver from compliance withdeclared dividends on its authorized capital structure foroutstanding series of preferred stock totaling $3.5 million, which was paid on February 15, 2023, to holders of record on January 31, 2023.

On June 15, 2022, the financing in place uponBoard of Directors of the Utility also reinstated the dividend on the Utility’s emergence from Chapter 11.common stock and declared a common stock dividend of $425 million that was paid to PG&E Corporation on June 17, 2022. On September 15, 2022, the Board of Directors of the Utility declared a common stock dividend of $425 million that was paid to PG&E Corporation on September 16, 2022. On December 15, 2022, the Board of Directors of the Utility declared a common stock dividend of $425 million that was paid to PG&E Corporation on December 20, 2022. No dividend is payable until declared by the Board of Directors of the Utility.

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Subject to the foregoingdividend restrictions described in Note 7 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8, any decision to declare and pay dividends on PG&E Corporation’s common stock in the future will be made at the discretion of the BoardsBoard of Directors and will depend on, among other things, results of operations, financial condition, cash requirements, contractual restrictions of PG&E Corporation, and other factors that the BoardsBoard of Directors of PG&E Corporation may deem relevant. As of December 31, 2020, it is uncertain asPursuant to whenthe Confirmation Order, PG&E Corporation and the Utility will commence the payment ofmay not pay dividends on theirshares of its common stock anduntil it recognizes $6.2 billion in Non-GAAP Core Earnings following the Emergence Date. “Non-GAAP Core Earnings” means GAAP earnings adjusted for certain non-core items as described in the Plan. PG&E Corporation is unable to predict when the Utilityit will commence the payment of dividends on its preferredcommon stock.

Utility Cash Flows

PG&E Corporation’s consolidated cash flows consist primarily of cash flows related to the Utility. The following discussion presents the Utility’s cash flows for 2022 and 2021. 

See “Liquidity and Financial Resources” in Item 7 of the 2021 Form 10-K for discussion of the Utility’s cash flows for 2021 compared to 2020.

The Utility’s cash flows were as follows:
Year Ended December 31,
 (in millions)202020192018
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities$(19,047)$4,810 $4,704 
Net cash used in investing activities(7,748)(6,378)(6,564)
Net cash provided by financing activities26,070 1,395 2,708 
Net change in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash$(725)$(173)$848 
Year Ended December 31,
 (in millions)20222021
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities$3,831 $2,448 
Net cash used in investing activities(10,069)(7,050)
Net cash provided by financing activities6,879 4,379 
Net change in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash$641 $(223)

Operating Activities

The Utility’s cash flows from operating activities primarily consist of receipts from customers less payments of operating expenses, other than expenses such as depreciation that do not require the use of cash.  During 2020, net cash provided by operating activities decreased by $23.9 billion compared to 2019. This decrease was primarily due to the payment of $18.8 billion in satisfaction of pre-petition wildfire-related claims (including claims associated with the 2018 Camp fire, the 2017 Northern California wildfires, and the 2015 Butte fire), and the initial, first and second annual contributions made to the Wildfire Fund of $5.2 billion, with no similar payments made in 2019.

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During 2019,2022, net cash provided by operating activities increased by $106 million$1.4 billion compared to 2018.the same period in 2021.  This increase was partially due to an increase in base revenues authorized in the 2020 GRC and additional revenues as authorized through the FERC formula rate and a decrease in interest paid from $773 million to $7 millionoperating and maintenance expense as a result of operating cost efficiencies. In addition, during 2022, the automatic stayUtility made a payment to the Fire Victim Trust of $592 million as compared to a payment of the Petition Date. Additionally, income taxes paid decreased from $59$758 million in 2018 to zerothe same period in 2019. These decreases in amounts paid were offset by an increase in amounts paid for reorganization items, and enhanced and accelerated inspections and repairs of transmission and distribution assets in 2019, with no similar payments in 2018, partially offset by additional amounts not paid due to the automatic stay as of the Petition Date.2021.

Future cash flow from operating activities will be affected by various factors, including:

the timing and amount of costs in connection with the 2019 Kincade fire;

fire, the 2020 Zogg fire, the 2021 Dixie fire, and the 2022 Mosquito fire and the timing and amount of costs in connection with the 2020 Zogg fire;any potential related insurance, Wildfire Fund, and regulatory recoveries;

the timing and amounts of costs, including fines and penalties, that may be incurred in connection with current and future enforcement, litigation, and regulatory matters (see “Enforcement Matters”“Wildfire-Related Securities Class Action” in Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 and “Regulatory Matters” below for more information);

the severity, extent and duration of the global COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the Utility’s service territory,area, the ability of the Utility to collect on its customer invoices,receivables, the ability of the Utility’s customers to pay their utility bills in full and in a timely manner, the ability of the Utility to offset these effects, including with spending reductions, and the ability of the Utility to recover from customersthrough rates any losses incurred in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the availability or cost of financing;

the timing and amounts of annual contributions to the Wildfire Fund and if necessary, the availability ofavailable funds to pay eligible claims for liabilities arising from future wildfires;

the timing and amount of substantially increasing costs in connection with the 2020-2022 WMP and the costs previously incurred in connection with the 2019 and 2020-2022 WMPsWMP that are not currently being recovered inthrough rates (see “Regulatory Matters” below for more information);

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the timing and amountamounts of premium payments related to wildfire insuranceavailable funds collected for self-insurance (see “Insurance Coverage”“2023 General Rate Case” in Note 14the Regulatory Matters section of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 87. Management’s Discussion and Analysis for more information);

the timing of and amount of the gain to be returned to customers from the sale of the SFGO;SFGO and transmission tower wireless licenses and the amounts incurred related to the move to and the leasing of the Lakeside Building; and

the timing and outcomes of the FERC TO18Utility’s pending and TO19 rate cases, 2018 and 2019 CEMA applications, WEMA application, WMCE application, future applications for cost recovery of amounts recorded to the FRMMA, CPPMA, WMPMA, VMBA, WMBA and RTBA, future cost of capital proceedings and other ratemaking and regulatory proceedings.

Investing Activities

Net cash used in investing activities increased by $1.4 billion during 2020 as comparedproceedings, including the extent to 2019 partially due to the payment of pre-petition vendor payables for capital expenditures as a result of emerging from Chapter 11. Net cash used in investing activities decreased by $186 million during 2019 as compared to 2018 primarily due to a decrease in cash paid for capital expenditures as a result of the automatic stay as of the Petition Date. The Utility’s investing activities primarily consist of the construction of new and replacement facilities necessary to provide safe and reliable electricity and natural gas services to its customers.  Cash used in investing activities also includes the proceeds from sales of nuclear decommissioning trust investments which are largely offset by the amount of cash used to purchase new nuclear decommissioning trust investments.  The funds in the decommissioning trusts, along with accumulated earnings, are used exclusively for decommissioning and dismantling the Utility’s nuclear generation facilities.

Future cash flows used in investing activities are largely dependent on the timing and amount of capital expenditures.  The Utility estimates that it will incur between $7.5 billion and $8.3 billion in capital expenditures in 2021. Additionally, future cash flows from investing activities will be impacted by the timing of and amount received from the proposed sale of the Utility’s SFGO.

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Financing Activities

During 2020, net cash provided by financing activities increased by $24.7 billion as compared to 2019. This increase was primarily due to PG&E Corporation making a cash equity contribution to the Utility of approximately $13.0 billion, and due to the Utility receiving $10.4 billion in proceeds from the issuance of short-term and long-term first mortgage bonds, with no similar activity in 2019. Additionally, the Utility had net borrowings of $4.6 billion under its credit facilities during the year ended December 31, 2020, with no similar activity in 2019 due to the Utility entering into the facilities in 2020. These increases were partially offset by net repayments of $1.5 billion on the DIP facilities in 2020, as compared to net borrowings of $1.5 billion on the DIP facilities in 2019.

During 2019, net cash provided by financing activities decreased by $1.3 billion as compared to 2018. This decrease was primarily due to $2.9 billion of net borrowings under revolving credit facilities in 2018, partially offset by $1.5 billion of net borrowings under the DIP initial term loan facility in 2019.

Cash provided by or used in financing activities is driven by the Utility’s financing needs, which depend on the level of cash provided by or used in operating activities, the level of cash provided by or used in investing activities, the conditions in the capital markets, and the maturity date of existing debt instruments. 

CONTRACTUAL COMMITMENTS

The following table provides information about PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s contractual commitments at December 31, 2020:
 Payment due by period
(in millions)
Less Than
1 Year
1-3
Years
3-5
Years
More Than
5 Years
Total
Utility     
Long-term debt (1)
$4,043 $7,778 $4,209 $35,895 $51,925 
Purchase obligations (2)
Power purchase agreements2,917 4,896 4,198 21,657 33,668 
Natural gas supply, transportation, and storage466 349 302 184 1,301 
Nuclear fuel agreements64 103 47 — 214 
Pension and other benefits (3)
342 684 684 342 2,052 
Operating leases (2)
42 80 129 3,019 3,270 
Preferred dividends (4)
14 28 28 — 70 
PG&E Corporation
Long-term debt (1)
— — 2,901 2,000 4,901 
Total Contractual Commitments$7,888 $13,918 $12,498 $63,097 $97,401 
(1) Includes interest payments over the terms of the debt. Interest is calculated using the applicable interest rate at December 31, 2020 and outstanding principal for each instrument with the terms ending at each instrument’s maturity. (See Note 5 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)
(2) See “Purchase Commitments” and “Other Commitments” in Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.
(3) See Note 12 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8. Payments into the pension and other benefits plans are based on annual contribution requirements. As these annual requirements continue indefinitely into the future, the amount shown in the column entitled “more than 5 years” represents only 1 year of contributions for the Utility’s pension and other benefit plans.
(4) Beginning with the three-month period ending January 31, 2018, quarterly cash dividends on the Utility’s preferred stock were suspended.  While the timing of cumulative dividend payments is uncertain, it is assumed for the table above to be payable within a fixed period of five years based on historical performance.  (See Note 7 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

The contractual commitments table above excludes potential payments associated with unrecognized tax positions.  Due to the uncertainty surrounding tax audits, PG&E Corporation and the Utility cannot make reliable estimates of the amounts and periods of future paymentsare able to major tax jurisdictions related to unrecognized tax benefits.  Matters relating to tax years that remain subject to examination are discussedrecover their costs through regulated rates as recorded in Note 9 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

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Exceptmemorandum accounts or balancing accounts, or as otherwise set forth in the Plan and the Confirmation Order, all executory contracts and unexpired leases were assumed by PG&E Corporation or the Utility, as applicable, on the Effective Date. Accordingly, any description of an executory contract or unexpired lease with PG&E Corporation or the Utility in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including where applicable a quantification of the obligations under any such executory contract or unexpired lease, is qualified by any overriding assumption or rejection rights PG&E Corporation or the Utility, as applicable, has under the Bankruptcy Code, the Plan, and the Confirmation Order. Further, nothing herein is or shall be deemed to be an admission with respect to any claim amounts or calculations arising from the rejection of any executory contract or unexpired lease and PG&E Corporation and the Utility expressly reserve all of their rights with respect thereto.

requested.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

PG&E Corporation and the Utility do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements that have had, or are reasonably likely to have, a current or future material effect on their financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures, or capital resources, other than those discussed under “Purchase Commitments” in Note 1516 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Investing Activities
ENFORCEMENT AND
Net cash used in investing activities increased by $3.0 billion during 2022 as compared to the same period in 2021. This increase was primarily driven by a $1.9 billion increase in capital expenditures, including additional system hardening and emergency response work performed in 2022. Additionally, the Utility purchased $1.0 billion of investments as part of the creation of the customer credit trust, with no similar purchases in 2021.

The Utility’s investing activities primarily consist of the construction of new and replacement facilities necessary to provide safe and reliable electricity and natural gas services to its customers. Cash used in investing activities also includes the proceeds from sales of nuclear decommissioning trust and customer credit trust investments which are partially offset by the amount of cash used to purchase new nuclear decommissioning trust and customer credit trust investments. The funds in the decommissioning trusts, along with accumulated earnings, are used exclusively for decommissioning and dismantling the Utility’s nuclear generation facilities. Pursuant to SB 901, the funds in the customer credit trust, along with accumulated earnings, are used exclusively to fund a monthly credit to customers that is anticipated to equal the fixed recovery charges such that the SB 901 securitization is designed to be rate neutral to customers.

Future cash flows used in investing activities are largely dependent on the timing and amount of capital expenditures.  The Utility estimates that it will incur between $7.9 billion and $11.2 billion in 2023. Additionally, future cash flows used in investing activities will be impacted by the timing and amount related to the intended purchase of the Lakeside Building, and the timing and amount of contributions to the customer credit trust, including shareholder tax benefits, and $1.0 billion of cash to be contributed in 2024.

Financing Activities

Net cash provided by financing activities increased by $2.5 billion during 2022 as compared to the same period in 2021. The increase was primarily due to the issuance of $7.5 billion of SB 901 recovery bonds and a decrease of $850 million in net repayments of short-term debt. These increases were partially offset by a $5.9 billion increase in amounts paid to satisfy long-term debt outstanding in 2022 compared to the same period in 2021.

Cash provided by or used in financing activities is driven by the Utility’s financing needs, which depend on the level of cash provided by or used in operating activities, the level of cash provided by or used in investing activities, the conditions in the capital markets, and the maturity date or prepayment date of existing debt instruments.  Additionally, the Utility’s future cash flows from financing activities will be affected by the timing and outcome of future AB 1054 securitization transactions, the timing and outcome of the potential sale of a minority interest in Pacific Generation to one or more investors to be identified, dividend payments, and equity contributions from PG&E Corporation.

LITIGATION MATTERS

PG&E Corporation and the Utility have significant contingencies arising from their operations, including contingencies related to the enforcement and litigation matters described in Notes 14Note 2, Note 15, and 1516 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.8 that are incorporated by reference herein. The outcome of these matters, individually or in the aggregate, could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

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REGULATORY MATTERS

The Utility is subject to substantial regulation by the CPUC, the FERC, the NRC, and Probationother federal and state regulatory agencies. The resolutions of the proceedings described below and other proceedings may materially affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

During the year ended December 31, 2022 and through the date of this filing, the Utility has continued to make progress on regulatory and legislative matters.

In February 2023, the CPUC approved a final decision, adopting without modification the Utility’s settlement agreement in its 2020 WMCE proceeding, pursuant to which the Utility will recover a revenue requirement of $1.04 billion. In January 2023, the Utility submitted a partial settlement regarding the 2021 WMCE application pursuant to which the Utility would receive a revenue requirement of $720.7 million. In December 2022, the Utility filed the 2022 WMCE application requesting cost recovery of approximately $1.36 billion of recorded expenditures, resulting in a proposed revenue requirement of approximately $1.29 billion.

In December 2022, OEIS issued the Utility’s 2022 safety certification.

In December 2022, the CPUC approved a resolution authorizing the Utility’s exit from the EOEP.

In December 2022, the CPUC issued a final decision in the Utility’s 2023 cost of capital proceeding, which sets the Utility’s ROE for 2023 at 10%.

In November 2022, OEIS issued its final decision approving the Utility’s 2022 WMP, which the CPUC ratified in December.

In November 2022, the CPUC issued a final decision in the Utility’s 2022 cost of capital proceeding. The decision retains the Utility’s cost of capital previously authorized in the 2020 cost of capital proceeding.

In September 2022, the Utility filed an application with the CPUC regarding the separation of its non-nuclear generation assets into a stand-alone Utility subsidiary and the potential sale of a minority interest in the newly-formed subsidiary to one or more investors to be identified.

In September 2022, the Governor of California signed SB 884, which authorizes and expedites OEIS and CPUC review of a 10-year undergrounding plan.

In September 2022, the Governor of California signed SB 846, which supports the extension of operations at Diablo Canyon until 2030. In October 2022, the Utility executed a loan agreement with the DWR for up to $1.4 billion. In November, the DOE conditionally selected the Utility to receive funding of up to $1.1 billion as part of the Civil Nuclear Credit Program.

In August 2022, the CPUC issued a final decision approving the securitization of up to approximately $1.4 billion of fire risk mitigation capital expenditures, and in November 2022, PG&E Recovery Funding LLC issued approximately $983 million aggregate principal amount of Series 2022-A Senior Secured Recovery Bonds. See Note 5 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

In March 2022, the CPUC approved a settlement agreement for the Utility’s 2018 CEMA application approving a total revenue requirement of $683 million plus interest for its expenses and capital costs, which is approximately 90% of the Utility’s total cost recovery request.

In February 2022, a CPUC decision finding $7.5 billion of stress test costs eligible for securitization pursuant to SB 901 and a financing order authorizing the issuance of up to $7.5 billion of recovery bonds became final and non-appealable. PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC issued $3.6 billion aggregate principal amount of Series 2022-A Recovery Bonds in May and $3.9 billion aggregate principal amount of Series 2022-B Recovery Bonds in July. See Note 6 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

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In February 2022, the Utility served supplemental testimony for its 2023 GRC to reflect the Utility’s integrated wildfire mitigation strategy, including the Utility’s proposals for the initial phase of undergrounding 10,000 miles of electric distribution powerlines. In September 2022, the Utility submitted testimony updating the revenue requirement to reflect updates for escalation rates and federal tax law and guidance. As amended and updated, the Utility’s application requests revenue requirements of $15.82 billion and a weighted-average GRC rate base of $50.41 billion for its 2023 test year. In January 2023, the Utility filed a motion for approval of a settlement agreement for all amounts at issue in the second track of the proceeding, for $183 million in expense and $127 million of capital expenditures. Also in January 2023, the CPUC approved a settlement pursuant to which the Utility’s wildfire liability insurance will be entirely based on self-insurance beginning in 2023.

Cost Recovery Proceedings

Periodically, costs arise that could not have been anticipated by the Utility during CPUC GRC proceedings or that have been deliberately excluded from such requests. These costs may result from catastrophic events, changes in regulation, or extraordinary changes in operating practices. The Utility may seek authority to track incremental costs in a memorandum account and the CPUC may authorize recovery of costs tracked in memorandum accounts if the costs are deemed incremental and prudently incurred. The CPUC may also authorize balancing accounts with limitations or caps to cost recovery. These accounts, which include the CEMA, WEMA, FHPMA, FRMMA, WMPMA, VMBA, WMBA, and RTBA among others, allow the Utility to track the costs associated with work related to disaster and wildfire response, other wildfire prevention-related costs, certain third-party wildfire claims, and insurance costs. While the Utility generally expects such costs to be recoverable, there can be no assurance that the CPUC will authorize the Utility to recover the full amount of its costs.

In recent years, the amount of the costs recorded in these accounts has increased. Because rate recovery may require CPUC authorization for these accounts, there can be a delay between when the Utility incurs costs and when it may recover those costs. As of December 31, 2022, the Utility had recorded an aggregate amount of approximately $6.2 billion in costs for the CEMA, WEMA, FHPMA, FRMMA, WMPMA, VMBA, WMBA, MGMA, and RTBA. Of these costs, approximately $856 million was authorized for recovery and accounted for as current, and $5.3 billion was accounted for as long term as of December 31, 2022. See Note 4 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

If the amount of the costs recorded in these accounts continues to increase or the delay between incurring and recovering costs lengthens, PG&E Corporation and the Utility may incur additional financing costs. If the Utility does not recover the full amount of its recorded costs, the difference between the recorded and recovered amounts would be written off as a non-cash disallowance. Such disallowances could materially affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

Except as otherwise noted, the Utility is unable to predict the timing and outcome of the following applications. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected if the Utility is unable to timely recover costs included in these applications.

For more information, see Note 4 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8, “Wildfire Mitigation and Catastrophic Events Cost Recovery Applications,” and “Catastrophic Event Memorandum Account Application” below.

The Utility’s cost recovery proceedings for the costs described above that are pending, have pending appeals, or were completed during the year ended December 31, 2022 are summarized in the following table:
ProceedingRequestStatus
2020 WMCERevenue requirement of approximately $1.28 billionSettlement agreement to recover $1.04 billion of revenue requirement approved February 2023.
2021 WMCERevenue requirement of approximately $1.47 billionPartial settlement agreement to recover $721 million of revenue requirement filed January 2022. Settlement excludes VMBA’s $591 million revenue requirement.
2022 WMCERevenue requirement of approximately $1.36 billionFiled December 15, 2022.
2018 CEMARevenue requirement of $763 millionSettlement agreement to recover $683 million plus interest approved March 2022.


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Wildfire Mitigation and Catastrophic Events Cost Recovery Applications

2020 WMCE Application

On August 9, 2016,September 30, 2020, the juryUtility filed an application with the CPUC requesting cost recovery of recorded expenditures related to wildfire mitigation and certain catastrophic events (the “2020 WMCE application”). The recorded expenditures, which excluded amounts disallowed as a result of the CPUC’s decision in the federal criminal trial againstOII into the Utilitymultiple wildfires that began on October 8, 2017 and spread through Northern California, including Napa, Sonoma, Butte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Lake, Nevada and Yuba Counties, as well as in the United States District Court forarea surrounding Yuba City (the “2017 Northern California wildfires”), and the Northern District2018 Camp fire, consisted of California,$1.18 billion in San Francisco, found the Utility guilty on one countexpense and $801 million in capital expenditures, resulting in a proposed revenue requirement of obstructing a federal agency proceeding and five counts of violations of pipeline integrity management regulations of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act. On January 26, 2017, the court imposed a sentence on the Utility in connection with the conviction. The court sentenced the Utility to a five-year corporate probation period, oversight by the Monitor for a period of five years, with the ability to apply for early termination after three years, a fine of $3 million to be paid to the federal government, certain advertising requirements, and community service.approximately $1.28 billion.

The probation includes a requirement thatcosts addressed in the Utility not commit any local, state, or federal crimes2020 WMCE application cover activities mainly during the probation period. As part of the probation, the Utility has retained the Monitor atyears 2017 to 2019 and were incremental to those previously authorized in the Utility’s expense.2017 GRC and other proceedings. The goalmajority of the Monitor iscosts addressed in this application reflected work necessary to help ensure that the Utility takes reasonable and appropriate steps to maintain the safety of its gas and electric operations,mitigate wildfire risk and to maintain effective ethics, compliancerespond to catastrophic events occurring during the years 2017 to 2019. The Utility’s requested revenue included amounts for the FHPMA of $293 million, the FRMMA and safety related incentive programs on a Utility-wide basis.the WMPMA of $740 million, and the CEMA of $251 million.

On August 7, 2020, afterSeptember 21, 2021, the Utility and certain parties filed a numbermotion with the CPUC seeking approval of filings involving different parties,a settlement agreement that would resolve all of the court entered an order adopting the new conditions jointly proposedissues raised by the settling parties in the 2020 WMCE application. The settlement agreement proposes that the Utility the Monitor, and the Departmentrecover a revenue requirement of Justice on June 24, 2020. Among other things, these conditions require$1.04 billion. The settlement agreement authorizes the Utility to staffrecover a revenue requirement of $591 million over a 24-month amortization period beginning March 2023, which is in addition to the interim rate relief of $447 million that was approved by an in-house vegetation inspection manager and approximately 30 additional field inspectors to oversee vegetation management work. Further,earlier CPUC decision. On February 2, 2023, the CPUC approved a final decision adopting the settlement agreement without modifications.

2021 WMCE Application

On September 16, 2021, the Utility is requiredfiled an application with the CPUC requesting cost recovery of approximately $1.6 billion of recorded expenditures, resulting in a proposed revenue requirement of approximately $1.47 billion (the “2021 WMCE application”). The costs addressed in this application reflect costs related to implementwildfire mitigation and certain catastrophic events, as well as implementation of various customer-focused initiatives. These costs were incurred primarily in 2020.

The recorded expenditures consist of $1.4 billion in expenses and $197 million in capital expenditures. The costs addressed in the 2021 WMCE application are incremental to those previously authorized in the Utility’s 2017 GRC, 2020 GRC, and other proceedings. The majority of the Utility’s proposed revenue requirement would be collected over a program to assess the age and expected useful life of certain electrical componentstwo-year period beginning in high fire-threat areas, incorporate this information into its risk-based asset management programs, and provide monthly progress reportsJanuary 2023.

The Utility’s requested revenue requirement includes amounts recorded to the Monitor.VMBA of $592 million, the CEMA of $535 million, the WMBA of $149 million, and other memorandum accounts. On November 18, 2021, the Utility filed updates to the application, increasing total costs by $19.4 million. On December 30, 2021, the Utility filed supplemental testimony reducing the cost recovery request of the COVID-19 CEMA costs by $12.2 million. The $12.2 million reduction was a result of costs, such as employee business travel expenses and in-person training costs, that the Utility must also hire additional inspectorswas able to oversee inspectionsavoid due to the pandemic.

On January 18, 2023, the Utility, TURN, and Cal Advocates filed a joint motion for approval of its transmission assets and implement a 90-day replacementsettlement agreement, pursuant to which the Utility would receive a revenue requirement of $720.7 million. The settlement agreement does not address $591.9 million recorded to the VMBA, for cold end hardware in high fire-threat areas with an observed material loss approaching 50%.which cost recovery will be determined separately by the CPUC.

2022 WMCE Application

On December 29,15, 2022, the Utility filed an application with the CPUC requesting cost recovery of approximately $1.36 billion of recorded expenditures, resulting in a proposed revenue requirement of approximately $1.29 billion (the “2022 WMCE application”). The costs addressed in this application reflect costs related to wildfire mitigation and certain catastrophic events, as well as implementation of various customer-focused initiatives. These costs were incurred primarily in 2021.

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The recorded expenditures consist of $1.2 billion in expenses and $136 million in capital expenditures. The costs addressed in the 2022 WMCE application are incremental to those previously authorized in the Utility’s 2020 GRC and other proceedings. In connection with the court entered an order requiring2022 WMCE application, the Utility also requested interim rate relief of $1.1 billion to be recovered over 12 months beginning June 1, 2023. The remaining $224 million would be recovered after the CPUC issues a final decision.

The Utility has proposed a schedule that would call for a final decision by the CPUC in December 2023.

Catastrophic Event Memorandum Account Application

The CPUC allows utilities to recover the reasonable, incremental costs of responding to catastrophic events that have been declared a disaster or state of emergency by competent federal or state authorities. The Utility has historically sought such costs through standalone CEMA applications. More recently, the Utility has sought to recover CEMA-eligible costs through its WMCE applications.

In addition to the Utility’s responsibilities in responding to catastrophic events, in 2014, the CPUC directed the Utility to show cause asperform additional fire prevention and vegetation management work in response to why additional proposed conditions of probation should not be added. The proposed conditions would requirethe severe drought in California. Through 2019, the costs associated with this work were tracked in the CEMA. In the 2020 GRC decision, the CPUC required the Utility to when determining which distribution lines to de-energize during a PSPS event: (i) take into accounttrack these costs in the extent to which vegetation bordering those lines is not in compliance with certain requirements, and (ii)VMBA for the period beginning January 1, 2020.

2018 CEMA Application

On March 30, 2018, the Utility submitted to the extentCPUC its 2018 CEMA application requesting cost recovery of $183 million in connection with seven catastrophic events that information showsincluded fire and storm declared emergencies from mid-2016 through early 2017, as well as $405 million related to work performed in 2016 and 2017 to cut back or remove dead or dying trees that such vegetation presents a safety hazard in the eventwere exposed to years of a windstorm, make a specific determination with respect to that distribution linedrought conditions and de-energize it unless the Utility finds in writing that there are specific reasons to believe that no safety issues exist.bark beetle infestation. The Utility filed its response on January 20, 2021, proposing supplemental languagethree revisions to clarify and specify howthis application, resulting in a total cost recovery request of $763 million.

On April 25, 2019, the CPUC approved the Utility’s request for interim rate relief, allowing for recovery of $373 million of costs as requested by the Utility at that time. The interim rate relief was implemented, commencing on October 1, 2019.

On March 17, 2022, the CPUC approved a settlement agreement authorizing the Utility to collect a total of $683 million plus interest for the 2018 CEMA application. As noted above, $373 million of the total amount had already been collected in interim rates. The interim rates became final and are no longer subject to refund. The remainder of the authorized revenue requirement will implementbe amortized over a 12-month period, which began on June 1, 2022.

Forward-Looking Rate Cases

The Utility routinely participates in forward-looking rate case applications before the new conditions proposedCPUC and the FERC. Those applications include GRCs, where the revenue required for general operations (“base revenue”) of the Utility is assessed and reset. In addition, the Utility is periodically involved in “cost of capital” proceedings to adjust its regulated return on rate base. The Utility’s future earnings will depend on the revenue requirements authorized in such rate cases.

Decisions in GRC proceedings have historically been expected prior to the commencement of the period to which the rates would apply. In recent years, decisions in GRC proceedings have been delayed. Delayed decisions may cause the Utility to develop its budgets based on approved revenue requirements and possible outcomes, rather than authorized amounts. When decisions are delayed, the CPUC typically provides rate relief to the Utility effective as of the commencement of the rate case period (not effective as of the date of the delayed decision). Nonetheless, the Utility’s spending during the period of the delay may exceed the authorized amount, without an ability for the Utility to seek cost recovery of such excess. If the Utility’s spending during the period of the delay is less than the authorized amount, the Utility could be exposed to operational and financial risk associated with the lower level of work achieved compared to that funded by the court. A hearingCPUC.

Except as otherwise noted, the Utility is unable to predict the timing and outcome of the following applications. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected depending on the matter was held on February 3, 2021. On February 4, 2021, the court entered an order indicating that, if certain alterations were made, the court may be willing to accept the Utility’s proposed modified conditions in lieuoutcomes of the conditions proposed in the court’s December 29, 2020 order. All parties and amici responded to the order on February 19, 2021 and any replies must be submitted by February 26, 2021. A hearing is scheduled for March 9, 2021.these applications.

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The Utility’s forward-looking rate cases that are pending, have pending appeals, or were completed during the year ended December 31, 2022 are summarized in the following table:
Rate CaseRequestStatus
2023 GRCRevenue requirement of $15.82 billion for 2023A decision is scheduled for the third quarter of 2023.
2022 Cost of CapitalLeave cost of capital components at pre-2022 levels for 2022Final decision issued November 2022, leaving the cost of capital components at pre-2022 levels for 2022. Intervenors filed application for rehearing in December 2022.
2023 Cost of CapitalIncrease ROE to 11% and cost of debt to 4.31%Final decision issued December 2022, adopting a 10% ROE. Intervenor filed application for rehearing in January 2023.
2015 GT&SRevenue requirement of $416 million related to 2011-2014 capital expenditures subject to auditFinal decision issued July 2022 approving settlement to recover $356 million of revenue requirements.

2023 General Rate Case

On February 4,June 30, 2021, the court entered an order requiringUtility filed its 2023 GRC application with the CPUC (“the Original Application”). The 2023 GRC combined what had historically been separated into the GRC and GT&S rate cases. In a GRC, the CPUC approves annual revenue requirements for the first year (a “test year”) of the GRC period and typically authorizes the Utility to show causereceive annual increases in revenue requirements for the subsequent years of the GRC period (known as “attrition years”). In the 2023 GRC, the CPUC will determine the annual amount of base revenues that the Utility will be authorized to whycollect from customers from 2023 through 2026 to recover its anticipated costs for gas distribution, gas transmission and storage, electric distribution, and electric generation and to provide the additionalUtility an opportunity to earn its authorized rate of return. The Utility’s revenue requirements for other portions of its operations, such as electric transmission, and electricity, natural gas and power purchases, are authorized in other regulatory proceedings overseen by the CPUC or the FERC. In the Original Application, the Utility proposed conditionsa series of probation suggested by amicisafety, resiliency, and clean energy investments to further reduce wildfire risk and deliver safe, reliable, and clean energy service.

Between August 2021 and January 2022, the Utility served various updates to its 2023 GRC testimony. On February 25, 2022 and February 28, 2022, the Utility served supplemental testimony for its 2023 GRC to reflect the Utility’s integrated wildfire mitigation strategy, including the Utility’s proposals for the initial phase of undergrounding 10,000 miles of electric distribution powerlines in high fire risk areas throughout the Utility’s service area, the EPSS program, and its EVM program. On March 10, 2022, the Utility filed an amended application that revised and superseded the revenue requirement request in the Original Application. On September 6, 2022, the Utility submitted testimony updating the revenue requirement request in its 2023 GRC proceeding. The testimony reflected updates for escalation rates and federal tax law and guidance since the filing of the Original Application. On December 9, 2022, the Utility submitted a post-hearing reply brief. In the reply brief, the Utility updated the revenue requirement request due to the wildfire insurance settlement dated October 7, 2022 discussed below, stipulations with the parties regarding several disputed issues, and a reduction to the Utility’s forecast for wildfire system hardening mileage targets over the 2023 to 2026 rate case period.

As amended and updated, the Utility’s application requests revenue requirements of $15.82 billion and a weighted-average GRC rate base of $50.41 billion for its 2023 test year. The tables below compare the requested revenue requirements and rate base for the GRC period from 2023 through 2026 to those adopted for 2022 in the 2020 GRC and 2019 GT&S proceedings:

(in billions)     2022
(as adopted)
2023202420252026
Requested revenue requirement$12.21 $15.82 $16.74 $17.18 $17.43 
Requested weighted-average GRC rate base39.21 50.41 55.39 59.56 63.68 

Over the GRC period of 2023 through 2026, the Utility plans to make average annual capital investments of approximately $9.69 billion in gas distribution, transmission and storage, electric distribution, and electric generation infrastructure, and to improve safety, reliability, and customer service.

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On July 22, 2022, the Utility submitted a request for the second track of this proceeding, requesting cost recovery of recorded expenditures related primarily to the safety and reliability of the Utility’s gas transmission and storage system incurred from January 2015 to December 2021. The recorded expenditures consist of $206 million in expenses and $129 million in capital expenditures, resulting in a proposed revenue requirement of approximately $241 million, most of which is proposed to be collected over a two-year period beginning August 1, 2023. On January 27,6, 2023, the Utility and the Public Advocates Office of the CPUC filed a motion for approval of a settlement agreement for all amounts at issue in the second track of the proceeding. In the motion, the parties requested that the CPUC approve $183 million in expense and $127 million of capital expenditures for recovery through rates.

On January 12, 2023, the CPUC approved a settlement agreement among the Utility and two parties to the proceeding pursuant to which the Utility’s wildfire liability insurance will be entirely based on self-insurance beginning in 2023. The self-insurance will be funded through CPUC-jurisdictional rates at $400 million for test year 2023 and subsequent years until $1.0 billion of unimpaired self-insurance is reached. If losses are incurred, the settlement agreement contains an adjustment mechanism designed to adjust customer funded self-insurance based on the amount of wildfire related liabilities incurred in the previous year. For 2024, 2025, and 2026, if the estimated claims for wildfire events from the immediately preceding year exceed the amount collected for self-insurance in that same year, the self-insurance amount to be collected in rates during the following year would increase by 50% of the difference between the self-insurance amount collected and estimated claims for events in the immediately preceding year. As a result, the Utility could collect the self-insurance amounts over a longer period than it makes wildfire-related payments. The settlement agreement includes a five percent deductible, capped at a maximum of $50 million, on claims that are incurred each year. The settlement agreement prohibits the Utility from purchasing additional wildfire liability insurance from the commercial insurance market.

The Utility does not seek recovery of compensation of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s officers within the scope of 17 Code of Federal Regulations 240.3b-7.

The CPUC’s schedule indicated a final decision on the first two tracks of this proceeding would be issued in the third quarter of 2023.

Cost of Capital Proceedings

2020 and 2022 Cost of Capital Applications

On December 19, 2019, the CPUC approved a final decision in the 2020 cost of capital application (the “2020 cost of capital application”), maintaining the Utility’s ROE at the 2019 level of 10.25% for the three-year period beginning January 1, 2020. The decision maintained the common equity component of the Utility’s capital structure (i.e., the relative weightings of common equity, preferred equity, and debt for ratemaking) at 52% and reduced its preferred stock component from 1% to 0.5%. The decision also approved the cost of debt requested by the Utility.

On August 23, 2021, filingthe Utility filed an off-cycle 2022 cost of capital application with the CPUC. The Utility also concurrently filed a motion requesting that the revenue requirement for the 2022 cost of capital be recorded in memorandum accounts to be trued-up following a final decision in this proceeding. On October 28, 2021, the CPUC ruled that the Utility was required to comply with the cost of capital mechanism for 2022.

On November 3, 2022, the CPUC issued a final decision, finding that an extraordinary event occurred, and that the cost of capital adjustment mechanism should not be added.implemented for 2022. The proposed conditions would requirefinal decision retains the cost of capital for 2022 previously authorized in the 2020 cost of capital proceeding, as adjusted, and closes this proceeding. On December 5, 2022, intervenors filed an application for rehearing. On December 20, 2022, the Utility to: (i) hirefiled a chief data operations officerresponse to the application for rehearing.

For more information regarding this proceeding, see Note 16 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

2023 Cost of Capital Application

On April 20, 2022, the Utility filed an application with the responsibility to reviewCPUC requesting that the CPUC authorize the Utility’s information managementcost of capital for its electric generation, electric distribution, natural gas distribution, and record-keeping systemsnatural gas transmission and managestorage rate base beginning on January 1, 2023 (the “2023 cost of capital application”).

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In its 2023 cost of capital application, the relationship toUtility requested that the CPUC approve the Utility’s proposed ratemaking capital structure (i.e., the relative weightings of common equity, preferred equity, and debt for ratemaking), ROE, cost of preferred stock, and cost of debt.

On December 19, 2022, the CPUC issued a final decision adopting a new cost of capital. On January 10, 2023, the CPUC issued a decision correcting certain typographical errors in the final decision.

The following table compares the currently authorized capital structure and rates of return with those adopted in the final decision for 2023, as corrected.
2022 authorized by the 2022 Cost of Capital Application2023 Cost of Capital decision
CostCapital structureWeighted costCostCapital structureWeighted cost
Common equity10.25 %52.00 %5.33 %10.00 %52.00 %5.20 %
Preferred stock5.52 %0.50 %0.03 %5.52 %0.50 %0.03 %
Long-term debt4.17 %47.50 %1.98 %4.31 %47.50 %2.05 %
Weighted average cost of capital100.00 %7.34 %100.00 %7.28 %

For 2023, the Utility expects that the newly-adopted cost of capital will result in revenue requirement decreases of approximately $23 million for electric generation and distribution and $10 million for gas distribution operations, including vegetation management workassuming 2022 authorized rate base amounts from the 2020 GRC decision. The revenues for the gas transmission and PSPS; (ii) initiate steps to prevent data falsification or omission; (iii) propose a plan to mark trees in tier 2 and tier 3 high wildfire danger zonesstorage operations will decrease by approximately $7 million, assuming 2022 authorized rate base amounts from the 2019 GT&S decision. Actual revenue requirement changes resulting from the Utility’s requested ROE for removal and track the statusperiod beyond 2022 may differ from the amounts reflected above, pending the outcome of the tree removal process2023 GRC.

The 2023 cost of capital application also requested that the CPUC approve an upward adjustment above the three-month commercial paper rate for vegetation management;interest on the Utility’s balancing and (iv) propose stepsmemorandum accounts to improve its information management and records-keeping process to improve information integrity, inform analysis, and inform and enhance daily operations including PSPS.reflect the Utility’s actual cost of short-term debt. The Utility’s,Utility requested that the Monitor’s,adjustment be set on an annual basis effective January 1 of each year based on the average difference between the three-month commercial paper rate and the United States’ responses are dueUtility’s actual cost of short-term debt over the preceding twelve-month period from November through October. The Utility included an illustrative calculation using the period March 2021 to February 2022 with an adjustment to increase the rate by 153 basis points, which would result in an estimated $69 million increase in recovery of short-term financing costs associated with its recent balancing and memorandum account balances. The actual revenue requirement impact of the short-term debt proposal would differ depending on the final adjustment set each year and the recorded balances in the balancing and memorandum accounts. The decision deferred consideration of the proposal to a second phase of the proceeding.

The cost of capital that is approved in this proceeding is expected to be effective until December 31, 2025, unless the cost of capital adjustment mechanism is triggered. (For more information on the cost of capital adjustment mechanism, see Note 16 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

On January 18, 2023, an intervenor filed an application for rehearing of the final decision. On February 2, 2023, the Utility filed a response to the application for rehearing.

2015 Gas Transmission and Storage Rate Case

On June 23, 2016, the CPUC approved a final phase one decision in the Utility’s 2015 GT&S rate case. The phase one decision excluded from rate base $696 million of 2011 to 2014 capital spending in excess of the amount adopted in the prior GT&S rate case. The decision permanently disallowed $120 million of that amount and ordered that the remaining $576 million be subject to an audit overseen by the CPUC staff, with the possibility that the Utility may seek recovery in a future proceeding. The audit report was released June 2, 2020 and did not recommend any additional disallowances. The 2015 GT&S decision authorized the Utility to seek recovery, through a separate application, of those costs not recommended for disallowance by the audit.

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On July 31, 2020, the Utility filed an application seeking recovery of $416 million in 2015 to 2022 revenue associated with $512 million of recorded capital expenditures. On July 7, 2021, the Utility filed a joint motion to adopt a settlement agreement reached with the active parties in the proceeding. On July 14, 2022, the CPUC approved a final decision approving the settlement agreement, which resolved all issues in this proceeding and authorized a $356 million revenue requirement for the period of 2015 through 2022. Of this amount, $313 million of revenues for the period 2015 through 2021 will be amortized in rates over 60 months and $43 million associated with 2022 will be amortized in rates over 12 months beginning August 1, 2022. Going forward, the as-yet undepreciated capital plant associated with this application was included in test year 2023 rate base in the Utility’s consolidated 2023 GRC.

Transmission Owner Rate Cases

Transmission Owner Rate Cases for 2015 and 2016 (the “TO16” and “TO17” rate cases, respectively)

On January 8, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion granting an appeal of the FERC’s decisions in the TO16 and TO17 rate cases that had granted the Utility a 50-basis point ROE incentive adder for its continued participation in the CAISO. If the FERC concluded on remand that the Utility should no longer be authorized to receive the 50-basis point ROE incentive adder, the Utility would incur a refund obligation of $1 million and $8.5 million for TO16 and TO17, respectively. Those rate case decisions were remanded to the FERC for further proceedings consistent with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ opinion.

On July 18, 2019, the FERC issued its order on remand reaffirming its prior grant of the Utility’s request for the 50-basis point ROE adder.

On March 3, 2021,17, 2020, the FERC issued its order denying requests for rehearing that were previously filed by several parties. On May 11, 2020, the CPUC and any reply by amici is due by March 10, 2021.a number of other parties filed a petition for review of the FERC’s orders in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

On February 18, 2021,March 17, 2022, the courtNinth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the FERC’s order granting the Utility the 50-basis point ROE incentive adder for CAISO participation. The order would extinguish the Utility’s refund obligations that might have been required under the TO16 and TO17 rate cases had the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals not found in the FERC’s favor. On May 2, 2022, the CPUC filed a petition for panel rehearing of the order. On May 25, 2022, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision denying the request for rehearing and the request for a rehearing en banc.

Transmission Owner Rate Case for 2017 (the “TO18” rate case)

On July 29, 2016, the Utility filed its TO18 rate case with the FERC requesting a 2017 retail electric transmission revenue requirement of $1.72 billion, a $387 million increase over the 2016 revenue requirement of $1.33 billion.  The forecasted network transmission rate base for 2017 was $6.7 billion.  The Utility sought a ROE of 10.9%, which included an incentive component of 50-basis points for the Utility’s continuing participation in the CAISO. 

On October 15, 2020, the FERC issued an order requiringthat, among other things, rejected the Utility’s direct assignment of common plant to FERC and required the allocation of all common plant between CPUC and FERC jurisdiction be based on operating and maintenance labor ratios. The order reopened the record for the limited purpose of allowing the participants to the proceeding an opportunity to present written evidence concerning the FERC’s revised ROE methodology adopted in FERC Opinion No. 569-A, issued on May 21, 2020.

On December 17, 2020 and June 17, 2021, the FERC issued orders denying requests for rehearing submitted by the Utility to show cause as to why an additional proposed condition of probation, which would requireand intervenors. In 2021, the Utility filed four appeals. The appeals related to “identifytwo issues: (1) impact of the Tax Act on TO18 rates in January and remove any tree orFebruary 2018 and (2) aspects of the rehearing order other than the Tax Act. The appeals have been consolidated and are being held in abeyance until the FERC addresses the ROE issue on rehearing.

As a result of an order denying rehearing on the common plant allocation, the Utility increased its regulatory liabilities for amounts previously collected during the TO18, TO19, and TO20 rate case periods from 2017 through 2022 by approximately $416 million. A portion thereof leaning toward any distribution line if it may contactof these common plant costs are expected to be recovered at the lineCPUC in a separate application and as a result, as of December 31, 2022, the Utility had recorded approximately $258 million to Regulatory assets.

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On March 17, 2022, the FERC issued a further order in the TO18 rate case proceeding finding that 9.26% is the just and reasonable base ROE for the Utility. With the incentive component of 50-basis points for the Utility’s continuing participation in the CAISO, the resulting ROE would be 9.76%. As a result, the Utility increased its regulatory liability for the potential refund for TO18 by $30 million in 2022. On April 18, 2022, the Utility sought rehearing of the FERC’s determination of the base ROE finding. On May 16, 2022 and May 31, 2022, the Utility filed a compliance filing and a refund report describing the adjustments made to the transmission revenue requirement, adjusted rates, and the calculation and mechanism of the refunds. On May 19, 2022, the FERC denied all parties’ rehearing requests. The Utility has filed an appeal in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, as have the other parties that sought rehearing. The appeal is being held in abeyance until the FERC issues a substantive order on rehearing on the ROE issue.

Aside from the side or fallultimate outcome of the ROE rehearing request and the common plant allocation, the FERC’s orders in the TO18 proceeding are not expected to result in a material impact on the lineUtility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and must do so regardlesscash flows. Some of the healthissues that will be decided in a final and unappealable TO18 decision, including the common plant allocation, will also be incorporated into the Utility’s TO19 and TO20 rate cases. The ROE rehearing request will not impact the TO20 rate case. See “Transmission Owner Rate Case Revenue Subject to Refund” in Note 16 of the tree[,]Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Transmission Owner Rate Case for 2018 (the “TO19” rate case)
” should not be added. The Utility’s response is due by March 4, 2021, any response
On July 27, 2017, the Utility filed its TO19 rate case with the FERC. On December 20, 2018, the FERC issued an order approving an all-party settlement filed by the United States and/or amici is dueUtility. As part of the settlement, the TO19 revenue requirement will be set at 98.85% of the revenue requirement for TO18 that will be determined upon the issuance of a final, non-appealable TO18 decision. On March 17, 2022, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the FERC’s order granting the Utility the 50-basis point ROE incentive adder for CAISO participation and eliminating the refund obligation, and so the Utility was not obligated to make a refund to customers based on this matter. See “Transmission Owner Rate Cases for 2015 and 2016” above for a discussion of the incentive adder. As a result of the potential reduction to the TO18 revenue requirement, the Utility increased its regulatory liability for the potential refund for TO19 by $32 million in the first quarter of 2022. On April 18, 2022, the Utility sought rehearing of the FERC’s determination of the base ROE finding.

Transmission Owner Rate Case for 2019 (the “TO20” rate case)

On October 1, 2018, the Utility filed its TO20 rate case with the FERC requesting approval of a formula rate for the costs associated with the Utility’s electric transmission facilities. On November 30, 2018, the FERC issued an order accepting the Utility’s October 2018 filing, subject to hearings and refund, and established May 1, 2019 as the effective date for rate changes. The FERC also ordered that the hearings be held in abeyance pending settlement discussions among the parties.

On March 11, 2021,31, 2020, the Utility filed a partial settlement with the FERC, which the FERC approved on August 17, 2020. On October 15, 2020, the Utility filed a settlement with the FERC resolving all of the remaining issues in the formula rate proceedings, including the Utility’s ROE, capital structure, depreciation rates, as well as certain other aspects of the Utility’s formula rate. Specifically, the settlement established an all-in ROE of 10.45%; a fixed capital structure of 49.75% common stock, 49.75% debt, and 0.5% preferred stock; and fixed depreciation rates for various categories of transmission facilities (represented by individual FERC accounts). The term of the settlement continues until December 31, 2023 and the Utility will be required to file a replacement rate filing by October 18, 2023 to be effective on January 1, 2024.

On December 30, 2020, the FERC approved the settlement without modification.

Some of the issues that will be decided in a final and unappealable TO18 decision, including the common plant allocation, will also be incorporated into the Utility’s reply is due by March 17, 2021. A hearingTO20 rate case.

Under its formula rate, the Utility submits an annual update to the FERC each December for rates to go into effect on January 1 of the matter is scheduled for March 23, 2021.following year. Parties have protested the Utility’s annual updates, and these protests are pending before the FERC.


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Other Regulatory Proceedings

Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process

In the courseOII to Consider PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Plan of 2020Reorganization final decision, the CPUC adopted an EOEP designed to provide a roadmap for how the CPUC will monitor the Utility’s operational performance on an ongoing basis. The EOEP contains six steps that are triggered by specific events and 2021,includes enhanced reporting requirements and additional monitoring and oversight. These trigger events include failure to obtain an approved WMP, failure to comply with regulatory reporting requirements in the court entered numerous other orders, includingWMP, insufficient progress toward approved safety or risk-driven investments and failure to comply with or demonstrate sufficient progress toward certain metrics. The EOEP also contains provisions for the Utility to cure and permanently exit the EOEP if it can satisfy specific criteria. If the Utility is placed into the EOEP, actions taken would occur in connectioncoordination with the Utility’s vegetationCPUC’s existing formal and informal reporting requirements and procedures. The EOEP does not replace or limit the CPUC’s regulatory authority, including the authority to issue Orders to Show Cause and OIIs and to impose fines and penalties. The EOEP requires the Utility to report the occurrence of a triggering event to the CPUC’s executive director no later than five business days after the date on which any member of senior management of the Utility’s PSPS program,Utility becomes aware of the 2018 Camp fire, the 2019 Kincade fire, and the 2020 Zogg fire.occurrence of a triggering event.

The Utility expectsis unable to receive additional orders from the court in the future.predict whether fines or penalties may be imposed, or other regulatory actions may be taken.

Vegetation Management

The CPUC placed the Utility into step 1 of the EOEP on April 15, 2021 and imposed additional reporting requirements on the Utility. The CPUC’s resolution states that a step 1 triggering event had occurred because the Utility had “made insufficient progress toward approved safety or risk-driven investments related to its electric business.” The resolution found that, based on the CPUC’s evaluation of the Utility’s EVM work in 2020, the Utility was “not sufficiently prioritizing its Enhanced Vegetation Management (“EVM”) based on risk” and was “not making risk-driven investments.” The resolution also found that “less than five percent of the EVM work” the Utility completed in 2020 “was on the 20 highest risk power lines according to its own risk rankings.”

As required by the CPUC’s resolution, the Utility submitted a corrective action plan to the CPUC’s Executive Director on May 6, 2021, which was designed to correct or prevent recurrence of the step 1 triggering event, or otherwise mitigate any ongoing safety risk or impact, as soon as practicable, among other things. The corrective action plan addressed the EVM situation that occurred in 2020 and provided a risk-informed EVM work plan for 2021. The Utility was required to update the information contained in the corrective action plan every 90 days, which it did.

On December 1, 2022, the CPUC issued a resolution authorizing the Utility’s exit from the EOEP.

Application for Post-Emergence SB 901 Securitization Transaction

SB 901, signed into law on September 21, 2018, requires the CPUC to establish a CHT, directing the CPUC to limit certain disallowances in the aggregate so that they do not exceed the maximum amount that the Utility can pay without harming customers or materially impacting its ability to provide adequate and safe service. SB 901 also authorizes the CPUC to issue a financing order that permits recovery, through the issuance of recovery bonds (also referred to as “securitization”), of wildfire-related costs found to be just and reasonable by the CPUC and, only for the 2017 Northern California wildfires, any amounts in excess of the CHT.

Pursuant to SB 901 and the CPUC’s methodology adopted in the CHT OIR, on April 30, 2020, the Utility filed an application with the CPUC seeking authorization for a post-emergence transaction to recover $7.5 billion of 2017 wildfire claims costs through securitization that is designed to be rate neutral to customers through the creation of a corresponding customer credit trust, with the proceeds used to pay or reimburse the Utility for the payment of wildfire claims costs associated with the 2017 Northern California wildfires. Among other uses, as a result of the proposed transaction, the Utility would retire $6.0 billion of Utility debt. Specifically, the application requested administration of the stress test methodology approved in the CHT OIR and a determination that $7.5 billion in 2017 catastrophic wildfire costs and expenses are stress test costs and eligible for securitization. In this context, a “securitization” refers to a financing transaction where a special purpose financing vehicle issues new debt that is secured by the proceeds of a new recovery charge to Utility customers. The application also proposed a customer credit designed to equal the bond charges over the life of the bonds, which would insulate customers from the charge on customer bills associated with the bonds.

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On April 23, 2021, the CPUC issued a decision finding that $7.5 billion of the Utility’s 2017 catastrophic wildfire costs and expenses are stress test costs that may be financed through the issuance of recovery bonds pursuant to Public Utilities Code sections 850 et seq. and approving a structure for the transaction. As requested, the decision authorized the Utility to establish a customer credit trust funded by PG&E Corporation’s shareholders, that will provide a monthly credit to customers that is anticipated to equal the securitized charges such that the securitization is designed to be rate neutral to customers. Subject to retention of the CPUC’s existing jurisdiction, the decision adopted a transaction structure comprised of four elements: (1) an initial shareholder contribution of $2.0 billion, $1.0 billion of which was contributed in 2022 and $1.0 billion to be contributed in 2024; (2) up to $7.59 billion of additional contributions funded by certain shareholder tax benefits; (3) a single CPUC review of the balance of the customer credit trust in 2040, with a single contingent supplemental shareholder contribution, if needed, up to $775 million in 2040; and (4) sharing with customers 25% of any surplus of shareholder assets in the customer credit trust at the end of the life of the trust.

In addition, on January 6, 2021, the Utility filed an additional application requesting that the CPUC issue a financing order authorizing the issuance of one or more series of recovery bonds in connection with the post-emergence transaction to finance, using securitization, the $7.5 billion of claims associated with the 2017 Northern California wildfires, which the CPUC subsequently granted on May 11, 2021.

On February 28, 2022, the decision finding $7.5 billion of stress test costs eligible for securitization and the financing order authorizing the issuance of up to $7.5 billion of recovery bonds became final and non-appealable. The financing order authorized the issuance of bonds through the end of 2022. PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC issued $3.6 billion aggregate principal amount of Series 2022-A Recovery Bonds on May 10, 2022 and $3.9 billion aggregate principal amount of Series 2022-B Recovery Bonds on July 20, 2022. See Note 6 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Application for Second AB 1054 Securitization Transaction

AB 1054 provides that the first $5.0 billion expended in the aggregate by California’s three large electric IOUs on fire risk mitigation capital expenditures included in their respective approved WMPs will be excluded from their respective equity rate bases. The $5.0 billion of capital expenditures has been allocated among the large electric IOUs in accordance with their Wildfire Fund allocation metrics. The Utility’s allocation is $3.21 billion. AB 1054 contemplates that such capital expenditures may be financed using a structure that securitizes a dedicated customer charge. Pursuant to an earlier financing order issued by the CPUC authorizing the Utility’s initial application for AB 1054 securitization transaction, on November 12, 2021, PG&E Recovery Funding LLC issued approximately $860 million of senior secured recovery bonds. See Note 5 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

On March 11, 2022, the Utility filed an application with the CPUC seeking authorization for a second transaction to securitize up to $1.7 billion of fire risk mitigation capital expenditure amounts that have been or would be incurred by the Utility from 2019 through 2022. The $1.7 billion reflected $212 million recorded and $1.16 billion forecasted capital expenditure amounts that were approved by the CPUC in the 2020 GRC and up to $350 million capital expenditure amounts pending in the 2020 WMCE proceeding. On May 4, 2022, the $350 million of capital expenditure amounts were removed because the CPUC extended the schedule in the 2020 WMCE proceeding such that a final decision approving such capital expenditure amounts in that proceeding was no longer expected prior to the issuance of a financing order authorizing the second AB 1054 securitization transaction.  The final amount to be securitized would be based on actual recorded capital expenditures incurred by the Utility prior to the securitization transaction.

The application requested that the CPUC issue a financing order authorizing one or more series of recovery bonds, determine that the issuance of the bonds and collection through fixed recovery charges is just and reasonable, consistent with the public interest, would reduce rates on a present-value basis compared to traditional utility financing mechanisms, and authorize the Utility to collect a non-bypassable charge sufficient to pay debt service on the recovery bonds.  The application also requested that the CPUC exclude the securitized debt from the Utility’s ratemaking capital structure and adjust the Utility’s 2020 GRC revenue requirements following the issuance of the recovery bonds. 

On August 5, 2022, the CPUC issued a final decision approving the securitization of up to approximately $1.4 billion of fire risk mitigation capital expenditures, which was the amount requested in the application less the $350 million then pending in the 2020 WMCE proceeding.

On November 30, 2022, PG&E Recovery Funding LLC issued approximately $983 million aggregate principal amount of Series 2022-A Senior Secured Recovery Bonds.

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2020-2022 Wildfire Mitigation Plan

The Utility’s 2022 WMP was submitted on February 25, 2022. The 2022 WMP addressed the Utility’s wildfire safety programs and initiatives focused on reducing the potential for catastrophic wildfires related to electrical equipment, reducing the potential for fires to spread, and reducing the impact of PSPS events. On November 10, 2022, OEIS approved the Utility’s 2022 WMP. On December 15, 2022, the CPUC ratified OEIS’s approval.

On December 5, 2022, OEIS issued its draft Annual Report on Compliance (“ARC”) for the Utility’s 2020 WMP. In the draft ARC, OEIS found that the Utility undertook significant efforts to reduce its wildfire risk and, in many instances, achieved its stated objectives and targets but found that the Utility failed to meet targets highly correlated with risk, failed to achieve critical stated objectives, and failed to sufficiently address risk on its system. Consequently, OEIS found the Utility did not substantially comply with the WMP during the 2020 compliance period. The Utility submitted comments on the draft ARC in December 2022. If the OEIS final ARC report maintains the finding that the Utility failed to substantially comply with its 2020 WMP, the Utility may seek judicial review. If the ARC finds that the Utility did not substantially comply with the WMP during the 2020 compliance period, the CPUC is required to issue penalties for the finding of noncompliance. PG&E Corporation and the Utility cannot reasonably estimate at this time whether they will incur a loss in connection with the ARC or the amount of any such loss, as OEIS has not issued the final ARC and because any penalty issued by CPUC depends upon a number of factors.

Electric Integrated Resource Planning and Related Procurement

On November 13, 2019, the CPUC issued a decision that takes a number of steps to address the potential for system RA shortages beginning in 2021. The decision required incremental procurement of system-level qualifying RA capacity of 3,300 MWs by all LSEs operating within the CAISO’s balancing area for the period from 2021 to 2023, of which the Utility is responsible for 716.9 MWs for its bundled customer portion. The decision required that at least 50% of LSEs resource responsibilities come online by August 1, 2021, at least 75% by August 1, 2022, and the remaining by August 1, 2023. Additionally, the decision directed the IOUs to act as the backstop procurement agent for CCAs and energy service providers that choose not to voluntarily self-procure or that fail to meet their procurement responsibilities after electing to self-provide their assigned MWs of system RA capacity under the decision.

On June 30, 2021, the CPUC issued a mid-term reliability decision to address incremental electric system reliability needs between 2024 and 2026 due to, in part, the pending retirement of once-through-cooling natural gas plants in Southern California and the possible retirement of Diablo Canyon by requiring at least 11,500 MW of additional net qualifying capacity to be procured by LSEs. See “Extension of Diablo Canyon Operations” below. The decision set procurement requirements of 2,000 MW by 2023, an additional 6,000 MW by 2024, an additional 1,500 MW by 2025, and an additional 2,000 MW by 2026. The decision set the Utility’s share of the procurement at 2,302 MW of incremental net qualifying capacity.

On April 21, 2022, the CPUC approved a group of nine long-term RA agreements to meet a portion of the Utility’s procurement requirements under the CPUC’s mid-term reliability decision. The agreements are each for a term of 15 years and collectively expected to supply 1,598.7 MW of lithium-ion energy storage capacity with some projects expected to be operational in 2023 and others in 2024.

OIR to Revisit Net Energy Metering Tariffs

On August 17, 2020, the CPUC initiated a rulemaking proceeding to develop a successor to the existing NEM tariffs. The successor tariff is being developed pursuant to the requirements of AB 327. Under AB 327, the successor to the existing NEM tariffs should provide customer-generators with credit or compensation for electricity generated by their renewable facilities based on the value of that generation to all customers and allow customer-sited renewable generation to grow sustainably among different types of customers.

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On November 10, 2022, the CPUC withdrew a previously-issued PD and issued a new PD. On December 19, 2022, the CPUC issued a final decision. The final decision will reduce the NEM subsidy by, in large part, reducing the bill credits for exported energy to avoided cost levels for new customers interconnecting under the successor tariff established by the final decision. For new non-CARE customers interconnecting under the successor tariff, the subsidy is reduced by about 60% for standalone solar and about 45% for solar-paired storage. The decision will also reduce the subsidy for new commercial customers interconnecting under the successor tariff by about 35%. The decision declined to adopt a charge to recover grid and infrastructure costs for new or existing customers and, instead, defers to the ongoing Demand Flexibility OIR, which is considering income-based fixed charges for all customers. The decision does, however, clarify that charges adopted in the Demand Flexibility OIR will apply to NEM and successor tariff customers. The final decision does not reform the legacy period for existing NEM customers.

On January 18, 2023, intervenors filed an application for rehearing. On February 2, 2023, the Utility filed a response to the application for rehearing.

Application with Pacific Generation LLC for Approval to Transfer Non-Nuclear Generation Assets

On September 28, 2022, the Utility filed an application with the CPUC regarding the separation of the Utility’s non-nuclear generation assets into a newly formed, stand-alone Utility subsidiary, Pacific Generation. The application, which was filed jointly with Pacific Generation, seeks to establish Pacific Generation as a separate, rate-regulated utility subject to regulation by the CPUC and contemplates the potential sale of a minority interest in Pacific Generation to one or more investors to be identified. The application proposes that the negotiated transaction documents would be submitted to the CPUC via an advice letter.

On December 13, 2022, the Utility filed applications with a similar request with the FERC and also filed a related application with the FERC requesting the transfer of certain hydro licenses to Pacific Generation.

On January 20, 2023, the CPUC issued a scoping memo pursuant to which a PD would be issued by November 2023.

Self-Reports to the CPUC

The Utility self-reports potential violations of certain requirements to the CPUC. The Utility could face penalties, enforcement actions, or other adverse legal or regulatory consequences for these potential violations, including under the EOEP. The Utility is unable to predict the likelihood and the amount of potential fines or penalties, if any, related to these matters.

Electric Asset Inspections

The Utility has notified the CPUC of various errors relating to inspections and maintenance of its electric assets or implementation of WMP initiatives. These notices include missed inspections or the inability to locate records evidencing performance of inspections required under CPUC GOs 95 and 165 and errors regarding reporting meeting targets set by the Utility’s 2020 WMP. In these notices, the Utility describes the failures and corrective actions the Utility is taking to remediate these issues and to prevent recurrence. Among other corrective measures, the Utility has developed short-term and longer-term systemic corrective actions to address these errors, including performing enhanced inspections for poles with outdated or incomplete GO 165 inspection records and strengthening the Utility’s asset registry, as well as corrective actions regarding reporting on the progress toward WMP targets.

On October 26, 2022, the Utility notified the CPUC that the Utility’s procedure for wood pole replacements did not comply with CPUC requirements for replacement of poles under certain conditions and, accordingly, in some instances, the Utility failed to replace wood poles with safety factors below the required minimum. Among other short- and longer-term corrective measures, the Utility is replacing identified poles on a risk prioritized basis and revising its wood pole replacement procedures in alignment with CPUC requirements. On December 22, 2022, the Utility submitted an update to the CPUC explaining the Utility had identified a population of wood poles that had not received intrusive inspections in accordance with GO 165’s deadlines due to legacy issues, which should no longer be an issue due to changes in Utility procedures. In addition to its plan to complete the intrusive tests by September 30, 2023, the Utility is performing an end-to-end assessment of the wood pole test and treat program to proactively identify and address potential issues.

The Utility continues to evaluate whether there are additional failures to comply with GO 95 and 165, beyond those identified in submitted self-reports. The Utility intends to update the CPUC upon completion of its reviews and to address any issues it identifies.

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Order Instituting an Investigation into PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Safety Culture

On August 27, 2015, the CPUC began a formal investigation into whether the organizational culture and governance of PG&E Corporation and the Utility prioritize safety and adequately direct resources to promote accountability and achieve safety goals and standards (the “Safety Culture OII”). The CPUC directed the SED to evaluate the Utility’s and PG&E Corporation’s organizational culture, governance, policies, practices, and accountability metrics in relation to the Utility’s record of operations, including its record of safety incidents. The SED engaged a consultant to assist in the SED’s investigation and the preparation of a report containing the SED’s assessment, and subsequently, to report on the implementation by the Utility of the consultant’s recommendations.

On June 18, 2019, the CPUC issued a ruling requesting comments from parties on four proposals that it stated may improve the safety culture of PG&E Corporation and the Utility. The four proposals are: separating the Utility into gas and electric utilities (including, as one possibility, sale of the gas assets to a third party); establishing periodic review of the Utility’s certificate of convenience and necessity; modifying or eliminating PG&E Corporation’s holding company structure; and linking the Utility’s rate of return or return on equityROE to safety performance metrics. Opening comments on the ruling were filed on July 19, 2019 and reply comments were filed on August 2, 2019.

On September 4, 2020, the ALJadministrative law judge issued a ruling updating case status, which states that the proceeding will remain open as a vehicle to monitor the progress of the Utility in improving its safety culture and to address any relevant issues that arise, with the CPUC’s consultant NorthStar Consulting Group, Inc. continuing in a monitoring role. The ruling states that additional issues may be raised in the proceedings by parties or the CPUC.

REGULATORY MATTERS

The Utility is subject to substantial regulation by the CPUC, the FERC, the NRC, and other federal and state regulatory agencies. The resolutions of the proceedings described below and other proceedings may materially affect PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.


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Rate Cases

2020 Cost of Capital Proceeding

On December 19, 2019, the CPUC approved a final decision in the 2020 Cost of Capital proceeding, maintaining the Utility’s return on common equity at the 2019 level of 10.25% for the three-year period beginning January 1, 2020, as compared to 12% requested by the Utility. The Utility’s annual cost of capital adjustment mechanism, which allows for changes in the Utility’s authorized ROE and cost of debt, also remains unchanged. In any year in which the difference between the average Moody’s utility bond rates, as measured in the 12-month period from October through September, and 4.5% (the benchmark) exceeds 100 basis points, the Utility’s ROE will be adjusted by one-half of such difference, and the cost of debt will be trued up to the most recent recorded cost of debt. The Utility can initiate this adjustment mechanism by filing an advice letter on or before October 15, to become effective on January 1 of the next year. The mechanism did not trigger in September 2020; however, as of December 31, 2020, the index is more than 100 basis points below the 4.5% benchmark. If the mechanism triggers in October 2021, then for 2022 the ROE and the cost of debt will be adjusted accordingly. The decision maintains the common equity component of the Utility’s capital structure at 52%, as requested by the Utility, and reduces its preferred stock component from 1% to 0.5%, also as requested by the Utility. The decision also approves the cost of debt requested by the Utility.

On May 28, 2020, the CPUC issued a decision in the OII to Consider PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Plan of Reorganization that directed the Utility to submit an Advice Letter to update its authorized cost of debt within 30 days of the Effective Date of the Plan. On July 22, 2020, the Utility submitted an Advice Letter requesting to update the authorized cost of long-term debt to implement the interest cost savings resulting from the Utility’s exit financing. On August 20, 2020, the CPUC approved the Utility’s request to update the authorized cost of long-term debt from 5.16%, as authorized in December 2019, to 4.17% effective July 1, 2020.

2017 General Rate Case

As previously disclosed, on September 13, 2019 the Utility submitted an advice letter containing a revised computation of its revenue requirement due to the effects of the Tax Act, which indicated a $282 million net reduction to the 2018 revenue requirement and a $291 million net reduction to the 2019 revenue requirement. The revised gas revenue requirements increased by $21 million and $11 million for years 2018 and 2019, respectively, and the revised electric revenue requirements decreased by $304 million and $302 million for years 2018 and 2019, respectively. On October 17, 2019, the CPUC approved the Utility’s advice letter. The Utility incorporated the gas revenue requirement increases into rates through its Annual Gas True-up advice letter beginning on January 1, 2020 and amortized over 12 months. The Utility incorporated the electric revenue requirement reductions into rates through its Annual Electric True-up advice letter beginning on May 1, 2020. The Utility incorporated the total $606 million electric revenue requirement reduction as follows: (i) $175 million related to electric generation was amortized over 12 months, (ii) the 2018 revenue requirement reduction of $215 million related to electric distribution was amortized over 10 months, and (iii) the 2019 revenue requirement reduction of $216 million related to electric distribution was included in the Utility’s 2021 Annual Electric True-up beginning on January 1, 2021, to be amortized over 12 months. The IRS is expected to provide additional guidance on the average rate assumption method. This IRS guidance may impact the Utility’s calculation of the related revenue requirement. It is uncertain when the IRS guidance may be issued.

2020 General Rate Case

On December 3, 2020, the CPUC approved the final decision for the Utility’s 2020 GRC.

The final decision adopted most of the provisions in the settlement agreement that the Utility, together with the settling parties, jointly submitted to the CPUC on December 20, 2019 (the “settlement agreement”).

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Revenue Requirements and Attrition Year Revenues

The final decision approved a 2020 authorized revenue requirement of $9.102 billion, an increase of $585 million over the 2019 authorized revenue requirement, effective January 1, 2020, as provided in the settlement agreement. The CPUC also approved the revenue requirements for 2021 and 2022 included in the settlement agreement as follows: an additional increase of $316 million in 2021 over the authorized 2020 revenue requirement, or a 3.5% increase, and an additional increase of $364 million in 2022, or a 3.9% increase. The revenue requirements will be further modified by advice letters to reflect an updated cost of debt, to remove certain customer deposits balances, and to return to customers the excess accumulated deferred income taxes that were created by the passage of the 2017 Tax Act. Subject to the CPUC approving the advice letters, the effective dates for the 2021 and 2022 attrition year revenue requirements will be March 1, 2021, and January 1, 2022, respectively. The 2021 attrition year revenue requirement will not be implemented in rates until March 1, 2021. The Utility is authorized to collect in rates the difference between the revenue requirement in effect and the 2020 GRC decision-authorized revenue requirement for the period of January 1, 2020 to February 28, 2021 over the period of March 1, 2021 through December 31, 2022.

The final decision also approves, among other things, the settlement agreement provision that allows the Utility to recover the annual cost of excess liability insurance for coverage of up to $1.4 billion. An advice letter is required for recovery of excess liability insurance costs for coverage exceeding $1.4 billion. The final decision also approved wildfire mitigation capital expenditures in the Community Wildfire Safety Program of $603 million in 2020, $931 million in 2021 and $1.15 billion in 2022, as provided in the settlement agreement. In addition, the final decision requires a reasonableness review and recovery of WMBA costs or unit costs for system hardening in excess of 115% of the adopted amounts and VMBA costs in excess of 120% of the adopted amounts through an application.

The following table shows the revenue requirement amounts approved in the final decision based on line of business and cost category as well as the differences between the 2019 authorized revenue requirements and the amounts approved in the final decision:
(in millions)
Lines of Business:
Amounts Approved
in Final Decision
Increase/ (Decrease)
2019 vs. Final Decision
Electric distribution$4,800 $436 
Gas distribution2,013 51 
Electric generation2,289 98 
Total revenue requirements$9,102 $585 
Cost Category:
Operations and maintenance$2,073 $128 
Customer services277 (61)
Administrative and general1,203 250 
Less: Revenue credits(195)(42)
Franchise fees, taxes other than income, and other adjustments214 32 
Depreciation (including costs of asset removal), return, and income taxes5,530 278 
Total revenue requirements$9,102 $585 

Rate Base and Capital Additions

The CPUC also adopted the rate base amounts proposed in the settlement agreement: the 2019 weighted-average rate base of $27.7 billion was increased by $1.7 billion, effective January 1, 2020, to $29.5 billion, or a 6.2% increase; rate base of $31.0 billion in 2021, or a 5.4% increase; and $33.0 billion in 2022, or a 6.3% increase. Consistent with AB 1054, the adopted rate base amounts include $140 million for August to December 2019, $603 million for 2020, $931 million for 2021 and $1.15 billion for 2022, for a total of $2.83 billion in forecast capital spend without an equity return.

Over the 2020-2022 GRC period, the decision provides average annual capital investments of approximately $4.5 billion in electric distribution, natural gas distribution and electric generation infrastructure.

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Consistent with the Utility’s GRC application, the settlement agreement did not propose funding for claims resulting from the 2017 Northern California wildfires or the 2018 Camp fire. Also, the Utility did not seek recovery of compensation for PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s officers.

2023 General Rate Case

In accordance with a January 16, 2020 CPUC decision in its OIR to Develop a Risk-Based Decision-Making Framework to Evaluate Safety and Reliability Improvements and Revise the GRC Plan, the Utility is required to file with the CPUC on June 30, 2021 a single “general rate case” application requesting integrated GRC and GT&S related revenue requirements for test year 2023 and three attrition years. The Utility expects to file the 2023 GRC by June 30, 2021.

On June 30, 2020, the Utility filed the 2020 RAMP Report in advance of its 2023 GRC filing. On November 25, 2020, the CPUC’s SPD released its evaluation of the Utility’s 2020 RAMP Report. The SPD found that “[t]he 2020 RAMP showed marked improvements in risk modeling rigor, data quality, and transparency over previous rate cases,” but cautioned that the Utility’s “track record calls for continued improvements by PG&E and continued rigorous oversight by the Commission.” The SPD held a workshop on its evaluation of the Utility’s RAMP on December 8, 2020, and opening and reply comments were submitted on January 15, 2021 and January 29, 2021, respectively.

2015 Gas Transmission and Storage Rate Case

As previously disclosed, in its final decisions in the Utility’s 2015 GT&S rate case, the CPUC excluded from rate base $696 million of capital spending in 2011 through 2014. This was the amount forecast to be recorded in excess of the amount adopted in the 2011 GT&S rate case. The decision permanently disallowed $120 million of that amount and ordered that the remaining $576 million be subject to an audit overseen by the CPUC staff, with the possibility that the Utility may seek recovery in a future proceeding. The audit report was released June 2, 2020 and did not recommend any additional disallowances. The 2015 GT&S decision authorized the Utility to seek recovery, through a separate application, of those costs not recommended for disallowance by the audit. On July 31, 2020, the Utility filed an application seeking recovery of $373.3 million in revenue associated with $512 million of recorded capital expenditures. On October 16, 2020, the assigned commissioner issued a scoping memo establishing the scope and schedule for the proceeding. On January 20, 2021, the Utility provided supplemental testimony addressing the reasonableness of the capital expenditures. The scoping memo calls for the issuance of a proposed decision in the fourth quarter of 2021.

On November 10, 2020, the Utility filed a motion seeking approximately $100 million in interim rates, assuming the CPUC reaches a final decision in this matter in late 2021 or early 2022. The CPUC has not yet ruled upon the Utility’s motion.

The Utility is unable to predict the timing and outcome of this application.

As previously disclosed, as a result of the Tax Act, on October 17, 2019, the CPUC approved the Utility’s advice letter including a revised computation of the effects of the Tax Act on the revenue requirements, resulting in a $61 million reduction to the 2018 revenue requirement. The Utility incorporated the revenue requirement reduction into rates through its Annual Gas True-up advice letter beginning January 1, 2020 and amortized over 12 months. The IRS is expected to provide additional guidance on the average rate assumption method. This IRS guidance may impact the Utility’s calculation of the related revenue requirement. It is uncertain when the IRS guidance may be issued.

2019 Gas Transmission and Storage Rate Case

As previously disclosed, on September 12, 2019, the CPUC voted out the final decision in the 2019 GT&S rate case of the Utility. By approving the decision, the CPUC adopted a 2019 revenue requirement of $1.332 billion compared to the Utility’s (revised) request of $1.485 billion. This corresponds to an increase of $31 million over the Utility’s 2018 authorized revenue requirement of $1.301 billion, compared to the $184 million increase requested by the Utility. The CPUC also adopted revenue requirements of $1.432 billion for 2020, $1.516 billion for 2021, and $1.580 billion for 2022, compared to the Utility’s request of $1.595 billion for 2020, $1.693 billion for 2021, and $1.679 billion for 2022.

As previously disclosed, on October 23, 2019, the Utility filed an application with the CPUC requesting the rehearing of the final decision. Specifically, issues identified by the Utility include the adopted disallowance associated with vintage pipe replacement, reduction in the Utility’s expense forecast for in-line inspections, and establishment of a memo account for Internal Corrosion Direct Assessment. The Utility cannot predict the timing and outcome of this matter.

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As previously disclosed, on January 16, 2020, the CPUC approved a final decision in its OIR to Develop a Risk-Based Decision-Making Framework to Evaluate Safety and Reliability Improvements and Revise the GRC Plan, as a result of which the Utility will be required to combine the GRC and GT&S rate cases starting with the 2023 GRC. In accordance with the decision, on June 30, 2021, the Utility is required to file with the CPUC a single “general rate case” application requesting integrated GRC and GT&S related revenue requirements for test year 2023 and three attrition years.

Transmission Owner Rate Cases

Transmission Owner Rate Cases for 2015 and 2016 (the “TO16” and “TO17” rate cases, respectively)

As previously disclosed, on January 8, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion granting an appeal of the FERC’s decisions in the TO16 and TO17 rate cases that had granted the Utility a 50-basis point ROE incentive adder for its continued participation in the CAISO. If the FERC concluded on remand that the Utility should no longer be authorized to receive the 50 basis point ROE incentive adder, the Utility would incur a refund obligation of $1 million and $8.5 million for TO16 and TO17, respectively. Those rate case decisions were remanded to the FERC for further proceedings consistent with the Court of Appeals’ opinion.

On July 18, 2019, the FERC issued its order on remand reaffirming its prior grant of the Utility’s request for the 50-basis point ROE adder. On August 16, 2019, a number of parties filed for rehearing of that order.

On March 17, 2020, the FERC issued its order denying the requests for rehearing. On May 11, 2020, the CPUC and a number of other parties filed a petition for review of the FERC’s orders in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Utility submitted briefing on November 12, 2020 and the briefing on the appeal was completed on December 2, 2020. The Utility is unable to predict the timing and outcome of this proceeding.

Transmission Owner Rate Case for 2017 (the “TO18” rate case)

As previously disclosed, on July 29, 2016, the Utility filed its TO18 rate case with the FERC requesting a 2017 retail electric transmission revenue requirement of $1.72 billion, a $387 million increase over the 2016 revenue requirement of $1.33 billion.  The forecasted network transmission rate base for 2017 was $6.7 billion.  The Utility sought a ROE of 10.9%, which included an incentive component of 50 basis points for the Utility’s continuing participation in the CAISO.  In the filing, the Utility forecasted that it would make investments of $1.30 billion in 2017 in various capital projects.

Also, as previously disclosed, on October 1, 2018, the ALJ issued an initial decision in the TO18 rate case proposing a ROE of 9.13% compared to the Utility’s request of 10.9%, and an estimated composite depreciation rate of 2.96% compared to the Utility’s request of 3.25%. In addition, the ALJ proposed to reduce forecasted capital and expense spending to actual costs incurred for the rate case period. Further, the ALJ proposed to remove certain items from the Utility’s rate base and revenue requirement. Finally, the ALJ rejected the Utility’s direct assignment of common plant to FERC and required the allocation of all common plant between CPUC and FERC jurisdiction be based on operating and maintenance labor ratios. Application of the operating and maintenance labor rates would result in an allocation of 6.15% of common plant to FERC in comparison to 8.84% under the Utility’s direct assignment method. The Utility and intervenors filed initial briefs on October 31, 2018, and reply briefs on November 20, 2018, in response to the ALJ’s initial decision.

On October 15, 2020, the FERC issued an order that affirmed in part and reversed in part the initial decision. The order reopens the record for the limited purpose of allowing the participants to the proceeding an opportunity to present written evidence concerning the FERC’s revised ROE methodology adopted in the FERC Opinion No. 569-A, issued on May 21, 2020, which refined the methodology it established in Opinion No. 569 for setting the ROE that electric utilities are authorized to earn on electric transmission investments. Initial briefs and testimony were filed on December 14, 2020 and responses were filed on February 12, 2021. The Utility’s initial brief requested a ROE of 13.29%. In addition, the order approves depreciation rates that yield an estimated composite depreciation rate of 2.94% compared to the Utility’s request of 3.25%. Further, the order reduces forecasted capital, operations and maintenance, and cost of debt expense to actual costs incurred for the rate case period. Finally, the order rejected the Utility’s direct assignment of common plant to FERC and required the allocation of all common plant between CPUC and FERC jurisdiction be based on operating and maintenance labor ratios. Aside from the ultimate outcome of the common plant allocation and ROE methodology, which is subject to further briefing, the FERC’s October 15, 2020 order is not expected to result in a material impact on the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows. Some of the issues that will be decided in a final and unappealable TO18 decision, including the common plant allocation, will also be incorporated into the Utility’s current formula rate, described below under the TO20 rate case.

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On November 16, 2020, the Utility submitted a request for rehearing of certain rulings in the FERC’s October 15, 2020 order. The Utility requested in its application, among other things, that the FERC allow the Utility to demonstrate that the common, general and intangible plant costs actually occurred. Two intervenors in the case also filed for rehearing on net salvage value and the applicability of the Tax Act to the Utility’s rates. On December 17, 2020, the FERC denied all the pending requests for rehearing. The Utility filed a petition for review of the order on February 11, 2021, and a separate petition for review was jointly filed the same day by two other parties.

The Utility is unable to predict the timing and outcome of this proceeding.

Transmission Owner Rate Case for 2018 (the “TO19” rate case)

As previously disclosed, on July 27, 2017, the Utility filed its TO19 rate case with the FERC requesting a 2018 retail electric transmission revenue requirement of $1.79 billion, a $74 million increase over the proposed 2017 revenue requirement of $1.72 billion. The forecasted network transmission rate base for 2018 was $6.9 billion.  The Utility sought a ROE of 10.75%, which includes an incentive component of 50 basis points for the Utility’s continuing participation in the CAISO.  In the filing, the Utility forecasted capital expenditures of approximately $1.4 billion.

Also, as previously disclosed, on September 21, 2018, the Utility filed an all-party settlement with the FERC in connection with TO19. As part of the settlement, the TO19 revenue requirement will be set at 98.85% of the revenue requirement for TO18 that will be determined upon the issuance of a final, non-appealable TO18 decision. Additionally, if the Court of Appeals were to determine that the Utility was not entitled to the 50 basis point incentive adder for the Utility’s continued CAISO participation, then the Utility would be obligated to make a refund to customers of approximately $25 million. See Transmission Owner Rate Cases for 2015 and 2016 above for a discussion of the incentive adder. On December 20, 2018, the FERC issued an order approving the all-party settlement.

Transmission Owner Rate Case for 2019 (the “TO20” rate case)

As previously disclosed, on October 1, 2018, the Utility filed its TO20 rate case with the FERC requesting approval of a formula rate for the costs associated with the Utility’s electric transmission facilities. On November 30, 2018, the FERC issued an order accepting the Utility’s October 2018 filing, subject to hearings and refund, and established May 1, 2019 as the Effective Date for rate changes. The FERC also ordered that the hearings be held in abeyance pending settlement discussions among the parties.

The formula rate replaces the “stated rate” methodology that the Utility used in its previous TO rate case filings. The formula rate methodology still includes an authorized revenue requirement and rate base for a given year, but it also provides for an annual update of the following year’s revenue requirement and rates in accordance with the terms of the FERC-approved formula. Under the formula rate mechanism, transmission revenue requirements are updated to the actual cost of service annually as part of the true-up process. Differences between amounts collected and determined under the formula rate are either collected from or refunded to customers.

On March 31, 2020, the Utility filed a partial settlement with the FERC that resolves issues regarding the inputs, and methods used in the formula rate consistent with FERC precedent. In addition, the partial settlement establishes a stakeholder transmission asset review process that allows the stakeholders to review transmission capital projects that are not subject to review under the CAISO Transmission Planning Process which would be included in TO rates; allows the Utility to resolve the issue of compliance to reconcile the rate base with the CAISO register data base; and requires the Utility to seek the FERC’s authorization before recovering claims related to the 2017 Northern California wildfires and the 2018 Camp fire. The partial settlement was approved by the FERC on August 17, 2020.

On October 15, 2020, the Utility filed a settlement with the FERC resolving all of the remaining issues in the Formula Rate Proceedings, including the Utility’s ROE, capital structure, depreciation rates, as well as certain other aspects of the Utility’s formula rate. Specifically, the settlement establishes an all-in ROE of 10.45%; a fixed capital structure of 49.75% common stock, 49.75% debt, and 0.5% preferred stock; and fixed depreciation rates for various categories of transmission facilities (represented by individual FERC accounts). The term of the settlement continues until December 31, 2023 and the Utility will be required to file a replacement rate filing to be effective on January 1, 2024. The settlement also requires the Utility to concurrently file a motion for interim rates requesting that the settlement rates go into effect on January 1, 2021 while approval of the settlement is pending at the FERC. Also as part of the settlement, the Utility made supplemental filings to revise its request in two FERC dockets on October 15, 2020 addressing the calculation of the Utility’s AFUDC to reflect the terms of the settlement.

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On December 30, 2020, the FERC approved the October 15, 2020 settlement without modifications. Also, on December 30, 2020, the FERC approved the two AFUDC dockets addressing the calculation of the Utility’s AFUDC calculation without modifications.

Nuclear Decommissioning Cost Triennial Proceeding

While the Utility expects active decommissioning to begin soon after expiration of the current operating licenses, the Utility expects that the decommissioningExtension of Diablo Canyon will take many years. Detailed studies of the cost to decommission the Utility’s nuclear generation facilities are conducted every three years in conjunction with the NDCTP. Actual decommissioning costs may vary from these estimates as a result of changes in assumptions such as regulatory, site restoration, and remediation requirements; technology; and costs of labor, materials, and equipment. The Utility recovers its revenue requirements for decommissioning costs from customers through a non-bypassable charge that the Utility expects will continue until those costs are fully recovered.

As previously disclosed, on December 13, 2018, the Utility submitted its 2018 NDCTP application, which includes a Diablo Canyon site-specific decommissioning cost estimate of $4.8 billion to decommission the Diablo Canyon facilities.

Also, as previously disclosed, on January 10, 2020, the settlement agreement that the parties had reached in this proceeding was filed with the CPUC, along with a joint motion for adoption of the settlement agreement.

Under the proposed settlement agreement, the Utility would collect annual revenue requirements of $112.5 million and $3.9 million for the funding of the Diablo Canyon non-qualified trust and Humboldt Bay tax qualified trust, respectively, commencing January 1, 2020. Additionally, under the proposed settlement agreement, the $398.4 million spent for Humboldt Bay Power Plant decommissioning project costs completed to date would be deemed reasonable.

On February 22, 2021, the CPUC extended the statutory deadline to resolve this proceeding to September 13, 2021. A proposed decision is expected in the fourth quarter of 2021.

Application for Wildfire Mitigation and Catastrophic Events Interim Rates

On February 7, 2020, the Utility filed an interim relief application seeking $899 million in interim rates related to certain electric distribution costs recorded in the following memorandum accounts: WMPMA, FRMMA, FHPMA, and CEMA. The costs pertain mainly to the years 2017-2019. The application addresses costs recorded in: (i) the WMPMA and FRMMA to comply with the 2019 WMP and other wildfire mitigation costs not otherwise recoverable through rates, (ii) the FHPMA to comply with various fire safety rulemakings through 2019, and (iii) the CEMA for responding to, and restoring customer service after, certain storms and fires occurring in 2017-2019.

The Utility submitted a request on March 23, 2020, to reduce the interim rate relief by $8.4 million. This reduction, which reduces the requested rate relief to $891 million, relates to the capital cost reduction required by AB 1054.

On October 22, 2020, the CPUC voted out its final decision that approved interim relief in the amount of $447 million. The Utility will recover these costs over a 17-month period beginning in January 2021.

Wildfire Mitigation and Catastrophic Events Costs Recovery ApplicationOperations

On September 30, 2020,2, 2022, the Governor of California signed SB 846, which supports the extension of operations at Diablo Canyon through no later than 2030, with the potential for an earlier retirement date. Under the legislation, the Utility filed an application with the CPUC requesting cost recoverywould continue to operate Diablo Canyon on behalf of recorded expenditures related to wildfire mitigation, certain catastrophic events,all CPUC-jurisdictional LSEs, and a numberall customers of other activities (the “WMCE application”). The recorded expenditures, which exclude amounts disallowed as a result of the CPUC’s decision in the OII into the 2017 Northern California Wildfires and the 2018 Camp fire, consist of $1.18 billion in expense and $801 million in capital expenditures, resulting in a revenue requirement of approximately $1.28 billion.

The costs addressed in the WMCE application cover activities mainly during the years 2017 to 2019 and are incremental to those previously authorized in the Utility’s 2017 GRC and other proceedings. The majority of costs addressed in this application reflect work necessary to mitigate wildfire risk and to respond to catastrophic events occurring during the years 2017 to 2019. The Utility’s requested revenue includes amounts for the FHPMA of $293 million, the FRMMA and the WMPMA of $740 million, and the CEMA of $251 million. The requested revenue for CEMA costs reflected in the application include the Utility’s costs incurred responding to ten catastrophic events, including the 2017 Tubbs fire.

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In its application, the Utility proposed the following ratemaking scenario: given the CPUC approval of $447 million in interim rate relief which includes interest, the Utility proposed to recover the remaining $868 million revenue requirement, including interest, over a one-year period (following the conclusion of interim rate relief recovery). Cost recovery requested in this application is subject to the CPUC’s reasonableness review.

On December 23, 2020, the assigned commissioner issued a scoping memo and ruling for the proceeding, which calls for a proposed decision toLSEs would be issued in September 2021.

The Utility is unable to predict the outcome of this application. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows could be materially affected if the Utility is unable to timely recover costs included in this application.

For more information regarding the FHPMA, the FRMMA, the WMPMA, and the CEMA memorandum accounts, see “Wildfire Mitigation Memorandum and Balancing Accounts” and “Catastrophic Event Memorandum Accounts and Applications” below.

Application for Recovery of Costs Recorded in the Wildfire Expense Memorandum Account

On February 7, 2020, the Utility filed an application seeking recovery of certain costs recorded in the WEMA. In the application, the Utility seeks recovery of $498.7 millionresponsible for the cost of insurance premiums paid byextended operations. Additionally, the State of California has authorized a loan of up to $1.4 billion pursuant to SB 846 to the Utility between July 26, 2017 through December 31, 2019 thatfrom the DWR to support the extension of plant operations, which is incrementalin addition to the insurance costs already authorizedamount discussed in the 2017 GRC or the 2020 GRC. These incremental costs are not associated with any specific wildfire event. The application does not seek recovery of wildfire claims or associated legal costs eligible for recording to WEMA.

On April 2, 2020, the CPUC held a prehearing conference in this matter. On January 12, 2021, the CPUC issued a scoping memo establishing the scope and schedule for the proceeding. As amended by subsequent rulings, the schedule calls for a final decision in August 2021. The Utility cannot predict the outcome of this proceeding.

Catastrophic Event Memorandum Accounts and Applications

The CPUC allows utilities to recover the reasonable, incremental costs of responding to catastrophic events that have been declared a disaster or state of emergency by competent federal or state authorities through a CEMA. In 2014, the CPUC directed“Assembly Bill 180”, below. SB 846 further directs the Utility to perform additional fire preventiontake steps to secure funds from the DOE’s Civil Nuclear Credit Program, and vegetation management work in responseany other potentially available federal funding, to repay the severe drought in California.loan. The costs associated with this work are tracked in the CEMA. In the 2020 GRC Decision, the CPUC requiredloan may be forgiven under certain circumstances. On October 18, 2022, the Utility to track these costs inexecuted the VMBA beginning January 1, 2020. The Utility’s CEMA applications are subject to CPUC review and approval. For more information see Note 4 ofloan agreement with the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

2019 CEMA ApplicationDWR.

On September 13, 2019,2, 2022, the Utility submittedapplied for federal funding through the DOE’s Civil Nuclear Credit Program. On November 17, 2022, the DOE conditionally selected the Utility to receive funding of up to $1.1 billion as part of the program. Final terms are subject to negotiation and finalization by the DOE. SB 846 provides that within 180 days of the filing of the DOE application, the CEC, in consultation with the CAISO and the CPUC, its 2019 CEMA application requesting cost recoveryshall make a determination in a public process of $159.3 millionwhether the state’s electricity forecasts for the calendar years from 2024 through 2030 show potential for reliability deficiencies if Diablo Canyon operations are not extended beyond 2025 and whether extending operations of Diablo Canyon until 2030 is prudent to ensure reliability in connection with 13 catastrophic events that included 12 wildfires and one stormlight of any potential for declared emergencies from mid-2017supply deficiency. During the quarter ended December 31, 2022, the Utility adjusted the ARO to reflect extended operations of Diablo Canyon through 2018. The 2019 CEMA application2030. However, the Utility’s ARO could be materially impacted if the Utility does not include costs related toreceive the 2015 Butte fire, the 2017 Northern California wildfires, or the 2018 Camp fire.required federal and state licenses, permits, and approvals.

On August 31, 2020During the Utility, TURNperiod prior to extended operations, the bill authorizes a monthly performance-based disbursement equal to $7 for each MWh generated by Diablo Canyon. The performance-based disbursement will be paid from the loan proceeds authorized by SB 846 and is contingent upon the PAO filed a joint motion seeking approvalUtility’s ongoing pursuit of extension of the operating period and adoption of a settlement agreement reached between the settling parties.continued safe and reliable Diablo Canyon operations. The settlement agreement proposes a total revenue requirement of $136.7 million consisting of an expense revenue requirement of $112 million and a capital revenue requirement for 2017 through 2022 of $24.7 million.performance-based disbursement cannot be realized as shareholder profits or paid out as dividends.

On November 19, 2020,During the CPUC issuedperiod of extended operations and in lieu of the traditional rate-based return on investment, the bill provides for a final decision adopting the settlement agreement.

2018 CEMA Application

On March 30, 2018, the Utility submitted to the CPUC its 2018 CEMA application requesting cost recoveryfixed payment of $183$50 million, in connection2022 dollars, for each of Diablo Canyon’s Unit 1 and Unit 2 for each year of extended operations to be recovered from customers of all CPUC-jurisdictional LSEs, which is potentially subject to adjustment downward in the event of extended unplanned outages. In addition, the bill authorizes a volumetric payment totaling $13, in 2022 dollars, for each MWh generated by Diablo Canyon during the period of extended operations, with seven catastrophic events that included firethe first half recovered from all CPUC-jurisdictional LSEs and storm declared emergenciesthe second half from mid-2016 through early 2017, as well as $405 million related to work performedcustomers in 2016 and 2017 to cut back or remove dead or dying trees that were exposed to years of drought conditions and bark beetle infestation.

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On April 25, 2019, the CPUC approved the Utility’s request for interim rate relief, allowing for recovery of $373 million of costs as requested by the Utility at that time, compared to $588 million requested by the Utility.service area. The interim rate relief was implemented on October 1, 2019. Costs included in the interim rate relief are subject to audit and refund. On August 7, 2019, the Utility filed a revised application, revised testimony and revised workpapers, reflecting a new revenue requirement request of $669 million, pursuant to a CPUC ruling allowing these changes.

The 2018 CEMA application does not include costs related to the 2015 Butte fire, the 2017 Northern California wildfires, or the 2018 Camp fire.

On March 9, 2020, the CPUC issued a modified scoping memo and ruling. On May 4, 2020, the Utility filed a revised application, which included 2019 tree mortality costs, reflecting a new revenue requirement request of $757 million, and the costs of an independent auditor to be hired for audit of all vegetation management costs and related interest calculations.

On January 8, 2021, the Utility filed a revised application updating the revenue requirement to include an additional $5.6 million of tree mortality costs and the cost of hiring an independent auditor.

The Utility is unable to predict the timing and outcome of this proceeding.

Wildfire Mitigation Memorandum and Balancing Accounts

Fire Hazard Prevention Memorandum Account

The CPUC allows utilities to track and record costs associated with implementing regulations and requirements adopted to protect the public from potential fire hazards associated with overhead power line facilities and nearby aerial communication facilities that have not been previously authorized in another proceeding. The Utility tracked such costs in the FHPMA through the end of 2019.

On December 17, 2019, the Utility, the SEDamount of the CPUC, the CPUC’s OSA,fixed and CUE jointly submitted to the CPUC a proposed settlement agreement in connection with the OII into the 2017 Northern California wildfires and the 2018 Camp fire. Pursuant to the settlement agreement, the Utility agrees, among other things, to not seek recovery of $36 million of wildfire-related expenses recorded in the FHPMA. For more information on the settlement agreement, see Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Other than the amounts subject to the settlement agreement, as modified by the Decision Different approved on May 7, 2020, in connection with the OII into the 2017 Northern California wildfires and the 2018 Camp fire, the Utility believes such costs are recoverable, but rate recovery requires CPUC reasonableness review.

The Utility requested recovery of costs recorded in the FHPMA in its Wildfire Mitigation and Catastrophic Events Costs Recovery Application described above. (See “Wildfire Mitigation and Catastrophic Events Costs Recovery Application” above.)

The amount reflected in this memorandum account as of December 31, 2020 was $258 million. See Note 4 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Fire Risk Mitigation Memorandum Account

On March 12, 2019, the CPUC approved the Utility’s FRMMA to track costs incurred beginning January 1, 2019, for fire risk mitigation activities that are not otherwise covered in revenue requirements. The FRMMA was authorized to capture mitigation costs of activities not included in a CPUC approved WMP.  The Utility has proposed that the FRMMA continue after the approval of its 2019 WMP to record costs of wildfire mitigation activities that were beyond the initial identified scope of work or are incurred prior to approval of the WMP in which they are proposed. The FRMMA includes costs associated with the 2019 WMP from the period January 1, 2019 through June 4, 2019, as well as subsequent wildfire mitigation costs not included in the WMPMA, discussed below. Recovery of costs are subject to CPUC review and approval. The Utilityvolumetric payments will continue to use the FRMMA for new programs or expanded scope of existing programs before the WMP is approved.

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On December 17, 2019, the Utility, the SED of the CPUC, the CPUC’s OSA, and CUE jointly submitted to the CPUC a proposed settlement agreement in connection with the OII into the 2017 Northern California wildfires and the 2018 Camp fire. Pursuant to the settlement agreement, the Utility agreed, among other things, not to seek recovery of $236 million of wildfire-related expenses recorded in the FRMMA and the WMPMA. For more information on the settlement agreement, see Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

The Utility requested recovery of costs recorded in the FRMMA in its Wildfire Mitigation and Catastrophic Events Costs Recovery Application, except for the amounts subject to the settlement agreement, as modified by the Decision Different approved on May 7, 2020, in connection with the OII into the 2017 Northern California wildfires and the 2018 Camp fire. (See “Wildfire Mitigation and Catastrophic Events Costs Recovery Application” above.) PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows could be materially affected if the Utility is unable to timely recover costs in connection with the 2019 WMP recorded in the FRMMA.

The amount reflected in this memorandum account as of December 31, 2020 was $99 million. See Note 4 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Wildfire Mitigation Balancing Account

In the 2020 GRC Decision, the CPUC authorized the Utility to establish the WMBA effective January 1, 2020, to track and record actual expenses incurred and the capital revenue requirement associated with actual capital additions incurred compared to the total adopted revenue requirements for specified wildfire mitigation activities, for the period beginning January 1, 2020. The WMBA is a two-way balancing account, which allows the Utility to seek cost recovery for amounts exceeding the approved revenue requirement, subject to a demonstration of reasonableness. The Utility is required to submit an application to the CPUC to recover the costs of program expenditures exceeding 115% of the adopted amounts or if the average overhead or underground system hardening per mile unit costs exceed specified unit costs by 115%.

The amount reflected in this balancing account as of December 31, 2020 was $183 million. See Note 4 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Wildfire Mitigation Plan Memorandum Account

As previously disclosed, on June 5, 2019, the Utility submitted an advice letter to establish the WMPMA (also called the Wildfire Mitigation Plan Memorandum Account) effective May 30, 2019. The WMPMA is required to be established upon approval of a utility’s WMP to track costs incurred to implement the Utility’s WMPs. The CPUC approved the memorandum account on August 8, 2019, so the Utility has recorded costs incurred in implementing the WMPs, as of June 5, 2019, the effective date of the WMPMA.

The Utility requested recovery of costs recorded in the WMPMA in itsWildfire Mitigation and Catastrophic Events Costs Recovery Application, except for the amounts subject to the settlement agreement, as modified by the Decision Different approved on May 7, 2020, in connection with the OII into the 2017 Northern California wildfires and the 2018 Camp fire. (See “Wildfire Mitigation and Catastrophic Events Costs Recovery Application” above.) PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows could be materially affected if the Utility is unable to timely recover costs in connection with the 2019 WMP and the 2020 WMP recorded in the WMPMA.

The amount reflected in this memorandum account as of December 31, 2020 was $551 million. See Note 4 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Vegetation Management Balancing Account

The VMBA was approvedadjusted annually by the CPUC using CPUC-approved escalation methodologies and adjustment factors. The volumetric payment cannot be realized as shareholder profits or paid out as dividends, to the extent it is not needed for Diablo Canyon. The legislation includes language that limits use of the volumetric payment to investments in the Utility’s 1999 GRC as a one-way balancing account mechanism to recover the costs of routine vegetation management expenditures, in an amount not to exceed the approved revenue requirement. In the 2020 GRC Decision, the CPUC authorized the Utility to modify the VMBA as a two-way balancing account, which allows the Utility to seek recovery of expenditures incurred above the revenue requirement, subject to a demonstration of reasonableness,system and for the period beginning January 1, 2020. The account was further modified to include the Utility’s new enhanced vegetation management program and additional vegetation management costs currently recorded in the CEMA for which there is no approved revenue requirement. The Utility is required to submit an application to the CPUC to recover the costs of program expenditures exceeding 120% of the adopted amounts. If the Utility’s expenditures are less than the approved revenue requirement, the Utility will return any over collection to customers through an advice letter.that address critical state priorities.

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The amount reflectedCPUC has initiated a rulemaking proceeding in this balancing account asJanuary 2023 to develop a new mechanism to recover costs from customers of December 31, 2020 was $707 million. See Note 4 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Risk Transfer Balancing Account

In the 2020 GRC Decision, the CPUC authorized the Utility to establish the RTBA effective January 1, 2020, to track and record actual expenses incurred compared to the adopted revenue requirementsall CPUC-jurisdictional LSEs for the GRC portioncontinued operation of excess liability insurance costs, inclusive of all financial risk transfer mechanisms (insurance, reinsurance, catastrophe bonds, captives),Diablo Canyon and related costs (such as broker fees and excise taxes). The Utility would seek recovery of any risk transfer coststo address other issues associated with coverage above $1.4 billion, through an advice letter.

The RTBAcontinued operation, including cost responsibility if Diablo Canyon is a two-way balancing account that tracks and records the GRC portion of actual financial risk transfer costs incurred compared to adopted amounts. Adopted amounts and actual costs incurred allocated to the Utility’s GT&S rate case and TO rate case will be recorded to authorized mechanisms applicable to those rate cases, specifically, the adjustment mechanism for GT&S-related amounts and the Utility’s FERC formula rates for TO related amounts.

For more information about the RTBA, see Note 4 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Emergency Authorization and Order Directing Utilities to Implement Emergency Customer COVID-19 Protections

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, on April 16, 2020, the CPUC adopted a resolution ordering utilities to implement a number of emergency customer protections for one year beginning on March 4, 2020 through April 16, 2021, including:

waive deposit requirements for residential customers seeking to reestablish service for one year;

implement payment plan options for residential customers;

suspend disconnection for nonpayment and associated fees, waive deposit and late fee requirements for residential and small business customers;

support low-income residential customers by:

freezing all standard and high-usage reviews for the CARE program eligibility for 12 months and potentially longer, as warranted;

contacting all community outreach contractors, the community-based organizations that assist in enrolling hard-to-reach low-income customers into CARE, to help better inform customers of these eligibility changes;

partnering with the program administrator of the customer funded emergency assistance program for low-income customers and increasing the assistance limit amount for the next 12 months; and

indicate how the energy savings assistance program can be deployed to assist customers;

suspend all CARE and Federal Emergency Relief Administration program removals to avoid unintentional loss of the discounted rate during the period for which the customer is protected under these customer protections;

discontinue generating all recertification and verification requests that require customers to provide their current income information;

offer repair processing and timing assistance and timely access to utility customers;

include these customer protections as part of their larger community outreach and public awareness plans;

meet and confer with the CCAs as early as possible to discuss their roles and responsibilities for each emergency customer protection.

The resolution also authorizes utilities to establish memorandum accounts to track incremental costs associated with complying with the resolution. On February 11, 2021, the CPUC approved a resolution extending the moratorium on service disconnections for residential and small business customers to June 30, 2021.
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On June 11, 2020, the CPUC issued a final decision as part of the OIR to Consider New Approaches to Disconnections and Reconnections to Improve Energy Access and Contain Costs that permanently eliminated deposit requirements for residential customers. On December 21, 2020, a CPUC ALJ issued a ruling seeking comments on an approach to implement a temporary moratorium on service disconnections for medium-large commercial and industrial customers.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility are unable to predict whether this resolution will be extended or expanded to additional customer classes, which could haveoperate. The legislation also established a material impact on results of operations, financial condition, and cash flows of PG&E Corporation and the Utility.

COVID-19 Pandemic Protections Memorandum$300 million Liquidated Damages Balancing Account

On May 1, 2020, the Utility submitted an advice letter to establish the CPPMA. The purpose of the CPPMA is to track costs incurred to implement the CPUC’s Emergency Authorization and Order Directing Utilities to Implement Emergency Customer Protections to Support California Customers During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Costs included in the CPPMA will include incremental uncollectibles expense for residential and small business customers, incremental financing costs as a result of lower accounts receivable collections for residential and small business customers, and the costs of complying with various customer protections described in “Emergency Authorization and Order Directing Utilities to Implement Emergency Customer COVID-19 Protections,” above. The Utility intends to seek recovery of the CPPMA balance in a future application, recovery of which will require CPUC reasonableness review.

On June 2, 2020 and July 15, 2020, the Utility submitted updated advice letters to modify and clarify prior proposals based on CPUC guidance. On July 27, 2020, the CPUC approved the Utility’s advice letter.

The amount reflected in this memorandum account as of December 31, 2020 was $84 million, of which $76 million relates to incremental uncollectible expenses. See Note 4 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Other Regulatory Proceedings

Application to Sell General Office Complex

On September 30, 2020, the Utility filed an application with the CPUC to sell its SFGO located at 215 Market Street, 245 Market Street, 77 Beale Street, 50 Main Street, 25 Beale Street, and 45 Beale Street in downtown San Francisco, and to cover costs to relocate its staff at SFGO to a new headquarters to the Lakeside Building, and for appropriate ratemaking treatment of those transactions.

The Utility proposes the SFGO sale and headquarters transition proceed in several interrelated steps: the Utility has entered into a lease for the Lakeside Building with an option to purchase the Lakeside Building; the Utility will market and sell the SFGO, subject to CPUC approval; and the Utility will enter into an agreement with the buyer of the SFGO to lease back space during the multi-year relocation period (collectively, the “Transactions” (“LDBA”). As space in the Lakeside Building becomes available following the expiration of existing tenants’ leases and completion of the redevelopment of the property to the Utility’s specifications, the Utility will relocate employees and operations from the SFGO and certain East Bay office locations to the Lakeside Building in phases over several years, beginning in 2022.

In this application, the Utility requests that the CPUC: (i) authorize the Utility to sell the SFGO pursuant to Public Utilities Code section 851, (ii) approve the Utility’s ratemaking proposal to distribute all of the gain on sale of the SFGO to customers over five years, beginning in 2022, (iii) approve the recovery of costs to lease back the SFGO after the buildings are sold, costs to lease the Lakeside Building, and other transition costs, and (iv) authorize the Utility to forecast the intended purchase of the Lakeside Building and include it in the Utility’s 2023 GRC. The Utility also proposes to establish a balancing account to record lease payments, net savings or costs on operating expense and capital expense, gain on sale, moving costs and related costs for inclusion in electric and gas rates.

On December 1, 2020, the CPUC held a prehearing conference in this matter. On December 15, 2020, the assigned commissioner issued a scoping memo, which sets forth the category, issues to be addressed, and schedule of the proceeding.funded over time by all CPUC-jurisdictional customers. The scoping memo contemplatesLDBA provides a CPUC final decision as early as August 2021 and providessource for additional timeline flexibility depending on the pace of the sale process.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility are unablepaying for replacement power costs, if incurred, due to predict the timing and outcome of this proceeding.

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Application for Post-Emergence Securitization Transaction

On April 30, 2020, the Utility filed an application with the CPUC seeking authorization for a post-emergence transaction to securitize $7.5 billion of 2017 wildfire claims costs that is designed to be rate neutral to customers, with the proceeds used to pay or reimburse the Utility for the payment of wildfire claims costs associated with 2017 Northern California wildfires. Among other uses,unplanned outages at Diablo Canyon as a result of the proposed transaction,Utility’s failure to meet the CPUC’s reasonable-manager standard.

The key remaining steps to continued operations include NRC license renewal and approval from California state agencies. If either is not received, the Utility would retire $6.0 billionUnit 1 in 2024 and Unit 2 in 2025 as previously approved by the CPUC. On October 31, 2022, the Utility requested that the NRC resume its review of a license renewal application the Utility debtvoluntarily withdrew and accelerate a $592 million payment dueterminated in 2018 or else grant an exemption to permit operations to continue at Diablo Canyon after the Fire Victim Trust. Specifically,expiration of each of its current operating licenses and until the application requests administrationNRC completes its review of the stress test methodology approved inlicense renewal application. On January 24, 2023, the CHT OIR and a determination that $7.5 billion in 2017 catastrophic wildfire costs and expenses are stress test costs and eligible for securitization. In this context, a securitization refersNRC staff declined to a financing transaction where a special purpose financing vehicle issues new debt that is secured by the proceeds of a new recovery charge to Utility customers. The application also proposes a customer credit designed to equal the bond charges over the liferesume its review of the bond, which would insulate customers from the charge on customer bills associated with the bonds. The Utility proposes to fund the customer credit through a trust that consists of shareholder assets including: (1) an initial contribution of $1.8 billion; (2) up to $7.59 billion of additional contributions funded by certain shareholder tax benefits; and (3) investment returns on the assets in the trust. The Utility also proposes to share with customers 25% of any surplus of shareholder assets in the customer credit trust at the end of the life of the trust.

Protests and response to thepreviously-withdrawn application were due June 4, 2020 and the Utility filed a reply on June 12, 2020. A prehearing conference was held on June 18, 2020. The assigned commissioner issued the scoping memo on July 28, 2020 and directed the Utility to file updated testimony, if any, based on its post-emergence financial status by August 7, 2020. On August 7, 2020, the Utility served its updated testimony, in which it discussed, among other things, PG&E Corporation’s and Utility’s exit financings from Chapter 11 and related equity issuances, including to the Fire Victim Trust, in connection with consummating the Plan on July 1, 2020; issuance of revised credit ratings; updated financial forecasts for the Utility and their impacts on the securitization application, including on the stress test costs and the customer credit trust; and certain expected tax impacts.

Intervenor testimony was served on October 14, 2020, and the Utility’s rebuttal testimony was submitted on November 11, 2020. An evidentiary hearing was held on December 7-16, 2020. Opening briefs were submitted on January 15, 2021, and reply briefs were submitted on February 1, 2021. Insubmit a post-hearing briefing, the Utility and other parties in the proceeding included potential conditions and alternatives for the CPUC’s consideration. In post-hearing briefing, the Utility included an alternative proposal for the CPUC’s consideration comprised of four elements: (1) a $200 million increase in the initial shareholder contribution, from $1.8 billion to $2 billion, provided that $1 billion is contributed in 2021 and $1 billion in 2024; (2) potential shift in the customer credit trust’s investment portfolio to a greater proportion of fixed income investments; (3) a single CPUC review of the balance of the customer credit trust in 2040, with a single contingent supplemental shareholder contribution, if needed, up to $775 million in 2040; and (4) a reduced sharing of any trust surplus with customers to 10%. The Utility anticipates a CPUC decision in the second quarter of 2021.

On January 6, 2021, the Utility filed an application requesting that the CPUC issue a financing order authorizing the issuance of one or more series of recovery bonds in connection with the post-emergence transaction to securitize the $7.5 billion of claims associated with the 2017 Northern California Wildfires referenced above. On January 7, 2021, the Utility filed a motion to consolidate the pending application seeking authorization for a post-emergence transaction and thenew application for a financing order. The ALJ granted the Utility’s motion to shorten the time for protests to January 22, 2021, and the Utility filed a reply on February 1, 2021. A prehearing conference was held on February 5, 2021. On February 10, 2021, certain intervenors filed a joint motion to dismiss the Utility’s application for a financing order. On February 17, 2021, the Utility filed a response opposing the motion to dismiss. Also on February 17, 2021, the PAO filed a response supporting the motion to dismiss. The Utility expects a CPUC decision on the financing order by May 6, 2021.

Application for AB 1054 Securitization Transaction

On February 24, 2021 the Utility filed an application with the CPUC seeking authorization for a transaction to securitize up to a principal amount of approximately $1.19 billion related to fire risk mitigation capital expenditures that have been or will be incurred by the Utility in 2020 and 2021.  The $1.19 billion reflects capital expenditures related to the Utility’s Community Wildfire Safety Program, which were approved by the CPUC in the 2020 GRC, and include $655 million in recorded 2020 capital expenditures and an additional $535 million in forecast capital expenditures in 2021.  The final amount to be securitized would be based on recorded 2020 and 2021 Community Wildfire Safety Program expenditures incurred by the Utility.

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The application requests that the CPUC issue a financing order authorizing one or more series of recovery bonds, determine that the issuance of the bonds and collection through fixed recovery charges is just and reasonable, consistent with the public interest and would reduce rates on a present value basis compared to traditional utility financing mechanisms, and authorize the Utility to collect a non-bypassable recovery charge sufficient to pay debt service on the recovery bonds.  The application also requests to exclude the securitized debt from the Utility’s ratemaking capital structure and to adjust its GRC revenue requirement following the issuance of the recovery bonds.  The proposed procedural schedule requests a final decision on all issues by June 24, 2021 and the application indicates that the issuance of the bonds is anticipated to occur before the end of 2021, but is subject to change.

2019 Wildfire Mitigation Plan

As previously disclosed, on October 25, 2018, the CPUC opened an OIR to implement the provisions of SB 901 related to electric utility WMPs. This OIR provided guidance on the form and content of the initial WMPs, provided a venue for review of the initial plans, and developed and refined the content of and process for review and implementation of WMPs to be filed in future years. In this proceeding the CPUC determined, among other things, how to interpret and apply SB 901’s list of required plan elements, as well as what additional elements beyond those required in SB 901 should be included in the WMPs. SB 901 also requires, among other things, that such plans include a description of the preventive strategies and programs to be adopted by an electrical corporation to minimize the risk of its electrical lines and equipment causing catastrophic wildfires, including the consideration of dynamic climate change risks, plans for vegetation management, and plans for inspections of the electrical corporation’s electrical infrastructure. The scope of this proceeding does not include utility recovery of costs related to WMPs, which SB 901 requires to be addressed in separate rate recovery applications.

On February 6, 2019, the Utility filed its first WMP, the 2019 WMP, with the CPUC, and amended it subsequently on February 12, 2019 and February 14, 2019. On May 30, 2019, the CPUC approved the 2019 WMP. (The Utility also filed an amendment to the plan on April 25, 2019, but CPUC approval did not extend to that amendment.)

2020-2022 Wildfire Mitigation Plan

As previously disclosed, on February 7, 2020, the Utility submitted its 2020 WMP and utility survey. The Utility’s 2020 WMP describes the Utility’s wildfire safety programs, which are focused on three key areas: reducing the potential for fires to be started by electrical equipment, reducing the potential for fires to spread, and minimizing the frequency, scope and duration of Public Safety Power Shut-off events, as well as providing historical data requested by the guidelines. The Utility’s 2020 WMP covers a three-year period from 2020-2022 but is updated annually.

On March 18, 2020, the CPUC issued a decision in this proceeding, clarifying that the CPUC’s newly created WSD would review 2020 WMPs, present resolutions for CPUC consideration on the 2020 Plans, and oversee independent evaluation and other compliance activity with regard to both 2019 and 2020 Plans.

On June 11, 2020, the CPUC voted to adopt two resolutions which conditionally approved the Utility’s 2020 WMP. The resolutions indicate that while the Utility’s 2020 WMP met the minimum requirements for its submission, the deficiencies found, classified as severity level A, B, or C Conditions, require significant follow-up from the Utility and oversight to ensure appropriate remedies for the deficiencies. The Utility received 41 Conditions in total with the first set, classified as Class A Conditions, submitted on July 27, 2020. The second set, Class B Conditions, were completed on September 9, 2020 and the third, Class C Conditions, were submitted as part of the 2021 WMP update on February 5, 2021. On December 30, 2020, the WSD issued a Notice of Non-Compliance finding that the Utility’s responses to the Class A Conditions were insufficient. The WSD has required the Utility to include 39 action items in its 2021 WMP to address the insufficient responses. On January 8, 2021, the WSD issued a Notice of Non-Compliance finding that the Utility’s quarterly report addressing the Class B Conditions was insufficient. The WSD has directed the Utility to respond to 84 action items in its 2021 WMP or via a supplemental filing by February 26, 2021. Failure to remedy insufficiencies in the 2020-2022 WMP could lead to enforcement actions by the CPUC, including potentially placing the Utility in the Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process, and making the Utility unable to obtain an AB 1054 safety certification and, as a result, unable to access the Wildfire Fund, which could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

The Utility’s 2021 WMP was submitted on February 5, 2021. The 2021 WMP was an update to the 2020 WMP and addressed the Utility’s wildfire safety programs focused on reducing the potential for catastrophic wildfires related to electrical equipment, reducing the potential for fires to spread, and making PSPS events smaller, shorter and smarter for customers.

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PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows could be materially affected if the Utility is unable to timely recover costs in connection with the 2019 WMP, 2020 WMP, and 2021 WMP recorded in the FRMMA and WMPMA,license renewal, which the Utility expects to do by the end of 2023. The NRC staff has stated that it will be substantial.provide a response to the Utility’s request for an exemption in March 2023. Consistent with SB 846, the CPUC, the CEC, California State Lands Commission, California Coastal Commission, and other state agencies will need to determine that extended operations represent an appropriate path to meet California’s reliability, affordability, and environmental goals.

OIR Regarding Microgrids

As previously disclosed, on September 19, 2019, the CPUC initiated a rulemaking proceeding to examine microgrid implementation issues and resiliency strategies pursuant to SB 1339. In the first track of that proceeding, the CPUC sought to deploy resiliency planning in areas that are prone to outage events and wildfires, with the stated goal of putting some microgrid and other resiliency strategies in place by spring or summer 2020, if not sooner. At the CPUC’s direction, the Utility submitted a proposal for immediate implementation of resiliency strategies on January 21, 2020. The Utility’s proposal contained three components for which it sought scope and cost recovery authorization of up to approximately $379 million in both expense and capital. On April 1, 2020, the Utility filed a motion seeking to supplement its original proposal and to reduce the total cost recovery authorization it was seeking to approximately $257 million. The Utility described in its supplemental testimony that it was focusing in 2020 on the use of temporary, mobile generation solutions to power microgrids in 2020, and that the Utility had suspended its solicitation for permanent generation located at substations with online dates in 2020. The Utility subsequently closed its solicitation for this permanent generation. On April 13, 2020, the ALJ presiding over the rulemaking issued a ruling denying the Utility’s motion to supplement its proposal.

The CPUC adopted a decision in the first track of the proceeding on June 11, 2020 (the “Track 1 Decision”), which approved with conditions the Utility’s proposal and requires the Utility to track costs in a new memorandum account for subsequent regulatory review and recovery in rates.

The CPUC initiated the second track of the proceeding on July 3, 2020, which focused on further implementation of SB 1339, as well as activity to shape the transition from diesel mobile generation to alternative, cleaner backup power generation. On January 14, 2021, the CPUC adopted a final decision in the second track of the proceeding (the “Track 2 Decision”). The Track 2 Decision requires the Utility to submit an Advice Letter to justify the amount of temporary generation necessary for use at substations during the 2021 wildfire season; to identify at least one clean substation project to pilot the use of diesel generation alternatives to power substation-level microgrids; to file an application by June 30, 2021 to propose a longer-term framework for substation generation solutions to mitigate PSPS outage events; and to file an application by September 30, 2021 to recover the costs incurred in 2020 associated with the use of temporary generation to mitigate PSPS outages. The Track 2 Decision also authorizes the Utility to record the future costs of temporary generation for substations in a memorandum account, with recovery of those costs through the general rate case or a separate application. The costs for the clean substation project(s) are authorized to be recovered through a one-way balancing account established by the Track 2 Decision, up to a $350 million cap and subject to other eligibility requirements.

In addition, the Track 2 Decision requires that the Utility: (1) modify its existing electric rules to allow certain critical facilities to be powered during grid outages by adjacent premises; (2) establish a new tariff to facilitate the commercialization and development of single-customer, single-account microgrids; (3) develop a new microgrid incentive program that compliments the Utility’s existing Community Microgrid Enablement Program and expands the incentives available for certain eligible community microgrids up to a statewide combined budget of $200 million; and (4) create a new process and associated criteria to evaluate technologies to isolate customer electrical loads for the purpose of forming microgrids during grid outages. The Track 2 Decision establishes an agenda for ongoing meetings of the CPUC’s Resiliency and Microgrids Working Group.

On February 9, 2020, the CPUC issued an amended scoping memo initiating Track 3 of the proceeding. In Track 3, the CPUC intends to address whether utilities, including the Utility, should waive standby charges for a customer operating a microgrid under certain circumstances. Further, the CPUC states that in a future Track 4 of the proceeding, it intends to address: (1) multi-property microgrid tariffs and alternatives; (2) methodologies to value resiliency; (3) microgrid interconnection issues; and (4) revisit its initial determinations with regard to a single-property microgrid tariff.

Failure to obtain a substantial or full recovery of costs could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and cash flows.

OII to Consider PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Plan of Reorganization

As previously disclosed, on October 4, 2019, the CPUC issued an OII to consider the ratemaking and other implications “that will result from the confirmation of a plan of reorganization and other regulatory approvals necessary to resolve” the Chapter 11 Cases (the “Chapter 11 Proceedings OII”).
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On May 28, 2020, the CPUC approved a final decision in this proceeding. As previously disclosed, the decision approved the Plan with certain conditions and modifications related to certain topics, including but not limited to, governance, operational structure, safety performance, executive competition, and financial condition. On September 17, 2020, the CPUC issued a proposed decision that would close the proceeding. On October 22, 2020, the CPUC approved the decision.

Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process

In the Chapter 11 Proceedings OII final decision, the CPUC adopted an Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process designed to provide a roadmap for how the CPUC will monitor the Utility’s performance on an ongoing basis. The Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process contains six steps that are triggered by specific events and includes enhanced reporting requirements and additional monitoring and oversight. These trigger events include failure to obtain an approved WMP, failure to comply with regulatory reporting requirements, insufficient progress toward approved safety or risk-driven investments and failure to comply with or demonstrate sufficient progress toward certain metrics (some of which will be determined in an ongoing regulatory proceeding). The Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process also contains provisions for the Utility to cure and permanently exit the Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process if it can satisfy specific criteria. If the Utility is placed into the Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process, actions taken would occur in coordination with the CPUC’s existing formal and informal reporting requirements and procedures. The Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process does not replace or limit the CPUC’s regulatory authority, including the authority to issue Orders to Show Cause and Orders Instituting Investigations and to impose fines and penalties. The Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process requires the Utility to report the occurrence of a triggering event to the CPUC’s Executive Director no later than five business days after the date on which any member of senior management of the Utility becomes aware of the occurrence of a triggering event.

On November 24, 2020, the Utility received a letter from the President of the CPUC, expressing concerns related to the Utility’s vegetation and asset management activities and explaining potential implications with respect to the CPUC’s Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process, as well as the Utility’s annual safety certification under California AB 1054. According to the Letter, the President of the CPUC has “directed CPUC staff to conduct fact-finding to determine whether a recommendation to place [the Utility] into the enhanced oversight and enforcement process is warranted.”

The Utility is unable to predict whether additional fines, penalties, or other regulatory actions may be taken.

Regionalization Proposal

On June 30, 2020, the Utility filed its application for approval of its Regionalization Proposal with the CPUC. The Utility’s proposal would divide its service area into five new regions to further improve safety and reliability, core operations, and be more responsive to the needs of its customers. The Utility’s Regionalization Proposal describes the development of these regions, plans to hire new regional leadership, and a new regional organization structure. The Utility’s application requests the CPUC to approve a memorandum account to record any incremental costs the Utility incurs in connection with the development and implementation of regionalization. The Utility will file an updated Regionalization Proposal with the CPUC on February 26, 2021.

The Utility is unable to predict the timing and outcome of this application.

Wildfire Fund Non-Bypassable Charge

In response to directives in AB 1054, on July 26, 2019, the CPUC opened a new rulemaking to consider the authorization of an NBC to support the Wildfire Fund. On October 24, 2019, the CPUC issued a final decision finding that the imposition of the NBC is just and reasonable. In addition, the decision affirmed that the Utility and its customers will not pay an allocated share of the adopted wildfire charge revenue requirement unless and until the Utility participates in the Wildfire Fund. The decision also continues the same allocation of the wildfire charge revenue requirement among the IOUs as previously adopted for the Department of Water Resources power and bond charge revenue requirements. The decision proposes revenue requirements for the Utility of $404.6 million, which is based on average annual collections and shall expire at the end of the year 2035.

On November 25, 2019, an individual intervenor filed an application for rehearing of the decision arguing that the decision constitutes a constitutional violation of procedural due process and an unjust and unreasonable rate increase. On March 2, 2020, the CPUC issued a decision denying the application for rehearing.

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On July 16, 2020, the CPUC approved the Wildfire Fund NBC servicing orders between the California Department of Water Resources and the Large Electrical Corporations to impose the Wildfire Fund NBC. On September 10, 2020, the CPUC ordered the Utility to cease collection of the DWR Bond Charge related revenue requirement from electric customers in their respective territories. The final month in which a Bond Charge related revenue requirement was imposed to collect revenue from electric customers of the Utilities was September 2020.

On September 24, 2020, the CPUC ordered the Utility to collect the Wildfire Fund NBC from eligible customers from October 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020 in the amount of $0.00580 per kilowatt-hour.

On September 29, 2020, the Utility submitted an advice letter to submit tariffs incorporating final rates that was effective October 1, 2020. In addition to submitting tariff revisions that include final rates as outlined, the letter included the tariff revisions needed to cease the imposition of the DWR Bond Charge and implement the Wildfire Fund Charge.

On December 17, 2020, the CPUC approved the Utility to collect the Wildfire Fund NBC from eligible customers from January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021 in the amount of $0.00580 per kilowatt-hour. On December 30, 2020, the Utility submitted an advice letter to submit tariffs incorporating final rates effective January 1, 2021. The advice letter is still pending CPUC approval.

On February 22, 2021, the CPUC issued a proposed decision regarding the amount of the Wildfire Non-Bypassable Charge in 2022 and 2023. The prehearing conference and scoping memo are expected to take place in April, 2021.

Transportation Electrification

As previously disclosed, on May 31, 2018, pursuant to a state law authorizing the Utility to conduct programs to support and incent the deployment of electric vehicles, the CPUC issued a final decision approving the Utility’s two-to-five year program proposals for actual expenditures up to approximately $269 million (including $198 million of capital expenditures), to support utility-owned make-ready infrastructure supporting public fast charging and medium to heavy-duty fleets.

On February 3, 2020, in a rulemaking to consider further utility-sponsored programs to support electric vehicles and transportation electrification, the CPUC issued a draft Transportation Electrification Framework for review and comment. The CPUC held workshops on the draft framework in 2020, and approval of the framework and guidance for future electric vehicle programs is expected in 2021.

Also in 2020, the California Legislature passed, and the Governor signed, a new law that authorizes the Utility and other California IOUs to invest in new electric distribution infrastructure to support electric vehicles without requiring electric vehicle customers to pay certain of the infrastructure costs that other customers are required to pay for non-electric vehicle infrastructure costs. Instead, the incremental electric vehicle infrastructure costs will be paid by the Utility’s electric customers as common utility costs in the Utility’s periodic general rate cases.

OIR to Establish Policies, Processes, and Rules to Ensure Safe and Reliable Gas Systems in California and Perform Long-Term Gas Planning

On January 16, 2020, the CPUC opened an OIR to address reliability and standards for gas public utilities, the regulatory changes necessary to improve the coordination between gas utilities and gas-fired electric generators, and impacts due to legislative mandates to address the GHG reduction emissions which will result in the replacement of gas-fuel technologies and forecast reduced demand for natural gas. This proceeding will examine whether recent industry related events will require the CPUC to change the rules, processes and regulations governing gas utilities, including but not limited to, gas reliability standards, long-term contracting, regulatory accounting, reporting and tariff changes for operational flow orders.

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The Utility filed opening comments on the preliminary scope on February 26, 2020 and reply comments on March 12, 2020. The assigned ALJ and assigned commissioner held a prehearing conference on March 24, 2020. The Utility filed a post-prehearing conference statement on April 1, 2020. On April 23, 2020, the assigned commissioner issued a ruling setting the final scope, schedule and categorization for phase 1 (Tracks 1A and 1B). On July 7, the CPUC held a workshop to address natural gas reliability standards (Track 1A) and on July 21, 2020 a second workshop was held to address market structure and regulations (Track 1B). On October 2, 2020, the assigned ALJ issued a ruling, including the workshop report and staff recommendations. The Utility filed opening comments on the report on November 2, 2020 and filed reply comments on November 17, 2020. As directed in the October 2, 2020 ruling, the Utility held a workshop on November 30, 2020 to address intraday demand and grid reliability. On December 24, 2020, the ALJ issued a ruling that modified the schedule. The Utility filed its proposal to address gas supply and cost allocation issues described in the workshop report on January 8, 2021. Parties filed comments on January 29, 2021 and reply comments on February 12, 2021.

OIR to Consider Strategies and Guidance for Climate Change Adaptation

On April 26, 2018, the CPUC opened an OIR to consider strategies for integrating climate change adaptation matters into relevant CPUC proceedings.

On October 24, 2019, the CPUC adopted a final decision on a portion of phase one (Topic 1 and 2), defining climate change adaptation for California’s energy utilities as “adjustment in natural and human systems to a new or changing environment. Adaptation to climate change for energy utilities regulated by the CPUC refers to adjustment in utility systems using strategic and data-driven consideration of actual or expected climatic impacts and stimuli or their effects on utility planning, facilities maintenance and construction, and communications, to maintain safe, reliable, affordable and resilient operations.” In addition, this decision provides guidance on what data should be used by the IOUs to perform all climate impact, climate risk, and climate vulnerability analyses undertaken with respect to their infrastructure assets, operations, and customer impacts. Finally, this decision requires the energy utilities to adhere to the same climate scenarios and projections used in the most recent California Statewide Climate Change Assessment when analyzing climate impacts, climate risk, and climate vulnerability of utility systems, operations, and customers.

On October 22, 2019, the CPUC issued a staff proposal for a framework for climate-related decision-making and accountability. In the staff proposal, the CPUC instructed each of the large IOUs to research and develop a new form of risk assessment, a CVA. CVAs instruct utilities to “examine the risks posed by climate change to their core lines of business, including generation, transmission, distribution, and storage, irrespective of who owns the assets.” In addition, the staff proposal provides guidance regarding the data sources to be used in the CVA, outreach and coordination with the community, and incorporation of CVA findings into RAMP and GRC filings. The Utility provided opening and reply comments on February 18, 2020 and March 3, 2020, respectively.

On August 27, 2020, the CPUC adopted a final decision on Topics 4 and 5, regarding adaptation outreach to disadvantaged communities and detailed requirements for each IOU’s CVA. The CPUC instructed each IOU to establish a “climate change team,” with cross-departmental responsibilities, which will report directly to a designated executive at the SVP level or above. Each IOU must disclose to the CPUC such changes in organizational structure, listing the individual names and department titles of all internal participants. Board members should oversee and prioritize climate adaptation planning, as informed by senior leadership. Each IOU is required to consider climate risks to assets, operations, and services over which IOUs have direct control. Additionally, the decision directs the IOUs to seek to obtain an acknowledgement in new contracts with third party providers that the operator has considered long-term climate risk. Each IOUs’ completed CVA will coincide with its RAMP filing during its four-year GRC cycle, and each IOU must detail resulting climate adaptation measures in a new chapter in its future GRC applications. Each IOU must file a Community Engagement Plan detailing community outreach on climate adaptation, covering every disadvantaged vulnerable community and leveraging existing IOU community outreach on other matters. The IOUs’ climate adaptation Community Engagement Plan proposals must be filed one year prior to their CVA, with the Utility’s first Community Engagement Plan due in June 2023, as the Utility’s first CVA under this decision will be due in June 2024. A new memorandum account, the Climate Adaptation Vulnerability Assessment Memorandum Account, was authorized to cover CVA costs and incremental costs of outreach.

OIR to Examine Electric Utility De-energization of Power Lines in Dangerous Conditions

On December 13, 2018, the CPUC opened an OIR to examine the notification, mitigation, and reporting requirements on electric utilities when de-energizing power lines in case of dangerous conditions that threaten life or property in California.

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On May 30, 2019, the CPUC approved a decision for phase one of this proceeding, which adopted de-energization communication and notification guidelines for the electric IOUs along with updates to requirements established in Resolution ESRB-8.

On January 30, 2020, the CPUC proposed new guidelines in phase two of this proceeding. On May 28, 2020, the CPUC adopted PSPS Phase 2 Guidelines, which require utilities to restore energy within 24 hours after the end of a PSPS event where possible; to consult with critical facilities on back-up power for PSPS events; and to support access and functional needs populations during PSPS events, including powering medical equipment at customer resource centers.

On August 24, 2020, the ALJ issued a decision addressing two joint motions that had been filed in the proceeding. The first motion filed on April 13, 2020 requested emergency protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic. The second motion filed on June 15, 2020 requested that the CPUC perform a reasonableness review of past IOU PSPS events to determine whether each was reasonable. The August 24, 2020 decision found that, with respect to the first joint motion, the May 28, 2020 decision dealt with many of the issues raised; and with respect to the second joint motion, the CPUC already performed reasonableness reviews of IOU PSPS events.

On December 2, 2020, the Utility and other parties submitted comments in this proceeding in response to an August 3, 2020 scoping ruling regarding SED’s report in a separate PSPS-related proceeding, OII to Examine the Late 2019 Public Safety Power Shutoff Events. In their comments, the Utility and other parties commented that issues raised in SED’s report should be addressed in a rulemaking setting. The Utility is unable to predict the timing and outcome of this proceeding.

On November 12, 2019, the assigned commissioner and ALJ issued an order to show cause directing the Utility to show why it should not be sanctioned for violations of law or CPUC decisions related to the PSPS events of October 9-12, 2019, October 23-25, 2019, and October 26-November 1, 2019.

The Utility submitted its testimony with the CPUC on February 5, 2020. Other parties submitted their testimony on February 28, 2020, and the Utility submitted its concurrent rebuttal testimony on April 7, 2020. On September 21, 2020, the assigned commissioner and the ALJ issued an order that required the Utility to respond to certain factual questions and concluded that with the provision of responsive answers to those questions, evidentiary hearings would not be needed in the proceeding. Opening briefs were filed on October 30, 2020, by all parties, which included an intervenor proposing financial penalties against the Utility of $166 million. If adopted by the CPUC, such penalties could have a material impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows. Reply briefs were filed by all parties on November 17, 2020, including the Utility, which opposed the imposition of any penalties.

On February 19, 2021, the CPUC proposed new guidelines in Phase 3 of this proceeding. If adopted, these guidelines would require utilities to submit annual pre- and post- season reports, have certain percentages of Community Resource Centers be indoors, have a webpage that explains “critical facility” requirements, and conduct de-energization simulation exercises. Parties will comment in March 2021, and a proposed decision is expected in May 2021, with a final decision in June 2021.

The Utility is unable to predict the outcome of this proceeding.

OII to Examine the Late 2019 Public Safety Power Shutoff Events

On November 13, 2019, the CPUC issued an OII to determine “whether California’s IOUs prioritized safety and complied with the CPUC’s regulations and requirements with respect to their PSPS events in late 2019.” The first phase of this proceeding focuses on (1) the effectiveness of the utility’s procedures to notify the public of the PSPS events, (2) the utility’s communication and coordination with first responders, local jurisdictions and state agencies, and (3) the utility’s management of its resources to ensure public safety. In later phases of this proceeding, the CPUC may consider taking action if it finds violations of statutes or its decisions or general orders have been committed and to enforce compliance, if necessary.

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On June 8, 2020, the SED issued a public report on the Late 2019 Public Safety Power Shutoff Events. The report identified certain shortcomings in each of the electric IOUs’ implementation of the CPUC’s PSPS Guidelines during their late 2019 PSPS events but stated that its findings were intended to be advisory in nature, subject to modification, and not intended to serve as an adjudicatory staff investigatory pre-enforcement report. On August 3, 2020, the assigned commissioner issued a ruling and scoping memo directing parties to file comments on SED’s report and the following two issues: (1) whether the Utility and other IOUs in October and November 2019 complied with the criteria set forth in applicable laws and regulations when pro-actively deenergizing and re-energizing their power lines, and (2) what corrective actions the CPUC should require of the Utility and other IOUs for any failure in late 2019 to comply with the then-existing PSPS guidelines. Each of the IOUs filed their comments on September 2, 2020, intervenors filed their comments on October 16, 2020, and reply comments were filed by all parties on November 16, 2020. Several parties proposed in their comments that penalties be imposed on the utilities for inadequate implementation of the PSPS events. For example, TURN proposed that the CPUC should treat each customer affected by a PSPS event, for which the IOU has not adequately demonstrated that the benefits outweigh the public safety risks, as a separate offense, with each offense subject to a penalty of no less than $500 and no more than $100,000. In reply comments, the Utility argued that the proposed penalties should not be adopted for procedural and substantive reasons. If adopted by the CPUC, such penalties could be expected to have a material impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

The proposed decision is expected in the first quarter of 2021, and the CPUC’s final decision is anticipated no sooner than 30 days after the proposed decision. The Utility is unable to predict the outcome of this proceeding.

Power Charge Indifference Adjustment OIR

In 2017, the CPUC initiated the PCIA Rulemaking to make refinements to the PCIA, a cost recovery mechanism to ensure that customers that leave the Utility’s bundled service for a non-Utility provider, such as a DA or CCA provider, pay their fair share of the above market costs associated with long-term power purchase commitments and Utility-owned generation made on their behalf. The above market costs of the Utility’s generation portfolio are calculated using benchmarks for energy, RA and RPS attributes.

As previously disclosed, on October 11, 2018, the CPUC approved a phase one decision to modify the PCIA methodology. The Utility implemented a revised PCIA reflecting this decision in rates as of July 1, 2019.

Also, as previously disclosed, on October 10, 2019, the CPUC approved a final decision that finalized the true-up for the new PCIA methodology.

On March 26, 2020, the CPUC approved a final decision on departing load forecasting and PCIA bill presentation issues, establishing that the IOUs shall show a PCIA line item in their tariffs and bill summary tables on all customer bills, which shall be implemented by the last business day of 2021.

On June 30, 2020, the CPUC issued a PD that would provide a non-Utility provider an option to prepay their entire PCIA obligation. On August 6, 2020 the CPUC issued a final decision adopting a framework for prepayment agreements for PCIA obligations.

The proceeding is now examining structures and rules governing how the Utility addresses excess resources in its portfolio due to load loss to CCA and DA, including standards for active management of the Utility’s portfolios. On December 16, 2020, the assigned commissioner issued an amended scoping memo and ruling expanding the rulemaking’s scope to include the potential modification of the annual PCIA rate cap and potential changes to the Utility’s cost recovery and rate setting proceedings to improve PCIA and ERRA alignment.

The Utility is unable to predict the outcome of this proceeding.

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Central Procurement of the Resource Adequacy Program

On June 17, 2020, the CPUC issued a decision on the Central Procurement of the RA program. The decision shifts local RA procurement responsibility under the CPUC’s RA program from all load serving entities to a CPE in two distribution service areas, including the Utility’s distribution service area, resulting in a change from decentralized to centralized local RA procurement in those distribution service areas. The decision also adopted implementation details for the central procurement of multi-year local RA, ordered the Utility and another IOU to serve as the CPE for their respective distribution service areas, and adopted a hybrid central procurement framework for the multi-year local RA program beginning for the 2023 RA compliance year.

The decision requires the Utility, as the CPE for its distribution service area, to conduct a competitive, all-source solicitation for local RA procurement, with any existing local resource that does not have a contract, any new local resource that can be brought online in time to meet solicitation requirements, or any load serving entity or third-party with an existing local RA contract eligible to bid into the solicitation.

Subsequently, on December 3, 2020, the CPUC issued a follow-up decision adopting a compensation mechanism applicable to certain local resources that may be procured by the CPE for purposes of reducing the total CPE procurement requirements. This mechanism applies to new preferred local resources and new local energy storage resources, including utility-owned generation. Procurement by the Utility of, and compensation for, such resources shall occur outside of the competitive, all-source solicitation.

The Cost Allocation Mechanism methodology is adopted as the cost recovery mechanism to cover procurement costs incurred in serving the central procurement function. The administrative costs incurred in serving the central procurement entity function shall also be recoverable under the Cost Allocation Mechanism.

Integrated Resource Planning Procurement

On November 13, 2019, the CPUC issued a decision that takes a number of steps to address the potential for system RA shortages beginning in 2021. The decision requires incremental procurement of system-level qualifying RA capacity of 3,300 MWs by all LSEs operating within the CAISO’s balancing area for the period 2021-2023, of which the Utility is responsible for 716.9 MWs for its bundled customer portion. The decision requires that at least 50% of LSE resource responsibilities come online by August 1, 2021, at least 75% by August 1, 2022, and the remaining by August 1, 2023. Additionally, the decision directs the IOUs to act as the backstop procurement agent for CCAs and Energy Service Providers (ESPs) that choose not to voluntarily self-procure or that fail to meet their procurement responsibilities after electing to self-provide their assigned MWs of system RA capacity under the decision. On April 15, 2020, the ALJ issued a ruling that the Utility must procure 48.2 MWs of RA capacity for LSEs that chose to opt-out of voluntarily self-providing their required portion.

The Utility has procured its required RA capacity for the August 1, 2021 milestone from third parties through CPUC-approved contracts for lithium ion battery energy storage resources with terms ranging from 10-15 years. On December 22, 2020, the Utility filed an advice letter seeking CPUC approval of an additional group of similar contracts that would satisfy the balance of the Utility’s procurement obligations for the August 1, 2022 and August 1, 2023 milestones.

The CPUC is developing a Modified Cost Allocation Mechanism methodology, under which the Utility will be able to recover procurement and administrative costs it incurs in serving the backstop procurement function.

OIR to Further Develop a Risk-Based Decision-Making Framework for Electric and Gas Utilities

On July 20, 2020, the CPUC initiated a rulemaking proceeding to consider ways to strengthen the risk-based decision-making framework that regulated energy utilities use to assess, manage, mitigate and minimize safety risks. The rulemaking will build on requirements for a utility risk framework adopted in the first Safety Model Assessment Proceeding. The CPUC’s goal is to further the prioritization of safety by electric and gas utilities.

On November 2, 2020, the assigned commissioner issued a scoping memo establishing the scope, schedule, and categorization for Phase I and Phase II of the proceeding. Phase I, which began November 2020, will consider (i) clarifications to the technical requirements of the risk-based decision-making framework; (ii) safety and operational performance metrics; and (iii) refining RAMP procedural requirements.

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On November 17, 2020, the assigned commissioner issued a ruling regarding the development of safety and operational metrics for the Utility. The ruling directed the Utility to propose metrics that are “suitable for the use as triggering events as specified in the Enhanced Oversight and Enforcement Process” and “suitable, over time, for the Commission, intervenors, and the public to potentially use to gauge the safety and operational performance of all gas and electric IOUs.” On January 15, 2021, the Utility filed a response proposing 12 safety and operational metrics using the criteria outlined by the ruling. On January 25, 2021, parties filed responses to the Utility’s proposal. On January 28, 2021, the CPUC hosted a public workshop where the Utility, the other IOUs, and intervenors commented on the Utility’s safety and operational metrics proposal. All parties may file comments on the Utility’s safety and operational metrics by March 1, 2021.

OIR to Revisit Net Energy Metering Tariffs

On August 17, 2020, the CPUC initiated a rulemaking proceeding to develop a successor to the existing NEM tariffs. The successor tariff is being developed pursuant to the requirements of AB 327. Under AB 327, the successor to the existing NEM tariffs should provide customer-generators with credit or compensation for electricity generated by their renewable facilities based on the value of that generation to all customers and allows customer-sited renewable generation to grow sustainably among different types of customers.

On November 19, 2020, the assigned commissioner and the ALJ issued a scoping memo and ruling for this proceeding. The scoping memo separated the proceeding into two phases. In the first phase, the CPUC will address several issues including, but not limited to, determining the principles to assist in the development and evaluation of a successor to the current NEM tariffs, assessing what information from a study on existing tariffs should inform the successor, outlining the methods to use to analyze the program elements and the resulting proposals, and determining the program elements or specific features that should be included in the successor tariff. In the second phase, the CPUC will consider what additional or enhanced consumer protections for customers should be adopted, as well as other issues that may arise, such as the virtual net energy metering tariffs, NEM aggregation tariff, the Renewable Energy Self-Generation Bill Credit Transfer program, and the NEM fuel cell tariff.

On January 5, 2021, the ALJ issued a PD that outlined eight guiding principles to assist in the development and evaluation of proposals for successor to the current NEM tariff. The Utility filed comments on January 25, 2021, and reply comments on February 1, 2021. On February 11, 2021, the CPUC issued a final decision on the guiding principles.

OIR to Address Energy Utility Customer Debt Accumulated during the Coronavirus Pandemic

On February 11, 2021, the CPUC initiated a rulemaking proceeding to consider arrearage relief for utility customers who will have outstanding utility bills when the moratorium on service disconnections ends. The OIR will evaluate a more global program beyond the currently approved arrearage management program focused on low-income residential customers that is funded by the Utility’s customers. The OIR may consider various funding approaches for this expanded debt forgiveness proposal, which could include shareholder funding.

The CPUC has indicated that it expects to issue a proposed decision on May 21, 2021 and a final decision on June 24, 2021.

The Utility is unable to predict the outcome of this proceeding.


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LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY INITIATIVES

SenateAssembly Bill 350180

On June 30, 2020,2022, the Governor of California signed AB 180, which authorized the DWR to use up to $75 million to support contracts with the owners of electric generating facilities pending retirement, such as Diablo Canyon, to fund, reimburse or compensate the owner for any costs, expenses or financial commitments incurred to retain the future availability of such generating facilities pending further legislation.

Assembly Bill 205

On June 30, 2022, the Governor of California signed AB 205, which included authorization for additional incremental CAPP funding of $958 million for California IOUs. The Utility received approximately $200 million in November 2022 to reduce the amounts owed by customer accounts in arrears. The amount of funding was determined by the California governorDepartment of Community Services and Development, which is the agency responsible for administering the CAPP.

Senate Bill846

On September 2, 2022, the Governor of California signed into law SB 350 (the Golden State Energy Act), a bill846, which authorizessupports the creation byextension of operations at Diablo Canyon through no later than 2030, with the governorpotential for an earlier retirement date. For more information, see “Extension of a new entity “Golden State Energy,” a nonprofit public benefit corporation, for the purpose of acquiring the Utility’s assets and serving electric and gas in the Utility’s service territory only in the event that the CPUC determines that the Utility’s Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity should be revoked pursuant to any process or procedures adopted by the CPUC in its decision approving PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Plan of Reorganization.Diablo Canyon Operations” above.

Senate Bill 901

SB 901, signed into law on September 21, 2018, requires the CPUC to establish a CHT, directing the CPUC to limit certain disallowances in the aggregate, so that they do not exceed the CHT. SB 901 also authorizes the CPUC to issue a financing order that permits recovery, through the issuance of recovery bonds (also referred to as “securitization”), of wildfire-related costs found to be just and reasonable by the CPUC and, only for the 2017 Northern California wildfires, any amounts in excess of the CHT.

Assembly Bill 1054884

On July 12, 2019,September 30, 2022, the Governor of California governor signed into law AB 1054, a billSB 884, which provides for the establishmentauthorizes and expedites OEIS and CPUC review of a statewide fund that will be available10-year undergrounding plan. Under SB 884, large electrical corporations may submit 10-year plans for eligible electric utility companiesundergrounding distribution infrastructure in Tier 2 or 3 HFTDs or rebuild areas to pay eligible claims for liabilities arising from wildfires occurring after July 12, 2019 that are caused byOEIS. The plan must include an evaluation of project costs, projected economic benefits over the applicable electric utility company’s equipment, subject to the terms and conditions of AB 1054. Eligible claims are claims for third party damages resulting from any such wildfires, limited to the portion of such claims that exceeds the greater of (i) $1.0 billion in the aggregate in any year and (ii) the amount of insurance coverage required to be in place for the electric utility company pursuant to section 3293life of the Public Utilities Code, added by AB 1054.assets, and any cost-containment assumptions, including the economies of scale necessary to reduce wildfire risk and mitigation costs and establish a sustainable supply chain. OEIS will have up to nine months to review and approve or deny the plan, and then the CPUC will have up to nine months to review and approve or deny the plan, including its costs.

AB 1054 also provides that the first $5.0 billion expended in the aggregate by California’s three IOU companies on fire risk mitigation capital expenditures included in their respective approved WMPs will be excluded from their respective equity rate bases. The $5.0 billion of capital expenditures will be allocated among the IOU companies in accordance with their Wildfire Fund allocation metrics. (See Note 14 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.) AB 1054 contemplates that such capital expenditures may be securitized through a customer charge. On February 24, 2021, the Utility filed an application with the CPUC seeking authorization for a transaction to securitize up to a principal amount of approximately $1.19 billion related to fire risk mitigation capital expenditures that have been or will be incurred by the Utility in 2020 and 2021.
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Inflation Reduction Act

EachOn August 16, 2022, the President of California’s large IOUsthe United States signed the Inflation Reduction Act. The Inflation Reduction Act includes a 15% corporate alternative minimum tax (“CAMT”) on the adjusted financial statement income (“AFSI”) of corporations with average AFSI exceeding $1.0 billion over a three-year period, effective January 1, 2023. The law also extends and modifies existing tax credits and creates new tax credits for renewable and clean energy sources. Many aspects of the Inflation Reduction Act, including the CAMT, remain uncertain and the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service have electedbeen granted broad authority to participate inenact regulations implementing its provisions. Depending on the Wildfire Fund. On July 1, 2020, having satisfied the conditions forguidance issued, PG&E Corporation and the Utility’s participation in the Wildfire Fund,federal income tax liability could increase substantially. PG&E Corporation and the Utility deposited approximately $5 billion incontinue to evaluate the Wildfire Fund, which represents PG&E’s initialimpact of the law and first annual contributions. On December 30, 2020, the Utility made its second annual contribution of $193 million to the Wildfire Fund.potential implications.

ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS

The Utility’s operations are subject to extensive federal, state, and local laws and permits relating to the protection of the environment and the safety and health of the Utility’s personnel and the public.  These laws and requirements relate to a broad range of the Utility’s activities, including the remediation of hazardous wastes;substances; the reporting and reduction of carbon dioxide and other GHG emissions; the discharge of pollutants into the air, water, and soil; the reporting of safety and reliability measures for natural gas storage facilities; and the transportation, handling, storage, and disposal of spent nuclear fuel. (SeeSee Item 1A. Risk Factors, “Environmental Regulation” in Item 1. and “Environmental Remediation Contingencies” in Note 1516 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

RISK MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

PG&E Corporation, mainly through its ownership of the Utility, and the Utility are exposed to risks associated with adverse changes in commodity prices, interest rates, and counterparty credit. The Utility actively manages market risk through risk management programs designed to support business objectives, discourage unauthorized risk-taking, reduce commodity cost volatility, and manage cash flows.  The Utility uses derivative instruments only for non-trading purposes (i.e., risk mitigation) and not for speculative purposes.

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Commodity Price Risk

The Utility is exposed to commodity price risk as a result of its electricity and natural gas procurement activities, including the procurement of natural gas and nuclear fuel necessary for electricity generation and natural gas procurement for core customers. The Utility’s risk management activities include the use of physical and financial instruments such as forward contracts, futures, swaps, options, and other instruments and agreements. As long as the Utility can conclude that it is probable that its reasonably incurred wholesale electricity procurement costs and natural gas costs are recoverable, fluctuations in electricity and natural gas prices willdo not affect earnings. Such fluctuations, however, may impact cash flows. The Utility’s natural gas transportation and storage costs for core customers are also fully recoverable through a ratemaking mechanism.

The Utility’s current authorized revenue requirement for natural gas transportation and storage service to non-core customers is not balancing account protected. The Utility recovers these costs in its gas transmission and storage rate casesGRC through fixed reservation charges and volumetric charges from long-term contracts, resulting in price and volumetric risk. The Utility uses value-at-risk to measure its shareholders’ exposure to these risks. The Utility’s value-at-risk was approximately $14$3 million and $9$5 million at December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, respectively. (SeeSee Note 1011 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.8 for further discussion of price risk management activities.)

Interest Rate Risk

Interest rate risk sensitivity analysis is used to measure interest rate risk by computing estimated changes in cash flows as a result of assumed changes in market interest rates. At December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, if interest rates changed by one percent for all PG&E Corporation and Utility variable rate long-term debt, short-term debt, and cash investments, the pre-tax impact on net income over the next 12 months would be $89$54 million and $45$76 million, respectively, based on net variable rate debt and other interest rate-sensitive instruments outstanding. (SeeSee Note 5 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.8 for further discussion of interest rates.)

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Energy Procurement Credit Risk

The Utility conducts business with counterparties mainly in the energy industry to purchase electricity or gas and related services, including the CAISO market, other California IOUs, municipal utilities, energy trading companies, pipelines, financial institutions, electricity generation companies, and oil and natural gas production companies located in the United States and Canada. If a counterparty fails to perform on its contractual obligation to deliver electricity or gas and related services, then the Utility may find it necessary to procure electricity or gas at current market prices or seek alternate services, which may be higher than the contract prices.

The Utility manages credit risk associated with its counterparties by assigning credit limits based on evaluations of their financial conditions, net worth, credit ratings, and other credit criteria as deemed appropriate. Credit limits and credit quality are monitored periodically. The Utility executes many energy contracts under master commodity enabling agreements that may require security. Security may be in the form of cash or letters of credit. The Utility may accept other forms of performance assurance in the form of corporate guarantees of acceptable credit quality or other eligible securities (as deemed appropriate by the Utility). Security or performance assurance may be required from the Utility or counterparties when current net receivables/receivables or payables and exposure exceed contractually specified limits.

The following table summarizes the Utility’s energy procurement credit risk exposure to its counterparties:
(in millions)
Exposure (1)
Number of
Wholesale
Customers or
Counterparties
>10%
Net Credit
Exposure to
Wholesale
Customers or
Counterparties
>10%
December 31, 2020$250 $57 
December 31, 2019 (2)
$381 $36 
Exposure (1) (in millions)
Number of
Wholesale
Customers or
Counterparties
>10%
Net Credit
Exposure to
Wholesale
Customers or
Counterparties
>10%
(in millions)
December 31, 2022$814 $162 
December 31, 2021$570 $63 
(1) Exposure is the positive exposure maximum that equals mark-to-market value on physically and financially settled contracts, plus net receivables (payables) where netting is contractually allowed minus collateral posted by counterparties and held by the Utility plus collateral posted by the Utility and held by the counterparties. For purposes of this table, parental guarantees are not included as part of the calculation. Exposure amounts reported above do not include adjustments for time value or liquidity.
(2) Exposure balance has been updated to show the maximum positive exposure, including excess collateral postings, instead of the net credit exposure disclosed in prior periods.

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CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIESESTIMATES

The preparation of the Consolidated Financial Statements in accordance with GAAP involves the use of estimates and assumptions that affect the recorded amounts of assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. The accounting policies described below are considered to be critical accounting policiesestimates due, in part, to their complexity and because their application is relevant and material to the financial position and results of operations of PG&E Corporation and the Utility, and because these policies require the use of material judgments and estimates. Actual results may differ materially from these estimates and assumptions. These accounting policiesestimates and their key characteristics are outlined below.

Contributions to the Wildfire Fund

The Wildfire Fund is expected to be capitalized with (i) $10.5 billion of proceeds of bonds supported by a 15-year extension of the DWR charge to customers, (ii) $7.5 billion in initial contributions from California’s three large electric IOUs, and (iii) $300 million in annual contributions paid by California’s three large electric IOUs for a 10-year period. The contributions from the IOUs will be effectively borne by their respective shareholders, as they will not be permitted to recover these costs through rates. The costs of the initial and annual contributions are allocated among the IOUs pursuant to a “Wildfire Fund allocation metric” set forth in AB 1054 based on land area in the applicable IOU’s service area classified as HFTDs and adjusted to account for risk mitigation efforts. The Utility’s Wildfire Fund allocation metric is 64.2% (representing an initial contribution of approximately $4.8 billion and annual contributions of approximately $193 million).

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On the EffectiveEmergence Date, PG&E Corporation and the Utility contributed, in accordance with AB 1054, an initial contribution of approximately $4.8 billion and first annual contribution of approximately $193 million to the Wildfire Fund to secure participation of the Utility therein. The other large electric IOUs made their initial contributions to the Wildfire Fund in September 2019. On December 30, 2020,2021 and 2022, the Utility made its secondthird and fourth annual contributioncontributions of $193 million each to the Wildfire Fund. As of December 31, 2020,2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have eightsix remaining annual contributions of $193 million.million (based on the current Wildfire Fund allocation metric). PG&E Corporation and the Utility account for the contributions to the Wildfire Fund similarly to prepaid insurance with expense being allocatedby capitalizing an asset, amortizing to periods ratably based on an estimated period of coverage. The Wildfire Fund is available to paycoverage, and incrementally adjusting for eligible claims arisingaccelerated amortization as the level of July 12, 2019, the effective date of AB 1054, subject to a limit of 40% of the amount of such claims arising between the effective date of AB 1054 and the Utility’s emergence from Chapter 11. The 40% limit does not apply to eligible claims that arise after the Utility’s emergence from Chapter 11. The Wildfire Fund is additionally limited to the portion of such claims that exceeds the greater of (i) $1.0 billion in the aggregate in any year and (ii) the amount of insurance coverage required to be in place for the electric utility company pursuant to Section 3293 of the Public Utilities Code, added by AB 1054.declines, as further described below.

As of December 31, 2020,2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded $193 million in Other current liabilities, $1.3 billion$935 million in Other non-current liabilities, $464$460 million in current assets - Wildfire fundFund asset, and $5.8$4.8 billion in non-current assets - Wildfire fundFund asset in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. As ofDuring the years ended December 31, 2020,2022 and 2021, the Utility recorded amortization and accretion expense of $413 million.$477 million and $517 million, respectively. The amortization of the asset, accretion of the liability, and if applicable, impairmentacceleration of the amortization of the asset is reflected in Wildfire fundFund expense in the Consolidated Statements of Income. Expected contributions recorded in Wildfire Fund asset on the Consolidated Balance Sheets are discounted to the present value using the 10-year USU.S. treasury rate at the date PG&E Corporation and the Utility satisfied all the eligibility requirements to participate in the Wildfire Fund. A useful life of 15 years is being used to amortize the Wildfire Fund asset.

AB 1054 did not specify a period of coverage; therefore, this accounting treatment is subject to significant accounting judgments and estimates. In estimating the period of coverage, PG&E Corporation and the Utility use a Monte Carlo simulation that began with 12 years of historical, publicly available fire-loss data from wildfires caused by electrical equipment, and subsequently plan to add an additional year of data each following year. The period of historic fire-loss data and the effectiveness of mitigation efforts by the California electric utility companies are significant assumptions used to estimate the useful life. These assumptions along with the other assumptions below create a high degree of uncertainty related to the estimated useful life of the Wildfire Fund. The simulation results in the estimated number and severitycreates annual distributions of catastrophicpotential losses due to fires that could occur in California withinbe attributed to the participating electric utilities’ service territories during the termutilities. Initial use of the Wildfire Fund. Starting with a 5-year periodfive years of historical data, with average annual statewide claims or settlements of approximately $6.5 billion compared toversus 12 years of historical data, with average annual statewide claims or settlements of approximately $2.9 billion, for the 12-year historical data, would have decreased theresulted in a six year amortization period to 6 years. Similarly,period. As of December 31, 2022, a 10%5% change to the assumption around current and future mitigation effort effectiveness would increase the amortization period to 17by five years assuming greater effectiveness and would decrease the amortization period to 12by four years assuming less effectiveness.

Other assumptions used to estimate the useful life include the estimated cost of wildfires caused by otherparticipating electric utilities, the amount at which wildfire claims would be settled, the likely adjudication of the CPUC in cases of electric utility-caused wildfires and determination of any amounts required to be reimbursed to the Wildfire Fund, the impacts of climate change, the level of future insurance coverage held by the electric utilities, the FERC-allocable portion of loss recovery, and the future transmission and distribution equity rate base growth of otherparticipating electric utilities. Significant changes in any of these estimates could materially impact the amortization period.

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PG&E Corporation and the Utility evaluate all assumptions quarterly orand upon claims being made from the Wildfire Fund for catastrophic wildfires, and the expected life of the Wildfire Fund will be adjusted as required. The Wildfire Fund is available to other participating utilities in California and the amount of claims that a participating utility incurs is not limited to their individual contribution amounts. PG&E Corporation and the Utility will assess the Wildfire Fund asset for impairmentacceleration of the amortization of the asset in the event that a participating utility'sutility’s electrical equipment is found to be the substantial cause of a catastrophic wildfire. Timing of any such impairmentacceleration of the amortization of the asset could lag as the emergence of sufficient cause and claims information can take many quarters and could be limited to public disclosure of the participating electric utility, if ignition were to occur outside the Utility’s service territory.area. There were fires in the Utility’s and other participating utilities’ serviceservices territories in 2020since July 12, 2019, including fires for which the cause is currently unknown, and which may in the future be determined to be covered by the Wildfire Fund. AtAs of December 31, 2020, there were no such known events requiring a reduction2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded $175 million in Other noncurrent assets for Wildfire Fund receivables related to the 2021 Dixie fire. PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded $6 million and $43 million of accelerated amortization, reflected in Wildfire Fund expense for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

For more information, see “Contributions to the Wildfire Fund asset nor have there been any claims or withdrawals byEstablished Pursuant to AB 1054” in Note 3 and “Wildfire Fund under AB 1054” in Note 15 of the participating utilities againstNotes to the Wildfire Fund.Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

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Loss Contingencies

As discussed below, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have recorded material accruals for various wildfire-related, enforcement and legal matters, and environmental remediation liabilities. PG&E Corporation and the Utility have also recorded insurance receivables for third-party claims.

Wildfire-Related Liabilities

PG&E Corporation and the Utility are subject to potential liabilities related to wildfires.  PG&E Corporation and the Utility record a wildfire-related liability when it determinesthey determine that a loss is probable and itthey can reasonably estimate the loss or a range of losses. The provision is based on the lower end of the range, unless an amount within the range is a better estimate than any other amount.

Potential liabilities related to wildfires depend on various factors, including but not limited to negotiations and settlements or the cause of each fire, contributing causes of the fires (including alternative potential origins, weather and climate related issues), the number, size and type of structures damaged or destroyed, the contents of such structures and other personal property damage, the number and types of trees damaged or destroyed, attorneys’ fees for claimants, the nature and extent of any personal injuries, including the loss of lives, the extent to which future claims arise, the amount of fire suppression and clean-up costs, other damages the Utility may be responsible for if found negligent, and the amount of any penalties or fines that may be imposed by governmental entities. There are a number of unknown facts and legal considerations that may impact the amount of any potential liability, including the total scope and nature of claims that may be asserted against PG&E Corporation or the Utility. For example, the Utility’s wildfire-related accruals have changed in the past as new facts and information became available to the Utility, including the availability of new evidence and additional information about the scope and nature of damages.(See Note 14 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

The process for estimating wildfire-related liabilities requires management to exercise significant judgment based on a number of assumptions and subjective factors, including but not limited tothe factors identified above and estimates based on currently available information and prior experience with wildfires.  (SeeSee Note 1415 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

Enforcement and Litigation Matters

PG&E Corporation and the Utility are subject to various laws and regulations and, in the normal course of business, are named as parties in a number of claims and lawsuits. In addition, penalties may be incurred for failure to comply with federal, state, or local laws and regulations. PG&E Corporation and the Utility record a provision for a loss contingency when it is both probable that a loss has been incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. PG&E Corporation and the Utility evaluate the range of reasonably estimated losses and record a provision based on the lower end of the range, unless an amount within the range is a better estimate than any other amount. The assessment of whether a loss is probable or reasonably possible, and whether the loss or a range of loss is estimable, often involves a series of complex judgments about future events. Loss contingencies are reviewed quarterly, and estimates are adjusted to reflect the impact of all known information, such as negotiations, discovery, settlements and payments, rulings, advice of legal counsel, and other information and events pertaining to a particular matter. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s provision for loss and expense excludes anticipated legal costs, which are expensed as incurred. Actual results may differ materially from these estimates and assumptions. (SeeSee Note 1415 and “EnforcementNote 16 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

Loss Recoveries

PG&E Corporation and Litigation Matters”the Utility have recovery mechanisms available for wildfire liabilities including from insurance, through rates, and from the Wildfire Fund. The Utility has liability insurance from various insurers, which provides coverage for third-party claims. PG&E Corporation and the Utility record a receivable for a recovery when it is deemed probable that recovery of a recorded loss will occur and they can reasonably estimate the amount or its range.  The assessment of whether recovery is probable or reasonably possible, and whether the recovery or a range of recoveries is estimable, often involves a series of complex judgments about future events.  Loss recoveries are reviewed quarterly, and estimates are adjusted to reflect the impact of all known information, including contractual liability insurance policy coverage, advice of legal counsel, past experience with similar events, conversations with the Wildfire Fund administrators, the CPUC and FERC, and other information and events pertaining to a particular matter. See “Loss Recoveries” in Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

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Environmental Remediation Liabilities

The Utility is subject to loss contingencies pursuant to federal and California environmental laws and regulations that in the future may require the Utility to pay for environmental remediation at sites where it has been, or may be, a potentially responsible party. Such contingencies may exist for the remediation of hazardous substances at various potential sites, including former manufactured gas plantMGP sites, power plant sites, gas compressor stations, and sites used by the Utility for the storage, recycling, or disposal of potentially hazardous materials, even if the Utility did not deposit those substances on the site.

The Utility generally commences the environmental remediation assessment process upon notification from federal or state agencies, or other parties, of a potential site requiring remedial action. (In some instances, the Utility may initiate action to determine its remediation liability for sites that it no longer owns in cooperation with regulatory agencies. For example, the Utility has a program related to certain former manufactured gas plantMGP sites.) Based on such notification, the Utility completes an assessment of the potential site and evaluates whether it is probable that a remediation liability has been incurred. The Utility records an environmental remediation liability when site assessments indicate remediation is probable and it can reasonably estimate the loss or a range of possible losses. Given the complexities of the legal and regulatory environment and the inherent uncertainties involved in the early stages of a remediation project, the process for estimating remediation liabilities is subjective and requires significant judgment. Key factors evaluated in developing cost estimates include the extent and types of hazardous substances at a potential site, the range of technologies that can be used for remediation, the determination of the Utility’s liability in proportion to other responsible parties, and the extent to which such costs are recoverable from third parties.

When possible, the Utility estimates costs using site-specific information, but also considers historical experience for costs incurred at similar sites depending on the level of information available. Estimated costs are composed of the direct costs of the remediation effort and the costs of compensation for employees who are expected to devote a significant amount of time directly to the remediation effort. These estimated costs include remedial site investigations, remediation actions, operations and maintenance activities, post remediation monitoring, and the costs of technologies that are expected to be approved to remediate the site. Remediation efforts for a particular site generally extend over a period of several years. During this period, the laws governing the remediation process may change, as well as site conditions, thereby possibly affecting the cost of the remediation effort.

AtAs of December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, the Utility’s accruals for undiscounted gross environmental liabilities were $1.3 billion.billion each. The Utility’s undiscounted future costs could increase to as much as $2.2$2.3 billion if the extent of contamination or necessary remediation is greater than anticipated or if the other potentially responsible parties are not financially able to contribute to these costs and could increase further if the Utility chooses to remediate beyond regulatory requirements. Although the Utility has provided for known environmental obligations that are probable and reasonably estimable, estimated costs may vary significantly from actual costs, and the amount of additional future costs may be material to results of operations in the period in which they are recognized.

Insurance Receivable

The Utility has liability insurance from various insurers, which provides coverage for third-party claims. The Utility records insurance recoveries only when a third-party claim is recorded and it is deemed probable that a recovery of that claim will occur and the Utility can reasonably estimate the amount or its range.  The assessment of whether recovery is probable or reasonably possible, and whether the recovery or a range of recoveries is estimable, often involves a series of complex judgments about future events.  Insurance recoveries are reviewed quarterly and estimates are adjusted to reflect the impact of all known information, including contractual liability insurance policy coverage, advice of legal counsel, past experience with similar events, discussions with insurers and other information and events pertaining to a particular matter. (See “Loss Recoveries” in Note 14 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

Regulatory Accounting

As a regulated entity, the Utility records regulatory assets and liabilities for amounts that are deemed probable of recovery from, or refund to, customers. Despite the ongoing losses related to wildfires (See(see Note 1415 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)8), there is no actual or anticipated change in the cost of servicecost-of-service regulation of the Utility’s operations. Therefore, the Utility continues to apply the accounting ASC 980, Regulated Operations. These amounts would otherwise be recorded to expense or income under GAAP. Refer to “Regulation and Regulated Operations” in Note 3 as well as Note 4 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8. AtAs of December 31, 2020,2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility reported regulatory assets (including current regulatory balancing accounts receivable) of $11.4$20.0 billion and regulatory liabilities (including current regulatory balancing accounts payable) of $12.0$20.4 billion.

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Determining probability requires significant judgment by management and includes, but is not limited to, consideration of testimony presented in regulatory hearings, proposed regulatory decisions, final regulatory orders, and the strength or status of applications for rehearing or state court appeals. For some of the Utility’s regulatory assets, including utility retained generation, the Utility has determined that the costs are recoverable based on specific approval from the CPUC. The Utility also records a regulatory asset when a mechanism is in place to recover current expenditures and historical experience indicates that recovery of incurred costs is probable, such as the regulatory assets for pension benefits; deferred income tax; price risk management; and unamortized loss, net of gain, on reacquired debt. The CPUC has not denied the recovery of any material costs previously recognized by the Utility as regulatory assets for the periods presented. If the Utility determined that it is no longer probable that regulatory assets would be recovered or reflected in future rates, or if the Utility ceased to be subject to rate regulation, the regulatory assets would be charged against income in the period in which that determination was made. If regulatory accounting did not apply, the Utility’s future financial results could become more volatile as compared to historical financial results due to the differences in the timing of expense or revenue recognition.
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A portion of the Utility'sUtility’s regulatory asset balances relate to items which could not be anticipated by the Utility during CPUC GRC rate requests resulting from catastrophic events, changes in regulation, or extraordinary changes in operating practices. The Utility may seek authority to track incremental costs in a memorandum account, and the CPUC may authorize recovery of costs tracked in memorandum accounts if the costs are deemed incremental and prudently incurred. These accounts, which include the CEMA, WEMA, FHPMA, FRMMA, WMPMA, VMBA, WMBA, and RTBA among others, allow the Utility to track the costs associated with work related to disaster and wildfire response, and other wildfire prevention-related costs. In addition, the CPPMA account tracksand RUBA accounts track costs incurred to implement the CPUC’s Emergency Authorization and Order Directing Utilities to Implement Emergency Customer Protections to Support California Customers During the COVID-19 Pandemic.pandemic. While the Utility generally believes such costs are recoverable, rate recovery requires CPUC authorization in separate proceedings or through a GRC. (ForFor more information, see “Regulatory Matters - Application for Recovery of Costs Recorded in the Wildfire Expense Memorandum Account,”Account” and “Regulatory Matters - Catastrophic Event Memorandum Accounts and Applications,” “Regulatory Matters - Wildfire Mitigation Memorandum and Balancing Accounts,” and “Regulatory Matters - COVID-19 Pandemic Protections Memorandum Account.”)Applications” above.

Additionally, SB 901 provides a mechanism for the CPUC to potentially allow recovery in future rates, through a securitization mechanism, of wildfire-related costs found to be just and reasonable by the CPUC and, only for the 2017 Northern California wildfires, any amounts in excess of the CHT. The Utility must evaluate the likelihood of recovery in future rates each period. If the criteria are met at a later date,In 2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility would recognizerecorded a regulatory asset and a related gain inassociated with SB 901. As of December 31, 2022, the consolidated income statement in the period in which it is determined that the likelihood of recovery is probable.SB 901 regulatory asset was approximately $5.4 billion.

In addition, regulatory accounting standards require recognition of a loss if it becomes probable that capital expenditures will be disallowed for ratemaking purposes and if a reasonable estimate of the amount of the disallowance can be made. Such assessments require significant judgment by management regarding probability of recovery, as described above, and the ultimate cost of construction of capital assets. The Utility records a loss to the extent capital costs are expected to exceed the amount to be recovered.  The Utility’s capital forecasts involve a series of complex judgments regarding detailed project plans, estimates included in third-party contracts, historical cost experience for similar projects, permitting requirements, environmental compliance standards, and a variety of other factors. 

Asset Retirement Obligations

PG&E Corporation and the Utility account for an ARO at fair value in the period during which the legal obligation is incurred if a reasonable estimate of fair value and its settlement date can be made. At the time of recording an ARO, the associated asset retirement costs are capitalized as part of the carrying amount of the related long-lived asset. The Utility recognizes a regulatory asset or liability for the timing differences between the recognition of expenses and costs recovered through the ratemaking process. (SeeSee Notes 3 and 4 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

To estimate its liability, the Utility uses a discounted cash flow model based upon significant estimates and assumptions about future decommissioning costs, inflation rates, and the estimated date of decommissioning. The estimated future cash flows are discounted using a credit-adjusted risk-free rate that reflects the risk associated with the decommissioning obligation.

At December 31, 2020,2022, the Utility’s recorded ARO for the estimated cost of retiring these long-lived assets was approximately $6.4$5.9 billion. Changes in these estimates and assumptions could materially affect the amount of the recorded ARO for these assets.

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Pension and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans

PG&E Corporation and the Utility sponsor a non-contributory defined benefit pension plan for eligible employees as well as contributory postretirement health care and medical plans for eligible retirees and their eligible dependents, and non-contributory postretirement life insurance plans for eligible employees and retirees. Adjustments to the pension and other benefit obligation are based on the differences between actuarial assumptions and actual plan results. These amounts are deferred in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) and amortized into income on a gradual basis. The differences between pension benefit expense recognized in accordance with GAAP, and amounts recognized for ratemaking purposes are recorded as regulatory assets or liabilities as amounts are probable of recovery from customers.through rates. To the extent the other benefits are in an overfunded position, the Utility records a regulatory liability. (SeeSee Note 4 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

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The pension and other postretirement benefit obligations are calculated using actuarial models as of the December 31 measurement date. The significant actuarial assumptions used in determining pension and other benefit obligations include the discount rate, the average rate of future compensation increases, the health care cost trend rate, and the expected return on plan assets. PG&E Corporation and the Utility review these assumptions on an annual basis and adjust them as necessary. While PG&E Corporation and the Utility believe that the assumptions used are appropriate, significant differences in actual experience, plan changes or amendments, or significant changes in assumptions may materially affect the recorded pension and other postretirement benefit obligations and future plan expenses. (SeeSee Note 1213 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.)

In establishing health care cost assumptions, PG&E Corporation and the Utility consider recent cost trends and projections from industry experts. This evaluation suggests that current rates of inflation are expected to continue in the near term. In recognition of continued high inflation in health care costs and given the design of PG&E Corporation’s plans, the assumed health care cost trend rate for 20202023 was 6.3%6.5%, gradually decreasing to the ultimate trend rate of approximately 4.5% in 20282031 and beyond.

Expected rates of return on plan assets were developed by estimating future stock and bond returns and then applying these returns to the target asset allocations of the employee benefit plan trusts, resulting in a weighted average rate of return on plan assets. Returns on fixed-income debt investments were projected based on real maturity and credit spreads added to a long-term inflation rate. Returns on equity investments were projected based on estimates of dividend yield and real earnings growth added to a long-term inflation rate. For the Utility’s defined benefit pension plan, the assumed return of 5.1%6.1% compares to a ten-year actual return of 9.6%5.8%.

The rate used to discount pension benefits and other benefits was based on a yield curve developed from market data of approximately 835848 Aa-grade non-callable bonds at December 31, 2020.2022. This yield curve has discount rates that vary based on the duration of the obligations. The estimated future cash flows for the pension and other postretirement benefit obligations were matched to the corresponding rates on the yield curve to derive a weighted average discount rate.

The following reflects the sensitivity of pension costs and projected benefit obligation to changes in certain actuarial assumptions:
(in millions)Increase
(Decrease) in
Assumption
Increase in 2020 Pension
Costs
Increase in Projected
Benefit Obligation at
December 31, 2020
Discount rate(0.50)%$77 $1,979 
Rate of return on plan assets(0.50)%92 — 
Rate of increase in compensation0.50 %43 435 
(in millions)Increase
(Decrease) in
Assumption
Increase in 2022 Pension
Costs
Increase in Projected
Benefit Obligation at
December 31, 2022
Discount rate(0.50)%$$1,038 
Rate of return on plan assets(0.50)%108 — 
Rate of increase in compensation0.50 %44 207 

The following reflects the sensitivity of other postretirement benefit costs and accumulated benefit obligation to changes in certain actuarial assumptions:
(in millions)Increase
(Decrease) in
Assumption
Increase in 2020
Other Postretirement
Benefit Costs
Increase in Accumulated
Benefit Obligation at
December 31, 2020
Health care cost trend rate0.50 %$$66 
Discount rate(0.50)%11 150 
Rate of return on plan assets(0.50)%13 — 
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(in millions)Increase
(Decrease) in
Assumption
Increase in 2022
Other Postretirement
Benefit Costs
Increase in Accumulated
Benefit Obligation at
December 31, 2022
Health care cost trend rate0.50 %$$38 
Discount rate(0.50)%11 81 
Rate of return on plan assets(0.50)%15 — 

NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

See Note 3 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

Information responding to Item 7A is set forth under the heading “Risk Management Activities,” in MD&A in Item 7 and in Note 10:11: Derivatives and Note 11:12: Fair Value Measurements of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.


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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

PG&E CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
(in millions, except per share amounts)
 Year ended December 31,
 202020192018
Operating Revenues   
Electric$13,858 $12,740 $12,713 
Natural gas4,611 4,389 4,046 
Total operating revenues
18,469 17,129 16,759 
Operating Expenses   
Cost of electricity3,116 3,095 3,828 
Cost of natural gas782 734 671 
Operating and maintenance8,684 8,725 7,153 
Wildfire-related claims, net of insurance recoveries251 11,435 11,771 
Wildfire fund expense413 
Depreciation, amortization, and decommissioning3,468 3,234 3,036 
Total operating expenses
16,714 27,223 26,459 
Operating Income (Loss)1,755 (10,094)(9,700)
Interest income39 82 76 
Interest expense(1,260)(934)(929)
Other income, net483 250 424 
Reorganization items, net(1,959)(346)
Loss Before Income Taxes(942)(11,042)(10,129)
Income tax provision (benefit)362 (3,400)(3,292)
Net Loss(1,304)(7,642)(6,837)
Preferred stock dividend requirement of subsidiary14 14 14 
Loss Attributable to Common Shareholders$(1,318)$(7,656)$(6,851)
Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding, Basic1,257 528 517 
Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding, Diluted1,257 528 517 
Net Loss Per Common Share, Basic$(1.05)$(14.50)$(13.25)
Net Loss Per Common Share, Diluted$(1.05)$(14.50)$(13.25)
Year ended December 31,
 202220212020
Operating Revenues  
Electric$15,060 $15,131 $13,858 
Natural gas6,620 5,511 4,611 
Total operating revenues
21,680 20,642 18,469 
Operating Expenses  
Cost of electricity2,756 3,232 3,116 
Cost of natural gas2,100 1,149 782 
Operating and maintenance9,809 10,200 8,684 
SB 901 securitization charges, net608 — — 
Wildfire-related claims, net of recoveries237 258 251 
Wildfire Fund expense477 517 413 
Depreciation, amortization, and decommissioning3,856 3,403 3,468 
Total operating expenses
19,843 18,759 16,714 
Operating Income1,837 1,883 1,755 
Interest income162 20 39 
Interest expense(1,917)(1,601)(1,260)
Other income, net394 457 483 
   Reorganization items, net— (11)(1,959)
Income Before Income Taxes476 748 (942)
Income tax provision (benefit)(1,338)836 362 
Net Income (Loss)1,814 (88)(1,304)
Preferred stock dividend requirement of subsidiary14 14 14 
Income (Loss) Attributable to Common Shareholders$1,800 $(102)$(1,318)
Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding, Basic1,987 1,985 1,257 
Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding, Diluted2,132 1,985 1,257 
Net Income (Loss) Per Common Share, Basic$0.91 $(0.05)$(1.05)
Net Income (Loss) Per Common Share, Diluted$0.84 $(0.05)$(1.05)

See accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
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PG&E CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
(in millions)
 Year ended December 31,
 202020192018
Net Loss$(1,304)$(7,642)$(6,837)
Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)   
Pension and other postretirement benefit plans obligations (net of taxes of $7, $0, and $2, at respective dates)(17)(1)
Total other comprehensive income (loss)(17)(1)4 
Comprehensive Loss(1,321)(7,643)(6,833)
Preferred stock dividend requirement of subsidiary14 14 14 
Comprehensive Loss Attributable to Common Shareholders$(1,335)$(7,657)$(6,847)
 Year ended December 31,
 202220212020
Net Income (Loss)$1,814 $(88)$(1,304)
Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
Pension and other postretirement benefit plans obligations (net of taxes of $8, $3, and $7, at respective dates)21 (17)
Net unrealized losses on available-for-sale securities (net of taxes of $3, $0, and $0, respectively)(6)  
Total other comprehensive income (loss)15 7 (17)
Comprehensive Income (Loss)1,829 (81)(1,321)
Preferred stock dividend requirement of subsidiary14 14 14 
Comprehensive Income (Loss) Attributable to Common Shareholders$1,815 $(95)$(1,335)

See accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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PG&E CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in millions)
 Balance at December 31,
 20202019
ASSETS  
Current Assets  
Cash and cash equivalents$484 $1,570 
Restricted Cash143 
Accounts receivable
Customers (net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $146 million and $43 million at respective dates)
(includes $1.63 billion and $0 related to VIEs, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of
$143 million and $0 at respective dates)
1,883 1,287 
Accrued unbilled revenue (includes $959 million and $0 related to VIEs at respective dates)1,083 969 
Regulatory balancing accounts2,001 2,114 
Other1,172 2,617 
Regulatory assets410 315 
Inventories
Gas stored underground and fuel oil95 97 
Materials and supplies533 550 
Wildfire fund asset464 
Other1,334 639 
Total current assets9,602 10,165 
Property, Plant, and Equipment  
Electric66,982 62,707 
Gas24,135 22,688 
Construction work in progress2,757 2,675 
Other20 20 
Total property, plant, and equipment93,894 88,090 
Accumulated depreciation(27,758)(26,455)
Net property, plant, and equipment66,136 61,635 
Other Noncurrent Assets  
Regulatory assets8,978 6,066 
Nuclear decommissioning trusts3,538 3,173 
Operating lease right of use asset1,741 2,286 
Wildfire fund asset5,816 
Income taxes receivable67 67 
Other1,978 1,804 
Total other noncurrent assets22,118 13,396 
TOTAL ASSETS$97,856 $85,196 
 Balance at December 31,
 20222021
ASSETS  
Current Assets  
Cash and cash equivalents$734 $291 
Restricted cash (includes $201 million and $4 million related to VIEs at respective dates)213 16 
Accounts receivable
Customers (net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $166 million and $171 million at respective dates)
(includes $2.47 billion and $2.06 billion related to VIEs, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $166 million and $171 million at respective dates)
2,645 2,345 
Accrued unbilled revenue (includes $1.16 billion and $1.09 billion related to VIEs at respective dates)1,304 1,207 
Regulatory balancing accounts3,264 2,999 
Other1,624 1,784 
Regulatory assets296 496 
Inventories
Gas stored underground and fuel oil91 44 
Materials and supplies751 552 
Wildfire Fund asset460 461 
Other1,433 882 
Total current assets12,815 11,077 
Property, Plant, and Equipment  
Electric74,772 69,482 
Gas28,226 25,979 
Construction work in progress4,137 3,479 
Financing lease and other19 20 
Total property, plant, and equipment107,154 98,960 
Accumulated depreciation(30,946)(29,134)
Net property, plant, and equipment76,208 69,826 
Other Noncurrent Assets  
Regulatory assets16,443 9,207 
Customer credit trust745 — 
Nuclear decommissioning trusts3,297 3,798 
Operating lease right of use asset1,311 1,234 
Wildfire Fund asset4,847 5,313 
Income taxes receivable
Other (includes noncurrent accounts receivable of $17 million and $187 million related to VIEs, net of noncurrent allowance for doubtful accounts of $1 million and $15 million at respective dates)2,969 2,863 
Total other noncurrent assets29,621 22,424 
TOTAL ASSETS$118,644 $103,327 

See accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
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PG&E CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in millions, except share amounts)
 Balance at December 31,
 20202019
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY  
Current Liabilities  
Short-term borrowings$3,547 $
Long-term debt, classified as current28 
Debtor-in-possession financing, classified as current1,500 
Accounts payable
Trade creditors2,402 1,954 
Regulatory balancing accounts1,245 1,797 
Other580 566 
Operating lease liabilities533 556 
Disputed claims and customer refunds242 
Interest payable498 
Wildfire-related claims2,250 
Other2,256 1,254 
Total current liabilities13,581 7,631 
Noncurrent Liabilities  
Long-term debt (includes $1.0 billion and $0 related to VIEs at respective dates)37,288 
Regulatory liabilities10,424 9,270 
Pension and other postretirement benefits2,444 1,884 
Asset retirement obligations6,412 5,854 
Deferred income taxes1,398 320 
Operating lease liabilities1,208 1,730 
Other3,848 2,573 
Total noncurrent liabilities63,022 21,631 
Liabilities Subject to Compromise0 50,546 
Contingencies and Commitments (Notes 14 and 15)00
Equity  
Shareholders' Equity  
Common stock, 0 par value, authorized 3,600,000,000 and 800,000,000 shares at respective dates; 1,984,678,673 and 529,236,741 shares outstanding at respective dates30,224 13,038 
Reinvested earnings(9,196)(7,892)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss(27)(10)
Total shareholders' equity21,001 5,136 
Noncontrolling Interest - Preferred Stock of Subsidiary252 252 
Total equity21,253 5,388 
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY$97,856 $85,196 
Balance at December 31,
20222021
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY  
Current Liabilities  
Short-term borrowings$2,055 $2,184 
Long-term debt, classified as current (includes $168 million and $18 million related to VIEs at respective dates)2,268 4,481 
Accounts payable
Trade creditors2,888 2,855 
Regulatory balancing accounts1,658 1,121 
Other778 679 
Operating lease liabilities231 468 
Interest payable (includes $116 million and $3 million related to VIEs at respective dates)626 481 
Wildfire-related claims1,912 2,722 
Other3,372 2,436 
Total current liabilities15,788 17,427 
Noncurrent Liabilities  
Long-term debt (includes $10.31 billion and $1.82 billion related to VIEs at respective dates)47,742 38,225 
Regulatory liabilities17,630 11,999 
Pension and other postretirement benefits231 860 
Asset retirement obligations5,912 5,298 
Deferred income taxes2,732 3,177 
Operating lease liabilities1,243 810 
Other4,291 4,308 
Total noncurrent liabilities79,781 64,677 
Equity  
Shareholders’ Equity  
Common stock, no par value, authorized 3,600,000,000 and 3,600,000,000 shares at respective dates; 1,987,784,948 and 1,985,400,540 shares outstanding at respective dates32,887 35,129 
Treasury stock, at cost; 247,743,590 and 477,743,590 shares at respective dates(2,517)(4,854)
Reinvested earnings(7,542)(9,284)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss(5)(20)
Total shareholders’ equity22,823 20,971 
Noncontrolling Interest - Preferred Stock of Subsidiary252 252 
Total equity23,075 21,223 
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY$118,644 $103,327 

See accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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PG&E CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(in millions)
Year ended December 31, Year ended December 31,
202020192018 202220212020
Cash Flows from Operating ActivitiesCash Flows from Operating Activities   Cash Flows from Operating Activities   
Net loss$(1,304)$(7,642)$(6,837)
Net income (loss)Net income (loss)$1,814 $(88)$(1,304)
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:   Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation, amortization, and decommissioningDepreciation, amortization, and decommissioning3,468 3,234 3,036 Depreciation, amortization, and decommissioning3,856 3,403 3,468 
Bad Debt ExpenseBad Debt Expense143 154 150 
Allowance for equity funds used during constructionAllowance for equity funds used during construction(140)(79)(129)Allowance for equity funds used during construction(184)(133)(140)
Deferred income taxes and tax credits, netDeferred income taxes and tax credits, net1,097 (2,948)(2,532)Deferred income taxes and tax credits, net(452)1,783 1,097 
Reorganization items, net (Note 2)Reorganization items, net (Note 2)1,458 108 Reorganization items, net (Note 2)— (73)1,458 
Wildfire fund expenseWildfire fund expense413 Wildfire fund expense477 517 413 
Disallowed capital expendituresDisallowed capital expenditures17 581 (45)Disallowed capital expenditures15 — 17 
OtherOther399 207 332 Other517 248 249 
Effect of changes in operating assets and liabilities:Effect of changes in operating assets and liabilities:Effect of changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivableAccounts receivable(1,182)(104)(121)Accounts receivable(757)(589)(1,182)
Wildfire-related insurance receivableWildfire-related insurance receivable1,564 35 (1,698)Wildfire-related insurance receivable453 (723)1,564 
InventoriesInventories(80)(73)Inventories(246)(32)
Accounts payableAccounts payable58 516 409 Accounts payable627 117 58 
Wildfire-related claimsWildfire-related claims(16,525)(114)13,665 Wildfire-related claims(810)472 (16,525)
Income taxes receivable/payable23 (23)
Other current assets and liabilitiesOther current assets and liabilities(1,079)77 (281)Other current assets and liabilities17 244 (1,079)
Regulatory assets, liabilities, and balancing accounts, netRegulatory assets, liabilities, and balancing accounts, net(2,451)(1,417)(800)Regulatory assets, liabilities, and balancing accounts, net(1,131)(2,266)(2,451)
Liabilities subject to compromiseLiabilities subject to compromise413 12,222 Liabilities subject to compromise— — 413 
Contributions to wildfire fund(5,200)
Contributions to Wildfire fundContributions to Wildfire fund(193)(193)(5,200)
Other noncurrent assets and liabilitiesOther noncurrent assets and liabilities(142)197 (151)Other noncurrent assets and liabilities(425)(579)(142)
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activitiesNet cash provided by (used in) operating activities(19,130)4,816 4,752 Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities3,721 2,262 (19,130)
Cash Flows from Investing ActivitiesCash Flows from Investing Activities   Cash Flows from Investing Activities   
Capital expendituresCapital expenditures(7,690)(6,313)(6,514)Capital expenditures(9,584)(7,689)(7,690)
Proceeds from sale of the SFGOProceeds from sale of the SFGO— 749 — 
Proceeds from sales and maturities of nuclear decommissioning trust investmentsProceeds from sales and maturities of nuclear decommissioning trust investments1,518 956 1,412 Proceeds from sales and maturities of nuclear decommissioning trust
investments
3,316 1,678 1,518 
Purchases of nuclear decommissioning trust investmentsPurchases of nuclear decommissioning trust investments(1,590)(1,032)(1,485)Purchases of nuclear decommissioning trust investments(3,208)(1,702)(1,590)
Proceeds from sales and maturities of customer credit trust investmentsProceeds from sales and maturities of customer credit trust investments250 — — 
Purchases of customer credit trust investmentsPurchases of customer credit trust investments(1,022)— — 
OtherOther14 11 23 Other34 59 14 
Net cash used in investing activities
Net cash used in investing activities
(7,748)(6,378)(6,564)
Net cash used in investing activities
(10,214)(6,905)(7,748)
Cash Flows from Financing ActivitiesCash Flows from Financing Activities   Cash Flows from Financing Activities   
Proceeds from debtor-in-possession credit facilityProceeds from debtor-in-possession credit facility500 1,850 Proceeds from debtor-in-possession credit facility— — 500 
Repayments of debtor-in-possession credit facilityRepayments of debtor-in-possession credit facility(2,000)(350)Repayments of debtor-in-possession credit facility— — (2,000)
Debtor-in-possession credit facility debt issuance costsDebtor-in-possession credit facility debt issuance costs(6)(113)Debtor-in-possession credit facility debt issuance costs— — (6)
Bridge facility financing feesBridge facility financing fees(73)Bridge facility financing fees— — (73)
Repayment of long-term debt(764)(795)
Borrowings under credit facilitiesBorrowings under credit facilities8,554 3,960 Borrowings under credit facilities10,130 9,730 8,554 
Repayments under credit facilitiesRepayments under credit facilities(3,949)(775)Repayments under credit facilities(9,750)(9,976)(3,949)
Credit facilities financing feesCredit facilities financing fees(22)Credit facilities financing fees— (9)(22)
Net repayments of commercial paper, net of discount of $0, $0, and $1 at respective dates(182)
Short-term debt financing, net of issuance costs of $2, $0, and $0 at respective dates1,448 600 
Short-term debt matured(750)
Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt, net of premium, discount and issuance
costs of $178, $0, and $7 at respective dates
13,497 793 
Exchanged debt financing fees(103)
Common stock issued7,582 85 200 
Equity Units issued1,304 
Other(40)(8)(20)
Net cash provided by financing activities25,928 1,464 3,031 
Net change in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash(950)(98)1,219 
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at January 11,577 1,675 456 
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at December 31$627 $1,577 $1,675 
Less: Restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents(143)(7)(7)
Cash and cash equivalents at December 31$484 $1,570 $1,668 
113101


Short-term debt financing, net of issuance costs of $0, $1, and $2 at
   respective dates
— 300 1,448 
Short-term debt matured(300)(1,450)— 
Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt, net of premium, discount and
   issuance costs of $29, $33, and $178 at respective dates
4,271 4,624 13,497 
Repayment of long-term debt(5,968)(87)(764)
Proceeds from issuance of SB 901 recovery bonds, net of financing fees
   of $36, $0 and $0 at respective dates
7,464 — — 
Repayment of SB 901 recovery bonds(33)— — 
Proceeds from issuance of AB 1054 recovery bonds, net of financing fees
   of $11, $10 and $0 at respective dates
972 850 — 
Repayment of AB 1054 recovery bonds(18)— — 
Proceeds from DWR loan, net of performance based incentives earned of
   $38, $0, and $0 at respective dates
312 — — 
Proceeds from sale of future revenue from transmission tower license
   sales, net of fees
— 370 — 
Exchanged debt financing fees— — (103)
Common stock issued— — 7,582 
Equity Units issued— — 1,304 
Other53 (29)(40)
Net cash provided by financing activities7,133 4,323 25,928 
Net change in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash640 (320)(950)
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at January 1307 627 1,577 
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at December 31$947 $307 $627 
Less: Restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents(213)(16)(143)
Cash and cash equivalents at December 31$734 $291 $484 

Supplemental disclosures of cash flow informationSupplemental disclosures of cash flow information   Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information   
Cash paid for:   
Cash received (paid) for:Cash received (paid) for:   
Interest, net of amounts capitalizedInterest, net of amounts capitalized$(1,563)$(10)$(786)Interest, net of amounts capitalized$(1,607)$(1,404)$(1,563)
Income taxes, netIncome taxes, net(49)Income taxes, net— 99 — 
Supplemental disclosures of noncash investing and financing activities
Supplemental disclosures of noncash investing and financing activities
   
Supplemental disclosures of noncash investing and financing activities
Capital expenditures financed through accounts payableCapital expenditures financed through accounts payable$515 $826 $368 Capital expenditures financed through accounts payable$1,174 $1,311 $515 
Operating lease liabilities arising from obtaining ROU assetsOperating lease liabilities arising from obtaining ROU assets13 2,816 Operating lease liabilities arising from obtaining ROU assets529 100 13 
Common stock issued in satisfaction of liabilitiesCommon stock issued in satisfaction of liabilities8,276 Common stock issued in satisfaction of liabilities— — 8,276 
Changes to PG&E Corporation common stock and treasury stock in
connection with the Share Exchange and Tax Matters Agreement
Changes to PG&E Corporation common stock and treasury stock in
connection with the Share Exchange and Tax Matters Agreement
(2,337)4,854 — 

See accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

114102


PG&E CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EQUITY
(in millions, except share amounts)
Common StockTreasury StockReinvested
Earnings
Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive Income
(Loss)
Total
Shareholders'
Equity
Non-
controlling
Interest -
Preferred
Stock  of
Subsidiary
Total
Equity
SharesAmountSharesAmount
Balance at December 31, 2019529,236,741 $13,038  $ $(7,892)$(10)$5,136 $252 $5,388 
Net loss— — — — (1,304)— (1,304)— (1,304)
Other comprehensive loss— — — — — (17)(17)— (17)
Common stock issued, net1,455,441,932 15,854 — — — — 15,854 — 15,854 
Equity units issued— 1,304 — — — — 1,304 — 1,304 
Stock-based compensation amortization— 28 — — — — 28 — 28 
Balance at December 31, 20201,984,678,673 $30,224  $ $(9,196)$(27)$21,001 $252 $21,253 
Net loss— — — — (88)— (88)— (88)
Other comprehensive income— — — — — — 
Common stock issued, net (1)
721,867 4,854 — — — — 4,854 — 4,854 
Treasury stock acquired— — 477,743,590 (4,854)— — (4,854)(4,854)
Stock-based compensation amortization— 51 — — — — 51 — 51 
Balance at December 31, 20211,985,400,540 $35,129 477,743,590 $(4,854)$(9,284)$(20)$20,971 $252 $21,223 
Net income— — — — 1,814 — 1,814 — 1,814 
Other comprehensive income— — — — — 15 15 — 15 
Common stock issued, net2,384,408 (2,337)— — — — (2,337)— (2,337)
Treasury stock disposition— — (230,000,000)2,337 — — 2,337 — 2,337 
Stock-based compensation amortization— 95 — — — — 95 — 95 
Preferred stock dividend requirement of subsidiary in arrears— — — — (59)— (59)— (59)
Preferred stock dividend requirement of subsidiary— — — — (13)— (13)— (13)
Balance at December 31, 20221,987,784,948 $32,887 247,743,590 $(2,517)$(7,542)$(5)$22,823 $252 $23,075 
Common
Stock
Shares
Common
Stock
Amount
Reinvested
Earnings
Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Loss
Total
Shareholders'
Equity
Non-
controlling
Interest -
Preferred
Stock  of
Subsidiary
Total
Equity
Balance at December 31, 2017514,755,845 $12,632 $6,596 $(8)$19,220 $252 $19,472 
Net loss— — (6,837)— (6,837)— (6,837)
Other comprehensive income (loss)— — (1)— 
Common stock issued, net5,582,865 200 — — 200 — 200 
Stock-based compensation amortization— 78 — — 78 — 78 
Preferred stock dividend requirement of
subsidiary
— — (14)— (14)— (14)
Balance at December 31, 2018520,338,710 $12,910 $(250)$(9)$12,651 $252 $12,903 
Net loss— — (7,642)— (7,642)— (7,642)
Other comprehensive loss— — — (1)(1)— (1)
Common stock issued, net8,898,031 85 — — 85 — 85 
Stock-based compensation amortization— 43 — — 43 — 43 
Balance at December 31, 2019529,236,741 $13,038 $(7,892)$(10)$5,136 $252 $5,388 
Net loss— — (1,304)— (1,304)— (1,304)
Other comprehensive loss— — — (17)(17)— (17)
Common stock issued, net1,455,441,932 15,854 — — 15,854 — 15,854 
Equity units issued— 1,304 — — 1,304 — 1,304 
Stock-based compensation amortization— 28 — — 28 — 28 
Balance at December 31, 20201,984,678,673 $30,224 $(9,196)$(27)$21,001 $252 $21,253 
(1) Excludes 477,743,590 shares of common stock issued to ShareCo. For more information, see Note 6 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of the 2021 Form 10-K .

See accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
(in millions)
Year ended December 31, Year ended December 31,
202020192018 202220212020
Operating RevenuesOperating Revenues   Operating Revenues  
ElectricElectric$13,858 $12,740 $12,713 Electric$15,060 $15,131 $13,858 
Natural gasNatural gas4,611 4,389 4,047 Natural gas6,620 5,511 4,611 
Total operating revenuesTotal operating revenues18,469 17,129 16,760 Total operating revenues21,680 20,642 18,469 
Operating ExpensesOperating Expenses   Operating Expenses  
Cost of electricityCost of electricity3,116 3,095 3,828 Cost of electricity2,756 3,232 3,116 
Cost of natural gasCost of natural gas782 734 671 Cost of natural gas2,100 1,149 782 
Operating and maintenanceOperating and maintenance8,707 8,750 7,153 Operating and maintenance9,725 10,194 8,707 
Wildfire-related claims, net of insurance recoveries251 11,435 11,771 
Wildfire fund expense413 
SB 901 securitization charges, netSB 901 securitization charges, net608 — — 
Wildfire-related claims, net of recoveriesWildfire-related claims, net of recoveries237 258 251 
Wildfire Fund expenseWildfire Fund expense477 517 413 
Depreciation, amortization, and decommissioningDepreciation, amortization, and decommissioning3,469 3,233 3,036 Depreciation, amortization, and decommissioning3,856 3,403 3,469 
Total operating expenses
Total operating expenses
16,738 27,247 26,459 
Total operating expenses
19,759 18,753 16,738 
Operating Income (Loss)1,731 (10,118)(9,699)
Operating IncomeOperating Income1,921 1,889 1,731 
Interest incomeInterest income39 82 74 Interest income162 22 39 
Interest expenseInterest expense(1,111)(912)(914)Interest expense(1,658)(1,373)(1,111)
Other income, netOther income, net470 239 426 Other income, net595 512 470 
Reorganization items, netReorganization items, net(310)(320)Reorganization items, net— (12)(310)
Income (Loss) Before Income Taxes819 (11,029)(10,113)
Income Before Income TaxesIncome Before Income Taxes1,020 1,038 819 
Income tax provision (benefit)Income tax provision (benefit)408 (3,407)(3,295)Income tax provision (benefit)(1,206)900 408 
Net Income (Loss)411 (7,622)(6,818)
Net IncomeNet Income2,226 138 411 
Preferred stock dividend requirementPreferred stock dividend requirement14 14 14 Preferred stock dividend requirement14 14 14 
Income (Loss) Available for Common Stock$397 $(7,636)$(6,832)
Income Attributable to Common StockIncome Attributable to Common Stock$2,212 $124 $397 

See accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

116104


PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
(in millions)
 Year ended December 31,
 202020192018
Net Income (Loss)$411 $(7,622)$(6,818)
Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)   
Pension and other postretirement benefit plans obligations (net of taxes
    of $2, $1, and $2, at respective dates)
(6)(5)
Total other comprehensive income (loss)(6)2 (5)
Comprehensive Income (Loss)$405 $(7,620)$(6,823)
 Year ended December 31,
 202220212020
Net Income$2,226 $138 $411 
Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
Pension and other postretirement benefit plans obligations (net of taxes
    of $2, $1, and $2, at respective dates)
(4)(6)
Net unrealized losses on available-for-sale securities (net of taxes of $3, $0, and $0, respectively)(5)  
Total other comprehensive income (loss)1 (4)(6)
Comprehensive Income$2,227 $134 $405 
See accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

117105


PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in millions)
 
Balance at December 31,
 20202019
ASSETS  
Current Assets  
Cash and cash equivalents$261 $1,122 
Restricted Cash143
Accounts receivable
Customers (net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $146 million and $43 million at respective dates)
(includes $1.63 billion and $0 related to VIEs, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $143 million and $0 at respective dates)
1,883 1,287 
Accrued unbilled revenue (includes $959 million and $0 related to VIEs at respective dates)1,083 969 
Regulatory balancing accounts2,001 2,114 
Other1,180 2,647 
Regulatory assets410 315 
Inventories
Gas stored underground and fuel oil95 97 
Materials and supplies533 550 
Wildfire fund asset464 
Other1,321 628 
Total current assets9,374 9,736 
Property, Plant, and Equipment  
Electric66,982 62,707 
Gas24,135 22,688 
Construction work in progress2,757 2,675 
Other18 18 
Total property, plant, and equipment93,892 88,088 
Accumulated depreciation(27,756)(26,453)
Net property, plant, and equipment66,136 61,635 
Other Noncurrent Assets  
Regulatory assets8,978 6,066 
Nuclear decommissioning trusts3,538 3,173 
Operating lease right of use asset1,736 2,279 
Wildfire fund asset5,816 
Income taxes receivable66 66 
Other1,818 1,659 
Total other noncurrent assets21,952 13,243 
TOTAL ASSETS$97,462 $84,614 
 Balance At December 31,
 20222021
ASSETS  
Current Assets  
Cash and cash equivalents$609 $165 
Restricted cash (includes $201 million and $4 million related to VIEs at respective dates)213 16 
Accounts receivable
Customers (net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $166 million and $171 million at respective dates)
(includes $2.47 billion and $2.06 billion related to VIEs, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $166 million and $171 million at respective dates)
2,645 2,345 
Accrued unbilled revenue (includes $1.16 billion and $1.09 billion related to VIEs at respective dates)1,304 1,207 
Regulatory balancing accounts3,264 2,999 
Other1,633 1,932 
Regulatory assets296 496 
Inventories
Gas stored underground and fuel oil91 44 
Materials and supplies751 552 
Wildfire Fund asset460 461 
Other1,421 869 
Total current assets12,687 11,086 
Property, Plant, and Equipment  
Electric74,772 69,482 
Gas28,226 25,979 
Construction work in progress4,137 3,480 
Financing lease18 18 
Total property, plant, and equipment107,153 98,959 
Accumulated depreciation(30,946)(29,131)
Net property, plant, and equipment76,207 69,828 
Other Noncurrent Assets  
Regulatory assets16,443 9,207 
Customer credit trust745 — 
Nuclear decommissioning trusts3,297 3,798 
Operating lease right of use asset1,311 1,232 
Wildfire Fund asset4,847 5,313 
Income taxes receivable
Other (includes noncurrent accounts receivable of $17 million and $187 million related to VIEs, net of noncurrent allowance for doubtful accounts of $1 million and $15 million at respective dates)2,834 2,706 
Total other noncurrent assets29,484 22,263 
TOTAL ASSETS$118,378 $103,177 

See accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
118106


PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in millions, except share amounts)
 Balance at December 31,
 20202019
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY  
Current Liabilities  
Short-term borrowings$3,547 $
Debtor-in-possession financing, classified as current1,500 
Accounts payable
Trade creditors2,366 1,949 
Regulatory balancing accounts1,245 1,797 
Other624 675 
Operating lease liabilities530 553 
Disputed claims and customer refunds242 
Interest payable444 
Wildfire-related claims2,250 
Other2,248 1,263 
Total current liabilities
13,496 7,741 
Noncurrent Liabilities  
Long-term debt (includes $1.0 billion and $0 related to VIEs at respective dates)32,664 
Regulatory liabilities10,424 9,270 
Pension and other postretirement benefits2,328 1,884 
Asset retirement obligations6,412 5,854 
Deferred income taxes1,570 442 
Operating lease liabilities1,206 1,726 
Other3,886 2,626 
Total noncurrent liabilities58,490 21,802 
Liabilities Subject to Compromise0 49,736 
Contingencies and Commitments (Notes 14 and 15)00
Shareholders' Equity  
Preferred stock258 258 
Common stock, $5 par value, authorized 800,000,000 shares; 264,374,809 shares
    outstanding at respective dates
1,322 1,322 
Additional paid-in capital28,286 8,550 
Reinvested earnings(4,385)(4,796)
Accumulated other comprehensive income(5)
Total shareholders' equity25,476 5,335 
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
$97,462 $84,614 
 Balance At December 31,
 20222021
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY  
Current Liabilities  
Short-term borrowings$2,055 $2,184 
Long-term debt, classified as current (includes $168 million and $18 million related to VIEs at respective dates)2,241 4,455 
Accounts payable
Trade creditors2,886 2,853 
Regulatory balancing accounts1,658 1,121 
Other747 648 
Operating lease liabilities231 467 
Interest payable (includes $116 million and $3 million related to VIEs at respective dates)573 430 
Wildfire-related claims1,912 2,722 
Other3,067 2,430 
Total current liabilities
15,370 17,310 
Noncurrent Liabilities  
Long-term debt (includes $10.31 billion and $1.82 billion related to VIEs at respective dates)43,155 33,632 
Regulatory liabilities17,630 11,999 
Pension and other postretirement benefits160 764 
Asset retirement obligations5,912 5,298 
Deferred income taxes3,090 3,409 
Operating lease liabilities1,243 810 
Other4,334 4,345 
Total noncurrent liabilities75,524 60,257 
Shareholders’ Equity  
Preferred stock258 258 
Common stock, $5 par value, authorized 800,000,000 shares; 264,374,809 shares outstanding at respective dates1,322 1,322 
Additional paid-in capital29,280 28,286 
Reinvested earnings(3,368)(4,247)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss(8)(9)
Total shareholders’ equity27,484 25,610 
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
$118,378 $103,177 

See accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
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PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(in millions)
 Year ended December 31,
 202020192018
Cash Flows from Operating Activities   
Net income (loss)$411 $(7,622)$(6,818)
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation, amortization, and decommissioning3,469 3,233 3,036 
Allowance for equity funds used during construction(140)(79)(129)
Deferred income taxes and tax credits, net1,141 (2,952)(2,548)
Reorganization items, net (Note 2)(90)97 
Wildfire fund expense413 
Disallowed capital expenditures17 581 (45)
Other370 167 258 
Effect of changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable(1,160)(132)(122)
Wildfire-related insurance receivable1,564 35 (1,698)
Inventories(80)(73)
Accounts payable(24)579 421 
Wildfire-related claims(16,525)(114)13,665 
Income taxes receivable/payable(5)
Other current assets and liabilities(1,141)101 (301)
Regulatory assets, liabilities, and balancing accounts, net(2,451)(1,417)(800)
Liabilities subject to compromise401 12,194 
Contributions to wildfire fund(5,200)
Other noncurrent assets and liabilities(108)214 (137)
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities(19,047)4,810 4,704 
Cash Flows from Investing Activities   
Capital expenditures(7,690)(6,313)(6,514)
Proceeds from sales and maturities of nuclear decommissioning trust investments1,518 956 1,412 
Purchases of nuclear decommissioning trust investments(1,590)(1,032)(1,485)
Other14 11 23 
Net cash used in investing activities
(7,748)(6,378)(6,564)
Cash Flows from Financing Activities   
Proceeds from debtor-in-possession credit facility500 1,850 
Repayments of debtor-in-possession credit facility(2,000)(350)
Debtor-in-possession credit facility debt issuance costs(6)(97)
Bridge facility financing fees(33)
Repayment of long-term debt(100)(445)
Borrowings under credit facilities8,554 3,535 
Repayments under credit facilities(3,949)(650)
Credit facilities financing fees(22)
Net repayments of commercial paper, net of discount of $0 at respective dates(50)
Short-term debt financing, net of issuance costs of $2, $0, and $0 at respective dates1,448 250 
Short-term debt matured(750)
Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt, net of premium, discount and issuance
    costs of $88, $0, and $7 at respective dates
8,837 793 
Exchanged debt financing fees(103)
Equity contribution from PG&E Corporation12,986 45 
Other(42)(8)(20)
Net cash provided by financing activities26,070 1,395 2,708 
Net change in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash(725)(173)848 
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at January 11,129 1,302 454 
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at December 31$404 $1,129 $1,302 
Less: Restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents(143)(7)(7)
Cash and cash equivalents at December 31$261 $1,122 $1,295 
 Year ended December 31,
 202220212020
Cash Flows from Operating Activities   
Net income$2,226 $138 $411 
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation, amortization, and decommissioning3,856 3,403 3,469 
Bad Debt Expense143 154 150 
Allowance for equity funds used during construction(184)(133)(140)
Deferred income taxes and tax credits, net(319)1,846 1,141 
Reorganization items, net (Note 2)— (41)(90)
Wildfire Fund expense477 517 413 
Disallowed capital expenditures15 — 17 
Other102 172 220 
Effect of changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable(763)(584)(1,160)
Wildfire-related insurance receivable453 (723)1,564 
Inventories(246)(32)
Accounts payable627 44 (24)
Wildfire-related claims(810)472 (16,525)
Other current assets and liabilities16 251 (1,141)
Regulatory assets, liabilities, and balancing accounts, net(1,131)(2,266)(2,451)
Liabilities subject to compromise— — 401 
Contributions to Wildfire Fund(193)(193)(5,200)
Other noncurrent assets and liabilities(438)(577)(108)
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities3,831 2,448 (19,047)
Cash Flows from Investing Activities   
Capital expenditures(9,584)(7,689)(7,690)
Proceeds from sale of the SFGO— 749 — 
Proceeds from sales and maturities of nuclear decommissioning trust
   investments
3,316 1,678 1,518 
Purchases of nuclear decommissioning trust investments(3,208)(1,702)(1,590)
Proceeds from sales and maturities of customer credit trust investments250 — — 
Purchases of customer credit trust investments(1,022)— — 
Proceeds from (repayments of) intercompany note to PG&E Corporation145 (145)— 
Other34 59 14 
Net cash used in investing activities
(10,069)(7,050)(7,748)
Cash Flows from Financing Activities   
Proceeds from debtor-in-possession credit facility— — 500 
Repayments of debtor-in-possession credit facility— — (2,000)
Debtor-in-possession credit facility debt issuance costs— — (6)
Bridge facility financing fees— — (33)
Borrowings under credit facilities10,130 9,730 8,554 
Repayments under credit facilities(9,750)(9,976)(3,949)
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Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information   
Cash paid for:   
Interest, net of amounts capitalized$(1,458)$(7)$(773)
Income taxes, net(59)
Supplemental disclosures of noncash investing and financing activities
Capital expenditures financed through accounts payable$515 $826 $368 
Operating lease liabilities arising from obtaining ROU assets13 2,807 
Common stock equity infusion from PG&E Corporation used to satisfy liabilities6,750 
Credit facilities financing fees— (9)(22)
Short-term debt financing, net of issuance costs of $0, $1, and $2 at
   respective dates
— 300 1,448 
Short-term debt matured(300)(1,450)— 
Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt, net of premium, discount and
   issuance costs of $29, $33, and $88 at respective dates
4,271 4,624 8,837 
Repayment of long-term debt(5,941)(59)(100)
Proceeds from issuance of SB 901 recovery bonds, net of financing fees
   of $36, $0 and $0 at respective dates
7,464 — — 
Repayment of SB 901 recovery bonds(33)— — 
Proceeds from AB 1054 recovery bonds, net issuance costs of $11, $10,
   and $0 at respective dates
972 850 — 
Repayment of AB 1054 recovery bonds(18)— — 
Proceeds from DWR loan, net of performance based incentives earned of
   $38, $0, and $0 at respective dates
312 — — 
Proceeds from sale of future revenue from transmission tower license
   sales, net of fees
— 370 — 
Exchanged debt financing fees— — (103)
Preferred stock dividends paid(70)— — 
Common stock dividends paid(1,275)— — 
Equity contribution from PG&E Corporation994 — 12,986 
Other123 (1)(42)
Net cash provided by financing activities6,879 4,379 26,070 
Net change in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash641 (223)(725)
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at January 1181 404 1,129 
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at December 31$822 $181 $404 
Less: Restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents(213)(16)(143)
Cash and cash equivalents at December 31$609 $165 $261 
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information   
Cash received (paid) for:   
Interest, net of amounts capitalized$(1,374)$(1,198)$(1,458)
Income taxes, net— 99 — 
Supplemental disclosures of noncash investing and financing activities
Capital expenditures financed through accounts payable$1,174 $1,311 $515 
Operating lease liabilities arising from obtaining ROU assets529 100 13 
Common stock equity infusion from PG&E Corporation used to satisfy
   liabilities
— — 6,750 

 See accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
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PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(in millions)
Preferred
Stock
Common
Stock
Additional
Paid-in
Capital
Reinvested
Earnings
Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income (Loss)
Total
Shareholders'
Equity
Balance at December 31, 2017$258 $1,322 $8,505 $9,656 $6 $19,747 
Net loss— — — (6,818)— (6,818)
Other comprehensive income (loss)— — — (7)(5)
Equity contribution— — 45 — — 45 
Preferred stock dividend— — — (14)— (14)
Balance at December 31, 2018$258 $1,322 $8,550 $2,826 $(1)$12,955 
Net loss— — — (7,622)— (7,622)
Other comprehensive income— — — — 
Balance at December 31, 2019$258 $1,322 $8,550 $(4,796)$1 $5,335 
Net income— — — 411 — 411 
Other comprehensive loss— — — — (6)(6)
Equity contribution— — 19,736 — — 19,736 
Balance at December 31, 2020$258 $1,322 $28,286 $(4,385)$(5)$25,476 
Preferred
Stock
Common
Stock
Additional
Paid-in
Capital
Reinvested
Earnings
Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income (Loss)
Total
Shareholders'
Equity
Balance at December 31, 2019$258 $1,322 $8,550 $(4,796)$1 $5,335 
Net income— — — 411 — 411 
Other comprehensive loss— — — — (6)(6)
Equity contribution  19,736   19,736 
Balance at December 31, 2020$258 $1,322 $28,286 $(4,385)$(5)$25,476 
Net income— — — 138 — 138 
Other comprehensive loss— — — — (4)(4)
Balance at December 31, 2021$258 $1,322 $28,286 $(4,247)$(9)$25,610 
Net income— — — 2,226 — 2,226 
Other comprehensive income— — — — 
Equity contribution  994 — — 994 
Preferred stock dividend requirement in arrears  — (59)— (59)
Preferred stock dividend requirement
  — (13)— (13)
Common stock dividend  — (1,275)— (1,275)
Balance at December 31, 2022$258 $1,322 $29,280 $(3,368)$(8)$27,484 

See accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
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NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

NOTE 1: ORGANIZATION AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION

Organization and Basis of Presentation

PG&E Corporation is a holding company whose primary operating subsidiary is Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a public utility serving northern and central California.  The Utility generates revenues mainly through the sale and delivery of electricity and natural gas to customers.  The Utility is primarily regulated by the CPUC and the FERC.  In addition, the NRC oversees the licensing, construction, operation, and decommissioning of the Utility’s nuclear generation facilities.

This is a combined annual report of PG&E Corporation and the Utility.  PG&E Corporation’s Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of PG&E Corporation, the Utility, and other wholly owned and controlled subsidiaries.  The Utility’s Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of the Utility and its wholly owned and controlled subsidiaries.  All intercompany transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.  The Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements apply to both PG&E Corporation and the Utility.  PG&E Corporation and the Utility assessfinancial performance and allocate resources on a consolidated basis (i.e., the companies operate in 1one segment).

The accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in conformity with GAAP and in accordance with the reporting requirements of Form 10-K. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires the use of estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. Some of the more significant estimates and assumptions relate to the Utility’s regulatory assets and liabilities, wildfire-related liabilities, legal and regulatory contingencies, the Wildfire Fund, environmental remediation liabilities, AROs, insurancewildfire-related receivables, and pension and other post-retirement benefit plan obligations. Management believes that its estimates and assumptions reflected in the Consolidated Financial Statements are appropriate and reasonable. A change in management’s estimates or assumptions could result in an adjustment that would have a material impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows during the period in which such change occurred.

Chapter 11 Filing and Going Concern

The accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the continuity of operations, the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business. PG&E Corporation and the Utility suffered material losses as a result of the 2017 Northern California wildfires and the 2018 Camp fire, which contributed to the decision to file for Chapter 11 protection on January 29, 2019. Uncertainty regarding these matters previously raised substantial doubt about PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s abilities to continue as going concerns.

As a result of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s emergence from Chapter 11 on the Effective Date of July 1, 2020, substantial doubt has been alleviated regarding the Company’s ability to meet its obligations as they become due within one year after the date the financial statements were issued. (For more information regarding the Chapter 11 Cases, see Note 2 below.)

NOTE 2: BANKRUPTCY FILING

Chapter 11 Proceedings

On the Petition Date,January 29, 2019, PG&E Corporation and the Utility commenced the Chapter 11 Cases with the Bankruptcy Court. Prior to the EffectiveEmergence Date, PG&E Corporation and the Utility continued to operate their business as debtors-in-possession under the jurisdiction of the Bankruptcy Court and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code and orders of the Bankruptcy Court.

On June 20, 2020, the Bankruptcy Court entered the Confirmation Order confirming the Plan filed on June 19, 2020. PG&E Corporation and the Utility emerged from Chapter 11 on the Emergence Date of July 1, 2020. Certain parties filed notices of appeal with respect to the Confirmation Order, including the Ad Hoc Committee of Holders of Trade Claims (the “Trade Committee”). The Trade Committee appealed the Confirmation Order’s holding, which awarded post-petition interest on general unsecured claims at the federal judgment rate of 2.59%. The Trade Committee is seeking for its members to receive post-petition interest at the rates specified under their contracts or the rate established under California state law, which is 10%. The Bankruptcy Court and the federal district court held that the Trade Committee’s members are entitled to post-petition interest at the federal judgment rate. On June 8, 2021, the Trade Committee appealed the federal district court decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. On August 29, 2022, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the federal district court decision 2-1. On September 12, 2022, the Utility filed a petition for en banc review, which was denied on October 5, 2022. On February 2, 2023, the Utility filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States. PG&E Corporation and the Utility believe it is probable that they will incur a loss in connection with the post-petition interest matter, but the amount of that loss is not reasonably estimable at this time. If the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision is not reversed, then the matter would be remanded to the Bankruptcy Court to evaluate the rate of interest for each individual contract, the conditions under which the contract rate applies, and whether payment of interest under state law would be warranted for each contract and claimant. These proceedings therefore will require extensive discovery and motion practice before the Bankruptcy Court with respect to each of these claims on a variety of contractual issues and equitable considerations. PG&E Corporation and the Utility are unable to predict the timing and outcome of these proceedings or any further appeals.

Except as otherwise set forth in the Plan, the Confirmation Order or another order of the Bankruptcy Court, substantially all pre-petition liabilities were discharged under the Plan.

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Significant Bankruptcy Court Actions

Plan of Reorganization and Restructuring Support Agreements

On June 19, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility and the Shareholder Proponents filed the Plan. On June 20, 2020, the Bankruptcy Court confirmed the Plan by issuing the Confirmation Order. PG&E Corporation and the Utility emerged from Chapter 11 on the Effective Date of July 1, 2020.

On September 22, 2019, PG&E Corporation and the Utility entered into the Subrogation RSA with certain holders of wildfire insurance subrogation claims (such claims, the “Subrogation Claims”). On December 19, 2019, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order approving the Subrogation RSA. As of December 31, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility incurred $53 million in professional fees related to the Subrogation RSA. See “Restructuring Support Agreement with Holders of Subrogation Claims” in Note 14 for further information on the Subrogation RSA.

On December 6, 2019, PG&E Corporation and the Utility entered the TCC RSA, which was subsequently amended on December 16, 2019, with the TCC, the attorneys and other advisors and agents for holders of claims against PG&E Corporation and the Utility relating to the 2015 Butte fire, the 2017 Northern California wildfires and the 2018 Camp fire (other than the Subrogation Claims and Public Entity Wildfire Claims (as defined below)) (the “Fire Victim Claims”) that are signatories to the TCC RSA, and the Shareholder Proponents. On December 19, 2019, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order approving the TCC RSA. See “Restructuring Support Agreement with the TCC” in Note 14 for further information on the TCC RSA.

On January 22, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility entered into the Noteholder RSA with those holders of senior unsecured debt of the Utility that are identified as “Consenting Noteholders” therein and the Shareholder Proponents. On February 5, 2020, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order approving the Noteholder RSA.

Confirmation of the Plan of Reorganization

The Plan as confirmed by the Confirmation Order provides for certain transactions and the satisfaction and treatment of claims against and interests in PG&E Corporation and the Utility, each in accordance with the terms of the Plan, including the transactions described below. The Plan provides for the following treatment of various classes of claims as described below. PG&E Corporation and the Utility are in the process of resolving and paying claims pursuant to the treatment provided under the Plan.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility funded the Fire Victim Trust for the benefit of all holders of Fire Victim Claims, whose claims were channeled to the Fire Victim Trust on the Effective Date with no recourse to PG&E Corporation and the Utility. In full and final satisfaction, release, and discharge of all Fire Victim Claims, the Fire Victim Trust was funded with $5.4 billion in cash (with an additional $1.35 billion in cash to be funded on a deferred basis), common stock of PG&E Corporation representing 22.19% of the outstanding common stock of PG&E Corporation as of the Effective Date (subject to potential adjustments), plus the assignment of certain rights and causes of action. As a result of such funding, all Fire Victim Claims have been satisfied, released, discharged and channeled to the Fire Victim Trust with no recourse to PG&E Corporation or the Utility;

PG&E Corporation and the Utility funded a trust (the “Subrogation Wildfire Trust”) for the benefit of holders of Subrogation Claims in the amount of $11.0 billion in cash. Such amount was initially funded into escrow and later paid to the Subrogation Wildfire Trust. As a result of such funding, all Subrogation Claims have been satisfied, released and discharged and channeled to the Subrogation Wildfire Trust with no recourse to PG&E Corporation or the Utility;

PG&E Corporation and the Utility paid $1.0 billion in cash to certain local public entities (the “Settling Public Entities”) that entered into PSAs with PG&E Corporation and the Utility and established a segregated fund in the amount of $10 million to be used to reimburse the Settling Public Entities for any and all legal fees and costs associated with the defense or resolution of any third party claims against the Settling Public Entities in full and final satisfaction, release and discharge of such Settling Public Entities’ wildfire related claims;

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The following pre-petition notes of the Utility: (a) 3.50% Senior Notes due October 1, 2020; (b) 4.25% Senior Notes due May 15, 2021; (c) 3.25% Senior Notes due September 15, 2021; and (d) 2.45% Senior Notes due August 15, 2022), (collectively, the “Utility Short-Term Senior Notes”); the following pre-petition notes of the Utility: (a) 6.05% Senior Notes due March 1, 2034; (b) 5.80% Senior Notes due March 1, 2037; (c) 6.35% Senior Notes due February 15, 2038; (d) 6.25% Senior Notes due March 1, 2039; (e) 5.40% Senior Notes due January 15, 2040; and (f) 5.125% Senior Notes due November 15, 2043, (collectively, the “Utility Long-Term Senior Notes) and the pre-petition credit agreements of the Utility, including in connection with the pollution control bonds (except for $100 million of pollution control bonds (Series 2008F and 2010E), which were repaid in cash) (collectively, the “Utility Funded Debt”) were refinanced and all other Utility pre-petition senior notes (collectively, the “Utility Reinstated Senior Notes”) were reinstated and collateralized on or around the Effective Date through the issuance of a corresponding series of first mortgage bonds of the Utility;

PG&E Corporation paid in full all of its pre-petition funded debt obligations that were allowed in the Chapter 11 Cases;

PG&E Corporation and the Utility repaid all borrowings under the DIP Facilities and have paid all other allowed administrative expense claims in accordance with the Plan;

Holders of allowed claims by a governmental authority entitled to priority in payment under sections 502(i) and 507(a)(8) of the Bankruptcy Code (“Priority Tax Claims”) have received or will receive in the future, cash in an amount equal to such allowed Priority Tax Claims;

Holders of allowed secured claims other than Priority Tax Claims or secured claims related to the DIP Facilities (“Other Secured Claims”) have received or will receive cash in an amount equal to such Other Secured Claims;

Holders of allowed claims other than administrative expense claims or Priority Tax Claims, entitled to priority in payment as specified in section 507(a)(3), (4), (5), (6), (7), or (9) of the Bankruptcy Code (“Priority Non-Tax Claims”) have received or will receive cash in an amount equal to such allowed Priority Non-Tax Claims;

PG&E Corporation and the Utility will pay in full all pre-petition unsecured claims that do not fall within any of the other classes of unsecured claims under the Plan (“General Unsecured Claims”) that are allowed in the Chapter 11 Cases; and

PG&E Corporation and the Utility will pay in full all allowed claims that are subject to subordination under section 510(b) of the Bankruptcy Code other than subordinated claims related to the common stock of PG&E Corporation (“Subordinated Debt Claims”). PG&E Corporation will provide to each holder of an allowed claim that relates to the common stock of PG&E Corporation that is subject to subordination under section 510(b) of the Bankruptcy Code (a “HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim”) a number of shares of PG&E Corporation common stock based on a formula as specified in the Plan that varies depending on when the claimant purchased the affected shares of common stock and reduces the amount of the allowed claim by the amount of insurance proceeds, if any, received by the claimant on account of all or any portion of an allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim.

In addition, the Plan also provides for the following in connection with or following the implementation of the Plan:

Holders of claims related to the 2016 Ghost Ship fire are entitled to pursue their claims against PG&E Corporation and the Utility (with any recovery being limited to amounts available under PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s insurance policies for the 2016 year);

Holders of certain claims may be able to pursue their claims against PG&E Corporation and the Utility, such as administrative expense claims that have not been satisfied or come due by the Effective Date, claims arising from wildfires occurring after the Petition Date that have not been satisfied by the Effective Date (including the 2019 Kincade fire (as defined in Note 14 below)), and claims relating to certain FERC refund proceedings, workers’ compensation benefits and certain environmental claims;

PG&E Corporation or the Utility, as applicable, assumed all of their respective power purchase agreements and community choice aggregation servicing agreements; and

PG&E Corporation or the Utility, as applicable, assumed all of their respective pension obligations, other employee obligations, and collective bargaining agreements with labor.
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The Confirmation Order contains a channeling injunction that is also in the Plan that provides, among other things, that the sole source of recovery for holders of Subrogation Claims will be from the Subrogation Wildfire Trust and the sole source of recovery for holders of Fire Victim Claims will be from the Fire Victim Trust. The holders of such claims will have no recourse to or claims whatsoever against PG&E Corporation and the Utility or their assets and properties on account of such claims.

The Plan as confirmed by the Confirmation Order provides for certain financing transactions as follows:

one or more equity offerings of up to $9.0 billion of gross proceeds in cash through the issuance of common stock and/or other equity and/or equity-linked securities pursuant to one or more offerings and/or private placements;

the issuance of $4.75 billion of new PG&E Corporation debt;

the reinstatement of $9.575 billion of pre-petition debt of the Utility; and

the issuance of $23.775 billion of new Utility debt, consisting of (i) $6.2 billion of the Utility’s 4.55% Senior Notes due 2030 and 4.95% Senior Notes due 2050 (the “New Utility Long-Term Bonds”) to be issued to holders of certain pre-petition senior notes of the Utility pursuant to the Plan, (ii) $1.75 billion of the Utility’s 3.45% Senior Notes due 2025 and 3.75% Senior Notes due 2028 (the “New Utility Short-Term Bonds”) to be issued to holders of certain pre-petition senior notes of the Utility pursuant to the Plan, (iii) $3.9 billion of the Utility’s 3.15% Senior Notes due 2026 and 4.50% Senior Notes due 2040 (the “New Utility Funded Debt Exchange Bonds”) to be issued to holders of certain pre-petition indebtedness of the Utility pursuant to the Plan and (iv) $11.925 billion of new debt securities or bank debt of the Utility to be issued to third parties for cash on or prior to the Effective Date (of which $6.0 billion is expected to be repaid with the proceeds of a new securitization transaction after the Effective Date) (see Note 5 below for a description of the debt transactions that occurred on or before the Effective Date).

The foregoing financing transactions occurred on or around the Effective Date.

On the Effective Date, pursuant to the Plan, the Utility entered into a tax benefits payment agreement (the “Tax Benefits Payment Agreement”) with the Fire Victim Trust, pursuant to which the Utility agreed to pay to the Fire Victim Trust in cash an aggregate amount of $1.35 billion, comprising (i) at least $650 million of tax benefits arising from certain tax deductions related to pre-petition wildfires (“Tax Benefits”) for fiscal year 2020 to be paid on or before January 15, 2021 and (ii) of the remainder of $1.35 billion of Tax Benefits for fiscal year 2021 to be paid on or before January 15, 2022. On January 15, 2021, the Utility paid the first tranche of tax benefits of approximately $758 million pursuant to the Tax Benefits Payment Agreement.

Also on the Effective Date, pursuant to the Plan, the Utility entered into an assignment agreement with the Fire Victim Trust (the “Fire Victim Trust Assignment Agreement”), pursuant to which the Utility agreed to transfer to the Fire Victim Trust on the Effective Date 477.0 million shares of PG&E Corporation common stock. As a result of the Additional Units Issuance (as described in Note 6 below) on August 3, 2020, PG&E Corporation made an equity contribution of 748,415 shares to the Utility which delivered such additional shares of common stock to the Fire Victim Trust pursuant to an anti-dilution provision in the Fire Victim Trust Assignment Agreement.

Further, on the Effective Date, PG&E Corporation and the Utility funded a $10 million fund established for the benefit of the Supporting Public Entities (refer to “Plan Support Agreements with Public Entities” in Note 14 below) under the PSAs in accordance with the terms of the Plan and the PSAs with the Supporting Public Entities, and also made a payment of $1.0 billion in cash to the public entities who are party to the PSAs with the Supporting Public Entities.Also, on the Effective Date, PG&E Corporation and the Utility funded $100 million to the Subrogation Wildfire Trust and placed the balance of the $11.0 billion in a segregated escrow account established and owned by the Subrogation Wildfire Trust for the benefit of holders of Subrogation Claims, which was subsequently paid to the Subrogation Wildfire Trust.

Equity Financing

In connection with its emergence fromUnresolved Chapter 11 in July 2020, PG&E raised an aggregate of $9.0 billion of gross proceeds through the issuance of common stock and other equity-linked instruments. For more information, see Note 6 below.

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Equity Backstop Commitments and Forward Stock Purchase Agreements

As of March 6, 2020, PG&E Corporation entered into Chapter 11 Plan Backstop Commitment Letters (collectively, as amended by the Consent Agreements (as defined below), the “Backstop Commitment Letters”) with the Backstop Parties, pursuant to which the Backstop Parties severally agreed to fund up to $12.0 billion of proceeds to finance the Plan through the purchase of PG&E Corporation common stock, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in such Backstop Commitment Letters (the “Backstop Commitments”). As a result of PG&E Corporation emerging from Chapter 11 on July 1, 2020, the Backstop Commitments were not utilized and terminated in accordance with their terms.

The commitment premium for the Backstop Commitments was paid in shares (the “Backstop Commitment Premium Shares”) of PG&E Corporation’s common stock (with each Backstop Party receiving its pro rata share of 119 million shares of PG&E Corporation’s common stock based on the proportion of the amount of such Backstop Party’s Backstop Commitment to $12.0 billion). PG&E Corporation issued the Backstop Commitment Premium Shares to the Backstop Parties on the Effective Date in connection with emerging from Chapter 11.

On June 30, 2020, PG&E Corporation recorded approximately $1.1 billion of expense related to the Backstop Commitment Premium Shares in Reorganization items, net (as defined below). This amount was primarily based on PG&E Corporation’s closing stock price on June 30, 2020 of $8.87 per share. On the Effective Date, PG&E Corporation’s closing price was $9.03 per share and as a result, PG&E Corporation recorded an additional $19 million expense in the third quarter of 2020.

Under the Backstop Commitment Letters, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have also agreed to reimburse the Backstop Parties for reasonable professional fees and expenses of up to $34 million in the aggregate for the legal advisors and $19 million in the aggregate for the financial advisor, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Backstop Commitment Letters. As of December 31, 2020, PG&E Corporation recorded $49 million in professional fees and related expenses to the Backstop Parties in Reorganization items, net.

In connection with PG&E Corporation’s underwritten offerings of up to $5.75 billion of equity securities to finance the transactions contemplated by the Plan (the “Offerings”), up to $523 million was issuable pursuant to customary options granted to the underwriters thereof to purchase the Option Securities (as defined below in Note 6).

On June 19, 2020, PG&E Corporation entered into the Forward Stock Purchase Agreements with the Backstop Parties. Each Forward Stock Purchase Agreement provided that, subject to certain conditions, the Backstop Party would purchase on the Effective Date, and receive on such settlement date as designated in the Forward Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Settlement Date”) an amount of common stock of PG&E Corporation (such shares, each Backstop Party’s “Greenshoe Backstop Shares”) equal to its pro rata share of the value of the Option Securities not purchased by the underwriters (such amount, each Backstop Party’s “Greenshoe Backstop Purchase Amount” and all Greenshoe Backstop Purchase Amounts in the aggregate, the “Aggregate Greenshoe Backstop Purchase Amount”), at a price per share equal to the lesser of (i) the lowest per share price of common stock sold on an underwritten basis to the public in an offering of common stock of PG&E Corporation, as disclosed on the cover page of the prospectus or prospectus supplement, and (ii) the price per share payable by the investors party to the Investment Agreement dated as of June 7, 2020 (such lesser price, the “Settlement Price”). The Settlement Price was $9.50 per share. Each Forward Stock Purchase Agreement expired on August 3, 2020.

On June 25, 2020, the Backstop Parties funded the Greenshoe Backstop Purchase Amount to PG&E Corporation in the amount of $523 million, which was recorded in Other current liabilities on the Consolidated Financial Statements. PG&E Corporation applied the proceeds of such funding to distributions under the Plan on the Effective Date. On August 3, 2020, PG&E Corporation redeemed $120.5 million of the Forward Stock Purchase Agreements payable in cash as a result of the exercise by the underwriters of their option to purchase Equity Units pursuant to the Equity Units Underwriting Agreement (as defined below in Note 6). On August 3, 2020, PG&E Corporation delivered 42.3 million Greenshoe Backstop Shares to the Backstop Parties to settle the portion of the Forward Stock Purchase Agreements that was not redeemed.

Additionally, each Forward Stock Purchase Agreement provided that, subject to the consummation by PG&E Corporation of the Offerings, PG&E Corporation would issue to each Backstop Party its pro rata share of 50 million shares of common stock (such shares, each Backstop Party’s “Additional Backstop Premium Shares”). The Additional Backstop Premium Shares were issued to Backstop Parties on the Effective Date. On June 30, 2020, PG&E Corporation recorded $444 million of expense related to the Additional Backstop Premium Shares in Reorganization items, net. This amount was based primarily on PG&E Corporation’s closing stock price on June 30, 2020 of $8.87 per share. On the Effective Date, PG&E Corporation’s closing stock price was $9.03 per share and as a result, PG&E Corporation recorded an additional $8 million expense in the third quarter of 2020.

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Financial Reporting in Reorganization

Effective on the Petition Date and up to June 30, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility applied accounting standards applicable to reorganizations, which are applicable to companies under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. These accounting standards require the financial statements for periods subsequent to the Petition Date to distinguish transactions and events that are directly associated with the reorganization from the ongoing operations of the business. Expenses, realized gains and losses, and provisions for losses that were directly associated with reorganization proceedings must have been reported separately as reorganization items, net in the Consolidated Statements of Income. In addition, the balance sheet must have distinguished pre-petition LSTC of PG&E Corporation and the Utility from pre-petition liabilities that were not subject to compromise, post-petition liabilities, and liabilities of the subsidiaries of PG&E Corporation that were not debtors in the Chapter 11 Cases in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. LSTC are pre-petition obligations that were not fully secured and had at least a possibility of not being repaid at the full claim amount. Where there was uncertainty about whether a secured claim would be paid or impaired pursuant to the Chapter 11 Cases, PG&E Corporation and the Utility classified the entire amount of the claim as LSTC.

Furthermore, the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities are subject to uncertainty. Pursuant to the Plan and Confirmation Order, actions to enforce or otherwise effect the payment of certain claims against PG&E Corporation and the Utility in existence before the Petition Date were subject to an injunction and were subject to treatment under the Plan. These claims were reflected as LSTC in the Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2019. Additional claims may arise for contingencies and other unliquidated and disputed amounts.

PG&E Corporation’s Consolidated Financial Statements are presented on a consolidated basis and include the accounts of PG&E Corporation and the Utility and other subsidiaries of PG&E Corporation and the Utility that individually and in aggregate are immaterial. Such other subsidiaries did not file for bankruptcy.

The Utility’s Consolidated Financial Statements are presented on a consolidated basis and include the accounts of the Utility and other subsidiaries of the Utility that individually and in aggregate are immaterial. Such other subsidiaries did not file for bankruptcy.

Upon emergence from Chapter 11 on July 1, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility were not required to apply fresh start accounting based on the provisions of ASC 852 since the entity’s reorganization value immediately before the date of confirmation was more than the total of all its post-petition liabilities and allowed claims.

Liabilities Subject to Compromise

As a result of the commencement of the Chapter 11 Cases, the payment of pre-petition liabilities was subject to compromise or other treatment pursuant to the Plan. Generally, actions to enforce or otherwise effect payment of pre-petition liabilities are subject to an injunction and will be satisfied pursuant to the Plan and the Chapter 11 claims reconciliation process.

Prior to June 30, 2020, pre-petition liabilities that were subject to compromise were required to be reported at the amounts expected to be allowed. Therefore, liabilities subject to compromise as of December 31, 2019 in the table below reflected management’s estimates of amounts expected to be allowed in the Chapter 11 Cases, based upon, among other things, the status of negotiations with creditors. As of June 30, 2020, such amounts were reclassified to current or non-current liabilities in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, based upon management’s judgment as to the timing for settlement of such liabilities.

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Liabilities subject to compromise as of December 31, 2019 which were settled or reclassified as of December 31, 2020 consist of the following:
(in millions)Utility
PG&E
Corporation (1)
December 31, 2019
PG&E
Corporation
Consolidated
Change in Estimated Allowed Claim 2020 (2)
Cash
Payment
Reclassified as of June 30, 2020 (3)
Utility
PG&E
Corporation (1)
December 31, 2020
PG&E
Corporation
Consolidated
Financing debt
$22,450 $666 $23,116 $351 $$(23,467)$$$
Wildfire-related claims
25,548 25,548 18 (23)(25,543)
Trade creditors (4)
1,183 1,188 (14)(1,180)
Non-qualified benefit plan20 137 157 (157)
2001 bankruptcy disputed claims234 234 (238)
Customer deposits & advances71 71 12 (83)
Other230 232 59 (291)
Total Liabilities Subject to Compromise$49,736 $810 $50,546 $450 $(37)$(50,959)$0 $0 $0 
(1) PG&E Corporation amounts reflected under the column “PG&E Corporation” exclude the accounts of the Utility.
(2) Change in estimated allowed claim amounts are primarily due to interest accruals with the exception of the “wildfire-related claims,” “customer deposits & advances,” and “other” line items which are mainly due to the adjustment to recorded liabilities.
(3) Amounts reclassified as of June 30, 2020 included $8.6 million to Accounts payable - other, $237.6 million to Disputed claims and customer refunds, $1,347.4 million to Interest payable, $21,425.7 million to Long-term debt, $300.0 million to Short-term borrowings, $450.0 million to Long-term debt, classified as current, $301.0 million to Other current liabilities, $97.9 million to Other non-current liabilities, $121.3 million to Pension and other post-retirement benefits, $1,126.9 million to Accounts payable - trade creditors, and $25,542.7 million to Wildfire-related claims on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.
(4) As of February 18, 2021, $5 million and $941 million has been repaid by PG&E Corporation and the Utility, respectively.

Chapter 11 Claims Process

PG&E Corporation and the Utility have received over 100,000 proofs of claim since the Petition Date,January 29, 2019, of which approximately 80,000 were channeled to a trust for the Subrogationbenefit of holders of certain subrogation claims (the “Subrogation Wildfire TrustTrust”) and the Fire Victim Trust. The claims channeled to the Subrogation Wildfire Trust and Fire Victim Trust will be resolved by such trusts, and PG&E Corporation and the Utility have no further liability in connection with such claims. PG&E Corporation and the Utility continue their review and analysis of certain remaining claims, including asserted litigation claims, trade creditor claims, non-qualified benefit plan claims, along with other tax and regulatory claims, and therefore the ultimate liability of PG&E Corporation or the Utility for such claims may differ from the amounts asserted in such claims. Allowed claims are paid in accordance with the Plan and the Confirmation Order. Amounts expected to be allowed are reflected as current liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

The Bankruptcy Code provides that the confirmation of a plan of reorganization discharges a debtor from substantially all debts arising prior to confirmation, other than as provided in the Plan or the Confirmation Order.

The Plan, however, provides that the holders of certain claims may pursue their claims against PG&E Corporation and the Utility on or after the Effective Date, including, but not limited to, the following:

claims arising after the January 29, 2019 Petition Date that constitute administrative expense claims, which will not be discharged pursuant to the Plan, other than allowed administrative expense claims that have been paid in cash or otherwise satisfied in the ordinary course in an amount equal to the allowed amount of such claim on or prior to the Effective Date;

claims of the Ghost Ship fire litigation (with any recovery being limited to amounts available under PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s insurance policies for the 2016 year);

claims arising out of or based on the 2019 Kincade fire (as defined in Note 14 below), which the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has determined was caused by the Utility’s transmission lines; which is currently under investigation by the CPUC and the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office; and which may also be under investigation by various other entities, including law enforcement agencies; and

certain FERC refund proceedings, workers’ compensation benefits and environmental claims.

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Furthermore, holdersHolders of certain claims may assert that they are entitled under the Plan or the Bankruptcy Code to pursue, or continue to pursue, their claims against PG&E Corporation and the Utility on or after the EffectiveEmergence Date, including but not limited to, claims arising from or relating to:

the purported de-energization securities class action filed in October 2019 and amended to add PG&E Corporation in April 2020. For more information on the filing, see Note 14 below;

the purported PSPS class action filed in December 2019 and seeking up to $2.5 billion in special and general damages, punitive and exemplary damages and injunctive relief to require the Utility to properly maintain and inspect its power grid, was dismissed on April 3, 2020, and subsequently appealed on April 6, 2020. For more information on the filing, see Note 15 below; and

indemnification or contributingcontribution claims, including with respect to the wildfire that began on November 8, 2018 near the city of Paradise, Butte County, California (the “2018 Camp fire,fire”), the 2017 Northern California wildfires, and the wildfire that began September 9, 2015 in Amador and Calaveras counties in Northern California (the “2015 Butte fire.fire”).

In addition, claimsSubordinated Debt Claims and HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims (each as defined in Note 15 below) continue to be pursued against PG&E Corporation and the Utility in the claims reconciliation process in the Bankruptcy Court, and claims against certain of their respectiveformer directors and current and former directors and officers, as well as certain underwriters, are being pursued in connection with 3the purported securities class actions, asaction that is further described in Note 1415 under the heading “Securities Class Action Litigation.”

Various electricity suppliers filed claimsIn addition to filing objections in the Utility’s 2001 prior proceeding filed under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code seeking payment for energy suppliedCourt to the Utility’s customers between May 2000 and June 2001. While FERC and judicial proceedings are pending, the Utility pursued settlements with electricity suppliers and entered into a number of settlement agreements with various electricity suppliers to resolve some of these disputed claims and to resolve the Utility’s refund claims against these electricity suppliers.Under these settlement agreements, amounts payable by the parties, in some instances, would bethat were subject to adjustment based on the outcome of the various refund offset and interest issues being considered by the FERC.Generally, any net refunds, claim offsets, or other credits that the Utility receives from electricity suppliers either through settlement or through the conclusion of the various FERC and judicial proceedings are refunded to customers through rates in future periods. Pursuant to the Plan, on and after the Effective Date, the holders of such claims are entitled to pursue their claims against the Reorganized Utility as if the Chapter 11 Cases had not been commenced.

On September 1, 2020,certain defenses which allowed PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed a motion with the Bankruptcy Court requesting that the court approveto file objections expunging those claims on an alternative dispute resolution process for resolving disputed general unsecured claims and appoint a panel of mediators in the process. On September 25, 2020, the court approved the motion and appointed a panel of mediators. The mediators’ role will be to assist various claims through a Standard and Abbreviated Mediation Process.

On October 27, 2020,omnibus basis, PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed a motion for entryare working to resolve disputed claims, including Subordinated Debt Claims and HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims. By order of an order extending deadline for the reorganized debtors to object to claims, requesting an additional 180 days beyond December 31, 2020 to process claims. On November 17, 2020, the Bankruptcy Court, entered an order extending the current deadline under the Plan for PG&E Corporation and the Utility to object to claims through and includingis June 26, 2021 (March 31, 2021, for claims held by the United States), without prejudice to the rights of PG&E Corporation and the Utility to seek additional extensions thereof.

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Reorganization Items, Net

Reorganization items, net, represent amounts incurred after the Petition Date as a direct result of the Chapter 11 Cases and are comprised of professional fees and financing costs, net of interest income and other. Cash paid for reorganization items, net was $102 million and $400 million for PG&E Corporation and the Utility, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2020 as compared to $15 million and $223 million for PG&E Corporation and the Utility, respectively, during 2019. Of the $400 million in cash paid for the Utility’s reorganization items, during the year ended December 31, 2020, $35 million in facility fees related to the Backstop Commitment Letters were recorded to a regulatory asset as they were deemed probable of recovery. Reorganization items, net for the year ended December 31, 2020 include the following:
Year Ended December 31, 2020
(in millions)Utility
PG&E Corporation (1)
PG&E Corporation Consolidated
Debtor-in-possession financing costs$$$
Legal and other (2)
318 1,651 1,969 
Interest and other(14)(2)(16)
Total reorganization items, net$310 $1,649 $1,959 
(1) PG&E Corporation amounts reflected under the column “PG&E Corporation” exclude the accounts of the Utility.
(2) Amount includes $1.5 billion in equity backstop premium expense and bridge loan facility fees.

Reorganization items, net from the Petition Date through December 31, 2019 include the following:
Petition Date Through December 31, 2019
(in millions)Utility
PG&E Corporation (1)
PG&E Corporation Consolidated
Debtor-in-possession financing costs$97 $17 $114 
Legal and other273 19 292 
Interest income(50)(10)(60)
Total reorganization items, net$320 $26 $346 
(1) PG&E Corporation amounts reflected under the column “PG&E Corporation” exclude the accounts of the Utility.20, 2023.

NOTE 3: SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Regulation and Regulated Operations

The Utility follows accounting principles for rate-regulated entities and collects rates from customers to recover “revenue requirements” that have been authorized by the CPUC or the FERC based on the Utility’s cost of providing service.  The Utility’s ability to recover a significant portion of its authorized revenue requirements through rates is generally independent, or “decoupled,” from the volume of the Utility’s electricity and natural gas sales.  The Utility records assets and liabilities that result from the regulated ratemaking process that would not be recorded under GAAP for nonregulated entities.  The Utility capitalizes and records as regulatory assets costs that would otherwise be charged to expense if it is probable that the incurred costs will be recovered inthrough future rates.  Regulatory assets are amortized over the future periods in which the costs are recovered.  If costs expected to be incurred in the future are currently being recovered through rates, the Utility records those expected future costs as regulatory liabilities.  Amounts that are probable of being credited or refunded to customers in the future are also recorded as regulatory liabilities.

The Utility also records a regulatory balancing account asset or liability for differences between customer billings and authorized revenue requirements that are probable of recovery or refund.  In addition, the Utility records a regulatory balancing account asset or liability for differences between incurred costs and customer billings or authorized revenue meant to recover those costs, to the extent that these differences are probable of recovery or refund.  These differences have no impact on net income.  See “Revenue Recognition” below.

Management continues to believe the use of regulatory accounting is applicable and that all regulatory assets and liabilities are recoverable or refundable.  To the extent that portions of the Utility’s operations cease to be subject to cost of servicecost-of-service rate regulation, or recovery is no longer probable as a result of changes in regulation or other reasons, the related regulatory assets and liabilities are written off.

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Loss ContingenciesCash, Cash Equivalents, and Restricted Cash

A provision for a loss contingency is recorded when it is both probable that a liability has been incurredCash and the amountcash equivalents consist of the liability can reasonably be estimated. PG&E Corporationcash and short-term, highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less.  Cash equivalents are stated at fair value. As of December 31, 2022, the Utility evaluate which potential liabilitiesalso holds $213 million of restricted cash that primarily consists of AB 1054 and SB 901 fixed recovery charge collections that are probable andto be used to service the related range of reasonably estimated losses and record a charge that reflects their best estimate or the lower end of the range, if there is no better estimate. The assessment of whether a loss is probable or reasonably possible, and whether the loss or a range of losses is estimable, often involves a series of complex judgments about future events. Loss contingencies are reviewed quarterly and estimates are adjusted to reflect the impact of all known information, such as negotiations, discovery, settlements and payments, rulings, advice of legal counsel, and other information and events pertaining to a particular matter. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s provision for loss and expense excludes anticipated legal costs, which are expensed as incurred.associated bonds.

Revenue Recognition

Revenue from Contracts with Customers

The Utility recognizes revenues when electricity and natural gas services are delivered.  The Utility records unbilled revenues for the estimated amount of energy delivered to customers but not yet billed at the end of the period.  Unbilled revenues are included in accounts receivable on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.  Rates charged to customers are based on CPUC and FERC authorized revenue requirements. Revenues can vary significantly from period to period because of seasonality, weather, and customer usage patterns.

Regulatory Balancing Account Revenue

The CPUC authorizes most of the Utility’s revenues in the Utility’s GRC and GT&S rate cases,GRCs, which generally occur every three or four years. The Utility's ability to recoverCPUC and FERC rates decouple authorized revenue requirements authorized by the CPUC in these rate cases is independent or “decoupled” from the volume of the Utility's sales of electricity and natural gas services.sales, so the Utility receives revenue equal to the amounts authorized by the relevant regulatory agencies. As a result, the volume of electricity and natural gas sold does not have a direct impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial results. The Utility recognizes revenues that have been authorized for rate recovery, are objectively determinable and probable of recovery, and are expected to be collected within 24 months.  Generally, electric and natural gas operating revenue is recognized ratably over the year. The Utility records a balancing account asset or liability for differences between customer billings and authorized revenue requirements that are probable of recovery or refund.

The CPUCUtility also has authorized the Utility to collectcollects additional revenue requirements to recover costs that the UtilityCPUC has been authorized the Utility to pass on to customers, including costs to purchase electricity and natural gas, and to fund public purpose, demand response, and customer energy efficiency programs.  In general, the revenue recognition criteria for pass-through costs billed to customers are met at the time the costs are incurred. The Utility records a regulatory balancing account asset or liability for differences between incurred costs and customer billings or authorized revenue meant to recover those costs, to the extent that these differences are probable of recovery or refund. As a result, these differences have no impact on net income.

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The following table presents the Utility’s revenues disaggregated by type of customer:
Year Ended
(in millions)20202019
Electric
Revenue from contracts with customers
   Residential$5,523 $4,847 
   Commercial4,722 4,756 
   Industrial1,530 1,493 
   Agricultural1,471 1,106 
   Public street and highway lighting69 67 
   Other (1)
(130)168 
      Total revenue from contracts with customers - electric13,185 12,437 
Regulatory balancing accounts (2)
673 303 
Total electric operating revenue$13,858 $12,740 
Natural gas
Revenue from contracts with customers
   Residential$2,517 $2,325 
   Commercial597 605 
   Transportation service only1,211 1,249 
   Other (1)
61 123 
      Total revenue from contracts with customers - gas4,386 4,302 
Regulatory balancing accounts (2)
225 87 
Total natural gas operating revenue4,611 4,389 
Total operating revenues$18,469 $17,129 
Year Ended December 31,
(in millions)20222021
Electric
Revenue from contracts with customers
   Residential$6,130 $6,089 
   Commercial5,416 5,042 
   Industrial1,626 1,493 
   Agricultural1,830 1,565 
   Public street and highway lighting77 73 
   Other, net (1)
(247)(84)
      Total revenue from contracts with customers - electric14,832 14,178 
Regulatory balancing accounts (2)
228 953 
Total electric operating revenue$15,060 $15,131 
Natural gas
Revenue from contracts with customers
   Residential$3,353 $2,759 
   Commercial1,005 713 
   Transportation service only1,534 1,346 
   Other, net (1)
163 140 
      Total revenue from contracts with customers - gas6,055 4,958 
Regulatory balancing accounts (2)
565 553 
Total natural gas operating revenue6,620 5,511 
Total operating revenues$21,680 $20,642 
(1) This activity is primarily related to the change in unbilled revenue and amounts subject to refund, partially offset by other miscellaneous revenue items.
(2) These amounts represent revenues authorized to be billed or refunded to customers.

Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Restricted Cash

Cash and cash equivalents consist of cash and short-term, highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less.  Cash equivalents are statedFinancial Assets Measured at fair value.  As of December 31, 2020, the Utility also holds restricted cash that primarily consists of cash held in escrow to be used to pay bankruptcy related professional fees.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts Receivable andAmortized Cost – Credit Losses

PG&E Corporation and the Utility recognize an allowance for doubtful accounts to record uncollectible customer accounts receivable at estimated net realizable value.  The allowance is determined based upon a variety of factors, including historical write-off experience, aging of receivables, current economic conditions, and assessment of customer collectability.

In addition, upon adopting ASU 2016-13, PG&E Corporation and the Utility use the current expected credit loss model to estimate the expected lifetime credit loss on financial assets includingmeasured at amortized cost. PG&E Corporation and the Utility evaluate credit risk in their portfolio of financial assets quarterly. As of December 31, 2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility identified the following significant categories of financial assets.

Trade Receivables

Trade receivables are represented by customer accounts. PG&E Corporation and the Utility record an allowance for doubtful accounts to recognize an estimate of expected lifetime credit losses. The allowance is determined on a collective basis based on the historical amounts written-off and an assessment of customer collectability. Furthermore, economic conditions are evaluated as part of the estimate of expected lifetime credit losses.

As of December 31, 2022, the Utility recorded a reduction to the allowance for doubtful accounts of approximately $88 million in the fourth quarter of 2022 as a result of the approximately $200 million CAPP funding from the State of California, which was received in November 2022. As of December 31, 2021, the Utility recorded a reduction to the allowance for doubtful accounts of approximately $207 million in the fourth quarter of 2021 as a result of the expected CAPP funding, which was received in January 2022.

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PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded expected credit losses of $143 million and $154 million in Operating and maintenance expense on the Consolidated Statements of Income for credit losses associated with trade and other receivables rather than incurred losses over the remaining lifeduring 2022 and 2021, respectively. The portion of most financial assets measured at amortized cost. The guidance also requires use of an allowance to record estimatedexpected credit losses that are deemed probable of recovery are deferred to the RUBA, CPPMA, and a FERC regulatory asset. As of December 31, 2022, the RUBA current balancing accounts receivable balance was $126 million, and CPPMA and FERC long-term regulatory asset balances were $3 million and $8 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2021, the RUBA current balancing accounts receivable balance was $127 million, and CPPMA and FERC long-term regulatory asset balances were $30 million and $12 million, respectively.

Other Receivables and Available-For-Sale Debt Securities

Insurance receivables are related to the liability insurance policies PG&E Corporation and the Utility carry. Insurance receivable risk is related to each insurance carrier’s risk of defaulting on their individual policies. Wildfire Fund receivables are the funds available from the statewide fund established under AB 1054 for payment of eligible claims related to the 2021 Dixie fire that exceed $1.0 billion and available insurance coverage. For more information, see Note 15 below. Wildfire Fund receivables risk is related to the Wildfire Fund’s durability, which is a measurement of its claim-paying capacity. Lastly, PG&E Corporation and the Utility are required to determine if the fair value is below the amortized cost basis for their available-for-sale debt securities. See “Financial Instruments - Credit Losses” below for more information.securities (i.e., impairment). If such an impairment exists and does not otherwise result in a write-down, then PG&E Corporation and the Utility must determine whether a portion of the impairment is a result of expected credit loss.

As of December 31, 2022, expected credit losses for insurance receivables, Wildfire Fund receivables, and available-for-sale debt securities were immaterial.

Emission Allowances

The Utility purchases GHG emission allowances to satisfy its compliance obligations. Associated costs are recorded as inventory and included in current assets – other and other noncurrent assets – other on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Costs are carried at weighted-average and are recoverable through rates.

Inventories

Inventories are carried at weighted-average cost and include natural gas stored underground, as well asfuel oil, materials, and supplies.  Natural gas stored underground is recorded to inventory when injected and then expensed as the gas is withdrawn for distribution to customers or to be used as fuel for electric generation.  Materials and supplies are recorded to inventory when purchased and expensed or capitalized to plant, as appropriate, when consumed or installed.

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Emission Allowances

The Utility purchases GHG emission allowances to satisfy its compliance obligations.  Associated costs are recorded as inventory and included in current assets – other and other noncurrent assets – other on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.  Costs are carried at weighted-average and are recoverable through rates.

Property, Plant, and Equipment

Property, plant, and equipment are reported at the lower of their historical cost less accumulated depreciation or fair value.  Historical costs include labor and materials, construction overhead, and AFUDC.  (SeeSee “AFUDC” below.)  The Utility’s total estimated usefulservice lives and balances of its property, plant, and equipment were as follows:
 Estimated UsefulBalance at December 31,
(in millions, except estimated useful lives)Lives (years)20202019
Electricity generating facilities (1)
5 to 75$13,751 $13,189 
Electricity distribution facilities10 to 7037,675 35,237 
Electricity transmission facilities15 to 7515,556 14,281 
Natural gas distribution facilities20 to 6015,133 14,236 
Natural gas transmission and storage facilities5 to 669,002 8,452 
Construction work in progress 2,757 2,675 
Other18 18 
Total property, plant, and equipment 93,892 88,088 
Accumulated depreciation (27,756)(26,453)
Net property, plant, and equipment
 $66,136 $61,635 
 Estimated ServiceBalance at December 31,
(in millions, except estimated service lives)Lives (years)20222021
Electricity generating facilities (1)
5 to 75$11,781 $11,217 
Electricity distribution facilities10 to 7041,061 37,723 
Electricity transmission facilities15 to 7516,413 15,516 
Natural gas distribution facilities20 to 6015,366 14,100 
Natural gas transmission and storage facilities5 to 669,859 9,067 
Financing lease18 18 
Construction work in progress4,137 3,480 
General plant and other5 to 508,518 7,838 
Total property, plant, and equipment107,153 98,959 
Accumulated depreciation(30,946)(29,131)
Net property, plant, and equipment (2)
$76,207 $69,828 
(1) Balance includes nuclear fuel inventories. Stored nuclear fuel inventory is stated at weighted-average cost. Nuclear fuel in the reactor is expensed as it is used based on the amount of energy output. (SeeSee Note 1516 below.)
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(2) Includes $1.8 billion of fire risk mitigation-related property, plant, and equipment securitized in accordance with AB 1054. See Note 5 below.

The Utility depreciates property, plant, and equipment using the composite, or group, method of depreciation, in which a single depreciation rate is applied to the gross investment balance in a particular class of property.property, with the exception of its securitized property, plant and equipment, which is depreciated over the life of the bond and a pattern consistent with principal payments.  This method approximates the straight-line method of depreciation over the useful lives of property, plant, and equipment.  The Utility’s composite depreciation rates were 3.74% in 2022, 3.82% in 2021, and 3.76% in 2020, 3.80% in 2019, and 3.82% in 2018.2020.  The useful lives of the Utility’s property, plant, and equipment are authorized by the CPUC and the FERC, and the depreciation expense is recovered through rates charged to customers.  Depreciation expense includes a component for the original cost of assets and a component for estimated cost of future removal, net of any salvage value at retirement.  Upon retirement, the original cost of the retired assets, net of salvage value, is charged against accumulated depreciation.  The cost of repairs and maintenance, including planned major maintenance activities and minor replacements of property, is charged to operating and maintenance expense as incurred.

AFUDC

AFUDC represents the estimated costscost of debt (i.e., interest) and equity funds used to finance regulated plant additions before they go into service and is capitalized as part of the cost of construction.  AFUDC is recoverable from customers through rates over the life of the related property once the property is placed in service.  AFUDC related to the cost of debt is recorded as a reduction to interest expense.  AFUDC related to the cost of equity is recorded in other income.  The Utility recorded AFUDC related to debt and equity, respectively, of $81 million and $184 million during 2022, $56 million and $133 million during 2021, and $35 million and $140 million during 2020, $55 million and $79 million during 2019, and $53 million and $129 million during 2018.2020.

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Asset Retirement Obligations

The following table summarizes the changes in ARO liability during 20202022 and 2019,2021, including nuclear decommissioning obligations:
(in millions)20222021
ARO liability at beginning of year$5,298 $6,412 
Liabilities incurred134 — 
Revision in estimated cash flows325 (1,378)
Accretion213 287 
Liabilities settled(58)(23)
ARO liability at end of year$5,912 $5,298 
(in millions)20202019
ARO liability at beginning of year$5,854 $5,994 
Liabilities incurred in the current period268 
Revision in estimated cash flows53 (376)
Accretion265 274 
Liabilities settled(28)(38)
ARO liability at end of year$6,412 $5,854 

PG&E Corporation and the Utility account for an ARO at fair value in the period during which the legal obligation is incurred if a reasonable estimate of fair value and its settlement date can be made. At the time of recording an ARO, the associated asset retirement costs are capitalized as part of the carrying amount of the related long-lived asset. The Utility recognizes a regulatory asset or liability for the timing differences between the recognition of expenses and costs recovered through the ratemaking process. For more information, see Note 4 below.

The Utility has not recorded a liability related to certain AROs for assets that are expected to operate in perpetuity.  As the Utility cannot estimate a settlement date or range of potential settlement dates for these assets, reasonable estimates of fair value cannot be made.  As such, ARO liabilities are not recorded for retirement activities associated with substations, certain hydroelectric facilities; removal of lead-based paint in some facilities and certain communications equipment from leased property; and restoration of land to the conditions under certain agreements.

Nuclear Decommissioning Obligation
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Detailed studiesTo estimate its liability, the Utility uses a discounted cash flow model based upon significant estimates and assumptions about future decommissioning costs, escalation rates, credit-adjusted risk-free rates, and the estimated date of decommissioning. For generation facilities, the cost to decommission the Utility’sUtility uses a probability-weighted, discounted cash flow model. For nuclear generation facilities, the model also considers multiple decommissioning start-year scenarios. The estimated future cash flows are generally conducteddiscounted using a credit-adjusted risk-free rate that reflects the risk associated with the decommissioning obligation. The Utility performs detailed studies of its nuclear generation facilities every three years in conjunction with the Nuclear Decommissioning Cost Triennial Proceeding conducted by the CPUC.NDCTP, and updates its nuclear AROs accordingly, unless circumstances warrant more frequent updates, based on its annual evaluation of cost escalation factors and probabilities assigned to various scenarios. The decommissioning cost estimates are based on the plant location and cost characteristics for the Utility'sUtility’s nuclear power plants. Actual decommissioning costs may vary from these estimates as a result of changes in assumptions such as decommissioning dates; regulatory requirements; technology; and costs of labor, materials, and equipment. The Utility recovers its revenue requirements for decommissioning costs from customersthrough rates through a non-bypassable charge that the Utility expects will continue until those costs are fully recovered.

The total nuclear decommissioning obligation accrued was $5.1$4.1 billion and $4.9$3.9 billion at December 31, 20202022 and 2019, respectively.2021, respectively, based on the cost study performed as part of the 2021 NDCTP. The estimated probability-weighted, undiscounted nuclear decommissioning costcash flows for the Utility’s nuclear power plants was $10.6$7.1 billion and $7.6 billion at December 31, 20202022 and 2019.2021, respectively. As of December 31, 2022, the Utility recorded an adjustment to the Diablo Canyon ARO to reflect the potential extension of the decommissioning commencement by five years until 2030 as a result of SB 846 and the conditional award from the DOE’s Civil Nuclear Credit Program. See “Senate Bill 846” and “U.S. DOE’s Civil Nuclear Credit Program” below. The Utility’s ARO could be materially impacted if the Utility does not receive the required federal and state licenses, permits, and approvals.

The ARO liability decreased from $6.4 billion as of December 31, 2020 to $5.3 billion as of December 31, 2021, primarily due to a decrease in the nuclear decommissioning ARO of $1.3 billion. In December 2021, the Utility filed its 2021 NDCTP application, which includes a Diablo Canyon site-specific decommissioning cost estimate of $4.0 billion. Relative to the 2018 NDCTP decision, the 2021 NDCTP application resulted in a decommissioning cost estimate that was decreased by $378 million on a non-escalated basis and $2.6 billion on an escalated basis. The escalated basis assumed that costs will be spread primarily over 56 years, which represents the assumption for how much time will be required for physical decommissioning of Units 1 and 2, and the Diablo Canyon independent spent fuel storage installation. This decrease reflected favorable changes in the scope and methods of planned decommissioning activities. Also as part of the 2021 NDCTP, the Utility filed modified escalation rates, in which the average total escalation factor decreased. Additionally, the credit-adjusted risk-free rate was greater in 2021 than in 2020.

The increase of $614 million in the 2022 ARO liability at December 31, 2022 as compared to December 31, 2021 is primarily due to the update of the ARO associated with the Diablo Canyon power plant as described above; the creation of a new liability for the permanently abandoned electric transmission lines in connection with the Kincade SED Settlement (as defined in Note 15); increases in the probability that the Utility will be responsible for decommissioning certain hydroelectric generation facilities; increases in the costs associated with retiring gas transmission pipelines; and increases in escalation factors. The increase is offset by increases in the credit-adjusted risk-free rate from 2021 to 2022.

Disallowance of Plant Costs

PG&E Corporation and the Utility record a charge when it is both probable that costs incurred or projected to be incurred for recently completed plant will not be recoverable through rates charged to customers and the amount of disallowance can be reasonably estimated.

Nuclear Decommissioning Trusts

The Utility’s nuclear generation facilities consist of 2two units at Diablo Canyon and 1one retired facility at Humboldt Bay.  Nuclear decommissioning requires the safe removal of a nuclear generation facility from service and the reduction of residual radioactivity to a level that permits termination of the NRC license and release of the property for unrestricted use.  The Utility'sUtility’s nuclear decommissioning costs are recovered from customers through rates and are held in trusts until authorized for release by the CPUC.

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The Utility classifies its debt investments held in the nuclear decommissioning trusts as available-for-sale. Since the Utility’s nuclear decommissioning trust assets are managed by external investment managers, the Utility does not have the ability to sell its investments at its discretion.  Therefore, all unrealized losses are considered other-than-temporary impairments. Gains or losses on the nuclear decommissioning trust investments are refundable to or recoverable from, respectively, from customers through rates.  Therefore, trust earnings are deferred and included in the regulatory liability for recoveries in excess of the ARO.  There is no impact on the Utility’s earnings or accumulated other comprehensive income.  The cost of debt and equity securities sold by the trust is determined by specific identification.

Government Assistance

PG&E Corporation and the Utility received various government assistance programs during the year ended December 31, 2022. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s accounting policy is to apply a grant accounting model by analogy to International Accounting Standards 20, Accounting for Government Grants and Disclosure of Government Assistance.

Assembly Bill 180

On June 30, 2022, the Governor of California signed AB 180, which authorized the DWR to use up to $75 million to support contracts with the owners of electric generating facilities pending retirement, such as Diablo Canyon, to fund, reimburse or compensate the owner for any costs, expenses or financial commitments incurred to retain the future availability of such generating facilities pending further legislation. The resulting agreement between DWR and the Utility was effective beginning October 1, 2022, and will continue until full disbursement of funds or termination per the agreement. In the event of a termination, the Utility will take reasonable steps to end activities associated with this agreement and will return to DWR any unused funds. The Utility plans to record the income related to government grants as a deduction to Operating and maintenance expense as eligible costs are incurred.

Senate Bill 846

On September 2, 2022, the Governor of California signed SB 846, which supports the extension of operations at Diablo Canyon through no later than 2030, with the potential for an earlier retirement date. Additionally, the State of California has authorized a loan of up to $1.4 billion pursuant to SB 846 to the Utility from the DWR to support the extension of plant operations. SB 846 further directs the Utility to take steps to secure funds from the DOE’s Civil Nuclear Credit Program, and any other potentially available federal funding, to repay the loan. The loan may be forgiven under certain circumstances.

DWR Loan Agreement

On October 18, 2022, the DWR and the Utility executed a $1.4 billion loan agreement to support the extension of Diablo Canyon, up to approximately $1.1 billion of which could be repaid by funds received from the DOE (see “U.S. DOE's Civil Nuclear Credit Program” below). Under the loan agreement, the DWR will pay the Utility a monthly performance-based disbursement equal to $7 for each MWh generated by Diablo Canyon, effective September 2, 2022. The Utility may use the proceeds of the performance-based disbursements for any business purpose, but may not pay as shareholder profits or dividends or as otherwise prohibited by SB 846. The Utility began earning performance-based disbursements beginning on September 2, 2022 and will no longer earn them on the previously-approved retirement dates for Diablo Canyon Unit 1 and Unit 2 (2024 and 2025, respectively). The performance-based disbursements are contingent upon the Utility’s ongoing pursuit of extension of the operating period and continued safe and reliable Diablo Canyon operations. The aggregate amount of performance-based disbursements under this agreement will not exceed $300 million.

The Utility initially accounts for all disbursements from the DWR loan agreement pursuant to ASC 470, Debt. When there is reasonable assurance that the Utility will have loan disbursements forgiven by the DWR, such as when the Utility earns a performance-based disbursement, the Utility will recognize those forgiven loans as income related to government grants. The Utility plans to record the income related to government grants as a deduction to Operating and maintenance expense in the same period(s) that eligible costs are incurred. As of December 31, 2022, the consolidated financial statements reflected $312 million in Long-term debt, and a deduction of $38 million to Operating and maintenance expense for income related to government grants for performance-based disbursements.

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U.S. DOE’s Civil Nuclear Credit Program

On November 17, 2022, the Utility was conditionally awarded a total of approximately $1.1 billion from the DOE related to Diablo Canyon (See “DWR Loan Agreement” above). Final award amounts will be determined following completion of each year of the award period, and amounts awarded over a four-year award period ending in 2026 will be based on actual costs. The Utility will repay its loans outstanding under the DWR Loan Agreement with funding received from the DOE’s Civil Nuclear Credit Program. When there is reasonable assurance that the Utility will receive funding and comply with the conditions of the DOE’s Civil Nuclear Credit Program, the Utility will recognize such funding as income related to government grants. The Utility plans to record the income related to government grants as a deduction to Operating and maintenance expense on the Consolidated Statements of Income as eligible costs are incurred.

Variable Interest Entities

A VIE is an entity that does not have sufficient equity at risk to finance its activities without additional subordinated financial support from other parties, or whose equity investors lack any characteristics of a controlling financial interest.  An enterprise that has a controlling financial interest in a VIE is a primary beneficiary and is required to consolidate the VIE.  

Consolidated VIEVIEs

Receivables Securitization Program

The SPV was created in connection with the Receivables Securitization Program and is a bankruptcy remote, limited liability company wholly owned by the Utility, and its assets are not available to creditors of PG&E Corporation or the Utility. Pursuant to the Receivables Securitization Program, (as defined in Note 5 below), the Utility sells certain of its receivables and certain related rights to payment and obligations of the Utility with respect to such receivables, and certain other related rights to the SPV, which, in turn, obtains loans secured by the receivables from financial institutions (the “Lenders”). Amounts received from the Lenders, theThe pledged receivables and the corresponding debt are included in Accounts receivable, Accrued unbilled revenue, Other noncurrent assets, and Long-term debt, respectively, on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The aggregate principal amount of the loans made by the Lenders cannot exceed $1.0 billion outstanding at any time. The Receivables Securitization Program is scheduled to terminate on October 5, 2022, unless extended or earlier terminated.

The SPV is considered a VIE because its equity capitalization is insufficient to support its operations.activities. The most significant activities that impact the economic performance of the SPV are decisions made to manage receivables. The Utility is considered the primary beneficiary and consolidates the SPV as it makes these decisions. No additional financial support was provided to the SPV during the year ended December 31, 20202022 or is expected to be provided in the future that was not previously contractually required. As of December 31, 2020,2022 and 2021, the SPV has $2.6 billion ofhad net accounts receivable of $3.6 billion and has$3.3 billion, respectively, and outstanding borrowings of $1.0$1.2 billion and $974 million, respectively, under the Receivables Securitization Program. For more information, see Note 5 below.

AB 1054 Securitization

PG&E Recovery Funding LLC is a bankruptcy remote, limited liability company wholly owned by the Utility, and its assets are not available to creditors of PG&E Corporation or the Utility. Pursuant to the financing order for the first AB 1054 securitization transaction, the Utility sold its right to receive revenues from the non-bypassable wildfire hardening fixed recovery charge (“Recovery Property”) to PG&E Recovery Funding LLC, which, in turn, issued recovery bonds secured by the Recovery Property.

PG&E Recovery Funding LLC is considered a VIE because its equity capitalization is insufficient to support its operations. The most significant activities that impact the economic performance of PG&E Recovery Funding LLC are decisions made by the servicer of the Recovery Property. The Utility is considered the primary beneficiary and consolidates PG&E Recovery Funding LLC as it acts in this role as servicer. No additional financial support was provided to PG&E Recovery Funding LLC during 2022 or is expected to be provided in the future that was not previously contractually required. On November 12, 2021, PG&E Recovery Funding LLC issued approximately $860 million of senior secured recovery bonds. On November 30, 2022, PG&E Recovery Funding LLC issued approximately $983 million of Series 2022-A Senior Secured Recovery Bonds. As of December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, PG&E Recovery Funding LLC had outstanding borrowings of $1.8 billion and $860 million, respectively, included in Long-term debt and Long-term debt, classified as current on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. For more information, see Note 5 below.

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SB 901 Securitization

PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC is a bankruptcy remote, limited liability company wholly owned by the Utility, and its assets are not available to creditors of PG&E Corporation or the Utility. Pursuant to the financing order for the SB 901 securitization transaction, the Utility sold its right to receive revenues from the non-bypassable fixed recovery charge (“SB 901 Recovery Property”) to PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC, which, in turn, issued recovery bonds secured by the SB 901 Recovery Property.

PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC is considered a VIE because its equity capitalization is insufficient to support its operations. The most significant activities that impact the economic performance of PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC are decisions made by the servicer of the SB 901 Recovery Property. The Utility is considered the primary beneficiary and consolidates PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC as it acts in this role as servicer. No additional financial support was provided to PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC during 2022 or is expected to be provided in the future that was not previously contractually required. On May 10, 2022, PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC issued $3.6 billion aggregate principal amount of senior secured recovery bonds (the “Series 2022-A Recovery Bonds”). On July 20, 2022, PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC issued $3.9 billion aggregate principal amount of senior secured recovery bonds (the “Series 2022-B Recovery Bonds”). As of December 31, 2022, PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC had outstanding borrowings of $7.5 billion included in Long-term debt and Long-term debt, classified as current on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. For more information, see Note 6 below.

Non-Consolidated VIEs

Some of the counterparties to the Utility’s power purchase agreements are considered VIEs.  Each of these VIEs was designed to own a power plant that would generate electricity for sale to the Utility.  To determine whether the Utility was the primary beneficiary of any of these VIEs atas of December 31, 2020,2022, it assessed whether it absorbs any of the VIE’s expected losses or receives any portion of the VIE’s expected residual returns under the terms of the power purchase agreement, analyzed the variability in the VIE’s gross margin, and considered whether it had any decision-making rights associated with the activities that are most significant to the VIE’s performance, such as dispatch rights andor operating and maintenance activities.  The Utility’s financial obligation is limited to the amount the Utility pays for delivered electricity and capacity.  The Utility did not have any decision-making rights associated with any of the activities that are most significant to the economic performance of any of these VIEs.  Since the Utility was not the primary beneficiary of any of these VIEs atas of December 31, 2020,2022, it did not consolidate any of them.

Contributions to the Wildfire Fund Established Pursuant to AB 1054

On the Effective Date, PG&E Corporation and the Utility contributed, in accordance with AB 1054, an initial contribution of approximately $4.8 billion and first annual contribution of approximately $193 million to the Wildfire Fund to secure participation of the Utility therein. On December 30, 2020, the Utility made its second annual contribution of $193 million to the Wildfire Fund. As of December 31, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have eight remaining annual contributions of $193 million. PG&E Corporation and the Utility account for the contributions to the Wildfire Fund similarly to prepaid insurance with expense being allocatedby capitalizing an asset, amortizing to periods ratably based on an estimated period of coverage. The Wildfire Fund is available to paycoverage, and incrementally adjusting for eligible claims arisingaccelerated amortization as the level of July 12, 2019, the effective date of AB 1054, subject to a limit of 40% of the amount of such claims arising between the effective date of AB 1054 and the Utility’s emergence from Chapter 11. The 40% limit does not apply to eligible claims that arise after the Utility’s emergence from Chapter 11. The Wildfire Fund is additionally limited to the portion of such claims that exceeds the greater of (i) $1.0 billion in the aggregate in any year and (ii) the amount of insurance coverage required to be in place for the electric utility company pursuant to Section 3293 of the Public Utilities Code, added by AB 1054.

As of December 31, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded $193 million in Other current liabilities, $1.3 billion in Other non-current liabilities, $464 million in current assets - Wildfire fund asset, and $5.8 billion in non-current assets - Wildfire fund asset in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. As of December 31, 2020, the Utility recorded amortization and accretion expense of $413 million. The amortization of the asset, accretion of the liability, and if applicable, impairment of the asset is reflected in Wildfire fund expense in the Consolidated Statements of Income. Expected contributions are discounted to the present value using the 10-year US treasury rate at the date PG&E Corporation and the Utility satisfied all the eligibility requirements to participate in the Wildfire Fund. A useful life of 15 years is being used to amortize the Wildfire Fund asset.
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declines, as further described below. However, AB 1054 did not specify a period of coverage;coverage for the Wildfire Fund; therefore, this accounting treatment is subject to significant accounting judgments and estimates. Since the inception of the Wildfire Fund, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have estimated a period of coverage of 15 years. In estimating the period of coverage, PG&E Corporation and the Utility useused a Monte Carlo simulation that began with 12 yearsdataset of historical, publicly available fire-loss data from wildfires caused by electrical equipment and subsequently plan to add an additional yearcreate Monte Carlo simulations of data each following year.expected loss. The periodnumber of years of historic fire-loss data and the effectiveness of mitigation efforts by the California electric utility companies are significant assumptions used to estimate the useful life. These assumptions along with the other assumptions below create a high degree of uncertainty related to the estimated useful life of the Wildfire Fund. The simulation results in the estimated number and severity of catastrophic fires that could occur in California within the participating electric utilities’ service territories during the term of the Wildfire Fund. Starting with a 5-year period of historical data, with average annual statewide claims or settlements of approximately $6.5 billion, compared to approximately $2.9 billion for the 12-year historical data, would have decreased the amortization period to 6 years. Similarly, a 10% change to the assumption around current and future mitigation effort effectiveness would increase the amortization period to 17 years assuming greater effectiveness and would decrease the amortization period to 12 years assuming less effectiveness.

coverage. Other assumptions used to estimate the useful life include the estimated cost of wildfires caused by othercosts to settle wildfire claims for participating electric utilities including the amount at which wildfire claims would be settled,Utility, the likely adjudicationCPUC’s determinations of the CPUCwhether costs were just and reasonable in cases of electric utility-caused wildfires and amounts required to be reimbursed to the Wildfire Fund, the impacts of climate change, the levelamount of future insurance coverage held by the electric utilities, the FERC-allocable portion of loss recovery, and the future transmission and distribution equity rate base growth of otherparticipating electric utilities. Significant changes in anyThese assumptions create a high degree of these estimates could materially impactuncertainty for the amortization period.estimated useful life of the Wildfire Fund.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility evaluate and, where appropriate, update all assumptions quarterly, or upon claims being made from the Wildfire Fund for catastrophic wildfires, and the expected lifequarterly. Changes in any of the Wildfire Fund will be adjusted as required. The Wildfire Fund is available to other participating utilities in California andassumptions could materially impact the amountestimated period of claims that a participating utility incurs is not limited to their individual contribution amounts.coverage. PG&E Corporation and the Utility will assess the Wildfire Fund asset for impairmentacceleration of the amortization of the asset in the event that it is probable that a participating utility'sutility’s electrical equipment iswill be found to be the substantial cause of a catastrophic wildfire. TimingDuring the year ended December 31, 2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility updated assumptions related to the mitigation effectiveness and historical fire loss dataset to align with the risk modeling within the 2022 WMP. These updates did not change the estimated period of any such impairment could lag as the emergence of sufficient cause and claims information can take many quarters and could be limited to public disclosure of the participating electric utility, if ignition were to occur outside the Utility’s service territory. There were fires in the Utility’s and other participating utilities’ service territories in 2020 forcoverage, which the cause is currently unknown and which may in the future be determinedcontinues to be covered by15 years from the Wildfire Fund. At December 31, 2020, there were no such known events requiring a reductioninception of the Wildfire Fund asset nor have there been any claims or withdrawals by the participating utilities against the Wildfire Fund.

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As of December 31, 2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded $193 million in Other current liabilities, $935 million in Other non-current liabilities, $460 million in Current assets - Wildfire Fund asset, and $4.8 billion in Non-current assets - Wildfire Fund asset in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. During the year ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, the Utility recorded amortization and accretion expense of $477 million and $517 million, respectively. The amortization of the asset, accretion of the liability, and applicable acceleration of the amortization of the asset is reflected in Wildfire Fund expense in the Consolidated Statements of Income. As of December 31, 2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility had recorded $175 million in Other noncurrent assets for Wildfire Fund receivables related to the 2021 Dixie fire.

For more information, see “Wildfire Fund under AB 1054” in Note 15 below.

Other Accounting Policies

For other accounting policies impacting PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Consolidated Financial Statements, see “Income Taxes” in Note 9,10, “Derivatives” in Note 10,11, “Fair Value Measurements” in Note 11,12, and “Contingencies and Commitments” in Notes 1415 and 15 herein.16 below.

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In the second quarter of 2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility enacted a VSP, which provides separation benefits to approximately 470 eligible employees who voluntarily agreed to terminate their employment under the program. The VSP includes certain one-time cash payments and a credit to the employee’s retirement health savings account. PG&E Corporation and the Utility account for the VSP as a special termination benefit with any costs of the special separation benefits recorded upon each employee’s irrevocable acceptance. During the year ended December 31, 2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded $80 million in Operating and maintenance expense on the Consolidated Statements of Income related to one-time cash payments in connection with the VSP. In addition, during the year ended December 31, 2022, VSP-related credits to employee retirement health savings accounts totaled $22 million. This amount will be paid using the PG&E Corporation and Utility postretirement medical plan trusts’ assets and does not impact income.

Reporting of Amounts Reclassified Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income

The changes, net of income tax, in PG&E Corporation’s accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) for the year ended December 31, 20202022 consisted of the following:
(in millions, net of income tax)Pension
Benefits
Other
Benefits
Total
Beginning balance$(22)$17 $(5)
Other comprehensive income before reclassifications:
Unrecognized net actuarial gain (loss) (net of taxes of $162 and $66, respectively)(417)170 (247)
Regulatory account transfer (net of taxes of $155 and $66, respectively)400 (170)230 
Amounts reclassified from other comprehensive income:
Amortization of prior service cost (net of taxes of $2 and $4, respectively) (1)
(4)10 
Amortization of net actuarial (gain) loss (net of taxes of $1 and $6, respectively) (1)
(15)(13)
Regulatory account transfer (net of taxes of $1 and $2, respectively) (1)
Net current period other comprehensive loss(17)0 (17)
Ending balance$(39)$17 $(22)
(in millions, net of income tax)Pension
Benefits
Other
Benefits
Customer Credit TrustTotal
Beginning balance$(33)$18 $ $(15)
Other comprehensive income before reclassifications:
Loss on investments (net of taxes of $0, $0 and $3, respectively)— — (6)(6)
Unrecognized net actuarial gain (net of taxes of $102, $99 and $0, respectively)263 (255)— 
Regulatory account transfer (net of taxes of $94, $99 and $0, respectively)(242)255 — 13 
Amounts reclassified from other comprehensive income:
Amortization of prior service cost (net of taxes of $1, $2 and $0, respectively) (1)
(3)— 
Amortization of net actuarial (gain) loss (net of taxes of $1, $11 and $0, respectively) (1)
(29)— (28)
Regulatory account transfer (net of taxes of $0, $9 and $0, respectively) (1)
24 — 26 
Net current period other comprehensive income (loss)21  (6)15 
Ending balance$(12)$18 $(6)$ 
(1) These components are included in the computation of net periodic pension and other postretirement benefit costs.  (SeeSee Note12 13 below for additional details.) 

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The changes, net of income tax, in PG&E Corporation’s accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) for the year ended December 31, 20192021 consisted of the following:
(in millions, net of income tax)Pension
Benefits
Other
Benefits
Total
Beginning balance$(21)$17 $(4)
Other comprehensive income before reclassifications:
Unrecognized net actuarial loss (net of taxes of $24 and $88, respectively)61 227 288 
Regulatory account transfer (net of taxes of $24 and $88, respectively)(62)(227)(289)
Amounts reclassified from other comprehensive income:
Amortization of prior service cost (net of taxes of $2 and $4, respectively) (1)
(4)10 
Amortization of net actuarial loss (net of taxes of $1 and $1, respectively) (1)
(2)
Regulatory account transfer (net of taxes of $1 and $3, respectively) (1)
(8)(6)
Net current period other comprehensive loss(1)0 (1)
Ending balance$(22)$17 $(5)
(in millions, net of income tax)Pension
Benefits
Other
Benefits
Total
Beginning balance$(39)$17 $(22)
Other comprehensive income before reclassifications:
Unrecognized net actuarial gain (net of taxes of $391 and $53, respectively)1,007 137 1,144 
Regulatory account transfer (net of taxes of $390 and $53, respectively)(1,003)(136)(1,139)
Amounts reclassified from other comprehensive income:
Amortization of prior service cost (net of taxes of $2 and $4, respectively) (1)
(4)10 
Amortization of net actuarial (gain) loss (net of taxes of $2 and $9, respectively)(1)
(24)(20)
Regulatory account transfer (net of taxes of $1 and $5, respectively) (1)
14 16 
Net current period other comprehensive income6 1 7 
Ending balance$(33)$18 $(15)
(1) These components are included in the computation of net periodic pension and other postretirement benefit costs.  (SeeSee Note12 13 below for additional details.)

Recognition of Lease Assets and Liabilities

A lease exists when an arrangement allows the lessee to control the use of an identified asset for a stated period in exchange for payments. This determination is made at inception of the arrangement. All leases must be recognized as a ROU asset and a lease liability on the balance sheet of the lessee. The ROU asset reflects the lessee’s right to use the underlying asset for the lease term, and the lease liability reflects the obligation to make the lease payments. PG&E Corporation and the Utility have elected not to separate lease and non-lease components.

The Utility estimates the ROU assets and lease liabilities at net present value using its incremental secured borrowing rates unless the implicit discount rate in the leasing arrangement can be ascertained. The incremental secured borrowing rate is based on observed market data and other information available at the lease commencement date. The ROU assets and lease liabilities only include the fixed lease payments for arrangements with terms greater than 12 months. These amounts are presented within the supplemental disclosures of noncash activities on the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows. Renewal and termination options only impact the lease term if it is reasonably certain that they will be exercised. PG&E Corporation recognizes lease expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term. The Utility recognizes lease expense in conformity with ratemaking.

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Operating leases are included in operating lease ROU assets and current and noncurrent operating lease liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Financing leases are included in property, plant, and equipment, other current liabilities, and other noncurrent liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Financing leases were immaterial for the years ended December 31, 20202022 and 2019.2021.

For the years ended December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, the Utility made total cash payments, including fixed and variable, of $2.5$2.3 billion and $2.4 billion, respectively, for operating leases which are presented within operating activities on the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows. The fixed cash payments for the principal portion of the financing lease liabilities are immaterial and continue to be included within financing activities on the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows. Any variable lease payments for financing leases are included in operating activities on the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows.

The majority of the Utility’s ROU assets and lease liabilities relate to various power purchase agreements.agreements and the Oakland lease. These power purchase agreements primarily consist of generation plants leased to meet customer demand plus applicable reserve margins. Operating lease variable costs include amounts from renewable energy power purchase agreements where payments are based on certain contingent external factors such as wind, hydro, solar, biogas, and biomass power generation. See “Third-Party Power Purchase Agreements” in Note 1516 below.

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PG&E Corporation and the Utility have also recorded ROU assets and lease liabilities related to property and land arrangements. Property arrangements primarily consist of an office lease agreement for the Lakeside Building. On October 23, 2020, the Utility and BA2 300 Lakeside LLC (“Landlord”), a wholly owned subsidiary of TMG Bay Area Investments II, LLC, entered into an office lease agreement for approximately 910,000 rentable square feet of space within the Lakeside Building to serve as the Utility’s principal administrative headquarters (the “Lease”). In connection with the Lease, the Utility also issued to Landlord (i) an option payment letter of credit in the amount of $75 million, and (ii) a lease security letter of credit in the amount of $75 million.

The term of the Lease began on April 8, 2022. The Lease term will expire 34 years and 11 months after the commencement date, unless earlier terminated in accordance with the terms of the Lease. In addition to base rent, the Utility will be responsible for certain costs and charges specified in the Lease, including insurance costs, maintenance costs and taxes.

The Lease requires the Landlord to pursue approvals to subdivide the real estate it owns surrounding the Lakeside Building to create a separate legal parcel that contains the Lakeside Building (the “Property”) that can be sold to the Utility. The Lease grants to the Utility an option to purchase the Property, following such subdivision, at a price of $892 million, subject to certain adjustments (the “Purchase Price”). On February 6, 2023, the process of subdividing the real estate was completed. If the option is exercised pursuant to the terms of the existing agreement then the Purchase Price would be paid in or around July 2023.

The Lease also requires the rentable space to be delivered in two phases, with each phase consisting of multiple subphases. As of December 31, 2022, approximately 488,000 rentable square feet of the leased premises has been made available for use by the Utility. The Utility has recorded approximately $535 million in Operating lease right of use assets, approximately $214 million of leasehold improvements, which includes approximately $137 million that was provided to the Utility as lease incentives, and approximately $672 million in noncurrent Operating lease liabilities in the Consolidated Financial Statements related to the Lease.

In January 2023, approximately 110,000 of additional rentable square feet was made available for use by the Utility.

At December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, the Utility’s operating leases had a weighted average remaining lease term of 5.719.6 years and 5.96.04 years and a weighted average discount rate of 6.2%6.5% and 6.2%6.1%, respectively.

The following table shows the lease expense recognized for the fixed and variable component of the Utility’s lease obligations:
Year Ended December 31,
(in millions)20202019
Operating lease fixed cost$679 $686 
Operating lease variable cost1,852 1,778 
Total operating lease costs$2,531 $2,464 
Year Ended December 31,
(in millions)20222021
Operating lease fixed cost$500 $578 
Operating lease variable cost1,829 1,782 
Total operating lease costs$2,329 $2,360 

At December 31, 2020,2022, the Utility’s future expected operating lease payments were as follows:
(in millions)December 31, 2020
2021$624 
2022550 
2023257 
202498 
202591 
Thereafter513 
Total lease payments2,133 
Less imputed interest(397)
Total$1,736 
(in millions)December 31, 2022
2023$307 
2024150 
2025146 
2026143 
2027142 
Thereafter2,196 
Total lease payments3,084 
Less imputed interest(1,610)
Total$1,474 

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Recently Adopted Accounting Standards

Intangibles—Goodwill and Other

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-15, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other – Internal - Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Customer’s Accounting for Implementation Costs Incurred in a Cloud Computing Arrangement that is a Service Contract. PG&E Corporation and the Utility adopted the ASU on January 1, 2020. The adoption of this ASU did not have a material impact on the Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures.

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Financial Instruments—Credit Losses

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses On Financial Instruments, which provides a model, known as the current expected credit loss model, to estimate the expected lifetime credit loss on financial assets, including trade and other receivables, rather than incurred losses over the remaining life of most financial assets measured at amortized cost. The guidance also requires use of an allowance to record estimated credit losses on available-for-sale debt securities. PG&E Corporation and the Utility adopted the ASU on January 1, 2020.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility have three categories of financial assets in scope, each with their own associated credit risks. In applying the new guidance, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have incorporated forward-looking data in their estimate of credit loss as follows. Trade receivables are represented by customer accounts receivable and have credit exposure risk related to California unemployment rates. Insurance receivables are related to the liability insurance policies PG&E Corporation and the Utility carry. Insurance receivable risk is related to each insurance carrier’s risk of defaulting on their individual policies. Lastly, available-for-sale debt securities requires each company to determine if a decline in fair value is below amortized costs basis, or, impaired. Furthermore, if an impairment exists on available-for-sale debt securities, PG&E Corporation and the Utility will examine if there is an intent to sell, if it is more likely than not a requirement to sell prior to recovery, and if a portion of the unrealized loss is a result of credit loss. As of December 31, 2020, expected credit losses of $150 million were recorded in Operating and maintenance expense on the Consolidated Statements of Income for credit losses associated with trade and other receivables. Of these amounts recorded at December 31, 2020, $76 million and $10 million were deemed probable of recovery and deferred to the CPPMA and a FERC regulatory asset, respectively.

Reference Rate Reform

In March 2020, the FASB issued ASU No. 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting, which provides optional guidance for a limited period of time to ease the potential burden in accounting for (or recognizing the effects of) reference rate reform on financial reporting. PG&E Corporation and the Utility adopted this ASU on April 1, 2020 and elected the optional amendments for contract modifications prospectively. There was no material impact to PG&E Corporation’s or the Utility’s Consolidated Financial Statements resulting from the adoption of this ASU.

Defined Benefit Plans

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-14, Compensation - Retirement Benefits - Defined Benefit Plans - General (Subtopic 715-20): Disclosure Framework - Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Defined Benefit Plans, which amends the existing guidance relating to the disclosure requirements for defined benefit plans. PG&E Corporation and the Utility adopted the ASU as of December 31, 2020. The adoption of ASU 2018-14 resulted in elimination of the disclosures of (i) the amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income expected to be recognized as components of net periodic benefit cost over the next fiscal year and (ii) the effects of a one-percentage-point change in assumed health care cost trend rates on the (1) aggregate of the service and interest cost components of net periodic benefit costs and (2) benefit obligation for postretirement health care benefits. Additionally, the adoption of this ASU resulted in new disclosures of (i) the weighted-average interest crediting rates for cash balance plans and (ii) an explanation of the reasons for significant gains and losses related to changes in the benefit obligation for the period. These amendments have been applied on a retrospective basis to all periods presented. See Note 12 below for further discussion of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s defined benefit pension plans.

Accounting Standards Issued But Not Yet Adopted

Income Taxes

In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU No. 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes, which amends the existing guidance to reduce complexity relating to Income Tax disclosures. This ASU became effective for PG&E Corporation and the Utility on January 1, 2021 and will not have a material impact on the Consolidated Financial Statements and the related disclosures.

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Debt

In August 2020, the FASBFinancial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU No. 2020-06, Debt - Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20) and Derivatives and Hedging - Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40): Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity, which simplifies the accounting for certain financial instruments with characteristics of liabilities and equity, including convertible instruments and contracts onin an entity’s own equity. This ASU will be effective for PG&E Corporation and the Utility adopted this ASU on January 1, 2022, with early2022. There was no material impact on PG&E Corporation’s or the Utility’s Consolidated Financial Statements and the related disclosures resulting from the adoption permitted.of this ASU.

Reference Rate Reform

On April 1, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility are currently evaluatingadopted ASU No. 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Facilitation of the impactEffects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting and elected the optional amendments for contract modifications prospectively. In December 2022, the FASB issued ASU No. 2022-06, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Deferral of the Sunset Date of Topic 848, which defers the sunset date of Topic 848 from December 31, 2022 to December 31, 2024. PG&E Corporation and the Utility adopted this ASU in December 2022 and will apply the guidance will havethrough December 31, 2024. There was no material impact on theirPG&E Corporation’s or the Utility’s Consolidated Financial Statements and the related disclosures.disclosures resulting from the adoption of this ASU.

NOTE 4: REGULATORY ASSETS, LIABILITIES, AND BALANCING ACCOUNTS

Regulatory Assets

Long-term regulatory assets are comprised of the following:
 Balance at December 31,Recovery
Period
(in millions)20202019
Pension benefits (1)
$2,245 $1,823 Indefinitely
Environmental compliance costs1,112 1,062 32 years
Utility retained generation (2)
181 228 6 years
Price risk management204 124 19 years
Unamortized loss, net of gain, on reacquired debt49 63 23 years
Catastrophic event memorandum account (3)
842 656 1 - 3 years
Wildfire expense memorandum account (4)
400 423 1 - 3 years
Fire hazard prevention memorandum account (5)
137 259 1 - 3 years
Fire risk mitigation memorandum account (6)
66 95 1 - 3 years
Wildfire mitigation plan memorandum account (7)
390 558 1 - 3 years
Deferred income taxes (8)
908 252 51 years
Insurance premium costs (9)
294 1 - 4 years
Wildfire mitigation balancing account (10)
156 1 - 3 years
General rate case memorandum accounts (11)
376 1 - 2 years
Vegetation management balancing account (12)
592 1 - 3 years
COVID-19 pandemic protection memorandum accounts (13)
84 TBD years
Other942 523 Various
Total long-term regulatory assets$8,978 $6,066  
 Balance at December 31,Recovery
Period
(in millions)20222021
Pension benefits (1)
$120 $708 Indefinitely
Environmental compliance costs1,193 1,089 32 years
Utility retained generation (2)
86 133 4 years
Price risk management177 216 17 years
Catastrophic event memorandum account (3)
1,085 1,119 1 - 3 years
Wildfire expense memorandum account (4)
439 347 TBD years
Fire hazard prevention memorandum account (5)
79 75 1 - 3 years
Fire risk mitigation memorandum account (6)
65 44 1 - 3 years
Wildfire mitigation plan memorandum account (7)
756 424 1 - 3 years
Deferred income taxes (8)
2,730 1,849 51 years
Insurance premium costs (9)
99 207 2 - 4 years
Wildfire mitigation balancing account (10)
327 273 1 - 3 years
Vegetation management balancing account (11)
2,276 1,411 1 - 3 years
COVID-19 pandemic protection memorandum accounts (12)
26 49 TBD years
Microgrid memorandum account (13)
213 163 1 - 3 years
Financing costs (14)
211 175 Various
SB 901 securitization (15)
5,378 — 30 years
AROs in excess of recoveries (16)
120 — Various
Other1,063 925 Various
Total long-term regulatory assets$16,443 $9,207  
(1) Payments into the pension and other benefits plans are based on annual contribution requirements. As these annual requirements continue indefinitely into the future, the Utility expects to continuously recover pension benefits.
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(2) In connection with the settlement agreement entered into among PG&E Corporation, the Utility, and the CPUC in 2003 to resolve the Utility’s 2001 proceeding under Chapter 11, the CPUC authorized the Utility to recover $1.2 billion of costs related to the Utility’s retained generation assets.  The individual components of these regulatory assets are being amortized over the respective lives of the underlying generation facilities, consistent with the period over which the related revenues are recognized. 
(3)(3) Includes costs of responding to catastrophic events that have been declared a disaster or state of emergency by competent federal or state authorities. As of December 31, 2020,2022 and 2021, $44 million and $49 million in COVID-19 related costs waswere recorded to CEMA regulatory assets.assets, respectively. Recovery of CEMA costs is subject to CPUC review and approval.
(4) IncludesRepresents incremental wildfire liability insurance premium costsclaims and outside legal expenses related to the CPUC approved for tracking in June 2018 for2021 Dixie fire and the period July 26, 2017 through December 31, 2019.2022 Mosquito fire. Recovery of WEMA costs is subject to CPUC review and approval.
(5) Includes costs associated with the implementation of regulations and requirements adopted to protect the public from potential fire hazards associated with overhead power line facilities and nearby aerial communication facilities that have not been previously authorized in another proceeding. Recovery of FHPMA costs is subject to CPUC review and approval.
(6) Includes costs primarily associated with the 2019 WMP for the period January 1, 2019 through June 4, 2019.2019 and other incremental costs associated with fire risk mitigation. Recovery of FRMMA costs is subject to CPUC review and approval.
(7) Includes costs associated with the 2019 WMP for the period June 5, 2019 through December 31, 2019, and the 2020 WMP for the period of January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020.2020, the 2021 WMP for the period of January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021, and the 2022 WMP for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022. Recovery of WMPMA costs is subject to CPUC review and approval.
(8) Represents cumulative differences between amounts recognized for ratemaking purposes and expense recognized in accordance with GAAP.
(9) Represents non-current excess liability insurance premium costs recorded to RTBA and Adjustment Mechanismadjustment mechanism for Costs Determinedcosts determined in Other Proceedings,other proceedings, as authorized in the 2020 GRC and 2019 GT&S rate cases, respectively.
(10) Includes costs associated with certain wildfire mitigation activities for the period January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020. Long-term2022. Noncurrent balance represents costs above 115% of adopted revenue requirements, which are subject to CPUC review and approval.
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(11) The General Rate Case Memorandum Accounts record the difference between the gas and electric revenue requirements in effect on January 1, 2020 and through the date of the final 2020 GRC decision as authorized by the CPUC in December 2020. These amounts will be recovered in rates over 17 months, beginning March 1, 2021.
(12) The 2020 GRC Decision authorized the Utility to modify the existing one-way VMBA Expense Balancing Account to a two-way balancing account to track the difference between actual and adopted expenses resulting from its routineRepresents vegetation management and enhanced vegetation management activities previously recorded in the FRMMA/WMPMA, and tree mortality and fire risk reduction work previously recorded in CEMA. Recovery of VMBA costs above 120% of adopted revenue requirements, iswhich are subject to CPUC review and approval.
(13)(12) On April 16, 2020, the CPUC passed a resolution that established the CPPMA to recoverIncludes costs associated with customer protections, including higher uncollectible costs related to athe moratorium on electric and gas service disconnections program implementation costs, and higher accounts receivable financing costs for residential andthe period of March 4, 2020 to September 30, 2021. As of December 31, 2022, the Utility had recorded uncollectibles in the amount of $4 million for small business customers. The CPPMA applies only to residential and small business customers and was approved on July 27, 2020 with an effective date of March 4, 2020. As of December 31, 2020, the Utility had recorded an aggregate under-collection of $76 million, representing incremental bad debt expense over what was collected in rates for the period the CPPMA is in effect. The remaining $8$22 million is associated with program costs and higher accounts receivable financing costs. As of December 31, 2021, the Utility had recorded uncollectibles in the amount of $30 million for residential customers pending approval for recovery in the RUBA in addition to uncollectibles recorded for small business customers. The remaining $19 million is associated with program costs and higher accounts receivable financing costs. Recovery of CPPMA costs is subject to CPUC review and approval.
(13) Includes costs associated with temporary generation, infrastructure upgrades, and community grid enablement programs associated with the implementation of microgrids. Amounts incurred are subject to CPUC review and approval.
(14) Includes costs associated with long-term debt financing deemed recoverable under ASC 980 more than twelve months from the current date. These costs and their amortization period are reviewable and approved in the Utility’s cost of capital or other regulatory filings. Recovery periods vary because the balance consists of financing costs associated with debts that have different amortization periods depending on their maturity date.
(15) In connection with the SB 901 securitization, the CPUC authorized the issuance of one or more series of recovery bonds in connection with the post-emergence transaction to finance $7.5 billion of claims associated with the 2017 Northern California wildfires. The balance represents PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC’s right to recover $7.5 billion in wildfire claims costs associated with the 2017 Northern California wildfires, partially offset by the $2.0 billion in required upfront shareholder contributions to the customer credit trust, net of amortization since inception. The recovery bonds will be paid through fixed recovery charges, which are designed to recover the full scheduled principal amount of the recovery bonds along with any associated interest and financing costs. See Note 6 below.
(16) Represents the cumulative differences between ARO expenses and amounts collected in rates.  Decommissioning costs related to the Utility’s nuclear facilities are recovered through rates and are placed in nuclear decommissioning trusts.  This regulatory asset also represents the deferral of realized and unrealized gains and losses on these nuclear decommissioning trust investments.  See Note 12 below. Recovery periods for this balance vary because the different sites and assets to which the ARO expenses are attributable have different recovery periods.

In general, regulatory assets represent the cumulative differences between amounts recognized for ratemaking purposes and expense or accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) recognized in accordance with GAAP. Additionally, the Utility does not earn a return on regulatory assets if the related costs do not accrue interest. Accordingly, the Utility earns a return on its regulatory assets for retained generation, and regulatory assets for unamortized loss, net of gain, on reacquired debt.

Regulatory Liabilities

Current Regulatory Liabilities

At December 31, 2022 and 2021, the Utility had current regulatory liabilities of $1.12 billion and $698 million, respectively. At December 31, 2022, current regulatory liabilities consisted primarily of unrealized gains associated with the change in fair value of price risk management instruments that meet the definition of a derivative. An increase in natural gas prices has affected both the Utility’s gas and electric price risk management instruments, resulting in a deferral of $604 million. For more information, see Note 11 below. Current regulatory liabilities are included within current liabilities-other in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

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Long-Term Regulatory Liabilities

Long-term regulatory liabilities are comprised of the following:
 Balance at December 31,
(in millions)20202019
Cost of removal obligations (1)
$6,905 $6,456 
Recoveries in excess of AROs (2)
458 393 
Public purpose programs (3)
948 817 
Employee benefit plans (4)
995 750 
Other1,118 854 
Total long-term regulatory liabilities
$10,424 $9,270 
 Balance at December 31,
(in millions)20222021
Cost of removal obligations (1)
$7,773 $7,306 
Recoveries in excess of AROs (2)
— 388 
Public purpose programs (3)
1,062 946 
Employee benefit plans (4)
904 1,229 
Transmission tower wireless licenses (5)
430 446 
SFGO sale (6)
264 343 
SB 901 securitization (7)
5,800 — 
Other1,397 1,341 
Total long-term regulatory liabilities$17,630 $11,999 
(1) Represents the cumulative differences between the recorded costs to remove assets and amounts collected in rates for expected costs to remove assets.
(2) Represents the cumulative differences between ARO expenses and amounts collected in rates.  Decommissioning costs related to the Utility’s nuclear facilities are recovered through rates and are placedheld in nuclear decommissioning trusts.  This regulatory liability also represents the deferral of realized and unrealized gains and losses on these nuclear decommissioning trust investments.  (SeeSee Note 1112 below.)
(3) Represents amounts received from customers designated for public purpose program costs expected to be incurred beyond the next 12 months, primarily related to energy efficiency programs.
(4) Represents cumulative differences between incurred costs and amounts collected in rates for Post-Retirement Medical, Post-Retirement Lifepost-retirement medical, post-retirement life and Long-Term Disability Plans.long-term disability plans.
(5) Represents the portion of the net proceeds received from the sale of transmission tower wireless licenses that will be returned to customers. Of the $430 million, $300 million will be refunded to FERC-jurisdictional customers, and $130 million will be refunded to CPUC-jurisdictional customers.
(6) Represents the noncurrent portion of the net gain on the sale of the SFGO, which closed on September 17, 2021, that will be distributed to customers over a five-year period that began in 2022.
(7) In connection with the SB 901 securitization, the Utility is required to return up to $7.59 billion of certain shareholder tax benefits to customers via periodic bill credits over the life of the recovery bonds. The balance reflects qualifying shareholder tax benefits that PG&E Corporation is obligated to contribute to the customer credit trust, net of amortization since inception, and is expected to increase as additional qualifying amounts are recognized, including when the Fire Victim Trust sells additional shares. PG&E Corporation will continue to separately recognize tax benefits within income tax expense on the income statement. See Note 6 below.

Regulatory Balancing Accounts

The Utility tracks (1) differences between the Utility’s authorized revenue requirement and customer billings, and (2) differences between incurred costs and customer billings.  To the extent these differences are probable of recovery or refund over the next 12 months, the Utility records a current regulatory balancing account receivable or payable.  Regulatory balancing accounts that the Utility expects to collect or refund over a period exceeding 12 months are recorded as other noncurrent assets – regulatory assets or noncurrent liabilities – regulatory liabilities, respectively, in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.  These differences do not have an impact on net income.  Balancing accounts will fluctuate during the year based on seasonal electric and gas usage and the timing of when costs are incurred and customer revenues are collected.

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Current regulatory balancing accounts receivable and payable are comprised of the following:
Receivable
Balance at December 31,
(in millions)20202019
Electric transmission$$
Gas distribution and transmission102 363 
Energy procurement413 901 
Public purpose programs292 209 
Fire hazard prevention memorandum account121 
Fire risk mitigation memorandum account33 
Wildfire mitigation plan memorandum account161 
Wildfire mitigation balancing account27 
General rate case memorandum accounts313 
Vegetation management balancing account115 
Insurance premium costs135 
Other289 632 
Total regulatory balancing accounts receivable$2,001 $2,114 
Receivable
Balance at December 31,
(in millions)20222021
Electric distribution (1)
$448 $— 
Gas distribution and transmission (2)
72 — 
Energy procurement (3)
684 310 
Public purpose programs (4)
358 321 
Fire hazard prevention memorandum account (5)
— 50 
Fire risk mitigation memorandum account (6)
— 14 
Wildfire mitigation plan memorandum account (7)
— 67 
Wildfire mitigation balancing account (8)
91 
General rate case memorandum accounts (9)
468 
Vegetation management balancing account (10)
137 127 
Insurance premium costs (11)
602 605 
Wildfire expense memorandum account (12)
— 440 
Residential uncollectibles balancing accounts (13)
126 127 
Catastrophic event memorandum account144 — 
Other688 379 
Total regulatory balancing accounts receivable$3,264 $2,999 

Payable
Balance at December 31,
Payable
Balance at December 31,
(in millions)(in millions)20202019(in millions)20222021
Electric distribution(1)Electric distribution(1)$55 $31 Electric distribution(1)$— $121 
Electric transmission267 119 
Gas distribution and transmission76 45 
Energy procurement158 649 
Public purpose programs410 559 
Electric transmission (14)
Electric transmission (14)
228 24 
Gas distribution and transmission (2)
Gas distribution and transmission (2)
66 83 
Energy procurement (3)
Energy procurement (3)
428 211 
Public purpose programs (4)
Public purpose programs (4)
272 259 
Nuclear decommissioning adjustment mechanism (15)
Nuclear decommissioning adjustment mechanism (15)
137 
SFGO saleSFGO sale152 21 
OtherOther279 394 Other504 265 
Total regulatory balancing accounts payableTotal regulatory balancing accounts payable$1,245 $1,797 Total regulatory balancing accounts payable$1,658 $1,121 

(1)
The electric distribution and utility generation accounts track the collection of revenue requirements approved in the GRC. The electric transmission accounts track recovery of costs related to the transmission of electricity approved in the FERC TO rate cases. GRC and other proceedings.
(2) The gas distribution and transmission accounts track the collection of revenue requirements approved in the GRC and the GT&S rate case.  case and other proceedings. 
(3) Energy procurement balancing accounts track recovery of costs related to the procurement of electricity and other revenue requirements approved by the CPUC for recovery in procurement-related balancing accounts, including any environmental compliance-related activities.
(4) The Public purpose programs balancing accounts are primarily used to record and recover authorized revenue requirements for commission-mandatedCPUC-mandated programs such as energy efficiency.
(5) The FHPMA tracks costs thatassociated with the implementation of regulations and requirements adopted to protect the public from potential fire hazards. The FRMMA and WMPMA balances track costs that are recoverable within 12 months as requested inInterim rate relief associated with the 2020 WMCE application. application ceased in May 2022, fully exhausting the current balance of the memorandum accounts.
(6) The FRMMA tracks costs associated with the 2019 WMP for the period January 1, 2019 through June 4, 2019 and other incremental costs associated with fire risk mitigation. Interim rate relief associated with the 2020 WMCE application ceased in May 2022, fully exhausting the current balance of the memorandum accounts.
(7) The WMPMA tracks costs associated with the 2019 WMP for the period June 5, 2019 through December 31, 2019. Interim rate relief associated with the 2020 WMCE application ceased in May 2022, fully exhausting the current balance of the memorandum accounts.
(8) The WMBA tracks costs associated with wildfire mitigation revenue requirement activities. activities approved for cost recovery.
(9) The general rate caseGRC memorandum accounts track the difference between the revenue requirements in effect on January 1, 20202021 and the revenue requirements authorized by the CPUC in the final decision for the 2020 GRC Decision in December 2020. GRC.
(10) The VMBA tracks routine and enhanced vegetation management activities. activities approved for cost recovery.
(11) The insurance premium costs track the current portion of incremental excess liability insurance costs recorded to RTBA and adjustment mechanism for costs determined in other proceedings, as authorized in the 2020 GRC and 2019 GT&S rate cases, respectively. In addition to insurance premium costs recorded in Regulatory balancing accounts receivable and in Long-term regulatory assets above, at December 31, 2020,2022, and 2021 there was $93were $48 million and $82 million, respectively, in insurance premium costs recorded in Current regulatory assets.
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(12) The WEMA balancing accounts track insurance premium costs paid by the Utility between July 26, 2017 through December 31, 2019 that are incremental to those authorized in the 2017 GRC. On October 21, 2021, the CPUC adopted a final decision approving a settlement agreement among the Utility and other active parties that authorized the Utility to recover $445.5 million over a 12-month period beginning January 1, 2022.
(13) The RUBA tracks costs associated with customer protections, including higher uncollectible costs related to a moratorium on electric and gas service disconnections for residential customers.
(14) The electric transmission accounts track recovery of costs related to the transmission of electricity approved in the FERC TO rate cases.
(15) The nuclear decommissioning adjustment mechanism tracks costs primarily related to the closure of the Diablo Canyon power plant.

NOTE 5: DEBT

Debtor-In-Possession Facilities

In connection with the Chapter 11 Cases, PG&E Corporation and the Utility entered into the DIP Credit Agreement, among the Utility, as borrower, PG&E Corporation, as guarantor, JPM, as administrative agent, Citibank, N.A., as collateral agent, and the lenders and issuing banks party thereto.

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On July 1, 2020, the DIP Facilities were repaid in full and all commitments thereunder were terminated in connection with emergence from Chapter 11.

Credit Facilities

The following table summarizes PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s outstanding borrowings and availability under their credit facilities at December 31, 2020:
(in millions)Termination
Date
Facility LimitBorrowings OutstandingLetters of Credit OutstandingFacility
Availability
Utility revolving credit facilityJuly 2023$3,500 (1)$605 $1,020 $1,875 
Utility term loan credit facility
Various(2)
3,000 3,000 
Utility receivables securitization programOctober 20221,000 1,000 
PG&E Corporation revolving credit facilityJuly 2023500 500 
Total credit facilities$8,000 $4,605 $1,020 $2,375 
2022:
(in millions)Termination
Date
Maximum Facility LimitLoans OutstandingLetters of Credit OutstandingFacility
Availability
Utility revolving credit facilityJune 2027$4,400 (1)$(1,930)$(998)$1,472 
Utility receivables securitization program (2)
September 20241,389 (3)(1,184)— 205 (3)
PG&E Corporation revolving credit facilityJune 2025500 — — 500 
Total credit facilities$6,289 $(3,114)$(998)$2,177 
(1)On October 4, 2022, the Utility further amended the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement to, among other things, (i) increase the aggregate commitments provided by the lenders to $4.4 billion and (ii) extend the maturity date of such agreement to June 22, 2027 (subject to a one-year extension at the option of the Utility). Includes a $1.5 billion letter of credit sublimit.
(2) This includes aFor more information on the Receivables Securitization Program, see “Variable Interest Entities” in Note 3 above.
(3) The amount the Utility may borrow under the Receivables Securitization Program is limited to the lesser of the facility limit and the facility availability. The facility limit fluctuates between $1.0 billion and $1.5 billion term loan creditdepending on the time period. Further, the facility with a maturity dateavailability may vary based on the amount of June 30, 2021accounts receivable that the Utility owns that are eligible for sale to the SPV and a $1.5 billion term loan credit facility with a maturity datethe portion of January 1, 2022.those accounts receivable that are sold to the SPV that are eligible for advances by the lenders under the Receivables Securitization Program.

Utility

Utility Revolving Credit Facility

On July 1, 2020, the Utility entered into a $3.5 billion revolving credit agreement (the “Utility Revolving Credit Agreement”) with JPM,JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and Citibank, N.A. as co-administrative agents, and Citibank, N.A., as designated agent. The Utility Revolving Credit Agreement has ahad an initial maturity date three years after the Effective Date,of July 1, 2023, subject to 2 one-yeartwo one-year extensions options.at the option of the Utility.

Borrowings underOn June 22, 2021, the Utility amended the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement to, among other things, (i) increase the aggregate commitments provided by the lenders thereunder to $4.0 billion, (ii) extend the maturity date of such agreement to June 22, 2026 (subject to two one-year extensions at the option of the Utility), and (iii) provide for reduced interest rates and commitment fee rates based on the credit rating of the Utility.

On March 31, 2022, the Utility prepaid in full the remaining portion of the 18-month tranche loans pursuant to an existing term loan credit agreement (the “2020 Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement”), in a principal amount equal to $298 million. As a result of such prepayment, the 2020 Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement was terminated and is no longer outstanding.

On April 4, 2022, the Utility entered into a term loan credit agreement (the “2022A Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement”), comprised of 364-day tranche loans in the aggregate principal amount of $500 million (the “364-Day 2022A Tranche Loans”). On July 21, 2022, the 364-Day 2022A Tranche Loans were prepaid in full with a portion of the proceeds from issuance of the Series 2022-B Recovery Bonds. As a result of such prepayment, the 2022A Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement was terminated and is no longer outstanding.

On April 20, 2022, the Utility entered into a term loan credit agreement (the “2022B Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement”), comprised of 364-day tranche loans in the aggregate principal amount of $125 million (the “364-Day 2022B Tranche Loans”) and two-year tranche loans in the aggregate principal amount of $400 million (the “2-Year 2022B Tranche Loans”). The 364-Day 2022B Tranche Loans have a maturity date of April 19, 2023 and the 2-Year 2022B Tranche Loans have a maturity date of April 19, 2024. The 364-Day 2022B Tranche Loans and the 2-Year 2022B Tranche Loans bear interest based on the Utility’s election of either (1) LIBORthe Term Secured Overnight Financing Rate (plus a 0.10% credit spread adjustment) plus an applicable margin of 1.375% to 2.50% based on the Utility’s credit rating1.25%, or (2) the base rate plus an applicable margin of 0.375% to 1.50% based on the Utility’s credit rating. In addition to interest on outstanding principal under the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement, the Utility is required to pay a commitment fee to the lenders in respect of the unutilized commitments thereunder, ranging from 0.25% to 0.50% per annum depending on the Utility’s credit rating. The Utility Revolving Credit Agreement has a maximum letter of credit sublimit equal to $1.5 billion. The Utility may also pay customary letter of credit fees based on letters of credit issued under the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement.

The Utility’s obligations under the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement are secured by the issuance of a first mortgage bond, issued pursuant to the Utility’s mortgage indenture, secured by a first lien on substantially all of the Utility’s real property and certain tangible personal property related to its facilities, subject to certain exceptions, and which rank pari passu with the Utility’s other first mortgage bonds.

The Utility Revolving Credit Agreement includes usual and customary provisions for revolving credit agreements of this type, including covenants limiting, with certain exceptions, (1) liens, (2) indebtedness, (3) sale and leaseback transactions, and (4) fundamental changes. In addition, the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement requires that the Utility maintain a ratio of total consolidated debt to consolidated capitalization of no greater than 65% as of the end of each fiscal quarter. As of December 31, 2020, the Utility was in compliance with this covenant.

In the event of a default by the Utility under the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement, including cross-defaults relating to specified other debt of the Utility or any of its significant subsidiaries in excess of $200 million, the designated agent may, with the consent of the required lenders (or shall upon the request of the required lenders), declare the amounts outstanding under the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement, including all accrued interest, payable immediately. For events of default relating to insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, the amounts outstanding under the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement become payable immediately.

The Utility may voluntarily repay outstanding loans under the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement at any time without premium or penalty, other than customary “breakage” costs with respect to eurodollar rate loans. Any voluntary prepayments made by the Utility will not reduce the commitments under the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement.

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Utility Term Loan Credit Facility

On July 1, 2020, the Utility obtained a $3.0 billion secured term loan under a term loan credit agreement (the “Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement”) with JPM, as administrative agent. The credit facilities under the Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement consist of a $1.5 billion 364-day term loan facility (the “Utility 364-Day Term Loan Facility”) and a $1.5 billion 18-month term loan facility (the “Utility 18-Month Term Loan Facility”). The maturity date for the 364-Day Term Loan Facility is June 30, 2021 and the maturity date for the Utility 18-Month Term Loan Facility is January 1, 2022. The Utility borrowed the entire amount of the Utility 364-Day Term Loan Facility2022B Tranche Loans and the Utility 18-Month Term Loan Facility2-Year 2022B Tranche Loans on July 1, 2020. The proceeds were used to fund, in part, transactions contemplated under the Plan.

Borrowings under the Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement bear interest based on the Utility’s election of either (1) LIBOR plus an applicable margin of 2.00% with respect to the Utility 364-Day Term Loan Facility and 2.25% with respect to the Utility 18-Month Term Loan Facility, or (2) the base rate plus an applicable margin of 1.00% with respect to the Utility 364-Day Term Loan Facility and 1.25% with respect to the Utility 18-Month Term Loan Facility.

The Utility’s obligations under the Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement are secured by the issuance of first mortgage bonds, issued pursuant to the Utility’s mortgage indenture, secured by a first lien on substantially all of the Utility’s real property and certain tangible personal property related to its facilities, subject to certain exceptions, and which rank pari passu with the Utility’s other first mortgage bonds.

The Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement includes usual and customary provisions for term loan agreements of this type, including covenants limiting, with certain exceptions, (1) liens, (2) indebtedness, (3) sale and leaseback transactions, (4) fundamental changes, (5) entering into swap agreements and (6) modifications to the Utility’s mortgage indenture. In addition, the Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement requires that the Utility maintain a ratio of total consolidated debt to consolidated capitalization of no greater than 65% as of the end of each fiscal quarter. As of December 31, 2020, the Utility was in compliance with this covenant.

In the event of a default by the Utility under the Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement, including cross-defaults relating to specified other debt of the Utility or any of its significant subsidiaries in excess of $200 million, the administrative agent may, with the consent of the required lenders (or upon the request of the required lenders, shall), declare the amounts outstanding under the Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement, including all accrued interest, payable immediately. For events of default relating to insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, the amounts outstanding under the Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement become payable immediately.

The Utility is required to prepay outstanding term loans under the Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement (with all outstanding term loans made under the Utility 364-Day Term Loan Facility being paid first), subject to certain exceptions, with 100% of the net cash proceeds of certain securitization transactions. The Utility may voluntarily repay outstanding loans under the Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement at any time without premium or penalty, other than customary “breakage” costs with respect to eurodollar rate loans.

Receivables Securitization Program

On October 5, 2020, the Utility, in its individual capacity and in its capacity as initial servicer, entered into an accounts receivable securitization program (the “Receivables Securitization Program”), providing for the sale of a portion of the Utility's accounts receivable to the SPV, a limited liability company wholly owned by the Utility. Pursuant to the Receivables Securitization Program, the Utility sells certain of its receivables and certain related rights to payment and obligations of the Utility with respect to such receivables and certain other related rights to the SPV, which, in turn, obtains loans secured by the receivables from financial institutions (the “Lenders”). The Utility has pledged to the Lenders 100% of the equity interests in the SPV as security for the repayment of the loans. The aggregate principal amount of the loans made by the Lenders cannot exceed $1.0 billion outstanding at any time.

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On April 20, 2022, the Utility entered into an amendment to the Receivables Securitization Program bear interest based on a spread over LIBOR dependent on the tranche period thereto and any breakage fees accrued. The receivables financing agreement contains customary LIBOR benchmark replacement language giving the administrative agent, with consent fromto, among other things, add an uncommitted incremental facility which, subject to certain conditions precedent, allows the SPV asto request an increase in the facility limit by an additional $500 million to an aggregate amount of $1.5 billion. On August 12, 2022, the SPV made such a request to increase the facility limit, and the facility limit was subsequently increased to $1.5 billion on August 22, 2022. On September 30, 2022, the Utility entered into an amendment to the successor rate, the right to determine such successor rate.  The Receivables Securitization Program contains certain customary representationsto, among other things, (i) extend the scheduled termination date to September 30, 2024 and warranties and affirmative and negative covenants, including as(ii) implement a seasonal facility limit. After giving effect to the eligibility ofamendment, the receivables being sold byfacility limit fluctuates between $1.0 billion and $1.5 billion based on the Utility and securingperiods set forth in the loans made by the Lenders, as well as customary reserve requirements, Receivables Securitization Program termination events, and servicer defaults. The Receivables Securitization Program termination events permit the Lenders to terminate the agreement upon the occurrence of certain specified events, including failure by the SPV to pay amounts when due, certain defaults on indebtedness under the Utility’s credit facility, certain judgments, a change of control, certain events negatively affecting the overall credit quality of transferred receivables and bankruptcy and insolvency events.amendment.

The Receivables Securitization Program is scheduled to terminate onOn October 5,4, 2022, unless extended or earlier terminated, at which time no further advances will be available and the obligations thereunder must be repaid in full no later than (i) the date that is 180 days following such date or (ii) such earlier date on which the loans under the program become due and payable.

In general, the proceeds from the sale of the accounts receivable are used by the SPV to pay the purchase price for accounts receivables it acquires from the Utility and may be used to fund capital expenditures, repay borrowings onfurther amended the Utility Revolving Credit Facility, satisfy maturing debt obligations, as well as fund working capital needsAgreement to, among other things, (i) increase the aggregate commitments provided by the lenders to $4.4 billion and other approved uses.

Although(ii) extend the SPV ismaturity date of such agreement to June 22, 2027 (subject to a wholly owned consolidated subsidiaryone-year extension at the option of the Utility, the SPV is legally separate from the Utility. The assets of the SPV (including the accounts receivables) are not available to creditors of the Utility or PG&E Corporation, and the accounts receivables are not legally assets of the Utility or PG&E Corporation. The Receivables Securitization Program is accounted for as a secured financing. The pledged receivables and the corresponding debt are included in Accounts receivable and Long-term debt, respectively, on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

At December 31, 2020 the Utility had outstanding borrowings of $1.0 billion under the Receivables Securitization Program.Utility).

PG&E Corporation

On July 1, 2020, PG&E Corporation entered into a $500 million revolving credit agreement (the “Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement”) with JPM, as administrative agent and collateral agent.. The Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement hashad a maturity date three years after the Effective Date, subjectof July 1, 2023, (subject to 2 one-yeartwo one-year extensions at the option of PG&E Corporation. TheCorporation). Any future proceeds from the loans under the Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement will be used to finance working capital needs, capital expenditures and other general corporate purposes of PG&E Corporation and its subsidiaries.

Borrowings underOn June 22, 2021, PG&E Corporation amended the Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement bearto, among other things, (i) extend the maturity date of such agreement to June 22, 2024 (subject to two one-year extensions at the option of PG&E Corporation) and (ii) modify both the interest based onrate pricing grid and commitment fee pricing grid.

On October 4, 2022, PG&E Corporation’s election of either (1) LIBOR plus an applicable margin of 3.00% to 4.25% based on PG&E Corporation’s credit rating or (2) the base rate plus an applicable margin of 2.00% to 3.25% based on PG&E Corporation’s credit rating. In addition to interest on outstanding principal underCorporation further amended the Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement to, among other things, extend the maturity date of such agreement to June 22, 2025 (subject to a one-year extension at the option of PG&E Corporation is required to pay a commitment fee to the lenders in respect of the unutilized commitments thereunder, ranging from 0.50% to 0.75% per annum depending on PG&E Corporation’s credit rating.Corporation).

PG&E Corporation’s obligations under the Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement are secured by a pledge of PG&E Corporation’s ownership interest in 100% of the shares of common stock of the Utility.Intercompany Note Payable

On August 11, 2021, PG&E Corporation borrowed $145 million from the Utility under an interest bearing 364-day intercompany note due August 10, 2022. On June 17, 2022, this loan was repaid in full.

AB 1054

AB 1054 provides that certain capital expenditures may be financed using a structure that securitizes a dedicated customer charge. On March 11, 2022, the Utility filed an application with the CPUC seeking authorization for a second transaction to securitize up to $1.7 billion of fire risk mitigation capital expenditure amounts that have been or would be incurred by the Utility from 2019 through 2022. The Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement includes usual$1.7 billion reflected $212 million recorded and customary provisions for revolving credit agreements of this type, including covenants limiting, with certain exceptions, (1) liens, (2) indebtedness, (3) sale and leaseback transactions, (4) investments, (5) dispositions, (6) changes$1.16 billion forecasted capital expenditure amounts that were approved by the CPUC in the nature2020 GRC and up to $350 million capital expenditure amounts pending in the 2020 WMCE proceeding. On May 4, 2022, the $350 million of business, (7) transactions with affiliates, (8) burdensome agreements, (9) restricted payments, (10) fundamental changes, (11) use of proceeds, (12) entering into swap agreements and (13)capital expenditure amounts were removed because the ability to dispose of common stock ofCPUC extended the Utility. In addition,schedule in the Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement requires2020 WMCE proceeding such that PG&E Corporation (1) maintain a ratio of total consolidated debt to consolidated capitalization offinal decision approving such capital expenditure amounts in that proceeding was no greater than 70% as of the end of each fiscal quarter and (2) if revolving loans are outstanding as of the end of a fiscal quarter, a ratio of adjusted cash to fixed charges, as of the end of such fiscal quarter, of at least 150%longer expected prior to the date that PG&E Corporation first declaresissuance of a cash dividendfinancing order authorizing the second AB 1054 securitization transaction.  The final amount to be securitized would be based on its common stock and at least 100% thereafter.actual recorded capital expenditures incurred by the Utility prior to the securitization transaction.

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InOn August 5, 2022, the eventCPUC issued a final decision approving the securitization of a default byup to approximately $1.4 billion of fire risk mitigation capital expenditures, which was the amount requested in the application less the $350 million pending in the 2020 WMCE proceeding. The Utility securitized $975 million of these expenditures in 2022 and plans to securitize remaining expenditures in subsequent periods. On November 30, 2022, PG&E Corporation under the Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement, including cross-defaults relating to specified other debtRecovery Funding LLC issued approximately $983 million of PG&E Corporation or anySeries 2022-A Senior Secured Recovery Bonds. The senior secured recovery bonds were issued in three tranches: (1) approximately $215 million with an interest rate of its significant subsidiaries in excess of5.045% due July 15, 2034, (2) approximately $200 million with an interest rate of 5.256% due January 15, 2040, and (3) approximately $568 million with an interest rate of 5.536% due July 15, 2049. The payment dates for the administrative agent may,Series 2022-A Senior Secured Recovery Bonds are January 15 and July 15 of each year, commencing on July 15, 2023 and continuing until the final maturity date. PG&E Recovery Funding LLC and the Utility entered into certain agreements in connection with the consentissuance of the required lenders (or uponSeries 2022-A Senior Secured Recovery Bonds, including (1) the request of the required lenders, shall), declare the amounts outstanding under the Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement, including all accrued interest, payable immediately. For events of default relating to insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, the amounts outstanding under the Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement become payable immediately.

PG&E Corporation may voluntarily repay outstanding loans under the Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement at any time without premium or penalty, other than customary “breakage” costs with respect to eurodollar rate loans. Any voluntary repayments made by PG&E Corporation will not reduce the commitments under the Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement.

On the Effective Date, PG&E Corporation repaidRecovery Property Purchase and terminated $300 million of outstanding borrowings under the Second Amended and Restated CreditSale Agreement, dated as of April 27, 2015, among PG&E Corporation,November 30, 2022 (“the Sale Agreement”), (2) the Recovery Property Servicing Agreement, dated as borrower,of November 30, 2022 (the “Servicing Agreement”), and the several lenders party thereto and BankAdministration Agreement, dated as of America, N.A., as administrative agent.November 30, 2022 (the “Administration Agreement”).

Other Short-term Borrowings

On November 16, 2020,Pursuant to the agreements described above, the Utility completedsells rights and interests in the saleRecovery Property (as defined in the Amended Articles) created pursuant to the Wildfire Financing Law and the Financing Order (as defined in the Amended Articles) to PG&E Recovery Funding LLC; the Utility carries out the functions pursuant to the Servicing Agreement to determine the Fixed Recovery Charges (as defined in the Amended Articles); and the Utility provides corporate management services to PG&E Recovery Funding LLC pursuant to the Administration Agreement. The Utility used the proceeds of $1.45 billion aggregate principal amount of floating rate first mortgage bonds due November 15, 2021. Proceeds from the sale of the mortgage bonds were used for general corporate purposes, includingRecovery Property in accordance with the repayment of borrowings outstanding underWildfire Financing Law and the Receivables Securitization Program and borrowings outstanding under the Utility Revolving Credit Facility.Financing Order.

For more information on PG&E Recovery Funding LLC, see “Variable Interest Entities” in Note 3 above.

Long-Term Debt Issuances and Redemptions

Utility

On June 19, 2020,February 18, 2022, the Utility completed the sale of (i) $500$1 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.25% First Mortgage Bonds due 2024, (ii) $400 million aggregate principal amount of Floating Rate4.20% First Mortgage Bonds due 2029, (iii) $450 million aggregate principal amount of 4.40% First Mortgage Bonds due 2032 and (iv) $550 million aggregate principal amount of 5.25% First Mortgage Bonds due 2052. The proceeds were used for the prepayment of a portion of the 18-month tranche loans pursuant to the 2020 Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement, in an amount equal to $1.0 billion, and for general corporate purposes.

On June 8, 2022, the Utility issued $450 million aggregate principal amount of 4.950% First Mortgage Bonds due June 16, 2022, (ii) $2.5 billion8, 2025, $450 million aggregate principal amount of 1.75%5.450% First Mortgage Bonds due June 16, 2022, (iii) $1.0 billion15, 2027, and $600 million aggregate principal amount of 2.10%5.90% First Mortgage Bonds due August 1, 2027, (iv) $2.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.50% First Mortgage Bonds due February 1, 2031, (v) $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.30% First Mortgage Bonds due August 1, 2040, and (vi) $1.925 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.50% First Mortgage Bonds due August 1, 2050 (collectively, the “Mortgage Bonds”).June 15, 2032. The proceeds were used for the repayment of borrowings outstanding under the Mortgage Bonds were deposited into an account at The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Escrow Agent, which proceeds were held by the Escrow Agent as collateralUtility’s revolving credit facility pursuant to an escrow agreement by and between the Escrow Agent and the Utility. On July 1, 2020, the net proceeds were released from escrow and, together with the net proceeds from certain other Plan financing transactions, were used to effectuate the reorganization of the Utility and PG&E Corporation in accordance with the terms and conditions contained in the Plan.Revolving Credit Agreement.

On the Effective Date, pursuant to the Plan,January 6, 2023, the Utility issued approximately $11.9 billion of its first mortgage bonds (the “New Mortgage Bonds”) in satisfaction of certain of its pre-petition senior unsecured debt, as described in the table below.

On the Effective Date, pursuant to the Plan, the Utility reinstated approximately $9.6 billion aggregate principal amount of the Utility Reinstated Senior Notes. On the Effective Date, each series of the Utility Reinstated Senior Notes was collateralized by the Utility’s delivery of a first mortgage bond in a corresponding principal amount to the applicable trustee for the benefit of the holders of the Utility Reinstated Senior Notes.

The Mortgage Bonds, the New Mortgage Bonds and the Utility Reinstated Senior Notes are secured by a first priority lien, subject to permitted liens, on substantially all of the Utility’s real property and certain tangible property related to its facilities. The Mortgage Bonds, the New Mortgage Bonds and the Utility Reinstated Senior Notes are the Utility’s senior obligations and rank equally in right of payment with the Utility’s other existing or future first mortgage bonds issued under the Utility’s mortgage indenture.

On the Effective Date, by operation of the Plan, all outstanding obligations under the Utility Short-Term Senior Notes, the Utility Long-Term Senior Notes and the Utility Funded Debt were cancelled and the applicable agreements governing such obligations were terminated.

In addition, on July 1, 2020, the Utility obtained a $1.5 billion 18-month secured term loan under the Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement. For more information, see “Credit Facilities” discussion above.

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PG&E Corporation

On June 23, 2020, PG&E Corporation obtained a $2.75 billion secured term loan (the “PG&E Corporation Term Loan”) under a term loan credit agreement (the “Term Loan Agreement”) with JPM, and other lenders from time to time party thereto (collectively, the “Lenders”), JPM, as Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent. The proceeds of the PG&E Corporation Term Loan were deposited into an account at The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Escrow Agent, which proceeds were held by the Escrow Agent as collateral pursuant to an escrow agreement by and among the Collateral Agent, the Escrow Agent, the Administrative Agent and PG&E Corporation and subsequently released from escrow on the Effective Date pursuant to the Plan.

On February 1, 2021, PG&E Corporation entered into a repricing amendment (the “Repricing Amendment”) with the lenders under the Term Loan Credit Agreement pursuant to which, among other things, the applicable interest rate was reduced.

In accordance with the Term Loan Agreement, PG&E Corporation is required to repay the principal amount outstanding on the PG&E Corporation Term Loan in an amount equal to $6.875 million on the last business day of each quarter. The PG&E Corporation Term Loan matures on June 23, 2025, unless extended by PG&E Corporation pursuant to the terms of the Term Loan Agreement. The PG&E Corporation Term Loan bears interest based, at PG&E Corporation’s election, on (1) LIBOR plus an applicable margin or (2) ABR plus an applicable margin. The original LIBOR floor was 1.0% but was reduced to 0.5% on February 1, 2021 in connection with the Repricing Amendment. The original ABR floor was 2.0% but was similarly reduced to 1.5% on February 1, 2021 in connection with the Repricing Amendment. ABR will equal the highest of the following: the prime rate, 0.5% above the overnight federal funds rate, and the one-month LIBOR plus 1.0%. The applicable margin for LIBOR loans is 3.0% (reduced from 4.5% on February 1, 2021 in connection with the Repricing Amendment) and the applicable margin for ABR loans is 2.0% (reduced from 3.5% on February 1, 2021 in connection with the Repricing Amendment). PG&E Corporation may prepay the PG&E Corporation Term Loan in whole, at any time, and in part, from time to time, without premium or penalty, other than customary “breakage” costs with respect to eurodollar rate loans; provided, however, that any voluntary prepayment, refinancing or repricing of the PG&E Corporation Term Loan in connection with certain repricing transactions that occur on or prior to August 1, 2021 shall be subject to a prepayment premium of 1.0% of the principal amount of the term loans so prepaid, refinanced or repriced.

The Term Loan Agreement includes usual and customary covenants for loan agreements of this type, including covenants limiting: (1) liens, (2) mergers, (3) sales of all or substantially all of PG&E Corporation’s assets, and (4) sale and leaseback transactions. In addition, the Term Loan Agreement requires that PG&E Corporation maintain ownership, either directly or indirectly, through one or more subsidiaries, of at least 100% of the outstanding common stock of the Utility.

In the event of a default by PG&E Corporation under the Term Loan Agreement, including cross-defaults relating to specified other debt of PG&E Corporation or any of its significant subsidiaries in excess of $200 million, the Administrative Agent may, with the consent of the required Lenders (or upon the request of the required Lenders, shall), declare the amounts outstanding under the Term Loan Agreement, including all accrued interest, payable immediately. For events of default relating to insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, the amounts outstanding under the Term Loan Agreement become payable immediately.

On the Effective Date, the obligations under the Term Loan Agreement became secured by a pledge of PG&E Corporation’s ownership interest in 100% of the shares of common stock of the Utility. On July 1, 2020, the net proceeds from the PG&E Corporation Term Loan were released from escrow and were used to fund, in part, the transactions contemplated under the Plan.

Additionally, on June 23, 2020, PG&E Corporation completed the sale of (i) $1.0 billion$750 million aggregate principal amount of 5.00% Senior Secured Notes6.150% First Mortgage Bonds due July 1, 2028 (the “2028 Notes”)2033 and (ii) $1.0 billion$750 million aggregate principal amount of 5.25% Senior Secured Notes6.750% First Mortgage Bonds due July 1, 2030 (the “2030 Notes,” and together with the 2028 Notes, the “Notes”).2053. The proceeds were used for the repayment of borrowings outstanding under the Notes were initially deposited into an account at The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Escrow Agent, which proceeds were held by the Escrow Agent as collateralUtility’s revolving credit facility pursuant to an escrow agreement by and among the Escrow Agent and PG&E Corporation. Prior to July 1, 2023, in the case of the 2028 Notes, and prior to July 1, 2025, in the case of the 2030 Notes, (i) PG&E Corporation may redeem all or part of the Notes of the applicable series, on any one or more occasions at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of Notes of such series to be redeemed, plus a “make-whole” premium, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the redemption date or (ii) PG&E Corporation may redeem up to 40% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes of the applicable series on any one or more occasions at certain specified redemption prices with the net cash proceeds from certain equity offerings. On or after July 1, 2023, in the case of the 2028 Notes, and July 1, 2025, in the case of the 2030 Notes, PG&E Corporation may redeem the Notes of a series at certain specified redemption prices, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to but not including, the applicable redemption date.Utility Revolving Credit Agreement.

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On July 1, 2020, the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes were released from escrow and, together with the net proceeds from certain other Plan financing transactions, were used to effectuate the reorganization of PG&E Corporation and the Utility in accordance with the terms and conditions contained in the Plan. The Notes are secured by a pledge of PG&E Corporation’s ownership interest in 100% of the shares of common stock of the Utility.

On the Effective Date, PG&E Corporation repaid and terminated $350 million of borrowings, plus interest, fees and other expenses arising under or in connection with the Term Loan Agreement, dated as of April 16, 2018, among PG&E Corporation, as borrower, the several lenders party thereto and Mizuho Bank Ltd., as administrative agent.

The following table summarizes PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s long-term debt:
Balance at
(in millions)
Contractual Interest Rates (3)
December 31, 2020December 31, 2019
Treatment under Plan on the Effective Date (1)
Pre-Petition Debt (2)
PG&E Corporation
Borrowings under Pre-Petition Credit Facility
PG&E Corporation Revolving Credit Facilities - Stated Maturity: 2022
variable rate (4)
$$300 
Repaid in cash (14)
Other borrowings
Term Loan - Stated Maturity: 2020
 variable rate (5)
350 
Repaid in cash (14)
Total PG&E Corporation Pre-Petition Long-Term Debt0 650 
Utility
Senior Notes - Stated Maturity:
2020 through 20222.45% to 4.25%1,750 
Exchanged (15)
2023 through 20282.95% to 4.65%5,025 
Reinstated (16)
2034 through 20405.40% to 6.35%5,700 
Exchanged (17)
2041 through 20423.75% to 4.50%1,000 
Reinstated (16)
20435.13%500 
Exchanged (17)
2043 through 20473.95% to 4.75%3,550 
Reinstated (16)
Total Pre-Petition Senior Notes0 17,525 
Pollution Control Bonds - Stated Maturity:
Series 2008 F and 2010 E, due 20261.75%100 
Repaid in cash (14)
Series 2009 A-B, due 2026
variable rate (6)
149 
Exchanged (18)
Series 1996 C, E, F, 1997 B due 2026
variable rate (7)
614 
Exchanged (18)
Total Pre-Petition Pollution Control Bonds0 863 
Borrowings under Pre-Petition Credit Facilities
Utility Revolving Credit Facilities - Stated Maturity: 2022
 variable rate (8)
2,888 
Exchanged (18)
Other borrowings:
Term Loan - Stated Maturity: 2019
 variable rate (9)
250 
Exchanged (18)
Total Borrowings under Pre-Petition Credit Facility0 3,138 
Total Utility Pre-Petition Debt0 21,526 
Total PG&E Corporation Consolidated Pre-Petition Debt$0 $22,176 
New Long-Term Debt
PG&E Corporation
Term Loan - Stated Maturity: 2025
variable rate (10)
$2,709 $
Senior Secured Notes due 20285.00%1,000 
Senior Secured Notes due 20305.25%1,000 
Unamortized discount, net of premium and debt issuance costs(85)
Total PG&E Corporation New Long-Term Debt4,624 0 
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Pre-Petition Senior Notes Reinstated as First Mortgage Bonds - Stated Maturity:
2023 through 20282.95% to 4.65%5,025 
2041 through 20423.75% to 4.50%1,000 
2043 through 20473.95% to 4.75%3,550 
Unamortized discount, net of premium and debt issuance costs
Total Utility Reinstated New Long-Term Debt9,575 0 
Pre-Petition Debt Exchanged for First Mortgage Bonds - Stated Maturity:
20253.45%875 
20263.15%1,951 
20283.75%875 
20304.55%3,100 
20404.50%1,951 
20504.95%3,100 
Unamortized discount, net of premium and debt issuance costs(98)
Total Utility Exchanged New Long-Term Debt11,754 0 
New First Mortgage Bonds - Stated Maturity:
2022
variable rate (11)
500 
20221.75%2,500 
20272.10%1,000 
20312.50%2,000 
20403.30%1,000 
20503.50%1,925 
Unamortized discount, net of premium and debt issuance costs(84)
Total Utility New First Mortgage Bonds8,841 0 
Credit Facilities - Stated Maturity: 2022
Receivables securitization program
variable rate (12)
1,000 0 
18-month Term Loan
variable rate (13)
1,500 0 
Unamortized discount, net of premium and debt issuance costs(6)0 
Total Utility New Long-Term Debt32,664 0 
Total PG&E Corporation Consolidated New Long-Term Debt$37,288 $0 
Balance at
(in millions)Contractual Interest RatesDecember 31, 2022December 31, 2021
PG&E Corporation
Term Loan - Stated Maturity: 2025
variable rate (1)
$2,681 $2,709 
Senior Secured Notes due 20285.00%1,000 1,000 
Senior Secured Notes due 20305.25%1,000 1,000 
Less: current portion, net of unamortized discount and debt issuance costs(28)(26)
Unamortized discount/premium and debt issuance costs, net(66)(90)
Total PG&E Corporation Long-Term Debt4,587 4,593 
Utility
First Mortgage Bonds - Stated Maturity:
2022
variable rate (2)
— 500 
20221.75%— 2,500 
20231.70% - 4.25%2,075 3,575 
20243.25% - 3.75%1,800 800 
20253.45% - 4.95%1,925 1,475 
20262.95% - 3.15%2,551 2,551 
20272.10% - 5.45%3,000 2,550 
20283.00% - 4.65%1,975 1,975 
20294.20%400 — 
2030 4.55%3,100 3,100 
20312.50% - 3.25%3,000 3,000 
20324.40% - 5.90%1,050 — 
20403.30% - 4.50%2,951 2,951 
20414.20% - 4.50%700 700 
20423.75% - 4.45%750 750 
20434.60%375 375 
20444.75%675 675 
20454.30%600 600 
20464.00% - 4.25%1,050 1,050 
20473.95%850 850 
2050 3.50% - 4.95%5,025 5,025 
20525.25%550 — 
Less: current portion, net of unamortized discount and debt issuance costs(2,072)(2,996)
Unamortized discount, premium and debt issuance costs, net(195)(190)
Total Utility First Mortgage Bonds32,135 31,816 
Recovery Bonds (3)
9,292 860 
         Less: current portion(168)(18)
DWR Loan (4)
312  
Credit Facilities
Receivables securitization program - Stated Maturity: 2024
variable rate (5)
1,184 974 
2-Year Term Loan - Stated Maturity: 2024
variable rate (6)
400 — 
18-month Term Loan - Stated Maturity: 2023
variable rate (7)
— 1,441 
Less: current portion— (1,441)
Total Utility Long-Term Debt43,155 33,632 
Total PG&E Corporation Consolidated Long-Term Debt$47,742 $38,225 
(1)The treatments of pre-petition debt under the Plan, as described in this column, relate only to the treatment of principal amounts and not pre-petition or post-petition interest. See “Plan of Reorganization and Restructuring Support Agreements” in Note 2.
(2) As of December 31, 2019, pre-petition debt was reported at the amounts expected to be allowed by the Bankruptcy Court.
(3) The contractual interest rates for pre-petition debt and new debt are presented as of December 31, 2019 and 2020, respectively.
(4) At December 31, 2019,2022 and 2021, the contractual LIBOR-based interest rate on loans was 3.24%.
(5) At December 31, 2019, the contractual LIBOR-basedLondon Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”)-based interest rate on the term loan was 2.96%.7.44% and 3.50%, respectively.
(6)(2) At December 31, 2019, the contractual interest rate on the letter of credit facilities supporting these bonds was 7.95%.
(7) At December 31, 2019, the contractual interest rate on the letter of credit facilities supporting these bonds ranged from 7.95% to 8.08%.
(8) At December 31, 2019,2021, the contractual LIBOR-based interest rate on the loans was 3.04%.
(9) At December 31, 2019, the contractual LIBOR-based interest rate on the term loan was 2.36%.
(10) At December 31, 2020, the contractual LIBOR-based interest rate on the term loan was 5.50%.
(11) At December 31, 2020, the contractual LIBOR-based interest rate on$500 million of the first mortgage bonds was 1.70%1.69%.
(12)(3) The amount includes bonds related to AB 1054 and SB 901 securitization transactions, see “AB 1054” above and Note 6 for details on interest rates.
(4) The Utility is not required to pay interest on the DWR loan, see Note 3 - Government Assistance.
(5) At December 31, 2020,2022, the contractual Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”)-based interest rate on the receivables securitization program was 5.10% and at December 31, 2021. LIBOR-based interest rate on the receivables securitization program was 1.57%1.30%.
(13)(6) At December 31, 2020,2022, the contractual SOFR-based interest rate on the term loan was 5.71%.
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(7) At December 31, 2021, LIBOR-based interest rate on the term loan was 2.44%2.38%.
(14) In accordance with the Plan, these borrowings were repaid This loan was prepaid in cashfull on July 1, 2020.March 31, 2022.
(15) In accordance with the Plan, on July 1, 2020, the Utility issued $875 million aggregate principal amount of 3.45% first mortgage bonds due 2025 and $875 million aggregate principal amount of 3.75% first mortgage bonds due 2028, in satisfaction of these Senior Notes. See “Pre-Petition Debt Exchanged for First Mortgage Bonds” in the table above.
(16) In accordance with the Plan, these Senior Notes were reinstated (and secured by First Mortgage Bonds) on July 1, 2020. See “Pre-Petition Senior Notes Reinstated (and secured by First Mortgage Bonds)” in the table above.
(17) In accordance with the Plan, on July 1, 2020, the Utility issued $3.1 billion aggregate principal amount of 4.55% first mortgage bonds due 2030 and $3.1 billion aggregate principal amount of 4.95% first mortgage bonds due 2050, in satisfaction of these Senior Notes. See “Pre-Petition Debt Exchanged for First Mortgage Bonds” in the table above.
(18) In accordance with the Plan, on July 1, 2020, the Utility issued $1.95 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.15% first mortgage bonds due 2026 and $1.95 billion aggregate principal amount of 4.50% first mortgage bonds due 2040, in satisfaction of these pre-petition liabilities. See “Pre-Petition Debt Exchanged for First Mortgage Bonds” in the table above.
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Pollution Control Bonds

The California Pollution Control Financing Authority and the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank have issued various series of fixed rate and multi-modal tax-exempt pollution control bonds for the benefit of the Utility.  Substantially all of the net proceeds of the pollution control bonds were used to finance or refinance pollution control and sewage and solid waste disposal facilities at the Geysers geothermal power plant or at the Utility’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.  In 1999, the Utility sold all bond-financed facilities at the non-retired units of the Geysers geothermal power plant to Geysers Power Company, LLC pursuant to purchase and sales agreements stating that Geysers Power Company, LLC will use the bond-financed facilities solely as pollution control facilities for so long as any tax-exempt pollution control bonds issued to finance the Geysers project are outstanding.  Except for components that may have been abandoned in place or disposed of as scrap or that are permanently non-operational, the Utility has no knowledge that Geysers Power Company, LLC intends to cease using the bond-financed facilities solely as pollution control facilities.

In accordance with the Plan, on July 1, 2020, the Utility repaid Series 2008 F and 2010 E and exchanged Series 2009 A-B, Series 1996 C, E, F, and 1997 B for first mortgage bonds.

Contractual Repayment Schedule

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s combined stated long-term debt principal repayment amounts at December 31, 20202022 are reflected in the table below:
(in millions,       
except interest rates)20212022202320242025ThereafterTotal
PG&E Corporation
Average fixed interest rate%%%%%5.13 %5.13 %
Fixed rate obligations%%%%%$2,000$2,000
Variable interest rate as of December 31, 20205.50 %5.50 %5.50 %5.50 %5.50 %%5.50 %
Variable rate obligations$28 $28 $28 $28 $2,625 $$2,737 
Utility
Average fixed interest rate%1.75 %3.83 %3.60 %3.47 %3.87 %3.66 %
Fixed rate obligations$$2,500 $1,175 $800 $1,475 $23,902 $29,852 
Variable interest rate as of December 31, 2020%
various (1)
%%%%
various (1)
Variable rate obligations$$3,000 $$$$$3,000 
Total consolidated debt$28 $5,528 $1,203 $828 $4,100 $25,902 $37,589 
       
(in millions, except interest rates)20232024202520262027ThereafterTotal
PG&E Corporation
Average fixed interest rate— %— %— %— %— %5.13 %5.13 %
Fixed rate obligations$— $— $— $— $— $2,000 $2,000 
Variable interest rate as of December 31, 20227.13 %7.13 %7.13 %— %— %— %7.13 %
Variable rate obligations$28 $28 $2,625 $— $— $— $2,681 
Utility (1)
Average fixed interest rate2.91 %3.40 %3.82 %3.10 %3.22 %4.12 %3.84 %
Fixed rate obligations$2,075 $1,800 $1,925 $2,551 $3,000 $23,051 $34,402 
Variable interest rate as of December 31, 2022— %5.54 %— %— %— %— %5.54 %
Variable rate obligations$— $1,584 $— $— $— $— $1,584 
Recovery Bonds (2)
AB 1054 obligations$38 $46 $48 $50 $51 $1,592 $1,825 
SB 901 obligations$130 $129 $135 $141 $146 $6,786 $7,467 
Total consolidated debt$2,271 $3,587 $4,733 $2,742 $3,197 $33,429 $49,959 
(1) At December 31, 2020, the averageThe balance excludes DWR loan, see Note 3 - Government Assistance.
(2) Recovery bonds were issued by, and are repayment obligations of, consolidated VIEs. For AB 1054 interest rates, for the Receivables Securitization Program, the first mortgage bonds due 2022see above and the 18-month term loan were 1.57%, 1.70% and 2.44% respectively.2021 Form 10-K. For SB 901 interest rates, see Note 6.

NOTE 6: SB 901 SECURITIZATION AND CUSTOMER CREDIT TRUST

SB 901, signed into law on September 21, 2018, requires the CPUC to establish a CHT, directing the CPUC to limit certain disallowances in the aggregate, so that they do not exceed the maximum amount that the Utility can pay without harming customers or materially impacting its ability to provide adequate and safe service. SB 901 also authorizes the CPUC to issue a financing order that permits recovery, through the issuance of recovery bonds (also referred to as “securitization”), of wildfire-related costs found to be just and reasonable by the CPUC and, only for the 2017 Northern California wildfires, any amounts in excess of the CHT.

Pursuant to SB 901, on April 30, 2020, the Utility filed an application with the CPUC seeking authorization for a post-emergence transaction to finance, using securitization, $7.5 billion of 2017 wildfire claims costs and create a corresponding customer credit trust that is designed to not impact the net amounts billed to customers. The proceeds of the securitization were used to repay certain debt that the Utility had initially issued for the payment of wildfire claims costs associated with the 2017 Northern California wildfires. On April 23, 2021, the CPUC issued a decision finding that $7.5 billion of the Utility’s 2017 catastrophic wildfire costs and expenses are stress test costs that may be financed through the issuance of recovery bonds pursuant to Public Utilities Code sections 850 et seq. (“CHT Decision”). As requested, the decision authorized the Utility to establish a customer credit trust funded by PG&E Corporation’s shareholders that will provide a monthly credit to customers that is anticipated to equal the fixed recovery charges such that the securitization is designed to be rate neutral to customers. The decision adopts a transaction structure comprised of four elements: (1) an initial shareholder contribution to the customer credit trust of $2.0 billion, $1.0 billion of which was contributed in 2022 and $1.0 billion to be contributed in 2024; (2) up to $7.59 billion of additional contributions funded by certain shareholder tax benefits; (3) a single CPUC review of the balance of the customer credit trust in 2040, with a single contingent supplemental shareholder contribution, if needed, up to $775 million in 2040; and (4) sharing with customers 25% of any surplus of shareholder assets in the customer credit trust at the end of the life of the trust.

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On May 11, 2021, the CPUC issued a financing order authorizing the issuance of one or more series of recovery bonds in connection with the post-emergence transaction to finance, using securitization, the $7.5 billion of claims associated with the 2017 Northern California wildfires. On February 28, 2022, the decision finding $7.5 billion of stress test costs eligible for securitization and the financing order authorizing the issuance of up to $7.5 billion of recovery bonds became final and non-appealable.

On May 10, 2022, PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC issued the Series 2022-A Recovery Bonds. The Series 2022-A Recovery Bonds were issued in five tranches:
TrancheAmountInterest RateFinal Maturity Date
A-1$540,000,000 3.594 %June 1, 2032
A-2$540,000,000 4.263 %June 1, 2038
A-3$360,000,000 4.377 %June 3, 2041
A-4$1,260,000,000 4.451 %December 1, 2049
A-5$900,000,000 4.674 %December 1, 2053

The net proceeds were used to fund the redemption of all $500 million aggregate principal amount of the Utility’s Floating Rate First Mortgage Bonds due June 16, 2022 on May 16, 2022 and the redemption of all $2.5 billion aggregate principal amount of the Utility’s 1.75% First Mortgage Bonds due June 16, 2022 on May 16, 2022. The Utility used the remaining proceeds from the issuance of the Series 2022-A Recovery Bonds for the repayment of a portion of loans outstanding under the Utility’s revolving credit facility pursuant to the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement. The payment dates for the Series 2022-A Recovery Bonds are June 1 and December 1 of each year, commencing on December 1, 2022 and continuing until the final maturity date.

On May 9, 2022, the Utility contributed $480 million to the customer credit trust. On July 19, 2022, the Utility contributed $520 million to the customer credit trust in full satisfaction of the first $1.0 billion as required by the CHT decision.

On July 20, 2022, PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC issued the Series 2022-B Recovery Bonds. The Series 2022-B Recovery Bonds were issued in five tranches:
TrancheAmountInterest RateFinal Maturity Date
B-1$613,080,000 4.022 %June 1, 2033
B-2$600,000,000 4.722 %June 1, 2039
B-3$500,040,000 5.081 %June 3, 2043
B-4$1,149,960,000 5.212 %December 1, 2049
B-5$1,036,920,000 5.099 %June 1, 2054

The net proceeds were used to fund (1) the redemption of all $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of the Utility’s 1.367% First Mortgage Bonds due March 10, 2023 on July 25, 2022, (2) the prepayment of all $500 million of loans outstanding under the 2022A Utility Term Loan Credit Agreement, and (3) the repayment of a portion of loans outstanding under the Utility’s revolving credit facility pursuant to the Utility Revolving Credit Agreement. The Utility also intends to use a portion of the remaining proceeds to fund the redemption of all $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of the Utility’s 3.25% First Mortgage Bonds due 2024. The payment dates for the Series 2022-B Recovery Bonds are June 1 and December 1 of each year, commencing on June 1, 2023 and continuing until the final maturity date.

Pursuant to the financing order, the Utility sold its right to receive revenues from the non-bypassable fixed recovery charge (“SB 901 Recovery Property”) to PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC, which, in turn, issued the recovery bonds secured by the SB 901 Recovery Property. The fixed recovery charge is designed to recover the full scheduled principal amount of the recovery bonds along with any associated interest and financing costs. In the context of the CHT decision, which is intended to insulate customers from the fixed recovery charge, there is a customer credit which is designed to equal the recovery bond principal, interest, and financing costs over the life of the recovery bonds. The customer credit is funded by the customer credit trust (see Note 12). The fixed recovery charges and customer credits are presented on a net basis in Operating Revenues in the Consolidated Statements of Income and had no net impact on Operating Revenues for the year ended December 31, 2022.

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Also pursuant to the CHT decision, upon issuance of the Series 2022-A Recovery Bonds in May 2022 (“inception”), the Utility recorded a $5.5 billion SB 901 securitization regulatory asset reflecting PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC’s right to recover $7.5 billion in wildfire claims costs associated with the 2017 Northern California wildfires, previously recognized within wildfire-related claims expense, partially offset by the $2.0 billion in required upfront shareholder contributions to the customer credit trust. The Utility also recorded a $5.54 billion SB 901 securitization regulatory liability at inception, which represents certain shareholder tax benefits the Utility had previously recognized that will be returned to customers. As the Fire Victim Trust sells the remaining shares it holds of PG&E Corporation common stock, the SB 901 securitization regulatory liability will increase, reflecting the recognition of additional income tax benefits, up to $7.59 billion as required in the CHT decision. As these tax benefits are monetized, they will be contributed to the customer credit trust. The Utility expects to amortize the SB 901 securitization regulatory asset and liability over the life of the recovery bonds, with such amortization reflected in Operating and maintenance expense in the Consolidated Statements of Income. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Utility recorded SB 901 securitization charges, net, of $608 million for inception of the regulatory asset and liability pursuant to the CHT decision discussed above, as well as tax benefits realized within income tax expense in the current year related to the Fire Victim Trust’s sale of PG&E Corporation common stock (See Note 7 below) and amortization of the regulatory asset and liability in the Consolidated Statements of Income. SB 901 securitization charges are expected to increase in future periods, up to $2.09 billion, as the aforementioned tax benefits are recognized and recorded within deferred income taxes.

The following tables illustrate the inception to date SB 901 securitization impact on the Utility’s regulatory assets and liabilities:

SB 901 securitization regulatory asset (in millions)
Regulatory asset balance at inception$5,500 
Amortization(122)
Balance at December 31, 2022$5,378

SB 901 securitization regulatory liability (in millions)
Regulatory liability balance at inception$(5,540)
Amortization308 
Additions(568)
Balance at December 31, 2022$(5,800)

NOTE 6:7: COMMON STOCK AND SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION

PG&E Corporation had 1,984,678,6731,987,784,948 shares of common stock outstanding at December 31, 2020.2022, which excludes 247,743,590 shares of common stock owned by ShareCo, and 230,000,000 shares of common stock owned by the Utility. PG&E Corporation held all of the Utility’s outstanding common stock at December 31, 2020.

On July 23, 2020, PG&E Corporation sent a notice of termination to the managers of the Amended and Restated Equity Distribution Agreement, dated as of February 17, 2017, effectively terminating the agreement on that date. As of the termination date for this agreement, no amounts were outstanding which required repayment.

Increase in Authorized Capitalization

On June 22, 2020, PG&E Corporation filed Amended Articles of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of California which increased the authorized number of shares of common stock to 3.6 billion and the authorized number of shares of preferred stock to 400 million.

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Plan Equity Financings

In connection with emergence from Chapter 11, in July 2020, PG&E Corporation raised an aggregate of $9.0 billion of gross proceeds through the issuance of common stock and other equity-linked instruments as described below.

PG&E Corporation Investment Agreement

On June 7, 2020, PG&E Corporation entered into an Investment Agreement (the “Investment Agreement”) with certain investors (the “Investors”) relating to the issuance and sale to the Investors of an aggregate of $3.25 billion of PG&E Corporation’s common stock. Per the Investment Agreement, the price per share was equal to $9.50 per share, which was the public equity offering price in the Common Stock Offering (as defined below in “Equity Offerings”).

On July 1, 2020, pursuant to the terms of the Investment Agreement, PG&E Corporation issued to the Investors 342.1 million shares of common stock. The Investors and their affiliates have certain customary registration rights with respect to the Shares held by such Investor pursuant to the terms of the Investment Agreement.2022.

Equity Offerings

On June 25, 2020, PG&E Corporation priced (i) the Common Stock Offering of 423.4 million shares of its common stock, and (ii) the concurrent Equity Units Offering of 14.5 million of its Equity Units, for total net proceeds to PG&E Corporation, after deducting the underwriting discounts and before estimated offering expenses payable by the PG&E Corporation, of $3.97 billion and $1.19 billion, respectively.

On June 25, 2020, in connection with the Common Stock Offering, PG&E Corporation entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Common Stock Underwriting Agreement”) with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of several underwriters named in the Common Stock Underwriting Agreement (the “Common Stock Underwriters”), pursuant to which PG&E Corporation agreed to issue and sell 423.4 million shares of its common stock to the Common Stock Underwriters. In addition, on June 25, 2020, PG&E Corporation entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Equity Units Underwriting Agreement”) with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named in the Equity Units Underwriting Agreement (the “Equity Units Underwriters”), pursuant to which PG&E Corporation agreed to issue and sell 14.5 million prepaid forward stock purchase contracts (the “Purchase Contracts”) to the Equity Underwriters in order for the Equity Units Underwriters to sell 14.5 million Equity Units.

In connection with the Common Stock Offering and pursuant to the Common Stock Underwriting Agreement, PG&E Corporation granted the underwriters a 30-day over-allotment option to purchase up to an additional 42.3 million shares of common stock. In addition, in connection with the Equity Units Offering and pursuant to the Equity Units Underwriting Agreement, PG&E Corporation also granted the underwriters a 30-day over-allotment option to purchase up to an additional 1.45 million Purchase Contracts to be used by the Equity Units Underwriters to create up to an additional 1.45 million Equity Units (together with the 42.3 million shares of common stock, the “Option Securities”).

The Common Stock Offering and the Equity Units Offering closed on July 1, 2020, and PG&E Corporation issued and sold a total of 423.4 million shares of its common stock and 14.5 million Purchase Contracts for total net proceeds of $5.2 billion. On July 24, 2020, the Equity Units Underwriters exercised in full, the over-allotment option in the Equity Units Underwriting Agreement and on August 3,During 2020, PG&E Corporation issued and sold 1.45approximately 16 million Equity Units to the Equity Units Underwriters (the “Additional Units Issuance”).PG&E Corporation equity units. The prepaid forward stock purchase contract portion of the Equity Units issued in the Equity Units Offering and the Additional Units Issuance representsequity units represent the right of the unitholders to receive, on the settlement date, between 125138 million and 153168 million shares and between 12.5 million and 15.3 million shares, respectively, of PG&E Corporation common stock. The common stock received will be based on the value of PG&E Corporation common stock over a measurement period specified in the equity units purchase contracts and subject to certain adjustments as provided herein.therein. The settlement date of the equity unit purchase contractcontracts is August 16, 2023, subject to acceleration or postponement as provided in the purchase contracts. The Common Stock Underwriters did not exercise their option to purchase any additional shares of common stock.

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PG&E Corporation applied accounting standards applicable to prepaid forward contracts to purchase common stock in order to determineAt the proper balance sheet classification for theMarket Equity Units issued and sold during the three months ended, September 30, 2020. The Equity Units are considered a range forward contract, in that the settlement of common stock shares is based on a range of potential settlement outcomes. PG&E Corporation used various inputs, including stock price volatility, and determined that the potential outcomes are predominantly fixed share settlements. As such, PG&E Corporation does not view the Equity Units as an obligation to issue a variable number of shares and has concluded that the Equity Units meet all conditions for equity classification and do not meet any of the other conditions that would result in asset or liability classification. The Equity Units issued and sold are classified as Common stock on PG&E Corporation’s Consolidated Balance Sheet.

Equity Backstop Commitments and Forward Stock Purchase Agreements

See “Equity Financing” in Note 2 above for discussion of the equity backstop commitments which resulted in total net proceeds of $523 million (of which $120.5 million were returned to the Backstop Parties pursuant to the Forward Stock Purchase Agreements, as described below).

In connection with the Additional Units Issuance and pursuant to the terms of the Forward Stock Purchase Agreements, on August 3, 2020, PG&E Corporation (i) redeemed a portion of the rights under the Forward Stock Purchase Agreements to receive shares of Common Stock and returned approximately $120.5 million to the Backstop Parties and (ii) issued and delivered to the Backstop Parties 42.3 million Greenshoe Backstop Shares, representing the unredeemed portion of the Aggregate Greenshoe Backstop Purchase Amount divided by the Settlement Price (without any issuance in respect of fractional shares).

Equity Issuances to the Fire Victim TrustDistribution Program

On April 30, 2021, PG&E Corporation entered into an Equity Distribution Agreement (“Equity Distribution Agreement”) with Barclays Capital Inc., BofA Securities, Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as sales agents and as forward sellers (in such capacities as applicable, the Effective Date,“Agents” and the “Forward Sellers,” respectively), and Barclays Bank PLC, Bank of America, N.A., Credit Suisse Capital LLC and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as forward purchasers (the “Forward Purchasers”), establishing an at the market equity distribution program, pursuant to which PG&E Corporation, through the Plan,Agents, may offer and sell from time to time shares of PG&E Corporation’s common stock having an aggregate gross sales price of up to $400 million. PG&E Corporation has no obligation to offer or sell any of its common stock under the Utility enteredEquity Distribution Agreement and may at any time suspend offers under the Equity Distribution Agreement.

The Equity Distribution Agreement provides that, in addition to the issuance and sale of shares of common stock by PG&E Corporation to or through the Agents, PG&E Corporation may enter into forward sale agreements (collectively, the Fire Victim Trust Assignment Agreement,“Forward Sale Agreements”) pursuant to which the Utility transferred to the Fire Victim Trust 477 millionrelevant Forward Purchaser will borrow shares from third parties and, through its affiliated Forward Seller, offer a number of shares of common stock of PG&E Corporation. As a result of the Additional Units Issuance, on August 3, 2020, PG&E Corporation made an equity contribution of 748,415 sharesequal to the Utility which delivered such additionalnumber of shares of common stock tounderlying the Fire Victim Trust pursuant to an anti-dilution provision in the Fire Victim Trust Assignmentparticular Forward Sale Agreement.

Cash ContributionOn October 31, 2022, PG&E Corporation suspended the At the Market Equity Distribution Program until further notice. As of the suspension date, PG&E Corporation had not sold any shares pursuant to the Utility Pursuant to the Plan

On the Effective Date, PG&E Corporation made an equity contribution of $12.9 billion in cash to the Utility, which used the funds to satisfy and discharge certain liabilities of PG&E Corporation and the Utility under the Plan. PG&E Corporation’s cash equity contribution was funded by proceeds from the financing transactions described herein.Equity Distribution Agreement.

Ownership Restrictions in PG&E Corporation’s Amended Articles

Under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code,IRC, if a corporation (or a consolidated group) undergoes an “ownership change,” net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes may be subject to certain limitations (which could limit PG&E Corporation or the Utility’s ability to use these deferred tax assetsDTAs to offset taxable income). In general, an ownership change occurs if the aggregate stock ownership of certain shareholders (generally five percent shareholders, applying certain look-through and aggregation rules) increases by more than 50% over such shareholders’ lowest percentage ownership during the testing period (generally three years). PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’sThe Amended Articles limit Transfers (as defined in the Amended Articles) that increase a person’s or entity’s (including certain groups of persons) ownership of PG&E Corporation’s equity securities to 4.75% or more than 4.75% prior to the Restriction Release Date (as defined in the Amended Articles) without approval by the Board of Directors. The calculationDirectors of PG&E Corporation.

On July 8, 2021, PG&E Corporation, the percentage ownership may differ depending on whetherUtility, ShareCo and the Fire Victim Trust isentered into the Share Exchange and Tax Matters Agreement, pursuant to which PG&E Corporation and the Utility made a “grantor trust” election for the Fire Victim Trust effective retroactively to the inception of the Fire Victim Trust. As a result of the grantor trust election, shares of PG&E Corporation common stock owned by the Fire Victim Trust are treated as held by the Utility and, in turn attributed to PG&E Corporation for income tax purposes. Consequently, any shares owned by the Fire Victim Trust, along with any shares owned by the Utility directly, are effectively excluded from the total number of outstanding equity securities when calculating a qualified settlement trust or grantor trust.person’s Percentage Stock Ownership (as defined in the Amended Articles) for purposes of the 4.75% ownership limitation in the Amended Articles. Shares owned by ShareCo are also effectively excluded because ShareCo is a disregarded entity for income tax purposes. For example, although PG&E Corporation had 2,466,208,388 shares outstanding as of February 16, 2023, only 1,800,721,208 shares (that is, the number of outstanding shares of common stock less the number of shares held by the Fire Victim Trust, the Utility and ShareCo) count as outstanding for purposes of the ownership restrictions in the Amended Articles. As such, based on the total number of outstanding equity securities and taking into account the shares of PG&E Corporation common stock known to have been sold by the Fire Victim Trust as of February 16, 2023, a person’s effective Percentage Stock Ownership limitation for purposes of the Amended Articles as of February 16, 2023 was 3.46% of the outstanding shares. At various dates throughout 2022, the Fire Victim Trust exchanged Plan Shares for an equal number of New Shares in the manner contemplated by the Share Exchange and Tax Matters Agreement; in each case, the Fire Victim Trust thereafter reported that it sold the applicable New Shares. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Fire Victim Trust’s sale of PG&E Corporation common stock in the aggregate amount of 230,000,000 shares resulted in an aggregate tax benefit of $870 million recorded in PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Consolidated Financial Statements. As of February 16, 2023, to the knowledge of PG&E Corporation, the Fire Victim Trust had sold 290,000,000 shares of PG&E Corporation common stock in the aggregate.

As of the date of this report, it is more likely than not that PG&E Corporation has not undergone an ownership change and consequently, its net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes are not limited by Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code.IRC.

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In 2019, $6.75 billion of the liability to be paid to the Fire Victim Trust in PG&E Corporation’s common stock was accrued by the Utility. Because the corresponding tax deduction generally occurs no earlier than payment, the Utility established a deferred tax asset for the accrual in 2019. On July 1, 2020, the Utility issued to the Fire Victim Trust 477 million shares of PG&E Corporation’s common stock. The shares transferred to the Fire Victim Trust were valued at $4.53 billion on the date of transfer, $2.2 billion less than the $6.75 billion that had been accrued as a liability in the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. Therefore, in the quarter ended June 30, 2020, the Utility recorded a charge of $619 million to adjust the measurement of the deferred tax asset to reflect the tax-effected difference between the accrual of $6.75 billion and the tax deduction of $4.53 billion for the transfer of PG&E Corporation’s shares to the Fire Victim Trust.

In addition, the tax deduction recorded reflects PG&E Corporation’s conclusion as of December 31, 2020 that it is more likely than not that the Fire Victim Trust will be treated as a “qualified settlement fund” for U.S. federal income tax purposes, in which case the corresponding tax deduction will have occurred at the time the PG&E Corporation common stock was transferred to the Fire Victim Trust. In January 2021, PG&E Corporation received an IRS ruling that states the Utility is eligible to make a grantor trust election for U.S. federal income tax purposes with respect to the Fire Victim Trust and addressed certain, but not all, related issues. PG&E Corporation believes benefits associated with “grantor trust” treatment could be realized, but only if PG&E Corporation and the Fire Victim Trust can meet certain requirements of the Internal Revenue Code and Treasury Regulations thereunder, relating to sales of PG&E Corporation stock. PG&E Corporation expects to elect grantor trust treatment, subject to entering into a definitive agreement with the Fire Victim Trust. There can be no assurance that such an agreement will be reached or that PG&E Corporation will be able to avail itself of the benefits of a grantor trust election. If PG&E Corporation makes a “grantor trust” election for the Fire Victim Trust, the Utility’s tax deduction will occur only at the time the Fire Victim Trust pays the fire victims and will be impacted by the price at which the Fire Victim Trust sells the shares, rather than the price at the time such shares were contributed to the Fire Victim Trust.

Dividends

On December 20, 2017, the Boards of Directors of PG&E Corporation and the Utility suspended quarterly cash dividends on both PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s common stock, beginning the fourth quarter of 2017, as well as the Utility’s preferred stock, beginning the three-month period ending January 31, 2018.

On April 3, 2019,June 15, 2022, the court overseeingBoard of Directors of the Utility reinstated the dividend on the Utility’s probation issued an order imposing new conditionscommon stock and declared a common stock dividend of probation, including forgoing issuing “any dividends until [the Utility] is in compliance with all applicable vegetation management requirements” under applicable law and the Utility’s WMP.

On March 20, 2020,$425 million that was paid to PG&E Corporation andon June 17, 2022. On September 15, 2022, the Board of Directors of the Utility fileddeclared a Case Resolution Contingency Process Motion with the Bankruptcy Courtcommon stock dividend of $425 million that includes a dividend restriction for PG&E Corporation. Accordingwas paid to the dividend restriction, PG&E Corporation “will not pay common dividends until it has recognized $6.2 billion in non-GAAP core earnings followingon September 16, 2022. On December 15, 2022, the Effective Date”Board of Directors of the Plan. The Bankruptcy Court enteredUtility declared a common stock dividend of $425 million that was paid to PG&E Corporation on December 20, 2022. No dividend is payable until declared by the order approvingBoard of Directors of the motion on April 9, 2020.Utility.

In addition, the Corporation Revolving Credit Agreement requires that PG&E Corporation (1) maintain a ratio of total consolidated debt to consolidated capitalization of no greater than 70% as of the end of each fiscal quarter and (2) if revolving loans are outstanding as of the end of a fiscal quarter, a ratio of adjusted cash to fixed charges, as of the end of such fiscal quarter, of at least 150% prior to the date that PG&E Corporation first declares a cash dividend on its common stock and at least 100% thereafter.

Under the Utility’s Articles of Incorporation, the Utility cannot pay common stock dividends unless all cumulative preferred dividends on the Utility’s preferred stock have been paid.  Additionally, the CPUC requires the Utility to maintain a capital structure composed of at least 52% equity on average. On May 28, 2020, the CPUC approved a final decision in the Chapter 11 Proceedings OII, which, among other things, grants the Utility a temporary, five-yearfive-year waiver from compliance with its authorized capital structure for the financing in place upon the Utility’s emergence from Chapter 11.  

Subject to the foregoing restrictions, any decision to declare and pay dividends in the future will be made at the discretion of the Boards of Directors and will depend on, among other things, results of operations, financial condition, cash requirements, contractual restrictions and other factors that the Boards of Directors may deem relevant. As of December 31, 2020, it is uncertain whenPursuant to the Confirmation Order, PG&E Corporation and the Utility will commence the payment ofmay not pay dividends on theirshares of its common stock anduntil it recognizes $6.2 billion in Non-GAAP Core Earnings following the Emergence Date. “Non-GAAP Core Earnings” means GAAP earnings adjusted for certain non-core items as described in the Plan. PG&E Corporation is unable to predict when the Utilityit will commence the payment of dividends on its preferredcommon stock.

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Long-Term Incentive PlanPlans

The LTIP (i.e., the PG&E Corporation 2014 LTIP or the PG&E Corporation 2021 LTIP, as applicable) permits various forms of share-based incentive awards, including stock options, restricted stock units, performance shares, and other share-based awards, to eligible employees of PG&E Corporation and its subsidiaries.  Non-employee directors of PG&E Corporation are also eligible to receive certain share-based awards.  AsA maximum of the Effective Date, the LTIP was amended to increase the maximum number of91 million shares of PG&E Corporation common stock (subject to certain adjustments) has been reserved for issuance under the LTIP, from 17 million shares to 47 million (subject to certain adjustments), of which 29,174,20553,350,101 shares were available for future awards at December 31, 2020.2022.

The following table provides a summary of total share-based compensation expense recognized by PG&E Corporation for share-based incentive awards for 2020:
(in millions)
202020192018
Stock Options$$$10 
Restricted stock units15 21 43 
Performance shares17 22 36 
Total compensation expense (pre-tax)$35 $50 $89 
Total compensation expense (after-tax)$25 $35 $63 
2022:
(in millions)
202220212020
Stock Options$— $— $
Restricted stock units60 35 15 
Performance shares55 21 17 
Total compensation expense (pre-tax)$115 $56 $35 
Total compensation expense (after-tax)$83 $40 $25 

Share-based compensation costs are generally not capitalized.  There was no material difference between PG&E Corporation and the Utility for the information disclosed above.

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Stock Options

The exercise price of stock options granted under the LTIP and all other outstanding stock options is equal to the market price of PG&E Corporation’s common stock on the date of grant.  Stock options generally have a 10-year term and vest over three years of continuous service, subject to accelerated vesting in certain circumstances. As of December 31, 2020, $0.5 million of total2022, there were no unrecognized compensation costs related to nonvested stock options were expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 0.16 years for PG&E Corporation.

The fair value of each stock option on the date of grant is estimated using the Black-Scholes valuation method. The weighted average grant date fair value of options granted using the Black-Scholes valuation method in 2019 was $3.87 per share. NaNNo stock options were granted in 2020.  The significant assumptions used for shares granted in 2019 were:
2019
Expected stock price volatility57.00 %
Expected annual dividend payment%
Risk-free interest rate1.51% to 1.52%
Expected life (years)4.5
2022 or 2021.  

Expected volatilities are based on historical volatility of PG&E Corporation’s common stock.  The expected dividend payment is the dividend yield at the date of grant.  The risk-free interest rate for periods within the contractual term of the stock option is based on the U.S. Treasury rates in effect at the date of grant.  The expected life of stock options is derived from historical data that estimates stock option exercises and employee departure behavior.

There was 0no tax benefit recognized from stock options for the year ended December 31, 2020.2022.

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The following table summarizes stock option activity for PG&E Corporation and the Utility for 2020:
Number of
Stock Options
Weighted Average Grant-
Date Fair Value
Weighted Average Remaining Contractual TermAggregate Intrinsic Value
Outstanding at January 14,281,403 $5.98 $— 
Granted (1)
20,065 3.87 — 
Exercised— — 
Forfeited or expired(2,080,221)3.87 — 
Outstanding at December 312,221,247 7.45 5.33 years— 
Vested or expected to vest at December 312,215,076 7.43 5.31 years— 
Exercisable at December 311,840,893 $6.86 4.93 years$— 
2022:
Number of
Stock Options
Weighted Average Grant-
Date Fair Value
Weighted Average Remaining Contractual TermAggregate Intrinsic Value
Outstanding at January 12,195,834 $7.42 $— 
Granted (1)
— — — 
Exercised— — — 
Forfeited or expired(43,702)10.23 — 
Outstanding at December 312,152,132 7.36 2.41— 
Vested or expected to vest at December 312,152,132 7.36 2.41— 
Exercisable at December 312,152,132 $7.36 2.41$— 
(1) Represents additional payout of existing stock option grants.

Restricted Stock Units

Restricted stock units granted after 2014 generally vest equally over three years. Vested restricted stock units are settled in shares of PG&E Corporation common stock accompanied by cash payments to settle any dividend equivalents associated with the vested restricted stock units.  Compensation expense is generally recognized ratably over the vesting period based on grant-date fair value.  The weighted average grant-date fair value for restricted stock units granted during 2022, 2021, and 2020 2019,was $11.40, $11.01, and 2018 was $9.25, $18.57, and $40.92, respectively.  The total fair value of restricted stock units that vested during 2022, 2021, and 2020 2019, and 2018 was $31$46 million, $42$19 million, and $41$31 million, respectively.  The tax detriment from restricted stock units that vested in 20202022 was $19$4 million.  In general, forfeitures are recorded ratably over the vesting period, using historical averages and adjusted to actuals when vesting occurs.  As of December 31, 2020, $62022, $74 million of total unrecognized compensation costs related to nonvested restricted stock units was expected to be recognized over the remaining weighted average period of 1.581.48 years.

The following table summarizes restricted stock unit activity for 2020:
Number of
Restricted Stock Units
Weighted Average Grant-
Date Fair Value
Nonvested at January 11,040,835 $44.06 
Granted1,007,782 9.25 
Vested(944,090)33.14 
Forfeited(214,174)15.75 
Nonvested at December 31890,353 $23.05 
2022:
Number of
Restricted Stock Units
Weighted Average Grant-
Date Fair Value
Nonvested at January 110,090,375 $11.00 
Granted5,850,945 11.40 
Vested(4,175,008)10.96 
Forfeited(788,192)11.18 
Nonvested at December 3110,978,120 $11.21 

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Performance Shares

Performance shares generally will vest three years after the grant date.  UponFollowing vesting, performance shares are settled in shares of common stock based on either PG&E Corporation’s total shareholder return relative to a specified group of industry peer companies over a three-year performance period (“TSR”) or for a small number of awards, an internal PG&E Corporation metric.metric (subject in some instances to a multiplier based on TSR).  Dividend equivalents, if any, are paid in cash based on the amount of common stock to which the recipients are entitled. 

Compensation expense attributable to performance shares is generally recognized ratably over the applicable three-year period based on the grant-date fair value determined using a Monte Carlo simulation valuation model for the total shareholder return basedTSR-based awards or the grant-date market value of PG&E Corporation common stock for internal metric based awards.  The weighted average grant-date fair value for performance shares granted during 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 2018 was $9.62, $15.39, and $36.92 respectively.  The tax detriment from performance shares that vested in 2020 was $49 million.$13.44, $11.83, and $9.62 respectively.  In general, forfeitures are recorded ratably over the vesting period, using historical averages and adjusted to actuals when vesting occurs.  As of December 31, 2020, $542022, $43 million of total unrecognized compensation costs related to nonvested performance shares was expected to be recognized over the remaining weighted average period of 2.20.94 years.

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The following table summarizes activity for performance shares in 2020:
Number of
Performance Shares
Weighted Average Grant-
Date Fair Value
Nonvested at January 1688,423 $36.92 
Granted7,951,541 9.62 
Vested(132,526)41.27 
Forfeited (1)
(1,218,656)24.38 
Nonvested at December 317,288,782 $9.16 
(1) 2022:Includes performance shares that expired with 0 value as performance targets were not met.
Number of
Performance Shares
Weighted Average Grant-
Date Fair Value
Nonvested at January 18,567,009 $9.64 
Granted3,105,604 13.44 
Vested— — 
Forfeited
(650,559)10.15 
Nonvested at December 3111,022,054 $10.68 

NOTE 7:8: PREFERRED STOCK

PG&E Corporation has authorized 400 million shares of preferred stock, 0nenone of which is outstanding.

The Utility has authorized 75 million shares of first preferred stock, with a par value of $25 per share, and 10 million shares of $100 first preferred stock, with a par value of $100 per share.  At December 31, 20202022 and December 31, 2019,2021, the Utility’s preferred stock outstanding included $145 million of shares with interest rates between 5% and 6% designated as nonredeemable preferred stock and $113 million of shares with interest rates between 4.36% and 5% that are redeemable between $25.75 and $27.25 per share.share, respectively.  The Utility’s preferred stock outstanding are not subject to mandatory redemption. NaNNo shares of $100 first preferred stock are outstanding.

AtOn December 31, 2020,2022, annual dividends on the Utility’s nonredeemable preferred stock ranged from $1.25 to $1.50 per share.  The Utility’s redeemable preferred stock is subject to redemption at the Utility’s option, in whole or in part, if the Utility pays the specified redemption price plus accumulated and unpaid dividends through the redemption date.  At December 31, 2020,2022, annual dividends on redeemable preferred stock ranged from $1.09 to $1.25 per share.

Dividends on all Utility preferred stock are cumulative.  All shares of preferred stock have voting rights and an equal preference in dividend and liquidation rights.  Upon liquidation or dissolution of the Utility, holders of preferred stock would be entitled to the par value of such shares plus all accumulated and unpaid dividends, as specified for the class and series.  On February 8, 2022, the Board of Directors of the Utility authorized the payment of all cumulative and unpaid dividends on the Utility’s preferred stock as of January 31, 2022 totaling $59.1 million, which was paid on May 13, 2022, to holders of record on April 29, 2022. In addition to the dividends paid in arrears, the Utility paid approximately $11 million of dividends on redeemable preferred stock during the year ended December 31, 2022. On December 15, 2022, the Board of Directors of the Utility declared dividends on its outstanding series of preferred stock totaling $3.5 million, which was paid on February 15, 2023, to holders of record on January 31, 2023.

The Utility paid 0no dividends on preferred stock in 2020, 2019,2021 or 2018.2020.

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NOTE 8:9: EARNINGS PER SHARE

PG&E Corporation’s basic EPS is calculated by dividing the income (loss) available for common shareholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding.  PG&E Corporation applies the treasury stock method of reflecting the dilutive effect of outstanding share-based compensation in the calculation of diluted EPS.  The following is a reconciliation of PG&E Corporation’s income (loss) available for common shareholders and weighted average common shares outstanding for calculating diluted EPS for 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 2018.
 Year Ended December 31,
(in millions, except per share amounts)202020192018
Loss attributable to common shareholders$(1,318)$(7,656)$(6,851)
Weighted average common shares outstanding, basic1,257 528 517 
Add incremental shares from assumed conversions:
Employee share-based compensation
Equity Units
Weighted average common share outstanding, diluted1,257 528 517 
Total Loss per common share, diluted$(1.05)$(14.50)$(13.25)
2020.
 Year Ended December 31,
(in millions, except per share amounts)202220212020
Income (loss) available for common shareholders$1,800 $(102)$(1,318)
Weighted average common shares outstanding, basic1,987 1,985 1,257 
Add incremental shares from assumed conversions:
Employee share-based compensation— — 
Equity Units137 — — 
Weighted average common shares outstanding, diluted2,132 1,985 1,257 
Total earnings (loss) per common share, diluted$0.84 $(0.05)$(1.05)

For each of the periods presented above, the calculation of outstanding common shares on a diluted basis excluded an insignificant amount of options and securities that were antidilutive.

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NOTE 9:10: INCOME TAXES

PG&E Corporation and the Utility use the asset and liability method of accounting for income taxes.  The income tax provision includes current and deferred income taxes resulting from operations during the year. PG&E Corporation and the Utility estimate current period tax expense in addition to calculating deferred tax assetsDTAs and liabilities.  Deferred tax assetsDTAs and liabilities result from temporary tax and accounting timing differences, such as those arising from depreciation expense.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility recognize a tax benefit if it is more likely than not that a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return will be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities based on the technical merits of the position.  The tax benefit recognized in the financial statements is measured based on the largest amount of benefit that is greater than 50% likely of being realized upon settlement.  As such, the difference between a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return in future periods and the benefit recognized and measured pursuant to this guidance in the financial statements represents an unrecognized tax benefit. 

Investment tax credits are deferred and amortized to income over time.  PG&E Corporation amortizes its investment tax credits over the projected investment recovery period.  The Utility amortizes its investment tax credits over the life of the related property in accordance with regulatory treatment.

PG&E Corporation files a consolidated U.S. federal income tax return that includes the Utility and domestic subsidiaries in which its ownership is 80% or more.  PG&E Corporation files a combined state income tax return in California.  PG&E Corporation and the Utility are parties to a tax-sharing agreement under which the Utility determines its income tax provision (benefit) on a stand-alone basis. 

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The significant components of income tax provision (benefit) by taxing jurisdiction were as follows:
 PG&E CorporationUtility
 
Year Ended December 31,
(in millions)202020192018202020192018
Current:      
Federal$(26)$$(5)$(26)$$
State(34)101 (8)(34)94 (7)
Deferred:
Federal258 (2,361)(2,264)290 (2,363)(2,278)
State171 (1,136)(1,009)185 (1,137)(1,009)
Tax credits(7)(5)(6)(7)(5)(6)
Income tax provision (benefit)$362 $(3,400)$(3,292)$408 $(3,407)$(3,295)
 PG&E CorporationUtility
 
Year Ended December 31,
(in millions)202220212020202220212020
Current:      
Federal$(1)$— $(26)$(1)$— $(26)
State— (34)— — (34)
Deferred:
Federal(943)543 258 (852)588 290 
State(389)296 171 (348)316 185 
Tax credits(5)(4)(7)(5)(4)(7)
Income tax provision (benefit)$(1,338)$836 $362 $(1,206)$900 $408 

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The following tables describe net deferred income tax assets and liabilities:
PG&E CorporationUtility PG&E CorporationUtility
Year Ended December 31,
Year Ended December 31,
(in millions)(in millions)2020201920202019(in millions)2022202120222021
Deferred income tax assets:Deferred income tax assets:    Deferred income tax assets:    
Tax carryforwardsTax carryforwards$7,641 $1,390 $7,529 $1,308 Tax carryforwards$7,156 $5,628 $6,868 $5,425 
CompensationCompensation187 151 109 92 Compensation157 185 80 108 
Greenhouse gas allowanceGreenhouse gas allowance239 157 239 157 
Wildfire-related claims (1)
Wildfire-related claims (1)
544 6,520 544 6,520 
Wildfire-related claims (1)
1,489 1,723 1,489 1,723 
Operating lease liabilityOperating lease liability489 642 488 640 Operating lease liability368 346 368 346 
Transmission tower wireless licensesTransmission tower wireless licenses254 266 254 266 
Other (2)
Other (2)
212 112 219 121 
Other (2)
197 121 177 136 
Total deferred income tax assetsTotal deferred income tax assets$9,073 $8,815 $8,889 $8,681 Total deferred income tax assets$9,860 $8,426 $9,475 $8,161 
Deferred income tax liabilities:Deferred income tax liabilities:    Deferred income tax liabilities:    
Property related basis differencesProperty related basis differences8,311 7,984 8,300 7,973 Property related basis differences9,374 8,847 9,363 8,835 
Regulatory balancing accountsRegulatory balancing accounts763 381 763 381 Regulatory balancing accounts1,376 1,193 1,376 1,193 
Debt financing costsDebt financing costs526 526 Debt financing costs465 501 465 501 
Operating lease right of use assetOperating lease right of use asset489 642 488 640 Operating lease right of use asset368 346 368 346 
Income tax regulatory asset(3)
Income tax regulatory asset(3)
254 71 254 71 
Income tax regulatory asset (3)
764 517 764 517 
Other (4)
Other (4)
128 57 128 58 
Other (4)
245 199 230 178 
Total deferred income tax liabilitiesTotal deferred income tax liabilities$10,471 $9,135 $10,459 $9,123 Total deferred income tax liabilities$12,592 $11,603 $12,566 $11,570 
Total net deferred income tax liabilitiesTotal net deferred income tax liabilities$1,398 $320 $1,570 $442 Total net deferred income tax liabilities$2,732 $3,177 $3,091 $3,409 
(1) Amounts primarily relate to wildfire-related claims, net of estimated insurance recoveries, and legal and other costs related to various wildfires that have occurred onin PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s service territoryarea over the past several years.
(2) Amounts include benefits, environmental reserve,state taxes, and customer advances for construction. 
(3) Represents the tax gross up portion of the deferred income tax for the cumulative differences between amounts recognized for ratemaking purposes and amounts recognized for tax, including the impact of changes in net deferred taxes associated with a lower federal income tax rate as a result of the Tax Act.
(4) Amount primarily includes an environmental reserve.

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The following table reconciles income tax expense at the federal statutory rate to the income tax provision:
 PG&E CorporationUtility
 Year Ended December 31,
 202020192018202020192018
Federal statutory income tax rate21.0 %21.0 %21.0 %21.0 %21.0 %21.0 %
Increase (decrease) in income tax rate resulting from:
State income tax (net of federal benefit) (1)
(15.3)7.5 7.9 19.1 7.5 7.9 
Effect of regulatory treatment of fixed asset differences (2)
39.0 2.8 3.6 (44.9)2.8 3.6 
Tax credits1.5 0.1 0.1 (1.7)0.1 0.1 
Bankruptcy and emergence (3)
(82.5)54.1 
Other, net (4)
(2.1)(0.6)(0.1)2.2 (0.5)
Effective tax rate(38.4)%30.8 %32.5 %49.8 %30.9 %32.6 %
 PG&E CorporationUtility
 Year Ended December 31,
 202220212020202220212020
Federal statutory income tax rate21.0 %21.0 %21.0 %21.0 %21.0 %21.0 %
Increase (decrease) in income tax rate resulting from:
State income tax (net of federal benefit) (1)
(75.8)31.3 (15.3)(26.9)24.1 19.1 
Effect of regulatory treatment of fixed asset differences (2)
(123.8)(71.5)39.0 (49.2)(51.6)(44.9)
Tax credits(3.2)(1.7)1.5 (1.3)(1.2)(1.7)
Fire Victim Trust (3)
(160.9)127.3 (44.9)(64.0)91.9 51.7 
Bankruptcy and emergence— — (37.6)— — 2.4 
   Other, net (4)
12.9 5.3 (2.1)2.2 2.6 2.2 
Effective tax rate(329.8)%111.7 %(38.4)%(118.2)%86.8 %49.8 %
(1) Includes the effect of state flow-through ratemaking treatment.
(2) Includes the effect of federal flow-through ratemaking treatment for certain property-related costs.  For these temporary tax differences, PG&E Corporation and the Utility recognize the deferred tax impact in the current period and record offsetting regulatory assets and liabilities.  Therefore, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s effective tax rates are impacted as these differences arise and reverse.  PG&E Corporation and the Utility recognize such differences as regulatory assets or liabilities as it is probable that these amounts will be recovered from or returned to customers in future rates.  In 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 2018,2020, the amounts also reflect the impact of the amortization of excess deferred tax benefits to be refunded to customers as a result of the Tax Act passed in December 2017.
(3) The Utility includes an adjustment for the measurementtax benefit of the deferred tax assetsale of shares by the Fire Victim Trust in 2022, a DTA write-off associated with the grantor trust election for the Fire Victim Trust in 2021 and an adjustment for the DTA write-off for difference between the liability recorded related to the TCC RSARestructuring Support Agreement dated December 6, 2019 with the Official Committee of Tort Claimants and attorneys and other advisors and agents for certain holders of Fire Victim Claims (as defined therein), as amended and the ultimate value of PG&E Corporation stock contributed to the Fire Victim Trust.Trust in 2020. PG&E Corporation includes the same adjustment as the Utility andin these years as well as a permanent non-deductible equity backstop premium expense. This combined with a pre-tax loss and a pre-tax income for PG&E Corporation and the Utility, respectively, accounts for the remaining difference.expense in 2020.
(4) These amounts primarily represent the impact of tax audit settlements and non-tax deductible costs in 2020 and 2019.penalty costs.

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Unrecognized Tax Benefits

The following table reconciles the changes in unrecognized tax benefits:
 PG&E CorporationUtility
(in millions)202020192018202020192018
Balance at beginning of year$420 $377 $349 $420 $377 $349 
Reductions for tax position taken during a prior year(43)(1)(27)(43)(1)(27)
Additions for tax position taken during the current year60 44 55 60 44 55 
Settlements
Expiration of statute
Balance at end of year
$437 $420 $377 $437 $420 $377 
 PG&E CorporationUtility
(in millions)202220212020202220212020
Balance at beginning of year$498 $437 $420 $498 $437 $420 
Reductions for tax position taken during a prior year(1)(23)(43)(1)(23)(43)
Additions for tax position taken during the current year73 85 60 73 85 60 
Settlements— (1)— — (1)— 
Balance at end of year
$570 $498 $437 $570 $498 $437 

The component of unrecognized tax benefits that, if recognized, would affect the effective tax rate at December 31, 20202022 for PG&E Corporation and the Utility was $16$31 million.

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s unrecognized tax benefits are not likely tomay change significantly within the next 12 months.months based on tax audit progress.

Interest income, interest expense and penalties associated with income taxes are reflected in income tax expense on the Consolidated Statements of Income.  For the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 2018,2020, these amounts were immaterial.

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Tax Settlements

PG&E Corporation’s tax returns have been accepted through 2015 for federal income tax purposes, except for a few matters, the most significant of which relate to deductible repair costs for gas transmission and distribution lines of business and tax deductions claimed for regulatory fines and fees assessed as part of the penalty decision issued in 2015 for the San Bruno natural gas explosion in September of 2010. The Internal Revenue Service is auditing tax years 2015 through 2018.

PG&E Corporation’s tax returns have been accepted through 2014 for California income tax purposes. Tax years after 20072015 and thereafter remain subject to examination by the State of California. The State of California is auditing tax years 2015 through 2019.

Carryforwards

The following table describes PG&E Corporation’s operating loss and tax credit carryforward balances:
(in millions)December 31, 20202022Expiration
Year
Federal:  
Net operating loss carryforward - Pre-2018$3,6003,447 2031 - 2036
Net operating loss carryforward - Post-201724,88723,170 N/A
Tax credit carryforward134152 2029 - 20402041
State:
Net operating loss carryforward$25,36425,169 2039 - 20402041
Tax credit carryforward100126 Various

On the Petition Date, PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 in the Bankruptcy Court. PG&E Corporation does not believe that the Chapter 11 Cases resulted in loss of or limitation on the utilization of any of the tax carryforwards.PG&E Corporation will continue to monitor the status of tax carryforwards.

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Other Tax Matters

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s unrecognized tax benefits are not likely to change significantly within the next 12 months. At December 31, 2020, it is reasonably possible that within the next 12 months, unrecognized tax benefits will decrease. The amount is not expected to be material.

As of the date of this report, PG&E Corporation does not believe that it had undergone an ownership change, and consequently, its net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes are not limited by Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code.

In March 2020, Congress passed, and the President signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act. Under the CARES Act, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have deferred the payment of 2020 payroll taxes for the remainder of the year to 2021 and 2022. Half of the payment was paid in 2021, and the other half of the payment was paid in 2022.

During June 2020,Under Section 382 of the State of California enacted AB 85, which increases taxes on corporations overIRC, if a three-year period beginning in 2020 by suspension of thecorporation (or a consolidated group) undergoes an “ownership change,” net operating loss deductioncarryforwards and other tax attributes may be subject to certain limitations. In general, an ownership change occurs if the aggregate stock ownership of certain shareholders (generally five percent shareholders, applying certain look-through and aggregation rules) increases by more than 50% over such shareholders’ lowest percentage ownership during the testing period (generally three years). PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Amended Articles limit Transfers (as defined in the Amended Articles) that increase a limitperson’s or entity’s (including certain groups of $5 million per year on business tax credits.persons) ownership of PG&E Corporation’s equity securities to 4.75% or more prior to the Restriction Release Date (as defined in the Amended Articles) without approval by the Board of Directors of PG&E Corporation and the Utility do not anticipate any material impacts to PG&E Corporation’s Consolidated Financial Statements due to this legislation.

In December 2020, Congress passed, and the President signed into law the Consolidations and Appropriations Act of 2021. PG&E Corporation and the Utility do not expect this legislation to have a material impact to PG&E Corporation’s Consolidated Financial Statements.

See(the “Ownership Restrictions in PG&E Corporation’s Amended Articles” in Note 6 of the NotesRestrictions”). Due to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 for information on the possible election to treat the Fire Victim Trust as a “grantor trust”grantor trust for federal income tax purposes, the calculation of Percentage Stock Ownership (as defined in the Amended Articles) will effectively be based on a reduced number of shares outstanding, namely the total number of outstanding equity securities less the number of equity securities held by the Fire Victim Trust, the Utility, and ShareCo. As of the date of this report, it is more likely than not that PG&E Corporation has not undergone an ownership change, and consequently, its net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes are not limited by Section 382 of the IRC.

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Furthermore, the activities of the Fire Victim Trust are treated as activities of the Utility for tax purposes. Accordingly, PG&E Corporation will recognize income tax benefits and the corresponding DTA as the Fire Victim Trust sells shares of PG&E Corporation common stock, and the amounts of such benefits and assets will be impacted by the price at which the Fire Victim Trust sells the shares, rather than the price at the time such shares were transferred to the Fire Victim Trust. From inception through December 31, 2022, the Fire Victim Trust exchanged Plan Shares in the aggregate amount of 230,000,000 for an equal number of New Shares in the manner contemplated by the Share Exchange and Tax Matters Agreement; in each case, the Fire Victim Trust thereafter reported that it sold the applicable New Shares. In the year ended December 31, 2022, the Fire Victim Trust’s sale of PG&E Corporation common stock in the aggregate amount of 230,000,000 shares resulted in an aggregate tax benefit of $870 million recorded in PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Consolidated Financial Statements. On January 9, 2023, the Fire Victim Trust exchanged 60,000,000 Plan Shares and thereafter the Fire Victim Trust reported that it sold the applicable New Shares. An aggregate tax benefit of $256 million will be recorded in January 2023. For more information, see Note 7 above.

NOTE 10:11: DERIVATIVES

Use of Derivative Instruments

The Utility is exposed to commodity price risk as a result of its electricity and natural gas procurement activities. Procurement costs are recovered through customer rates. The Utility uses both derivative and non-derivative contracts to manage volatility in customer rates due to fluctuating commodity prices. Derivatives include contracts, such as power purchase agreements, forwards, futures, swaps, options, and CRRs that are traded either on an exchange or over-the-counter.

Derivatives are presented in the Utility’s Consolidated Balance Sheets and recorded at fair value and on a net basis in accordance with master netting arrangements for each counterparty. The fair value of derivative instruments is further offset by cash collateral paid or received where the right of offset and the intention to offset exist.

Price risk management activities that meet the definition of derivatives are recorded at fair value on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. These instruments are not held for speculative purposes and are subject to certain regulatory requirements. The Utility expects to fully recover inthrough rates all costs related to derivatives under the applicable ratemaking mechanism in place as long as the Utility’s price risk management activities are carried out in accordance with CPUC directives. Therefore, all unrealized gains and losses associated with the change in fair value of these derivatives are deferred and recorded within the Utility’s regulatory assets and liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Net realized gains or losses on commodity derivatives are recorded in the cost of electricity or the cost of natural gas with corresponding increases or decreases to regulatory balancing accounts for recovery from or refund to customers.

The Utility elects the normal purchase and sale exception for eligible derivatives. Eligible derivatives are those that require physical delivery in quantities that are expected to be used by the Utility over a reasonable period in the normal course of business, and do not contain pricing provisions unrelated to the commodity delivered.  These items are not reflected in the Consolidated Balance Sheets at fair value. 

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Volume of Derivative Activity

The volumes of the Utility’s outstanding derivatives were as follows:
 Contract Volume
At December 31,  Contract Volume at
Underlying ProductUnderlying ProductInstruments20202019Underlying ProductInstrumentsDecember 31, 2022December 31, 2021
Natural Gas (1) (MMBtus (2))
Natural Gas (1) (MMBtus (2))
Forwards, Futures and Swaps146,642,863 131,896,159 
Natural Gas (1) (MMBtus (2))
Forwards, Futures and Swaps171,212,813 173,361,635 
Options14,140,000 14,720,000  Options27,785,000 14,420,000 
Electricity (Megawatt-hours)Forwards, Futures and Swaps9,435,830 18,675,852 
Electricity (MWh)Electricity (MWh)Forwards, Futures and Swaps10,814,728 10,283,639 
OptionsOptions215,600 288,000 
Congestion Revenue Rights (3)
266,091,470 308,467,999 
Congestion Revenue Rights (3)
205,743,505 239,857,610 
(1) Amounts shown are for the combined positions of the electric fuels and core gas supply portfolios.
(2) Million British Thermal Units.
(3) CRRs are financial instruments that enable the holders to manage variability in electric energy congestion charges due to transmission grid limitations.

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Presentation of Derivative Instruments in the Financial Statements

AtAs of December 31, 2020,2022, the Utility’s outstanding derivative balances were as follows:
 Commodity Risk
(in millions)Gross Derivative
Balance
NettingCash CollateralTotal Derivative
Balance
Current assets – other$33 $$115 $148 
Other noncurrent assets – other136 136 
Current liabilities – other(38)15 (23)
Noncurrent liabilities – other(204)10 (194)
Total commodity risk$(73)$0 $140 $67 
 Commodity Risk
(in millions)Gross Derivative
Balance
NettingCash CollateralTotal Derivative
Balance
Current assets – other$824 $(170)$537 $1,191 
Other noncurrent assets – other306 — — 306 
Current liabilities – other(238)170 16 (52)
Noncurrent liabilities – other(177)— — (177)
Total commodity risk$715 $ $553 $1,268 

AtAs of December 31, 2019,2021, the Utility’s outstanding derivative balances were as follows:
 Commodity Risk
(in millions)Gross Derivative
Balance
NettingCash CollateralTotal Derivative
Balance
Current assets – other$36 $(6)$$34 
Other noncurrent assets – other130 (6)124 
Current liabilities – other(31)(23)
Noncurrent liabilities – other(130)(124)
Total commodity risk$5 $0 $6 $11 
 Commodity Risk
(in millions)Gross Derivative
Balance
NettingCash CollateralTotal Derivative
Balance
Current assets – other$58 $(9)$152 $201 
Other noncurrent assets – other169 — — 169 
Current liabilities – other(53)18 (26)
Noncurrent liabilities – other(216)— — (216)
Total commodity risk$(42)$ $170 $128 

Cash inflows and outflows associated with derivatives are included in operating cash flows on the Utility’s Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.

Some of the Utility’s derivatives instruments, including power purchase agreements, contain collateral posting provisions tied to the Utility’s credit rating from each of the major credit rating agencies, also known as a credit-risk-related contingent feature. Multiple credit agencies continue to rate the Utility below investment grade, which results in the Utility posting additional collateral. As of December 31, 2020,2022, the Utility satisfied or has otherwise addressed its obligations related to the credit-risk related contingency features.

NOTE 11:12: FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS

PG&E Corporation and the Utility measure their cash equivalents, trust assets, and price risk management instruments at fair value.  A three-tier fair value hierarchy is established that prioritizes the inputs to valuation methodologies used to measure fair value:

Level 1 – Observable inputs that reflect quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets.

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Level 2 – Other inputs that are directly or indirectly observable in the marketplace.

Level 3 – Unobservable inputs which are supported by little or no market activities.

The fair value hierarchy requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value.

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Assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis for PG&E Corporation and the Utility are summarized below.  Assets held in rabbi trusts are held by PG&E Corporation and not the Utility.
 Fair Value Measurements
  At December 31, 2020
(in millions)Level 1Level 2Level 3
Netting (1)
Total
Assets:     
Short-term investments$470 $$$— $470 
Nuclear decommissioning trusts
Short-term investments27 — 27 
Global equity securities2,398 — 2,398 
Fixed-income securities924 835 — 1,759 
Assets measured at NAV— — — — 25 
Total nuclear decommissioning trusts (2)
3,349 835 0  4,209 
Price risk management instruments (Note 10)     
Electricity166 170 
Gas113 114 
Total price risk management instruments0 3 166 115 284 
Rabbi trusts     
Fixed-income securities106 — 106 
Life insurance contracts79 — 79 
Total rabbi trusts0 185 0  185 
Long-term disability trust     
Short-term investments— 9 
Assets measured at NAV— — — — 158 
Total long-term disability trust9 0 0  167 
TOTAL ASSETS$3,828 $1,023 $166 $115 $5,315 
Liabilities:     
Price risk management instruments (Note 10)     
Electricity$$$238 $(25)$214 
Gas3 
TOTAL LIABILITIES$0 $4 $238 $(25)$217 
 Fair Value Measurements
  At December 31, 2022
(in millions)Level 1Level 2Level 3
Netting (1)
Total
Assets:     
Short-term investments$658 $— $— $— $658 
Fixed-income securities— 49 — — 49 
Nuclear decommissioning trusts
Short-term investments117 — — — 117 
Global equity securities1,845 — — — 1,845 
Fixed-income securities1,094 791 — — 1,885 
Assets measured at NAV— — — — 25 
Total nuclear decommissioning trusts (2)
3,056 791   3,872 
Customer credit trust
Short-term investments19 — — — 19 
Global equity securities218 — — — 218 
Fixed-income securities216 292 — — 508 
Total customer credit trust453 292   745 
Price risk management instruments (Note 11)     
Electricity— 94 432 40 566 
Gas— 604 — 327 931 
Total price risk management instruments 698 432 367 1,497 
Rabbi trusts     
Short-term investments25 — — — 25 
Global equity securities— — — 5 
Fixed-income securities— 69 — — 69 
Life insurance contracts— 64 — — 64 
Total rabbi trusts30 133   163 
Long-term disability trust     
Short-term investments10 — — — 10 
Assets measured at NAV— — — — 133 
Total long-term disability trust10    143 
TOTAL ASSETS$4,207 $1,963 $432 $367 $7,127 
Liabilities:     
Price risk management instruments (Note 11)     
Electricity$— $10 $233 $(20)$223 
Gas— 172 — (166)6 
TOTAL LIABILITIES$ $182 $233 $(186)$229 
(1) Includes the effect of the contractual ability to settle contracts under master netting agreements and cash collateral.
(2) Represents amount before deducting $671$575 million primarily related to deferred taxes on appreciation of investment value. 


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Fair Value Measurements Fair Value Measurements
At December 31, 2019 December 31, 2021
(in millions)(in millions)Level 1Level 2Level 3
Netting (1)
Total(in millions)Level 1Level 2Level 3
Netting (1)
Total
Assets:Assets:     Assets:     
Short-term investmentsShort-term investments$1,323 $$$— $1,323 Short-term investments$289 $— $— $— $289 
Nuclear decommissioning trustsNuclear decommissioning trustsNuclear decommissioning trusts
Short-term investmentsShort-term investments— 6 Short-term investments22 — — — 22 
Global equity securitiesGlobal equity securities2,086 — 2,086 Global equity securities2,504 — — — 2,504 
Fixed-income securitiesFixed-income securities862 728 — 1,590 Fixed-income securities1,158 866 — — 2,024 
Assets measured at NAVAssets measured at NAV— — — — 21 Assets measured at NAV— — — — 31 
Total nuclear decommissioning trusts (2)
Total nuclear decommissioning trusts (2)
2,954 728 0  3,703 
Total nuclear decommissioning trusts (2)
3,684 866   4,581 
Price risk management instruments (Note 10)Price risk management instruments (Note 10)    Price risk management instruments (Note 10)    
ElectricityElectricity161 (11)152 Electricity— 214 229 
GasGas6 Gas— — 137 141 
Total price risk management instrumentsTotal price risk management instruments0 5 161 (8)158 Total price risk management instruments 13 214 143 370 
Rabbi trustsRabbi trusts    Rabbi trusts    
Fixed-income securitiesFixed-income securities100 — 100 Fixed-income securities— 104 — — 104 
Life insurance contractsLife insurance contracts73 — 73 Life insurance contracts— 76 — — 76 
Total rabbi trustsTotal rabbi trusts0 173 0  173 Total rabbi trusts 180   180 
Long-term disability trustLong-term disability trust    Long-term disability trust    
Short-term investmentsShort-term investments10 — 10 Short-term investments— — — 6 
Assets measured at NAVAssets measured at NAV— — — — 156 Assets measured at NAV— — — — 132 
Total long-term disability trustTotal long-term disability trust10 0 0  166 Total long-term disability trust6    138 
TOTAL ASSETSTOTAL ASSETS$4,287 $906 $161 $(8)$5,523 TOTAL ASSETS$3,979 $1,059 $214 $143 $5,558 
Liabilities:Liabilities:    Liabilities:    
Price risk management instruments (Note 10)Price risk management instruments (Note 10)    Price risk management instruments (Note 10)    
ElectricityElectricity156 (13)146 Electricity$— $11 $248 $(24)$235 
GasGas(1)1 Gas— 10 — (3)7 
TOTAL LIABILITIESTOTAL LIABILITIES$1 $4 $156 $(14)$147 TOTAL LIABILITIES$ $21 $248 $(27)$242 
(1) Includes the effect of the contractual ability to settle contracts under master netting agreements and cash collateral.
(2) Represents amount before deducting $530$783 million, primarily related to deferred taxes on appreciation of investment value.

Valuation Techniques

The following describes the valuation techniques used to measure the fair value of the assets and liabilities shown in the tables above. There are no restrictions on the terms and conditions upon which the investments may be redeemed. There were no material transfers between any levels for the years ended December 31, 20202022 and 2019.2021.

Trust Assets

Assets Measured at Fair Value

In general, investments held in the trusts are exposed to various risks, such as interest rate, credit, and market volatility risks. Nuclear decommissioning trust assets, customer credit trust assets and other trust assets are composed primarily of equity and fixed-income securities and also include short-term investments that are money market funds valued atclassified as Level 1.

Global equity securities primarily include investments in common stock that are valued based on quoted prices in active markets and are classified as Level 1.

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Fixed-income securities are primarily composed of U.S. government and agency securities, municipal securities, and other fixed-income securities, including corporate debt securities.  U.S. government and agency securities primarily consist of U.S. Treasury securities that are classified as Level 1 because the fair value is determined by observable market prices in active markets. A market approach is generally used to estimate the fair value of fixed-income securities classified as Level 2 using evaluated pricing data such as broker quotes, for similar securities adjusted for observable differences.  Significant inputs used in the valuation model generally include benchmark yield curves and issuer spreads.  The external credit ratings, coupon rate, and maturity of each security are considered in the valuation model, as applicable.

Assets Measured at NAV Using Practical Expedient

Investments in the nuclear decommissioning trusts and the long-term disability trust that are measured at fair value using the NAV per share practical expedient have not been classified in the fair value hierarchy tables above.  The fair value amounts are included in the tables above in order to reconcile to the amounts presented in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.  These investments include commingled funds that are composed of equity securities traded publicly on exchanges as well as fixed-income securities that are composed primarily of U.S. government securities, credit securities and asset-backed securities.

Price Risk Management Instruments

Price risk management instruments include physical and financial derivative contracts, such as power purchase agreements, forwards, futures, swaps, options, and CRRs that are traded either on an exchange or over-the-counter. 

Power purchase agreements, forwards, and swaps are valued using a discounted cash flow model.  Exchange-traded futures that are valued using observable market forward prices for the underlying commodity are classified as Level 1.  Over-the-counter forwards and swaps that are identical to exchange-traded futures, or are valued using forward prices from broker quotes that are corroborated with market data are classified as Level 2.  Exchange-traded options are valued using observable market data and market-corroborated data and are classified as Level 2. 

Long-dated power purchase agreements that are valued using significant unobservable data are classified as Level 3. These Level 3 contracts are valued using either estimated basis adjustments from liquid trading points or techniques, including extrapolation from observable prices, when a contract term extends beyond a period for which market data is available.  The Utility utilizes models to derive pricing inputs for the valuation of the Utility’s Level 3 instruments using pricing inputs from brokers and historical data.

The Utility holds CRRs to hedge the financial risk of CAISO-imposed congestion charges in the day-ahead market.  Limited market data is available in the CAISO auction and between auction dates; therefore, the Utility utilizes historical prices to forecast forward prices. CRRs are classified as Level 3.

Level 3 Measurements and Uncertainty Analysis

Inputs used and the fair value of Level 3 instruments are reviewed period-over-period and compared with market conditions to determine reasonableness.

Significant increases or decreases in any of those inputs would result in a significantly higher or lower fair value, respectively.  All reasonable costs related to Level 3 instruments are expected to be recoverable through customer rates; therefore, there is no impact toon net income resulting from changes in the fair value of these instruments.  See Note 1011 above.
 Fair Value at   
(in millions)At December 31, 2020Valuation
Technique
Unobservable
Input
 
Fair Value MeasurementAssetsLiabilities
 Range (1)/Weighted-Average Price (2)
Congestion revenue rights$153 $74 Market approachCRR auction prices$ (320.25) - 320.25 / 0.30
Power purchase agreements$13 $164 Discounted cash flowForward prices$ 12.56 - 148.30 / 35.52
 Fair Value at   
(in millions)At December 31, 2022Valuation
Technique
Unobservable
Input
 
Fair Value MeasurementAssetsLiabilities
 Range (1)/Weighted-Average Price (2)
Congestion revenue rights$305 $138 Market approachCRR auction prices$ (145.09) - 2,724.93 / 0.89
Power purchase agreements$127 $95 Discounted cash flowForward prices$ (6.39) - 286.75 / 78.14
(1) Represents price per megawatt-hour.MWh.
(2) Unobservable inputs were weighted by the relative fair value of the instruments.

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Fair Value at    Fair Value at   
(in millions)(in millions)At December 31, 2019Valuation
Technique
Unobservable
Input
 (in millions)At December 31, 2021Valuation
Technique
Unobservable
Input
 
Fair Value MeasurementFair Value MeasurementAssetsLiabilities
 Range (1)/Weighted-Average Price (2)
Fair Value MeasurementAssetsLiabilities
 Range (1)/Weighted-Average Price (2)
Congestion revenue rightsCongestion revenue rights$140 $44 Market approachCRR auction prices$ (20.20) - 20.20 / 0.28Congestion revenue rights$188 $93 Market approachCRR auction prices$ (40.77) - 2,265.94 / 0.40
Power purchase agreementsPower purchase agreements$21 $112 Discounted cash flowForward prices$ 11.77 - 59.38 / 33.62Power purchase agreements$26 $155 Discounted cash flowForward prices$ (7.97) - 256.20 / 47.17
(1) Represents price per megawatt-hour.MWh.
(2) Unobservable inputs were weighted by the relative fair value of the instruments.

Level 3 Reconciliation

The following table presents the reconciliation for Level 3 price risk management instruments for the years ended December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, respectively:
 Price Risk Management Instruments
(in millions)20202019
Asset (liability) balance as of January 1$5 $95 
Net realized and unrealized gains:
Included in regulatory assets and liabilities or balancing accounts (1)
(77)(90)
Asset (liability) balance as of December 31$(72)$5 
 Price Risk Management Instruments
(in millions)20222021
Liability balance as of January 1$(34)$(72)
Net realized and unrealized gains:
Included in regulatory assets and liabilities or balancing accounts (1)
233 38 
Asset (Liability) balance as of December 31$199 $(34)
(1) The costs related to price risk management activities are fully passedrecovered through to customers in rates. Accordingly, unrealized gains and losses are deferred in regulatory liabilities and assets and net income is not impacted.

Financial Instruments

PG&E Corporation and the Utility use the following methods and assumptions in estimating fair value for financial instruments: the fair values of cash, net accounts receivable, short-term borrowings, accounts payable, customer deposits, and the Utility’s variable rate pollution control bond loan agreements approximate their carrying values atas of December 31, 20202022 and 2019,December 31, 2021, as they are short-term in nature.

The carrying amount and fair value of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s long-term debt instruments were as follows (the table below excludes financial instruments with carrying values that approximate their fair values):
 At December 31,
 20202019
(in millions)Carrying AmountLevel 2 Fair Value
Carrying Amount(1)
Level 2 Fair Value(1)(2)
Debt (Note 5)    
PG&E Corporation$1,901 $2,175 $$
Utility29,664 32,632 1,500 1,500 
(1) On January 29, 2019 PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed for Chapter 11 protection. Debt held by PG&E Corporation became debt subject to compromise and is valued at the allowed claim amount. For more information, see Note 2 and Note 5.
(2) The fair value of the Utility pre-petition debt was $17.9 billion as of December 31, 2019. For more information, see Note 2 and Note 5.
 At December 31, 2022At December 31, 2021
(in millions)Carrying AmountLevel 2 Fair ValueCarrying AmountLevel 2 Fair Value
Debt (Note 5)    
PG&E Corporation$4,355 $4,490 $4,619 $4,796 
Utility32,847 27,666 31,816 35,803 

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Nuclear Decommissioning Trust Investments

The following table provides a summary of equity securities and available-for-sale debt securities:
(in millions)Amortized
Cost
Total
Unrealized
Gains
Total
Unrealized
Losses
Total Fair
Value
As of December 31, 2022    
Nuclear decommissioning trusts    
Short-term investments$117 $— $— $117 
Global equity securities413 1,468 (11)1,870 
Fixed-income securities1,991 10 (116)1,885 
Total (1)
$2,521 $1,478 $(127)$3,872 
As of December 31, 2021    
Nuclear decommissioning trusts    
Short-term investments$22 $— $— $22 
Global equity securities479 2,066 (10)2,535 
Fixed-income securities1,938 98 (12)2,024 
Total (1)
$2,439 $2,164 $(22)$4,581 
(1) Represents amounts before deducting $575 million and $783 million as of December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively, primarily related to deferred taxes on appreciation of investment value.

The fair value of fixed-income securities by contractual maturity is as follows:
As of
(in millions)December 31, 2022
Less than 1 year$42 
1–5 years624 
5–10 years400 
More than 10 years819 
Total maturities of fixed-income securities$1,885

The following table provides a summary of activity for the fixed-income and equity securities:
(in millions)202220212020
Proceeds from sales and maturities of nuclear decommissioning trust investments$3,316 $1,678 $1,518 
Gross realized gains on securities286 159 
Gross realized losses on securities(3)(19)(41)

Customer Credit Trust

The following table provides a summary of equity securities and available-for-sale debt securities:
(in millions)Amortized
Cost
Total
Unrealized
Gains
Total
Unrealized
Losses
Total Fair
Value
As of December 31, 2020    
Nuclear decommissioning trusts    
Short-term investments$27 $$$27 
Global equity securities543 1,881 (1)2,423 
Fixed-income securities1,610 152 (3)1,759 
Total (1)
$2,180 $2,033 $(4)$4,209 
As of December 31, 2019    
Nuclear decommissioning trusts    
Short-term investments$$$$
Global equity securities500 1,609 (2)2,107 
Fixed-income securities1,505 89 (4)1,590 
Total (1)
$2,011 $1,698 $(6)$3,703 
(1) Represents amounts before deducting $671 million and $530 million at December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, primarily related to deferred taxes on appreciation of investment value.
(in millions)Amortized
Cost
Total
Unrealized
Gains
Total
Unrealized
Losses
Total Fair
Value
As of December 31, 2022    
Customer credit trust    
Short-term investments$19 $— $— $19 
Global equity securities219 13 (14)218 
Fixed-income securities516 — (8)508 
Total
$754 $13 $(22)$745 

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The fair value of fixed-income securities by contractual maturity is as follows:
 As of
(in millions)December 31, 20202022
Less than 1 year$5079 
1–5 years475123 
5–10 years403120 
More than 10 years831186 
Total maturities of fixed-income securities$1,759508 

The following table provides a summary of activity for the fixed-income and equity securities:
(in millions)202020192018
Proceeds from sales and maturities of nuclear decommissioning investments$1,518 $956 $1,412 
Gross realized gains on securities159 69 54 
Gross realized losses on securities(41)(14)(24)
(in millions)2022
Proceeds from sales and maturities of customer credit trust investments$250 
Gross realized gains on securities10 
Gross realized losses on securities (1)
(41)
(1) Includes $6 million of impaired debt securities which were written down to their respective fair values during the year ended December 31, 2022.

NOTE 12:13: EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

Pension Plan and Postretirement Benefits Other than Pensions (“PBOP”)

PG&E Corporation and the Utility sponsor a non-contributory defined benefit pension plan for eligible employees hired before December 31, 2012 and a cash balance plan for those eligible employees hired after this date or who made a one-time election to participate (“Pension Plan”).  Certain trusts underlying these plans are qualified trusts under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.IRC.  If certain conditions are met, PG&E Corporation and the Utility can deduct payments made to the qualified trusts, subject to certain limitations.  PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s funding policy is to contribute tax-deductible amounts, consistent with applicable regulatory decisions and federal minimum funding requirements.  On an annual basis, the Utility funds the pension plansplan up to the amount it is authorized to recover inthrough rates.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility also sponsor contributory postretirement medical plans for retirees and their eligible dependents, and non-contributory postretirement life insurance plans for eligible employees and retirees.  PG&E Corporation and the Utility use a fiscal year-end measurement date for all plans.
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Change in Plan Assets, Benefit Obligations, and Funded Status

The following tables show the reconciliation of changes in plan assets, benefit obligations, and the plans’ aggregate funded status for pension benefits and other benefits for PG&E Corporation during 20202022 and 2019:

Pension Plan
(in millions)20202019
Change in plan assets:
Fair value of plan assets at beginning of year$18,547 $15,312 
Actual return on plan assets2,736 3,713 
Company contributions343 328 
Benefits and expenses paid(867)(806)
Fair value of plan assets at end of year$20,759 $18,547 
Change in benefit obligation:
Benefit obligation at beginning of year$20,525 $17,407 
Service cost for benefits earned530 443 
Interest cost713 758 
Actuarial loss (1)
2,271 2,723 
Plan amendments
Benefits and expenses paid(867)(806)
Benefit obligation at end of year (2)
$23,172 $20,525 
Funded Status:
Current liability$(3)$(14)
Noncurrent liability(2,410)(1,964)
Net liability at end of year
$(2,413)$(1,978)
(1) The actuarial losses for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 were primarily due to a decrease in the discount rate used to measure the projected benefit obligation. The actuarial loss for the year ended December 31, 2019 was also driven by unfavorable changes in the demographic assumptions used to measure the projected benefit obligation.
(2) PG&E Corporation’s accumulated benefit obligation was $20.7 billion and $18.4 billion at December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.2021:

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Postretirement Benefits Other than Pensions
(in millions)20202019
Change in plan assets:
Fair value of plan assets at beginning of year$2,678 $2,258 
Actual return on plan assets379 474 
Company contributions26 29 
Plan participant contribution81 82 
Benefits and expenses paid(169)(165)
Fair value of plan assets at end of year$2,995 $2,678 
Change in benefit obligation:
Benefit obligation at beginning of year$1,832 $1,745 
Service cost for benefits earned61 56 
Interest cost63 76 
Actuarial (gain) loss (1)
(14)22 
Benefits and expenses paid(149)(150)
Federal subsidy on benefits paid
Plan participant contributions80 81 
Benefit obligation at end of year$1,876 $1,832 
Funded Status: (2)
Noncurrent asset$1,153 $879 
Noncurrent liability(34)(33)
Net asset at end of year$1,119 $846 
Pension Plan
(in millions)20222021
Change in plan assets:
Fair value of plan assets at beginning of year$21,895 $20,759 
Actual return on plan assets(4,916)1,693 
Company contributions339 335 
Benefits and expenses paid(949)(892)
Fair value of plan assets at end of year$16,369 $21,895 
Change in benefit obligation:
Benefit obligation at beginning of year$22,759 $23,172 
Service cost for benefits earned575 587 
Interest cost692 645 
Actuarial gain (1)
(6,471)(752)
Plan amendments— — 
Benefits and expenses paid(947)(893)
Benefit obligation at end of year (2)
$16,608 $22,759 
Funded Status:
Current liability$(8)$(9)
Noncurrent liability(231)(856)
Net liability at end of year
$(239)$(865)
(1)The actuarial gain for the year ended December 31, 20202022 and December 31, 2021 was primarily due to favorable changes in the demographic and medical cost assumptions, offset by a decrease in the discount rate used to measure the projected benefit obligation. The actuarial loss for the year ended December 31, 2019 was primarily due to a decreasean increase in the discount rate used to measure the projected benefit obligation, offset by favorableunfavorable changes in the demographic assumptionsassumptions.
(2) PG&E Corporation’s accumulated benefit obligation was $15.4 billion and $20.4 billion at December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

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Postretirement Benefits Other than Pensions
(in millions)20222021
Change in plan assets:
Fair value of plan assets at beginning of year$3,102 $2,995 
Actual return on plan assets(693)193 
Company contributions26 10 
Plan participant contribution81 80 
Benefits and expenses paid(180)(176)
Fair value of plan assets at end of year$2,336 $3,102 
Change in benefit obligation:
Benefit obligation at beginning of year$1,766 $1,876 
Service cost for benefits earned62 63 
Interest cost53 51 
Actuarial gain (1)
(486)(152)
Benefits and expenses paid(162)(156)
Federal subsidy on benefits paid
Plan participant contributions81 80 
VSP related termination benefits (3)
22 — 
Benefit obligation at end of year$1,339 $1,766 
Funded Status: (2)
Noncurrent asset$997 $1,340 
Noncurrent liability— (4)
Net asset at end of year$997 $1,336 
(1) The actuarial gain for the elimination of excise tax. year ended December 31, 2022 was primarily due to an increase in the discount rate used to measure the accumulated benefit obligations, offset by unfavorable changes in demographic assumptions. The actuarial gain for the year ended December 31, 2021 was primarily due to an increase in the discount rate used to measure the accumulated benefit obligations and favorable claims cost changes
(2) At December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, the postretirement medical plan was in an overfunded position and the postretirement life insurance plan waswere in an underfunded position.overfunded positions. The projected benefit obligation and the fair value of plan assets for the postretirement life insurance plan were $377$259 million and $343$266 million as of December 31, 2020,2022, and $337$363 million and $305$359 million as of December 31, 2019,2021, respectively.
(3) Represents VSP-related credits to employee retirement health savings accounts. See Note 3 above.

There was no material difference between PG&E Corporation and the Utility for the information disclosed above.

Components of Net Periodic Benefit Cost

PG&E Corporation and the Utility sponsor a non-contributory defined benefit pension plan and cash balance plan.  Both plans are included in “Pension Benefits” below.  Post-retirement medical and life insurance plans are included in “Other Benefits” below.

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Net periodic benefit costcosts as reflected in PG&E Corporation’s Consolidated Statements of Income waswere as follows:

Pension Plan
(in millions)202020192018
Service cost for benefits earned (1)
$530 $443 $514 
Interest cost713 758 687 
Expected return on plan assets(1,044)(906)(1,021)
Amortization of prior service cost(6)(6)(6)
Amortization of net actuarial loss
Net periodic benefit cost196 292 179 
Less: transfer to regulatory account (2)
136 42 157 
Total expense recognized$332 $334 $336 
(in millions)202220212020
Service cost for benefits earned (1)
$575 $587 $530 
Interest cost692 645 713 
Expected return on plan assets(1,189)(1,046)(1,044)
Amortization of prior service cost(4)(6)(6)
Amortization of net actuarial loss
Net periodic benefit cost76 186 196 
Less: transfer to regulatory account (2)
254 147 136 
Total expense recognized$330 $333 $332 
(1) A portion of service costs are capitalized pursuant to ASU 2017-07.
(2) The Utility recorded these amounts to a regulatory account as they are probable of recovery from customers inthrough future rates.

Postretirement Benefits Other than Pensions
(in millions)202020192018
Service cost for benefits earned (1)
$61 $56 $66 
Interest cost63 76 69 
Expected return on plan assets(138)(123)(130)
Amortization of prior service cost14 14 14 
Amortization of net actuarial loss(21)(3)(5)
Net periodic benefit cost$(21)$20 $14 
(in millions)202220212020
Service cost for benefits earned (1)
$62 $63 $61 
Interest cost53 51 63 
Expected return on plan assets(130)(137)(138)
Amortization of prior service cost14 14 
Amortization of net actuarial loss(40)(33)(21)
Special termination benefits22 — — 
Net periodic benefit cost$(26)$(42)$(21)
(1) A portion of service costs are capitalized pursuant to ASU 2017-07.

Non-service costs are reflected in Other income, net on the Consolidated Statements of Income. Service costs are reflected in Operating and maintenance on the Consolidated Statements of Income.

There was no material difference between PG&E Corporation and the Utility for the information disclosed above. 

Components of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income

PG&E Corporation and the Utility record unrecognized prior service costs and unrecognized gains and losses related to pension and post-retirement benefits other than pension as components of accumulated other comprehensive income, net of tax.  In addition, regulatory adjustments are recorded in the Consolidated Statements of Income and Consolidated Balance Sheets to reflect the difference between expense or income calculated in accordance with GAAP for accounting purposes and expense or income for ratemaking purposes, which is based on authorized plan contributions.  For pension benefits, a regulatory asset or liability is recorded for amounts that would otherwise be recorded to accumulated other comprehensive income.  For post-retirement benefits other than pension, the Utility generally records a regulatory liability for amounts that would otherwise be recorded to accumulated other comprehensive income.  As the Utility is unable to record a regulatory asset for these other benefits, the charge remains in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss).

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Valuation Assumptions

The following weighted average year-end actuarial assumptions were used in determining the plans’ projected benefit obligations and net benefit costs.
 Pension PlanPBOP Plans
 December 31,December 31,
 202020192018202020192018
Discount rate2.77 %3.46 %4.35 %2.67 - 2.80%3.37 - 3.47%4.29 - 4.37%
Rate of future compensation increases3.80 %3.90 %3.90 %N/AN/AN/A
Expected return on plan assets5.10 %5.70 %6.00 %3.10 - 6.10%3.50 - 6.60%3.60 - 6.80%
Interest crediting rate for cash balance plan1.95 %2.11 %3.15 %N/AN/AN/A
 Pension PlanPBOP Plans
 December 31,December 31,
 202220212020202220212020
Discount rate5.54 %3.03 %2.77 %5.50 - 5.54%2.97 - 3.04%2.67 - 2.80%
Rate of future compensation increases3.80 %3.80 %3.80 %N/AN/AN/A
Expected return on plan assets6.10 %5.50 %5.10 %3.70 - 7.30%3.30 - 6.40%3.10 - 6.10%
Interest crediting rate for cash balance plan4.19 %1.95 %1.95 %N/AN/AN/A

The assumed health care cost trend rate as of December 31, 20202022 was 6.3%6.5%, gradually decreasing to the ultimate trend rate of approximately 4.5% in 20282031 and beyond.

Expected rates of return on plan assets were developed by estimating future stock and bond returns and then applying these returns to the target asset allocations of the employee benefit plan trusts, resulting in a weighted average rate of return on plan assets.  Returns on fixed-income debt investments were projected based on real maturity and credit spreads added to a long-term inflation rate.  Returns on equity investments were projected based on estimates of dividend yield and real earnings growth added to a long-term inflation rate.  For the pension plan, the assumed return of 5.1%6.1% compares to a ten-year actual return of 9.6%5.8%.  The rate used to discount pension benefits and other benefits was based on a yield curve developed from market data of over approximately 835848 Aa-grade non-callable bonds at December 31, 2020.2022.  This yield curve has discount rates that vary based on the duration of the obligations.  The estimated future cash flows for the pension benefits and other benefit obligations were matched to the corresponding rates on the yield curve to derive a weighted average discount rate.

Investment Policies and Strategies

The financial position of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s funded status is the difference between the fair value of plan assets and projected benefit obligations.  Volatility in funded status occurs when asset values change differently from liability values and can result in fluctuations in costs in financial reporting, as well as the amount of minimum contributions required under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.  PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s investment policies and strategies are designed to increase the ratio of trust assets to plan liabilities at an acceptable level of funded status volatility. 

The trusts’ asset allocations are meant to manage volatility, reduce costs, and diversify its holdings.  Interest rate, credit, and equity risk are the key determinants of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s funded status volatility.  In addition to affecting the trusts’ fixed income portfolio market values, interest rate changes also influence liability valuations as discount rates move with current bond yields.  To manage volatility, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s trusts hold significant allocations in long maturity fixed-income investments. Although they contribute to funded status volatility, equity investments are held to reduce long-term funding costs due to their higher expected return.  Real assets and absolute return investments are held to diversify the trust’s holdings in equity and fixed-income investments by exhibiting returns with low correlation to the direction of these markets. Real assets include commodities futures, global real estate investment trusts (“REITS”), global listed infrastructure equities, and private real estate funds.  Absolute return investments include hedge fund portfolios. 

Derivative instruments such as equity index futures are used to meet target equity exposure. Derivative instruments, such as equity index futures and U.S. treasury futures, are also used to rebalance the allocation between fixed income/income and equity allocation of the pension’s portfolio. Foreign currency exchange contracts are used to hedge a portion of the non U.S. dollar exposure of global equity investments.

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The target asset allocation percentages for major categories of trust assets for pension and other benefit plans are as follows:
 Pension PlanPBOP Plans
 202120202019202120202019
Global equity securities30 %30 %29 %36 %28 %33 %
Absolute return%%%%%%
Real assets%%%%%%
Fixed-income securities60 %60 %58 %58 %62 %58 %
Total100 %100 %100 %100 %100 %100 %
 Pension PlanPBOP Plans
 202320222021202320222021
Global equity securities26 %30 %30 %28 %26 %36 %
Absolute return%%%%%%
Real assets%%%%%%
Fixed-income securities65 %60 %60 %68 %70 %58 %
Total100 %100 %100 %100 %100 %100 %

PG&E Corporation and the Utility apply a risk management framework for managing the risks associated with employee benefit plan trust assets.  The guiding principles of this risk management framework are the clear articulation of roles and responsibilities, appropriate delegation of authority, and proper accountability and documentation.  Trust investment policies and investment manager guidelines include provisions designed to ensure prudent diversification, manage risk through appropriate use of physical direct asset holdings and derivative securities, and identify permitted and prohibited investments.

Fair Value Measurements

The following tables present the fair value of plan assets for pension and other benefits plans by major asset category at December 31, 20202022 and 2019. 
 Fair Value Measurements
 At December 31,
 20202019
(in millions)Level 1Level 2Level 3TotalLevel 1Level 2Level 3Total
Pension Plan:        
Short-term investments$334 $408 $$742 $613 $231 $$844 
Global equity securities1,875 1,875 1,650 1,650 
Absolute Return
Real assets517 517 548 549 
Fixed-income securities2,467 7,154 12 9,633 2,227 6,413 15 8,655 
Assets measured at NAV— — — 8,224 — — — 6,937 
Total$5,194 $7,563 $12 $20,993 $5,038 $6,646 $15 $18,636 
PBOP Plans:        
Short-term investments$37 $$$37 $37 $$$37 
Global equity securities173 173 151 151 
Real assets54 54 58 58 
Fixed-income securities481 715 1,197 193 875 1,069 
Assets measured at NAV— — — 1,549 — — — 1,373 
Total$745 $715 $1 $3,010 $439 $875 $1 $2,688 
Total plan assets at fair value   $24,003    $21,324 
2021.
 Fair Value Measurements
 At December 31,
 20222021
(in millions)Level 1Level 2Level 3TotalLevel 1Level 2Level 3Total
Pension Plan:        
Short-term investments$461 $126 $— $587 $552 $255 $— $807 
Global equity securities1,430 — — 1,430 2,074 424 — 2,498 
Absolute Return— — — — — — 
Real assets426 — — 426 632 — — 632 
Fixed-income securities1,946 6,086 8,040 2,729 7,388 27 10,144 
Assets measured at NAV— — — 5,886 — — — 7,972 
Total$4,263 $6,212 $8 $16,369 $5,987 $8,068 $27 $22,054 
PBOP Plans:        
Short-term investments$26 $— $— $26 $31 $— $— $31 
Global equity securities83 — — 83 105 — — 105 
Real assets29 — — 29 34 — — 34 
Fixed-income securities406 702 1,109 776 875 1,652 
Assets measured at NAV— — — 1,100 — — — 1,296 
Total$544 $702 $1 $2,347 $946 $875 $1 $3,118 
Total plan assets at fair value   $18,716    $25,172 

In addition to the total plan assets disclosed at fair value in the table above, the trusts had other net liabilities of $249$11 million and other net liabilities of $99$175 million at December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, respectively, comprised primarily of cash, accounts receivable, deferred taxes, and accounts payable. 

Valuation Techniques

The following describes the valuation techniques used to measure the fair value of the assets and liabilities shown in the table above.  All investments that are valued using a net asset valueNAV per share can be redeemed quarterly with a notice not to exceed 90 days.

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Short-Term Investments

Short-term investments consist primarily of commingled funds across government, credit, and asset-backed sectors. These securities are categorized as Level 1 and Level 2 assets.

Global Equity securitiesSecurities

The global equity category includes investments in common stock and equity-index futures.  Equity investments in common stock are actively traded on public exchanges and are therefore considered Level 1 assets.  These equity investments are generally valued based on unadjusted prices in active markets for identical securities.  Equity-index futures are valued based on unadjusted prices in active markets and are Level 1 assets.

Real Assets

The real asset category includes portfolios of commodity futures, global REITS, global listed infrastructure equities, and private real estate funds.  The commodity futures, global REITS, and global listed infrastructure equities are actively traded on a public exchange and are therefore considered Level 1 assets. 

Fixed-Income securitiesSecurities

Fixed-income securities are primarily composed of U.S. government and agency securities, municipal securities, and other fixed-income securities, including corporate debt securities.  U.S. government and agency securities primarily consist of U.S. Treasury securities that are classified as Level 1 because the fair value is determined by observable market prices in active markets.  A market approach is generally used to estimate the fair value of debt securities classified as Level 2 using evaluated pricing data such as broker quotes, for similar securities adjusted for observable differences.  Significant inputs used in the valuation model generally include benchmark yield curves and issuer spreads.  The external credit ratings, coupon rate, and maturity of each security are considered in the valuation model, as applicable.

Assets Measured at NAV Using Practical Expedient

Investments in the trusts that are measured at fair value using the NAV per share practical expedient have not been classified in the fair value hierarchy tables above. The fair value amounts are included in the tables above in order to reconcile to the amounts presented in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. These investments include commingled funds that are composed of equity securities traded publicly on exchanges, as well as fixed-income securities that are composed primarily of U.S. government securities, credit securities and asset-backed securities, and private real estate funds. Thereassets and absolute return investments that are no restrictions onheld to diversify the termstrust’s holdings in equity and conditions upon which the investments may be redeemed.fixed-income securities.

Transfers Between Levels

No material transfers between levels occurred in the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.2022 or 2021.

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Level 3 Reconciliation

The following table is a reconciliation of changes in the fair value of instruments for the pension plan that have been classified as Level 3 for the years ended December 31, 20202022 and 2019:
2021:
(in millions)
For the year ended December 31, 20202022Fixed-Income
Balance at beginning of year$1527 
Actual return on plan assets:
Relating to assets still held at the reporting date21 
Relating to assets sold during the period(3)— 
Purchases, issuances, sales, and settlements:
Purchases116 
Settlements(13)(26)
Balance at end of year$128 
  
(in millions)
For the year ended December 31, 20192021Fixed-Income
Balance at beginning of year$812 
Actual return on plan assets:
  Relating to assets still held at the reporting date06 
Relating to assets sold during the period(7)
Purchases, issuances, sales, and settlements:
Purchases1122 
Settlements(4)(6)
Balance at end of year$1527 

There were no material transfers out of Level 3 in 2020 and 2019.2022 or 2021.

Cash Flow Information

Employer Contributions

PG&E Corporation and the Utility contributed $343$339 million to the pension benefit plans and $26 million to the other benefit plans in 2020.2022.  These contributions are consistent with PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s funding policy, which is to contribute amounts that are tax-deductible and consistent with applicable regulatory decisions and federal minimum funding requirements.  None of these pension or other benefits were subject to a minimum funding requirement requiring a cash contribution in 2020.2022.  The Utility’s pension benefits met all the funding requirements under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.  PG&E Corporation and the Utility expect to make total contributions of approximately $327 million and $15 million to the pension plan in 2023. PG&E Corporation and the Utility did not request to make contributions to the other postretirement benefit plans respectively, for 2021. in the 2023 GRC.

Benefits Payments and Receipts

As of December 31, 2020,2022, the estimated benefits expected to be paid and the estimated federal subsidies expected to be received in each of the next five fiscal years, and in aggregate for the five fiscal years thereafter, are as follows:
(in millions)Pension
Plan
PBOP
Plans
Federal
Subsidy
2021831 85 (6)
2022913 89 (6)
2023948 92 (6)
2024980 93 (7)
20251,009 95 (7)
Thereafter in the succeeding five years5,375 471 (41)

(in millions)Pension
Plan
PBOP
Plans
Federal
Subsidy
2023907 97 (4)
2024996 98 (4)
20251028 100 (4)
20261057 94 (4)
20271,082 94 (4)
Thereafter in the succeeding five years5,702 475 (4)
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There were no material differences between the estimated benefits expected to be paid by PG&E Corporation and paid by the Utility for the years presented above.  There were also no material differences between the estimated subsidies expected to be received by PG&E Corporation and received by the Utility for the years presented above.

Retirement Savings Plan

PG&E Corporation sponsors a retirement savings plan, which qualifies as a 401(k) defined contribution benefit plan under the Internal Revenue Code 1986, as amended.IRC. This plan permits eligible employees to make pre-tax and after-tax contributions into the plan, and provideprovides for employer contributions to be made to eligible participants.  Total expenses recognized for defined contribution benefit plans reflected in PG&E Corporation’s Consolidated Statements of Income were $144 million, $133 million, and $119 million $109 million,in 2022, 2021, and $105 million in 2020, 2019, and 2018, respectively. Beginning January 1, 2019 PG&E Corporation changed its default matching contributions under its 401(k) plan from PG&E Corporation common stock to cash. Beginning in March 2019, at PG&E Corporation’s directive, the 401(k) plan trustee began purchasing new shares in the PG&E Corporation common stock fund on the open market rather than directly from PG&E Corporation.

There were no material differences between the employer contribution expense for PG&E Corporation and the Utility for the years presented above.

NOTE 13:14: RELATED PARTY AGREEMENTS AND TRANSACTIONS

The Utility and other subsidiaries provide and receive various services to and from their parent, PG&E Corporation, and among themselves.  The Utility and PG&E Corporation exchange administrative and professional services in support of operations.  Services provided directly to PG&E Corporation by the Utility are priced at the higher of fully loaded cost (i.e., direct cost of good or service and allocation of overhead costs) or fair market value, depending on the nature of the services.  Services provided directly to the Utility by PG&E Corporation are generally priced at the lower of fully loaded cost or fair market value, depending on the nature and value of the services.  PG&E Corporation also allocates various corporate administrative and general costs to the Utility and other subsidiaries using agreed-upon allocation factors, including the number of employees, operating and maintenance expenses, total assets, and other cost allocation methodologies.  Management believes that the methods used to allocate expenses are reasonable and meet the reporting and accounting requirements of its regulatory agencies.

The Utility’s significant related party transactions were:
 Year Ended December 31, 
(in millions)202020192018
Utility revenues from:   
Administrative services provided to PG&E Corporation$$$
Utility expenses from:
Administrative services received from PG&E Corporation$108 $107 $94 
Utility employee benefit due to PG&E Corporation34 42 76 
 Year Ended December 31, 
(in millions)202220212020
Utility revenues from:   
Administrative services provided to PG&E Corporation$$$
Utility expenses from:
Administrative services received from PG&E Corporation$104 $82 $108 
Utility employee benefit due to PG&E Corporation85 39 34 

At December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, the Utility had receivables of $35$33 million and $60$173 million, respectively, from PG&E Corporation included in accountsAccounts receivable – other and other noncurrentNoncurrent assets – other on the Utility’s Consolidated Balance Sheets, and payables of $46 million and $118$19 million, respectively, to PG&E Corporation included in accounts payable – other on the Utility’s Consolidated Balance Sheets.

On August 11, 2021, PG&E Corporation borrowed $145 million from the Utility under an interest bearing 364-day intercompany note due August 10, 2022. On June 17, 2022, this loan was repaid in full.


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NOTE 14:15: WILDFIRE-RELATED CONTINGENCIES

Liability Overview

PG&E Corporation and the Utility have significant contingencies arising from their operations, including contingencies related to wildfires. A provision for a loss contingency is recorded when it is both probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount of the liability can be reasonably estimated. PG&E Corporation and the Utility evaluate which potential liabilities are probable and the related range of reasonably estimated losses and record a charge that reflects their best estimate or the lower end of the range, if there is no better estimate. The assessment of

Assessing whether a loss is probable or reasonably possible, and whether the loss or a range of losses is estimable, and the amount of the best estimate or lower end of the range often involves a series of complex judgmentsrequires management to exercise significant judgment about future events. Loss contingencies are reviewed quarterly,Management makes these assessments based on a number of assumptions and estimates are adjusted to reflect the impact of all known information, such assubjective factors, including negotiations (including those during mediations with claimants), discovery, settlements and payments, rulings, advice of legal counsel, and other information and events pertaining to a particular matter.matter, and estimates based on currently available information and prior experience with wildfires.

Loss contingencies are reviewed quarterly, and estimates are adjusted to reflect the impact of all known information. As more information becomes available, including from potential claimants as litigation or resolution efforts progress, management estimates and assumptions regarding the potential financial impacts of wildfire events may change. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s provision for loss and expense excludes anticipated legal costs, which are expensed as incurred. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows may be materially affected by the outcome of the following matters.

2015 Butte Fire

In September 2015, a wildfire (the “2015 Butte fire”) ignited and spread in Amador and Calaveras Counties in Northern California. Cal Fire concluded that the 2015 Butte fire was caused when a gray pine tree contacted the Utility’s electric line, which ignited portions of the tree, and determined that the failure by the Utility and/or its vegetation management contractors, ACRT Inc. and Trees, Inc., to identify certain potential hazards during its vegetation management program ultimately led to the failure of the tree.

During the quarter ended September 30, 2020, the remaining 2015 Butte fire claims were satisfied and discharged in accordance with the Plan. See “Pre-Petition Wildfire-Related Claims and Discharge Upon Plan Effective Date” and “District Attorneys’ Office Investigations” below for more information on the 2015 Butte fire.

2018 Camp Fire and 2017 Northern California Wildfires Background

According to Cal Fire, on November 8, 2018 at approximately 6:33 a.m., a wildfire began near the city of Paradise, Butte County, California (the “2018 Camp fire”), which is located in the Utility’s service territory. Cal Fire’s Camp Fire Incident Information Website as of November 15, 2019 (the “Cal Fire website”) indicated that the 2018 Camp fire consumed 153,336 acres. On the Cal Fire website, Cal Fire reported 85 fatalities and the destruction of 18,804 structures resulting from the 2018 Camp fire.

Beginning on October 8, 2017, multiple wildfires spread through Northern California, including Napa, Sonoma, Butte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Lake, Nevada, and Yuba Counties, as well as in the area surrounding Yuba City (the “2017 Northern California wildfires”). According to the Cal Fire California Statewide Fire Summary dated October 30, 2017, at the peak of the 2017 Northern California wildfires, there were 21 major fires that, in total, burned over 245,000 acres and destroyed an estimated 8,900 structures. The 2017 Northern California wildfires resulted in 44 fatalities.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility were subject to numerous claims in connection with the 2018 Camp fire and 2017 Northern California wildfires. These included claims by various groups of wildfire victims, including individual plaintiffs, holders of insurance subrogation claims, and various federal, state and local entities. During the quarter ended September 30, 2020, these claims were satisfied and discharged in accordance with the Plan, as described below.

Pre-petition Wildfire-Related Claims and Discharge Upon Plan Effective Date

Pre-petition wildfire-related claims on the Consolidated Financial Statements include amounts associated with the 2018 Camp fire, the 2017 Northern California wildfires, and the 2015 Butte fire.

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On July 1, 2020, pursuant to the Plan, PG&E Corporation and the Utility funded the Fire Victim Trust with $5.4 billion in cash (with an additional $1.35 billion to be funded on a deferred basis), 477 million shares of common stock of PG&E Corporation (representing 22.19% of the outstanding common stock of PG&E Corporation as of the Effective Date (subject to potential adjustments)), plus the assignment of certain rights and causes of action. Additionally, as a result of the Additional Units Issuance, on August 3, 2020, PG&E Corporation made an equity contribution of 748,415 shares to the Utility which delivered such additional shares of common stock to the Fire Victim Trust pursuant to an anti-dilution provision in the Fire Victim Trust Assignment Agreement. In accordance with the Plan and the Confirmation Order, as a result of such funding, all Fire Victim Claims have been fully and finally satisfied, released and discharged and channeled to the Fire Victim Trust with no recourse to PG&E Corporation or the Utility. Accordingly, $12.15 billion of the $13.5 billion liability as of June 30, 2020 was extinguished in the third quarter of 2020, and the remaining $1.35 billion will be paid out under the terms of the Tax Benefits Payment Agreement, as described in Note 2 under the heading “Significant Bankruptcy Court Actions.” On January 15, 2021, the Utility paid approximately $758 million of the $1.35 billion, pursuant to the Tax Benefits Payment Agreement.

On July 1, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility funded the Subrogation Wildfire Trust for the benefit of holders of Subrogation Claims in the amount of $11.0 billion in cash and paid approximately $43 million in respect of professional fees of such claimants, for a total of approximately $52 million for subrogation wildfire claimants’ professional fees. Such amount was initially funded into escrow and later paid to the Subrogation Wildfire Trust. In accordance with the Plan and the Confirmation Order, as a result of such funding, all Subrogation Claims have been satisfied, released and discharged and channeled to the Subrogation Wildfire Trust with no recourse to PG&E Corporation or the Utility. Accordingly, the $11.0 billion liability accrual for Subrogation Claims and $47.5 million liability for professional fees were extinguished in the third quarter of 2020.

On July 1, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility paid $1.0 billion in cash to the Settling Public Entities and established a segregated fund in the amount of $10 million to be used to reimburse the Settling Public Entities for any and all legal fees and costs associated with the defense or resolution of any third party claims against the Settling Public Entities. In accordance with the Plan and the Confirmation Order, as a result of such payments, the $1.0 billion liability for the Public Entity Wildfire Claims (as defined below) was satisfied, released and discharged in the third quarter of 2020.

Plan Support Agreements with Public Entities

On June 18, 2019, PG&E Corporation and the Utility entered into PSAs with certain local public entities (collectively, the “Supporting Public Entities”) providing for an aggregate of $1.0 billion to be paid by PG&E Corporation and the Utility to such public entities pursuant to the Plan in order to fully and finally settle and discharge such public entities’ claims against PG&E Corporation and the Utility relating to the 2018 Camp fire, 2017 Northern California wildfires and 2015 Butte fire (collectively, “Public Entity Wildfire Claims”).

The PSAs also provide that, following the Effective Date, PG&E Corporation and the Utility would create and promptly fund $10 million to a segregated fund to be used by the Supporting Public Entities collectively in connection with the defense or resolution of claims against the Supporting Public Entities by third parties relating to the wildfires noted above (“Third Party Claims”).

These elements were incorporated into the Plan which was approved by the Bankruptcy Court in the Confirmation Order. As described in Note 2 under the heading “Significant Bankruptcy Court Actions,” the actions required by each PSA were taken on or around the Effective Date.

Restructuring Support Agreement with Holders of Subrogation Claims

On September 22, 2019, PG&E Corporation and the Utility entered into the Subrogation RSA. The Subrogation RSA provides for an aggregate amount of $11.0 billion to be paid by PG&E Corporation and the Utility pursuant to the Plan in order to fully and finally settle the Subrogation Claims, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Subrogation RSA. Under the Subrogation RSA, PG&E Corporation and the Utility also agreed to reimburse the holders of Subrogation Claims for professional fees of up to $55 million, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Subrogation RSA.

As described above under the heading “Pre-petition Wildfire-Related Claims and Discharge Upon Plan Effective Date,” the payments described in the Subrogation RSA were made on the Effective Date.

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Restructuring Support Agreement with the TCC

On December 6, 2019, PG&E Corporation and the Utility entered into the TCC RSA. The TCC RSA (as incorporated into the Plan)provides for, among other things, a combination of cash and common stock of the reorganized PG&E Corporation to be provided by PG&E Corporation and the Utility pursuant to the Plan (together with certain additional rights, the “Aggregate Fire Victim Consideration”) in order to settle and discharge the Fire Victim Claims, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the TCC RSA and the Plan. The Aggregate Fire Victim Consideration that has funded and will fund the Fire Victim Trust pursuant to the Plan for the benefit of holders of the Fire Victim Claims consists of (a) $5.4 billion in cash that was contributed on the Effective Date of the Plan, (b) $1.35 billion in cash consisting of (i) $758 million that was paid in cash on January 15, 2021 and (ii) the remaining balance of $592 million to be paid in cash on or before January 15, 2022, in each case pursuant to the terms of the Tax Benefits Payment Agreement, and (c) an amount of common stock of the reorganized PG&E Corporation valued at 14.9 times Normalized Estimated Net Income (as defined in the TCC RSA), except that the Fire Victim Trust’s share ownership of the reorganized PG&E Corporation would not be less than 20.9% based on the number of fully diluted shares of the reorganized PG&E Corporation outstanding as of the Effective Date of the Plan, assuming the Utility’s allowed ROE as of the date of the TCC RSA. Under certain circumstances, including certain change of control transactions and in connection with the monetization of certain tax benefits related to the payment of wildfire-related claims, the payments described in clause (b) will be accelerated and payable upon an earlier date. The Aggregate Fire Victim Consideration also included (1) the assignment by PG&E Corporation and the Utility to the Fire Victim Trust of certain rights and causes of action related to the 2015 Butte fire, the 2017 Northern California wildfires and the 2018 Camp fire (together, the “Fires”) that PG&E Corporation and the Utility may have against certain third parties and (2) the assignment of rights under the 2015 insurance policies to resolve any claims related to the Fires in those policy years, other than the rights of PG&E Corporation and the Utility to be reimbursed under the 2015 insurance policies for claims submitted to and paid by PG&E Corporation and the Utility prior to the Petition Date to resolve any claims related to the Fires in those policy years. Pursuant to a stipulation approved by the Bankruptcy Court on June 12, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility and the TCC, and the trustee of the Fire Victim Trust agreed that the percentage ownership of the Fire Victim Trust would be 22.19% of the outstanding shares of the PG&E Corporation on the Effective Date, subject to potential adjustments.

As described above under the heading “Pre-petition Wildfire-Related Claims and Discharge Upon Plan Effective Date,” the funding to be made pursuant to the TCC RSA and the Plan was made on the Effective Date.

2019 Kincade Fire

According to Cal Fire, on October 23, 2019 at approximately 9:27 p.m., a wildfire began northeast of Geyserville in Sonoma County, California (the “2019 Kincade fire”), located in the service territory of the Utility. The Cal Fire Kincade Fire Incident Update dated November 20, 2019, 11:02 a.m. Pacific Time (the “incident update”) indicated that the 2019 Kincade fire had consumed 77,758 acres. In the incident update, Cal Fire reported 0 fatalities and 4 first responder injuries. The incident update also indicates the following: structures destroyed, 374 (consisting of 174 residential structures, 11 commercial structures and 189 other structures); and structures damaged, 60 (consisting of 35 residential structures, 1 commercial structure and 24 other structures). In connection with the 2019 Kincade fire, state and local officials issued numerous mandatory evacuation orders and evacuation warnings at various times for certain areas of the region. Based on County of Sonoma information, PG&E Corporation and the Utility understand that the geographic zones subject to either a mandatory evacuation order or an evacuation warning between October 23, 2019 and November 4, 2019 included approximately 200,000 persons.

On October 23, 2019, by 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time, the Utility had conducted a PSPS event and turned off the power to approximately 27,837 customers in Sonoma County, including Geyserville and the surrounding area. As part of the PSPS, the Utility’s distribution lines in these areas were deenergized. Following the Utility’s established and CPUC-approved PSPS protocols and procedures, transmission lines in these areas remained energized.

The Utility has submitted electric incident reports to the CPUC indicating that:

at approximately 9:19 p.m. Pacific Time on October 23, 2019, the Utility became aware of a transmission level outage on the Geysers #9 Lakeville 230 kV line when the line relayed and did not reclose;

various generating facilities on the Geysers #9 Lakeville 230 kV line detected the disturbance and separated at approximately the same time;

at approximately 9:21 p.m. Pacific Time, the PG&E Grid Control Center received a report that a fire had started in an area near transmission tower 001/006;

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at approximately 7:30 a.m. Pacific Time on October 24, 2019, a responding Utility troubleman patrolling the Geysers #9 Lakeville 230 kV line observed that Cal Fire had taped off the area around the base of transmission tower 001/006 in the area of the 2019 Kincade fire; and

on site Cal Fire personnel brought to the troubleman’s attention what appeared to be a broken jumper on the same tower.

On July 16, 2020, Cal Fire issued a press release addressing the cause of the 2019 Kincade fire. The press release stated that Cal Fire has determined that “the Kincade Fire was caused by electrical transmission lines owned and operated by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) located northeast of Geyserville. Tinder dry vegetation and strong winds combined with low humidity and warm temperatures contributed to extreme rates of fire spread.”

Cal Fire also indicated that its investigative report has been forwarded to the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office, which is investigating the matter. On September 25, 2020, the Utility entered into a tolling agreement with the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office in which the Utility agreed to waive any applicable statute of limitations for violations related to the Kincade fire that would otherwise have expired on or about October 23, 2020, for a period of six months, until April 23, 2021. On February 24, 2021, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office sent a search warrant to the Utility through its counsel in connection with the investigation. The Utility expects to produce documents and respond to other requests for information in connection with the investigation and the search warrant.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility are also conducting their own investigation into the cause of the 2019 Kincade fire. This investigation is preliminary, and PG&E Corporation and the Utility do not have access to all of the evidence in the possession of Cal Fire or other third parties.

Potential liabilities related to the 2019 Kincade firewildfires depend on various factors, including but not limited to the cause of the fire, contributing causes of the fire (including alternative potential origins, weather- and climate-related issues)issues, and forest management and fire suppression practices), the number, size and type of structures damaged or destroyed, the contents of such structures and other personal property damage, the number and types of trees damaged or destroyed, attorneys’ fees for claimants, the nature and extent of any personal injuries, including the loss of lives, the amount of fire suppression and clean-up costs, other damages the Utility may be responsible for if found negligent, and the amount of any penalties, fines, or restitution that may be imposed by courts or other governmental entities.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility are aware of numerous civil complaints related to the following wildfire events and expect that they may receive further such complaints. The complaints include claims based on multiple theories of liability, including inverse condemnation, negligence, violations of the Public Utilities Code, violations of the Health & Safety Code, premises liability, trespass, public nuisance and private nuisance. The plaintiffs in each action principally assert that PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s alleged failure to properly maintain, inspect, and de-energize their transmission lines was the cause of the relevant wildfire. The timing and outcome for resolution of any such claims or investigations are uncertain. The Utility believes it will continue to receive additional information from potential claimants in connection with these wildfire events as litigation or resolution efforts progress. Any such additional information may potentially allow PG&E Corporation and the Utility to refine the estimates of their accrued losses and may result in changes to the accrual depending on the information received. PG&E Corporation and the Utility intend to vigorously defend themselves against both criminal charges and civil complaints.

If the Utility’s facilities, such as its electric distribution and transmission lines, are judicially determined to be the substantial cause of the 2019 Kincade fire,following matters, and the doctrine of inverse condemnation applies, the Utility could be liable for property damage, business interruption, interest and attorneys’ fees without having been found negligent. California courts have imposed liability under the doctrine of inverse condemnation in legal actions brought by property holders against utilities on the grounds that losses borne by the person whose property was damaged through a public use undertaking should be spread across the community that benefited from such undertaking, and based on the assumption that utilities have the ability to recover these costs from their customers.through rates. Further, California courts have determined that the doctrine of inverse condemnation is applicable regardless of whether the CPUC ultimately allows recovery by the utility for any such costs. The CPUC may decide not to authorize cost recovery even if a court decision were to determine that the Utility is liable as a result of the application of the doctrine of inverse condemnation. (See “Loss Recoveries – Regulatory Recovery” belowIn addition to claims for further information regarding potential cost recovery related to the wildfires.)

In light of the current state of the law concerningproperty damage, business interruption, interest and attorneys’ fees under inverse condemnation, and the information currently available to PG&E Corporation and the Utility including the information contained in the electric incident reports, Cal Fire’s determination of the cause,could be liable for fire suppression costs, evacuation costs, medical expenses, personal injury damages, punitive damages and other information gathered as partdamages under other theories of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s investigation, PG&E Corporation and the Utility believe it is probable that they will incur a lossliability in connection with the 2019 Kincade fire. Accordingly,following wildfire events, including if PG&E Corporation andor the Utility recorded a charge for potential losses in connection with the 2019 Kincade fire in the amount of $625 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 (before available insurance).were found to have been negligent.

The aggregate liability of $625 million for claims
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Unless expressly noted otherwise, the loss accruals in connection with the 2019 Kincade fire (before available insurance) corresponds tothis Note reflect the lower end of the range of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s reasonably estimable range of losses and is subject to change based on additional information. The $625 million estimate does not include, among other things: (i) any amounts for potential penalties or fines that may be imposed by governmental entities on PG&E Corporation or the Utility, (ii) any punitive damages, (iii) any amounts in respect of compensation claims by Federal or state agencies other than state fire suppression costs, (iv) evacuation costs or (v) any other amounts that are not reasonably estimable.

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The Utility believes it will continue to receive additional information from potential claimants as litigation or resolution efforts progress. Any such additional information may potentially allowlosses. PG&E Corporation and the Utility to refine such estimate and may result in changes to the accrual depending on the information provided.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility currently believe that it is reasonably possible that the amount of loss could be greater than $625 million (before available insurance)the accrued estimated amounts but are unable to reasonably estimate the additional loss and the upper end of the range because, as described above, there are a number of unknown facts and legal considerations that may impact the amount of any potential liability, including the total scope and nature of claims that may be asserted against PG&E Corporation and the Utility.Utility and the outcome of the criminal proceeding initiated against the Utility in connection with the 2020 Zogg fire. If the liability for the 2019 Kincade firewildfires were to exceed $1.0 billion it is possiblein the aggregate in any Coverage Year, the Utility wouldmay be eligible to make a claim to the Wildfire Fund under AB 1054 forto satisfy settled or finally adjudicated eligible claims in excess of such excess amount, except that claims related to the 2019 Kincade fire would be subject to the 40% limitation on the allowed amount of claims arising before emergence from bankruptcy. PG&E Corporation and the Utility intend to continue to review the available information and other information as it becomes available, including evidence in the possession of Cal Fire’s possession,Fire, USFS, or the relevant district attorney’s office, evidence from or held by other parties, claims that have not yet been submitted, and additional information about the nature and extent of potential damages.personal and business property damages and losses, the nature, number and severity of personal injuries, and information made available through the discovery process.

The process for estimating losses associated
2019 Kincade Fire

According to Cal Fire, on October 23, 2019 at approximately 9:27 p.m. Pacific Time, a wildfire began northeast of Geyserville in Sonoma County, California (the “2019 Kincade fire”), located in the service area of the Utility. According to a Cal Fire incident update dated March 3, 2020, 3:35 p.m. Pacific Time, the 2019 Kincade fire consumed 77,758 acres and resulted in no fatalities, four first responder injuries, 374 structures destroyed, and 60 structures damaged. In connection with potential claimsthe 2019 Kincade fire, state and local officials issued numerous mandatory evacuation orders and evacuation warnings. Based on County of Sonoma information, PG&E Corporation and the Utility understand that the geographic zones subject to either a mandatory evacuation order or an evacuation warning between October 23, 2019 and November 4, 2019 included approximately 200,000 persons.

On July 16, 2020, Cal Fire issued a press release with its determination that the Utility’s equipment caused the 2019 Kincade fire.

On April 6, 2021, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office (“the Sonoma D.A.”) filed a complaint charging the Utility with five felonies and 28 misdemeanors related to the 2019 Kincade fire requires managementfire. On January 28, 2022, the Sonoma D.A. filed the Kincade Amended Complaint, which replaced two felonies with five different felonies and dropped six misdemeanor counts. On April 8, 2022, the Utility and the Sonoma D.A. filed a civil stipulated judgment to exercise significant judgment based on a numberresolve the criminal prosecution of assumptions and subjective factors, including the factors identified above and estimates based on currently available information and prior experienceUtility in connection with wildfires. As more information becomes available, management estimates and assumptions regarding the potential financial impact of the 2019 Kincade fire (the “Kincade Stipulation”) without the Utility admitting any liability. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Kincade Stipulation, the Utility will pay a total of $20.25 million, which will not be recoverable through rates. Pursuant to the Kincade Stipulation, the Utility has also agreed to: (i) fill at least 80 new internal employee positions headquartered in or serving Sonoma County; (ii) take certain wildfire mitigation actions consistent with its WMP; and (iii) engage an independent compliance monitor for at least five years to monitor the Utility’s compliance with certain commitments under the Kincade Stipulation, including its commitments to carry out vegetation management and equipment inspections in Sonoma County consistent with its WMP. After the Kincade Stipulation was entered by the Sonoma County Superior Court, the Sonoma D.A. moved to dismiss the Kincade Amended Complaint with prejudice, and the court granted the motion on April 11, 2022. In the first quarter of 2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded $20.25 million within Other current liabilities and Other noncurrent liabilities in connection with the Kincade Stipulation. As of December 31, 2022, $5.45 million has been paid pursuant to the Kincade Stipulation.

On July 14, 2022, the CPUC issued final approval of a settlement between the SED and the Utility (the “Kincade SED Settlement”). The Kincade SED Settlement resolves SED’s investigation into the 2019 Kincade fire and provides for the removal of approximately 70 transmission lines or portions of lines that are no longer in service and are de-energized but have not been removed as required by CPUC rules. The Kincade SED Settlement provides that the Utility (i) will pay $40 million to California’s General Fund; (ii) will remove permanently abandoned transmission lines over a ten-year period; and (iii) must incur $85 million of the costs of such work by December 31, 2024, for which it may change.not seek recovery. SED agreed to refrain from instituting enforcement proceedings against the Utility for not having removed the lines previously. The Kincade SED Settlement states that it does not constitute an admission by the Utility of violations of GOs or statutory requirements. In the third quarter of 2021, PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded $40 million within Other current liabilities in connection with the Kincade SED Settlement. As of December 31, 2022, $20 million has been paid to California’s General Fund pursuant to the Kincade SED Settlement. For the $85 million of cost of removal that the Utility will not seek recovery, the Utility recorded such disallowances in the first quarter of 2022 upon identification of the facilities to be removed.

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As of February 16, 2023, PG&E Corporation and the Utility are aware of approximately 113 complaints on behalf of at least 2,720 plaintiffs related to the 2019 Kincade fire. The plaintiffs filed master complaints on July 16, 2021; PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s response was filed on August 16, 2021; and PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed a demurrer with respect to the plaintiffs’ inverse condemnation claims. On December 10, 2021, the court overruled the demurrer. The court scheduled trial for November 7, 2022, which it vacated on October 11, 2022.

In addition, on January 5, 2022, Cal Fire filed a complaint against the Utility in the coordinated proceeding seeking to recover approximately $90 million for fire suppression and other costs incurred in connection with the 2019 Kincade fire. The Utility filed an answer to Cal Fire’s complaint on February 4, 2022.

On April 28, 2022, subrogation plaintiffs filed a motion for summary adjudication of their inverse condemnation cause of action in the coordinated proceeding. The court scheduled a hearing on this summary adjudication motion for August 5, 2022, which it vacated on July 29, 2022. On October 26, 2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility entered an agreement with substantially all of the insurance subrogation plaintiffs to resolve their claims arising from the 2019 Kincade fire.

Additionally, on July 20, 2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed a motion for summary adjudication on individual plaintiffs’ claims for punitive damages. The court scheduled a hearing on this summary adjudication motion for October 7, 2022, which it vacated on October 6, 2022.

On October 11, 2022, the Utility entered into a tolling agreement with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (“Cal OES”), which remains in effect.

Based on the current state of the law concerning inverse condemnation in California and the facts and circumstances available to PG&E Corporation and the Utility as of the date of this filing, including Cal Fire’s determination of the cause and the information gathered as part of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s investigation, PG&E Corporation and the Utility believe it is probable that they will incur a loss in connection with the 2019 Kincade fire. PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded a liability in the aggregate amount of $800 million as of December 31, 2021 (before available insurance). Based on the facts and circumstances available to PG&E Corporation and the Utility as of the date of this report, PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded additional charges during 2022 for potential losses in connection with the 2019 Kincade fire of $225 million, for an aggregate liability of $1.025 billion (before available insurance).

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s accrued estimated losses of $1.025 billion do not include, among other things: (i) any amounts for potential penalties or fines that may be imposed by courts or other governmental entities on PG&E Corporation or the Utility, (ii) any punitive damages, (iii) any amounts in respect of compensation claims by federal or state agencies other than state fire suppression costs, (iv) evacuation costs, or (v) any other amounts that are not reasonably estimable.

The following table presents changes in the lower end of the range of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s reasonably estimable range of losses for claims arising from the 2019 Kincade fire since December 31, 2021.
Loss Accrual (in millions)
Balance at December 31, 2021$769
Accrued Losses225 
Payments(344)
Balance at December 31, 2022$650

The Utility has liability insurance from various insurers, which provides coverage for third-party liability attributable to the 2019 Kincade fire in an aggregate amount of $430 million. The Utility records insurance recoveries when it is deemed probable that recovery will occur, and the Utility can reasonably estimate the amount or its range. As of December 31, 2020,2022, the Utility has recorded an insurance receivable for the full amount of the $430 million. While the Utility plans to seek recovery of all insured losses, it is unable to predict the ultimate amount and timing of such insurance recoveries.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility have received data requests from the SED relating to the 2019 Kincade fire and have responded to all data requests received to date. The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office is currently investigating the fire and various other entities may also be investigating the fire. It is uncertain when the investigations will be complete.

As of February 24, 2021, PG&E Corporation and the Utility are aware of 22 complaints on behalf of approximately 504 plaintiffs related to the 2019 Kincade fire and expect that they may receive further such complaints. The complaints were filed in the California Superior Court for the County of Sonoma and the California Superior Court for the County of San Francisco and include claims based on multiple theories of liability, including inverse condemnation, negligence, violations of the Public Utilities Code, violations of the Health & Safety Code, premises liability, trespass, public nuisance and private nuisance. The plaintiffs in each action principally assert that PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s alleged failure to properly maintain, inspect and de-energize their transmission lines was the cause of the 2019 Kincade fire. The plaintiffs seek damages that include property damage, economic loss, punitive damages, exemplary damages, attorneys’ fees and other damages. On December 3, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed a petition with the California Judicial Council to coordinate the litigation. The petition requests that the cases be coordinated in Sonoma County Superior Court. On December 18, 2020, certain plaintiffs filed a brief in support of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s petition. On December 21, 2020, January 4, 2021 and January 27, 2021, certain plaintiffs filed briefs that supported coordination but requested that the cases be coordinated in San Francisco County Superior Court. On February 2, 2021, pursuant to authorization from the California Judicial Council, a judge of the Sonoma County Superior Court was assigned to serve as the coordination motion judge to decide whether the aforementioned actions should be coordinated and, if so, recommend where the coordinated proceeding should take place. A hearing is scheduled for April 2, 2021.

In addition to claims for property damage, business interruption, interest and attorneys’ fees, PG&E Corporation and the Utility could be liable for fire suppression costs, evacuation costs, medical expenses, personal injury damages, punitive damages and other damages under other theories of liability, including if PG&E Corporation or the Utility were found to have been negligent.

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2020 Zogg Fire

According to Cal Fire, on September 27, 2020, at approximately 4:03 p.m. Pacific Time, a wildfire began in the area of Zogg Mine Road and Jenny Bird Lane, north of Igo in Shasta County, California (the “2020 Zogg fire”), located in the service territoryarea of the Utility. TheAccording to a Cal Fire Zogg fire Incident Updateincident update dated October 16, 2020, 3:08 p.m. Pacific Time, (the “incident update”), indicatedthe 2020 Zogg fire consumed 56,338 acres and resulted in four fatalities, one injury, 204 structures destroyed, and 27 structures damaged.

On March 22, 2021, Cal Fire issued a press release with its determination that the 2020 Zogg fire had consumed 56,338 acres. The incident update reported 4 fatalitieswas caused by a pine tree contacting electrical facilities owned and 1 injury. The incident update also indicated that 27 structures were damaged and 204 structures were destroyed. Ofoperated by the 204 structures destroyed, 63 were single family homes, according to a damage inspection report available fromUtility located north of the community of Igo.

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On September 24, 2021, the Shasta County Department of Resource Management.

On October 9, 2020,District Attorney’s Office charged the Utility submitted an electric incident reportwith 11 felonies and 20 misdemeanors related to the CPUC indicating that:

wildfire camera and satellite data on September 27, 2020 show smoke, heat or signs of fire in the area of Zogg Mine Road and Jenny Bird Lane between approximately 2:43 p.m. and 2:46 p.m. Pacific Time;

according to Utility records, on September 27, 2020, a SmartMeter and a line recloser serving the area of Zogg Mine Road and Jenny Bird Lane reported alarms and other activity starting at approximately 2:40 p.m. until 3:06 p.m. Pacific Time when the line recloser de-energized a portion of the Girvan 1101 12 kV circuit, a distribution line that serves that area;

the data currently available to the Utility do not establish the causes of the activity on the Girvan 1101 circuit or the locations of these causes;

on October 9, 2020, Cal Fire informed the Utility that they had taken possession of Utility equipment as part of Cal Fire’s ongoing investigation into the cause of the 2020 Zogg fire, and allowed the Utility access to the area; and

Cal Fire has not issued a determination as to the cause.

The cause of the 2020 ZoggDaniel fire, remains under investigation by Cal Fire,the 2020 Ponder fire, and the 2021 Woody fire. On September 24, 2021, PG&E Corporation and the Utility are cooperatingannounced that they disputed the charges. They further announced that they would accept Cal Fire’s finding that a Utility electric line caused the 2020 Zogg fire, even though PG&E Corporation and the Utility did not have access to all of the evidence that Cal Fire gathered. On November 18, 2021, the Utility filed a demurrer to 10 of the 31 counts. On May 2, 2022, the Shasta County Superior Court overruled the demurrer. On June 9, 2022, the Utility entered a plea of not guilty to all of the charges. At the conclusion of the preliminary hearing conducted in January and February 2023, the court dismissed 20 of the 31 counts, including all charges related to the three smaller fires as well as all charges relating to air contamination. On February 3, 2023, the Shasta County District Attorney’s Office filed a superseding charging document, which charges the Utility with the 11 remaining counts. The court has set a trial date on those charges for June 6, 2023.

Under California law (including Penal Code section 1202.4), if the Utility were convicted of any of the charges, the sentencing court must order the Utility to “make restitution to the victim or victims in an amount established by court order” that is “sufficient to fully reimburse the victim or victims for every determined economic loss incurred as the result of” the Utility’s underlying conduct, in addition to interest and the victim’s or victims’ attorneys’ fees. This requirement for full reimbursement of economic loss is not waivable by either the government or the victims and is not offset by any compensation that the victims have received or may receive from their insurance carriers. If convicted of any of the charges, the Utility could be subject to fines, penalties, and restitution to victims for their economic losses (including property damage, medical and mental health expenses, lost wages, lost profits, attorneys’ fees and interest), as well as non-monetary remedies such as oversight requirements. If convicted of any of the charges, the Utility currently believes that its investigation.total losses associated with the fire could materially exceed the accrued estimated liabilities that PG&E Corporation and the Utility have received and are respondingrecorded to data requests fromreflect the lower end of the range of the reasonably estimable range of losses. The Utility is unable to determine a reasonable estimate of the amount of such additional losses. The Utility does not expect that any of its liability insurance would be available to cover restitution payments ordered by the court presiding over the criminal proceeding.

On October 25, 2022, the SED relatingissued a proposed administrative enforcement order alleging that the Utility violated CPUC regulations and Public Utilities Code Section 451 in connection with the CPUC’s investigation of the 2020 Zogg fire. The proposed order recommends a penalty of $155 million. On February 21, 2023, the Utility and the SED filed a joint motion for approval of a settlement agreement (the “Zogg SED Settlement”). The Zogg SED Settlement provides that the Utility would (i) pay $10 million to California’s General Fund; (ii) implement certain enhancements to its vegetation management processes; (iii) incur $140 million in connection with certain initiatives specified in the Zogg SED Settlement, and the Utility may not seek recovery of this $140 million of costs. The SED agreed to refrain from instituting any further enforcement proceedings against the Utility related to the 2020 Zogg fire. The Shasta County District Attorney’s Office is investigatingZogg SED Settlement states that it does not constitute an admission or evidence of any wrongdoing, fault, omission, negligence, imprudence, or liability on the fire,part of the Utility. In connection with the Zogg SED Settlement, PG&E Corporation and variousthe Utility recorded a liability of $10 million reflected in Other current liabilities on the Consolidated Financial Statements for the year ended December 31, 2022. For the $140 million of costs for which the Utility will not seek recovery, the Utility expects to record disallowances as such costs are incurred.

Various other entities, which may include other law enforcement agencies, may also be investigating the fire. It is uncertain when any such investigations will be complete.

As of February 16, 2023, PG&E Corporation and the Utility are aware of approximately 29 complaints on behalf of at least 523 plaintiffs related to the 2020 Zogg fire. The plaintiffs seek damages that include wrongful death, property damage, economic loss, punitive damages, exemplary damages, attorneys’ fees and other damages. The plaintiffs filed master complaints on August 6, 2021, and PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s answer was filed on September 7, 2021, and PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed a demurrer with respect to the plaintiffs’ inverse condemnation claims. On December 10, 2021, the court overruled the demurrer. The court has set a trial date in the coordinated proceeding for August 14, 2023.

In addition, on March 18, 2022, Cal Fire filed a complaint against the Utility in the coordinated proceeding seeking to recover approximately $34.5 million for fire suppression and other costs incurred in connection with the 2020 Zogg fire. The Utility filed an answer to Cal Fire’s complaint on May 3, 2022. The Utility and Cal Fire reached a settlement of Cal Fire’s claims and dismissal of Cal Fire’s complaint with prejudice was entered on December 22, 2022. On September 26, 2022, the Utility entered into a tolling agreement with Cal OES, which remains in effect.

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Based on the current state of the law concerning inverse condemnation in California and the facts and circumstances available to PG&E Corporation and the Utility as of the date of this filing, including Cal Fire’s determination of the cause and the information gathered as part of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s investigation, PG&E Corporation and the Utility believe it is probable that they will incur a loss in connection with the 2020 Zogg fire. PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded a liability in the aggregate amount of $375 million as of December 31, 2021 (before available insurance). Based on the facts and circumstances available to PG&E Corporation and the Utility as of the date of this report, PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded additional charges for potential losses in connection with the 2020 Zogg fire of $25 million, for an aggregate liability of $400 million (before available insurance).

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s accrued estimated losses do not include, among other things: (i) any amounts for potential penalties, fines, or restitution that may be imposed by courts or other governmental entities on PG&E Corporation or the Utility, (ii) any punitive damages, (iii) any amounts in respect of compensation claims by federal or state agencies other than state fire suppression costs, (iv) evacuation costs, or (v) any other amounts that are not reasonably estimable.

The following table presents changes in the lower end of the range of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s reasonably estimable range of losses for claims arising from the 2020 Zogg fire since December 31, 2021.
Loss Accrual (in millions)
Balance at December 31, 2021$211
Accrued Losses25 
Payments(204)
Balance at December 31, 2022$32

The Utility has liability insurance for third-party liability attributable to the 2020 Zogg fire in an aggregate amount of $611 million. As of December 31, 2022, the Utility recorded an insurance receivable for $370 million for probable insurance recoveries in connection with the 2020 Zogg fire, which equals the $400 million probable loss estimate less an initial self-insured retention of $60 million, plus $30 million in legal fees incurred. Recovery under the Utility’s wildfire insurance policies for the 2021 Dixie fire will reduce the amount of insurance proceeds available for the 2020 Zogg fire by the same amount up to $600 million and vice versa.

2021 Dixie Fire

According to the Cal Fire Investigation Report on the 2021 Dixie fire (the “Cal Fire Investigation Report”), on July 13, 2021, at approximately 5:07 p.m. Pacific Time, a wildfire began in the Feather River Canyon near Cresta Dam (the “2021 Dixie fire”), located in the service area of the Utility. According to the Cal Fire Investigation Report, the 2021 Dixie fire consumed 963,309 acres and resulted in 1,311 structures destroyed and 94 structures damaged (including 763 residential homes, 12 multi-family homes, 8 commercial residential homes, 148 nonresidential commercial structures, and 466 detached structures), and four first-responder injuries. The Cal Fire Investigation Report does not attribute a fatality that was previously published in an October 25, 2021 Cal Fire incident report to the 2021 Dixie fire.

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On January 4, 2022, Cal Fire issued a press release with its determination that the 2021 Dixie fire was caused by a tree contacting electrical distribution lines owned and operated by the Utility. On June 7, 2022, the Utility received a copy of the Cal Fire Investigation Report, which states that the fire ignited when a tree fell and contacted electrical distribution lines owned and operated by the Utility, and the Cal Fire Investigation Report has been made publicly available. The Cal Fire Investigation Report alleges that the Utility acted negligently in its response to the initial outage and fault that caused the 2021 Dixie fire. The Cal Fire Investigation Report also alleges that the subject tree had visible outward signs of damage and decay which would have been noticeable at the ground level, and that a brief visual inspection should have discovered the decay. Based on the information currently available to the Utility, including its inspection records, operating and inspection protocols and procedures, implementation of those protocols and procedures, and day-of-event response, the Utility believes its personnel acted reasonably (within the meaning of the applicable prudency standard discussed under “Regulatory Recovery” below) given the information available at the time and followed applicable policies and protocols both before ignition and in the day-of-event response. While an intervenor in a future cost recovery proceeding may argue the Cal Fire Investigation Report itself creates serious doubt with respect to the reasonableness of the Utility’s conduct, PG&E Corporation and the Utility do not believe the report identifies sufficient facts to shift the burden of proof applicable in a proceeding for cost recovery to the Utility. (See “Regulatory Recovery” and “Wildfire Fund under AB 1054”). PG&E Corporation and the Utility disagree with many allegations in the Cal Fire Investigation Report and plan to vigorously contest them. However, if the CPUC or the FERC were to reach conclusions similar to those of the Cal Fire Investigation Report, it may determine that the Utility had been imprudent, in which case some or all of its costs recorded to the WEMA would not be recoverable, the Utility would not be able to recover costs through FERC TO rates, or the Utility would be required to reimburse the Wildfire Fund for the costs and expenses that are allocated to it.

The District Attorneys’ Offices of Butte County, Plumas County, Shasta County, Lassen County and Tehama County (the “North State Counties”), as well as the SED and OEIS, have been investigating the fire; various other entities, which may include other state and federal law enforcement agencies, may also be investigating the fire. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California issued a subpoena for documents as well. PG&E Corporation and the Utility are cooperating with the investigations. Except for the investigation by the District Attorneys of the North State Counties, it is uncertain when any other such investigations will be complete. PG&E Corporation and the Utility are also conducting their own investigation into the cause of the 2021 Dixie fire. This investigation is ongoing.

On April 11, 2022, the Utility and the District Attorneys of the North State Counties filed a civil stipulated judgment to permanently resolve any potential state criminal prosecution of the Utility in connection with the 2021 Dixie fire (the “Dixie Stipulation”) without the Utility admitting any liability, and the court entered the judgment on that same date. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Dixie Stipulation, the Utility will pay a total of $34.75 million, which will not be recoverable through rates. Pursuant to the Dixie Stipulation, the Utility has also agreed to: (i) fill at least 80 new internal employee positions headquartered in or serving the North State Counties; (ii) take certain other wildfire mitigation actions consistent with its WMP; (iii) engage an independent compliance monitor for five years to monitor the Utility’s compliance with certain commitments under the Dixie Stipulation, including its commitments to carry out vegetation management and equipment inspections in the North State Counties consistent with its WMP; (iv) take good faith steps to initiate mediations with certain commercial timber landowners; and (v) initiate an expedited compensation program under which individuals whose homes, including mobile homes, were destroyed by the 2021 Dixie fire can submit an electronic claim form and supporting documentation, and the Utility will make them an offer to resolve their loss based on an objective, pre-determined valuation framework. The Dixie Stipulation also permanently resolved any potential state criminal prosecution of the Utility in connection with the 2021 Fly fire, which merged with the 2021 Dixie fire. In the first quarter of 2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded $34.75 million within Other current liabilities and Other noncurrent liabilities in connection with the Dixie Stipulation. As of December 31, 2022, $30.75 million has been paid pursuant to the Dixie Stipulation.

On January 17, 2023, PG&E Corporation and the Utility reached an agreement with certain public entities to settle their claims for $24 million.

As of February 16, 2023, PG&E Corporation and the Utility are aware of approximately 81 complaints on behalf of at least 2,094 plaintiffs related to the 2021 Dixie fire and expect that they may receive further such complaints. The plaintiffs seek damages that include property damage, economic loss, punitive damages, exemplary damages, attorneys’ fees and other damages. On February 2, 2023, the court vacated the prior trial date and continued it to August 28, 2023. PG&E Corporation and the Utility expect to enter into an agreement with the insurance subrogation plaintiffs in the 2021 Dixie fire litigation to resolve their claims arising from the 2021 Dixie fire.

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Based on the current state of the law concerning inverse condemnation in California and the facts and circumstances available to PG&E Corporation and the Utility as of the date of this filing, including Cal Fire’s determination of the cause and the information gathered as part of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s investigation, PG&E Corporation and the Utility believe it is probable that they will incur a loss in connection with the 2021 Dixie fire. PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded a liability in the aggregate amount of $1.15 billion as of the year ended December 31, 2021 (before available recoveries). As a result of the public entities settlement, the aggregate liability increased to $1.175 billion as of December 31, 2022.

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s accrued estimated losses of $1.175 billion represent only claims based on the doctrine of inverse condemnation and do not include, among other things: (i) any amounts for potential penalties or fines that may be imposed by courts or other governmental entities on PG&E Corporation or the Utility, (ii) any punitive damages, (iii) any amounts in respect of compensation claims by federal or state agencies including for state or federal fire suppression costs and damages related to federal land, (iv) evacuation costs, or (v) any other amounts that are not reasonably estimable.

As noted above, the aggregate estimated liability for claims in connection with the 2021 Dixie fire does not include potential claims for fire suppression costs from federal, state, county, or local agencies or damage to land and vegetation in national parks or national forests. As to these damages, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have not concluded that a loss is probable. PG&E Corporation and the Utility are unable to reasonably estimate the range of possible losses for any such claims due to, among other factors, incomplete information as to facts pertinent to potential claims and defenses, as well as facts that would bear on the amount, type, and valuation of vegetation loss, potential reforestation, habitat loss, and other resources damaged or destroyed by the 2021 Dixie fire. PG&E Corporation and the Utility believe, however, that such losses could be significant with respect to fire suppression costs due to the size and duration of the 2021 Dixie fire and corresponding magnitude of fire suppression resources dedicated to fighting the 2021 Dixie fire and with respect to claims for damage to land and vegetation in national parks or national forests due to the very large number of acres of national park and national forests that were affected by the 2021 Dixie fire. According to the Cal Fire Investigation Report, over $650 million of costs had been incurred in suppressing the 2021 Dixie fire. The Utility estimates that the fire burned approximately 70,000 acres of national parks and approximately 685,000 acres of national forests.

The following table presents changes in the lower end of the range of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s reasonably estimable range of losses for claims arising from the 2021 Dixie fire since December 31, 2021.
Loss Accrual (in millions)
Balance at December 31, 2021$1,150
Accrued Losses25 
Payments(44)
Balance at December 31, 2022$1,131

The Utility has liability insurance coverage for third-party liability in an aggregate amount of $900 million. Recovery under the Utility’s wildfire insurance policies for the 2020 Zogg fire will reduce the amount of insurance proceeds available for the 2021 Dixie fire by the same amount up to $600 million and vice versa. As of December 31, 2022, the Utility recorded an insurance receivable of $530 million for probable insurance recoveries in connection with the 2021 Dixie fire, which equals the aggregate $900 million of available insurance coverage for third-party liability attributable to the 2021 Dixie fire, less the $370 million insurance receivable recorded in connection with the 2020 Zogg fire.

As of December 31, 2022, the Utility recorded a Wildfire Fund receivable of $175 million for probable recoveries in connection with the 2021 Dixie fire. AB 1054 provides that the CPUC may allocate costs and expenses in the application for cost recovery in full or in part taking into account factors both within and beyond the utility’s control that may have exacerbated the costs and expenses, including humidity, temperature, and winds. PG&E Corporation and the Utility believe that, even if it found that the Utility acted unreasonably, the CPUC would nevertheless authorize recovery in part. See “Wildfire Fund under AB 1054” below. The Utility also recorded a $115 million reduction to its regulatory liability for wildfire-related claims costs that were determined to be probable of recovery through the FERC TO formula rate and a $388 million regulatory asset for costs that were determined to be probable of recovery through the WEMA. See “Regulatory Recovery” below. Decreases in the amount of the insurance receivable for the 2021 Dixie fire may also increase the amount that is probable of recovery through the FERC TO formula rate and the WEMA. The WEMA regulatory asset increased by $41 million during the year ended December 31, 2022.

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2022 Mosquito Fire

On September 6, 2022, at approximately 6:17 p.m. Pacific Time, the Utility was notified that a wildfire had ignited near OxBow Reservoir in Placer County, California (the “2022 Mosquito fire”), located in the service area of the Utility. The National Wildfire Coordinating Group’s InciWeb incident overview dated November 4, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. Pacific Time indicated that the 2022 Mosquito fire had consumed approximately 76,788 acres at that time. It also indicated no fatalities, no injuries, 13 structures damaged, and 78 structures destroyed and that the fire was 100% contained.

The USFS has indicated to the Utility an initial assessment that the fire started in the area of the Utility’s power line on National Forest System lands and that the USFS is conducting a criminal investigation into the 2022 Mosquito fire. On September 24, 2022, the USFS removed and took possession of one of the Utility’s transmission poles and attached equipment. The USFS has not issued a determination as to the cause.

The cause of the 2022 Mosquito fire remains under investigation by the USFS and the DOJ, and PG&E Corporation and the Utility are cooperating with the investigation. PG&E Corporation and the Utility have received document and information requests from the DOJ. It is uncertain when any such investigations will be complete. PG&E Corporation and the Utility are also conducting their own investigation into the cause of the 2020 Zogg2022 Mosquito fire. This investigation is preliminary, and PG&E Corporation and the Utility do not currently have access to the evidence in the possession of Cal Firethe USFS, the DOJ, or other third parties.

Potential liabilitiesThe CPUC and other entities may also be investigating the 2022 Mosquito fire. It is uncertain when any such investigations will be complete.

As of February 16, 2023, PG&E Corporation and the Utility are aware of approximately six complaints on behalf of at least 236 individual plaintiffs related to the 2020 Zogg2022 Mosquito fire dependand expect that they may receive further such complaints. PG&E Corporation and the Utility also are aware of a complaint on various factors, including but not limited to the causebehalf of the fire, contributing causesPlacer County Water Agency and a complaint on behalf of the fire (including alternative potential origins, weather-El Dorado County, Placer County, Georgetown Divide Public Utility District, Georgetown Fire Protection District, and climate-related issues), the number, size and type of structures damaged or destroyed, the contents of such structuresEl Dorado County Water Agency. The plaintiffs seek damages that include property damage, economic loss, punitive damages, exemplary damages, attorneys’ fees and other personal property damage, the number and types of trees damaged or destroyed, attorneys’ fees for claimants, the nature and extent of any personal injuries, including the loss of lives, the amount of fire suppression and clean-up costs, other damages the Utility may be responsible for if found negligent, and the amount of any penalties, fines, or restitution that may be imposed by governmental entities.damages.

Based on the current state of the law concerning inverse condemnation in California and the facts and circumstances available to PG&E Corporation and the Utility as of the date of this filing, including the information gathered as part of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s investigation, PG&E Corporation and the Utility believe it is probable that they will incur a loss in connection with the 2020 Zogg fire2022 Mosquito fire. PG&E Corporation and accordinglythe Utility recorded a pre-tax chargeliability in the aggregate amount of $275$100 million forduring the quarter endingended September 30, 2022 (before available recoveries). The aggregate liability remained unchanged as of December 31, 2020 (before available insurance). If2022.

PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s facilities, such as its electric distribution lines, are judicially determined to be the substantial cause of the Zogg fire, andaccrued estimated losses represent only claims based on the doctrine of inverse condemnation applies, the Utility could be liable for property damage, business interruption, interest and attorneys’ fees without having been found negligent. For more information regarding the inverse condemnation doctrine, see “2019 Kincade Fire” above.

The aggregate liability of $275 million for claims in connection with the 2020 Zogg fire (before available insurance) corresponds to the lower end of the range of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s reasonably estimable range of losses, and is subject to change based on additional information. This $275 million estimate doesdo not include, among other things: (i) any amounts for potential penalties or fines that may be imposed by courts or other governmental entities on PG&E Corporation or the Utility, (ii) any punitive damages, (iii) any amounts in respect of compensation claims by federal or state county and local government entitiesagencies including for state or agencies other than statefederal fire suppression costs and damages related to federal land, (iv) evacuation costs, or (iv)(v) any other amounts that are not reasonably estimable. The Utility’s accrued estimated losses also do not include any assumptions regarding offsetting recoveries from third-parties (outside of the Utility’s insurers).

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PG&E Corporation andAs noted above, the Utility currently believe that it is reasonably possible that the amount of the loss will be greater than $275 million and are unable to reasonably estimate the additional loss and the upper end of the range because, as described above, there are a number of unknown facts and legal considerations that may impact the amount of any potential liability, including the total scope and nature of claims that may be asserted against PG&E Corporation and the Utility. If theaggregate estimated liability for claims in connection with the 2020 Zogg2022 Mosquito fire weredoes not include potential claims for fire suppression costs from federal, state, county, or local agencies or damage to exceed $1.0 billion, it is possible the Utility would be eligibleland and vegetation in national parks or national forests. As to make a claim to the Wildfire Fund under AB 1054 for such excess amount. PG&E Corporation and the Utility intend to continue to review the available information and other information as it becomes available, including evidence in Cal Fire’s possession, evidence from or held by other parties, claims that have not yet been submitted, and additional information about the nature and extent of personal and business propertythese damages, and losses, the nature, number and severity of personal injuries, and information made available through the discovery process. In particular, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have not had accessconcluded that a loss is probable. PG&E Corporation and the Utility are unable to allreasonably estimate the range of the evidence obtained by Cal Fire orpossible losses for any such claims due to, among other third parties.

The process for estimating losses associated withfactors, incomplete information as to facts pertinent to potential claims related toand defenses, as well as facts that would bear on the 2020 Zogg fire requires management to exercise significant judgment based on a numberamount, type, and valuation of assumptionsvegetation loss, potential reforestation, habitat loss, and subjective factors, includingother resources damaged or destroyed by the factors identified above and estimates based on currently available information and prior experience with wildfires. As more information becomes available, management estimates and assumptions regarding the potential financial impact of the 2020 Zogg fire may change.2022 Mosquito fire.

The Utility has liability insurance from various insurers, which provides coverage for third-party liability attributable to the 2020 Zogg fire in an aggregate amount of $867.5$940 million, with a deductible of $60 million. The Utility records insurance recoveries when it is deemed probable that recovery will occur, and the Utility can reasonably estimate the amount or its range. As of December 31, 2020,2022, the Utility has recorded an insurance receivable for $219of $45 million for probable insurance recoveries in connection with the 2020 Zogg fire, which equals the $275 million probable loss estimate less an initial self-insured retention2022 Mosquito fire. As of $60 million, plus $4 million in legal fees incurred. PG&E Corporation andDecember 31, 2022, the Utility intendalso recorded a $10 million reduction to seek fullits regulatory liability for wildfire-related claims costs that were determined to be probable of recovery through the FERC TO formula rate and a $50 million regulatory asset for all insured losses. If PG&E Corporation andcosts that were determined to be probable of recovery through the Utility are unable to recover the full amount of their insurance, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected.WEMA. See “Regulatory Recovery” below.
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As of February 24, 2021, PG&E Corporation and the Utility are aware of 6 complaints on behalf of approximately 240 plaintiffs related to the 2020 Zogg fire and expect that they may receive further such complaints. The complaints were filed in the California Superior Court for the County of Shasta and the California Superior Court for the County of San Francisco and include claims based on multiple theories of liability, including inverse condemnation, negligence, violations of the Public Utilities Code, violations of the Health & Safety Code, premises liability, trespass, public nuisance and private nuisance. The plaintiffs in each action principally assert that PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s alleged failure to properly maintain, inspect and de-energize their distribution lines was the cause of the 2020 Zogg fire. The plaintiffs seek damages that include wrongful death, property damage, economic loss, punitive damages, exemplary damages, attorneys’ fees and other damages. On February 5, 2021, certain plaintiffs filed a petition with the California Judicial Council to coordinate five civil cases filed against the Utility and PG&E Corporation in the Superior Courts of Shasta and San Francisco counties. The petition requests that the cases be coordinated in San Francisco Superior Court.

In addition to claims for property damage, business interruption, interest and attorneys’ fees, PG&E Corporation and the Utility could be liable for fire suppression costs, evacuation costs, medical expenses, wrongful death and personal injury damages, punitive damages and other damages under other theories of liability, including if PG&E Corporation and the Utility were found to have been negligent.

Loss Recoveries

PG&E Corporation and the Utility have insurance coveragerecovery mechanisms available for wildfire liabilities including wildfire. Additionally, there are several mechanismsfrom insurance, customers, and the Wildfire Fund. PG&E Corporation and the Utility record a receivable for a recovery when it is deemed probable that allow for recovery of costs from customers. Potential for recovery is described below. Failurea recorded loss will occur, and the Utility can reasonably estimate the amount or its range. While the Utility plans to obtain a substantial or fullseek recovery of costs relatedall insured losses, it is unable to predict the ultimate amount and timing of such recoveries. For more information on the applicable facts and circumstances of the corresponding wildfires, see “2019 Kincade Fire,” “2020 Zogg Fire,” “2021 Dixie Fire,” and “2022 Mosquito Fire.”

Total probable recoveries for the 2021 Dixie fire and the 2022 Mosquito fire as of December 31, 2022 are:
Potential Recovery Source (in millions)2022 Mosquito fire2021 Dixie fire
Insurance$45 $530 
FERC TO rates10 115
WEMA50 388 
Wildfire Fund— 175 
Probable recoveries at December 31, 2022$105 $1,208 

The Utility could be subject to significant liability in connection with these wildfire events. If such liability is not recoverable from insurance or any conclusion that such recovery is no longer probablethe other mechanisms described in this section, it could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows. In addition, the inability to recover costs in a timely manner could have a material effectimpact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.


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Insurance

Insurance Coverage

PG&E Corporation andIn April 2022, the Utility havepurchased approximately $340 million in wildfire liability insurance coverage for the period from April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2023, at a cost of approximately $263 million. Additionally, the Utility purchased approximately $600 million in wildfire eventsliability insurance in August 2022 for the period from August 1, 2022 to August 1, 2023, at a cost of approximately $516 million. The Utility’s wildfire liability insurance is subject to an amountinitial self-insured retention of $430$60 million.

In April 2022, the Utility purchased approximately $725 million (subjectin non-wildfire liability coverage for the period from April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2023 at a cost of approximately $154 million. The Utility’s non-wildfire liability insurance is subject to an initial self-insured retention of $10 million per occurrence) for the period from August 1, 2019 through July 31, 2020, and approximately $1 billion in liability insurance coverage for non-wildfire events (subject to an initial self-insured retention of $10 million per occurrence), comprised of $520 million for the period from August 1, 2019 through July 31, 2020 and $480 million for the period from September 3, 2019 through September 2, 2020. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s cost of obtaining this wildfire and non-wildfire insurance coverage in place for the period of August 1, 2019 through September 2, 2020 is approximately $212 million.

In July 2020, and through additional purchases in August 2020, the Utility renewed its liability insurance coverage for wildfire events in the amountAs of $867.5 million (subject to an initial self-insured retention of $60 million), comprised of $825 million for the period of August 1, 2020 to July 31, 2021 and $42.5 million in reinsurance for the period of July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021. In addition, the Utility renewed its liability insurance coverage for non-wildfire events in the amount of $700 million (subject to an initial self-insured retention of $10 million) for the period from August 1, 2020 through July 31, 2021. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s cost of obtaining this wildfire and non-wildfire coverage is approximately $859 million. At December 31, 2020,2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility had prepaid insurance of $536$424 million, reflected in Other current assets on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

Various coverage limitations applicable to different insurance layers could result in material uninsured costs in the future depending on the amount and type of damages resulting from covered events.

In the Utility’s 2020 GRC proceeding, the CPUC also approved a settlement agreement provision that allows the Utility to recover annual insurance costs for up to $1.4 billion in generalexcess liability insurance coverage. An advice letter will be required for additional coverage purchased byFor more information about the Utility in excess of $1.4 billion in coverage.

The Utility will not be able to obtain any recovery from the Wildfire Fund for wildfire-related losses in any year that do not exceed the greater of $1.0 billion in the aggregate and the amount of insurance coverage required under AB 1054. (See “Wildfire Fund under AB 1054” below.)RTBA, see Note 4 above.

Insurance Receivable

PG&E Corporation and the Utility record a receivable for insurance recoveries when it is deemed probable that recovery of a recorded loss will occur. Through December 31, 2020,2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded $430 million, $370 million, $530 million, and $45 million for probable insurance recoveries in connection with the 2019 Kincade fire, and $219 million for probable insurance recoveries in connection with the 2020 Zogg fire. PG&E Corporation andfire, the Utility have recovered all of the insurance for the 2015 Butte2021 Dixie fire, and the 2018 Camp fire. PG&E Corporation and the Utility have recovered all of the insurance except for $25 million for the 2017 Northern California wildfires. These amounts reflect an assumption that the cause of each2022 Mosquito fire, is deemed to be a separate occurrence under the insurance policies.respectively. PG&E Corporation and the Utility intend to seek full recovery for all insured losses.

If PG&E Corporation and the Utility are unable to recover the full amount of their insurance, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows could be materially affected.
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The balances for insurance receivables with respect to wildfires are included in Other accounts receivable in PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Consolidated Balance Sheets:
Insurance Receivable (in millions)2022 Mosquito fire2021 Dixie fire2020 Zogg fire2019 Kincade fireTotal
Balance at December 31, 2021$ $563 $270 $414 $1,247 
Accrued insurance recoveries (1)
45 (33)33 — 45 
Reimbursements— — (185)(313)(498)
Balance at December 31, 2022$45 $530 $118 $101 $794 
Insurance Receivable (in millions)2020 Zogg fire2019 Kincade fire2018 Camp fire2017 Northern California wildfires2015 Butte fireTotal
Balance at December 31, 2019$0 $0 $1,380 $808 $50 $2,238 
Accrued insurance recoveries219 430 649 
Reimbursements(1,380)(783)(50)(2,213)
Balance at December 31, 2020$219 $430 $0 $25 $0 $674 
(1) For the year ended December 31, 2022, the accrued insurance recoveries decreased for the 2021 Dixie fire with a corresponding increase to the 2020 Zogg fire for $33 million.

During the year ended December 31, 2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility resolved property related claims in the amount of $418 million, net of self-insured retention, of which approximately $13 million is reflected in Accounts receivable, other on the Consolidated Financial Statements (excluded from the table above).

Regulatory Recovery

Section 451.1 of the Public Utilities Code provides that when determining an application to recover costs and expenses arising from a covered wildfire, the CPUC shall allow cost recovery if the costs and expenses are just and reasonable (i.e., the “prudency standard”). AB 1054 states that a utility with a valid safety certification for the time period in which a covered wildfire ignited “shall be deemed to have been reasonable” unless “a party to the proceeding creates a serious doubt as to the reasonableness of the [Utility’s] conduct,” in which case the burden shifts to the utility to prove its conduct was reasonable. The Utility had a valid safety certification at the time of the 2021 Dixie fire and the 2022 Mosquito fire, so any analysis of cost recovery starts with this presumption. AB 1054 also allows the CPUC to allocate costs and expenses “in full or in part taking into account factors both within and beyond the Utility’s control that may have exacerbated the costs and expenses, including humidity, temperature, and winds.”

The Utility’s recorded receivables under the WEMA and with respect to the Wildfire Fund take into account this revised prudency standard and the presumption of reasonableness of the Utility’s conduct, based on the Utility’s interpretation of AB 1054 and the information currently available to the Utility. Although the concept of “serious doubt” has been applied in other regulatory proceedings, such as FERC proceedings, the revised prudency standard under AB 1054 has not been interpreted or applied by the CPUC and it is possible that the CPUC could interpret or apply the standard differently, in which case the Utility may not be able to recover all or a portion of expenses that it has recorded as a receivable.

FERC TO rates

The Utility recognizes income and reduces its regulatory liability for potential refund through future FERC TO formula rates for a portion of the third-party wildfire-related claims in excess of insurance coverage. The FERC presumes that a utility’s expenditures are prudent and permits cost recovery unless a party raises a serious doubt regarding the prudency of such costs. The allocation to transmission customers was based on a FERC-approved allocation factor as determined in the formula rate. Based on information currently available to the Utility regarding the 2021 Dixie fire and the 2022 Mosquito fire, as of December 31, 2022, the Utility recorded reductions of $115 million and $10 million, respectively, to its regulatory liability for wildfire-related claims costs that were determined to be probable of recovery through the FERC TO formula rate.

WEMA

The WEMA provides for tracking of incremental wildfire claims, outside legal costs, and insurance premiums above those authorized in rates. With respect to wildfire claims and outside legal costs, the Utility expects that the same prudency standard as applies to the Wildfire Fund would also be applied in any CPUC review of an application filed by the Utility seeking recovery of such costs recorded to the WEMA. See “Wildfire Fund under AB 1054” below. As of December 31, 2022, based on information currently available to the Utility, incremental wildfire claims-related costs for the 2021 Dixie fire and the 2022 Mosquito fire were determined to be probable of recovery and the Utility recorded $388 million and $50 million, respectively, as regulatory assets in the WEMA. Cost recovery for incremental insurance premiums is addressed through balancing account mechanisms.

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Regulatory RecoveryWildfire Fund under AB 1054

On June 21, 2018,July 12, 2019, the CPUC issuedCalifornia governor signed into law AB 1054, a decision grantingbill which provides for the Utility’s requestestablishment of a statewide fund that will be available for eligible electric utility companies to establish a WEMApay eligible claims for liabilities arising from wildfires occurring after July 12, 2019 that are caused by the applicable electric utility company’s equipment, subject to track specific incremental wildfire liability costs effectivethe terms and conditions of AB 1054. Each of California’s large electric IOUs has elected to participate in the Wildfire Fund. Eligible claims are claims for third-party damages resulting from any such wildfires, limited to the portion of such claims that exceeds the greater of (i) $1.0 billion in the aggregate in any Coverage Year and (ii) the amount of insurance coverage required to be in place for the electric utility company pursuant to Section 3293 of the Public Utilities Code, added by AB 1054. The accrued Wildfire Fund receivable as of July 26, 2017. The decision does not grantDecember 31, 2022 reflects an expectation that the Utility rate recovery of any wildfire-related costs. Any such rate recovery would require CPUC authorization in a separate proceeding. The Utility mayCoverage Year will be unable to fully recover costs in excess of insurance, if at all. Rate recovery is uncertain; therefore,based on the Utility has not recorded a regulatory asset related to any wildfire claims costs. Even if such recovery is possible, it could take a number of years to resolve and a number of years to collect.calendar year.

In addition, SB 901, signed into law on September 21, 2018, requiresElectric utility companies that draw from the Wildfire Fund will only be required to reimburse amounts that are determined by the CPUC to establishin a CHT, directing the CPUC to limit certain disallowances in the aggregate, so that they doproceeding for cost recovery not exceed the maximum amount that the Utility can pay without harming ratepayers or materially impacting its ability to provide adequate and safe service. SB 901 also authorizes the CPUC to issue a financing order that permits recovery, through the issuance of recovery bonds (also referred to as “securitization”), of wildfire-related costs found to be just and reasonable, byapplying the prudency standard in AB 1054 and after allocating costs and expenses for cost recovery based on relevant factors both within and outside of a utility’s control that may have exacerbated the costs and expenses, subject to a disallowance cap equal to 20% of the IOU’s transmission and distribution equity rate base. For the Utility, the disallowance cap would be approximately $3.0 billion based on its 2022 equity rate base, which is subject to adjustment based on changes in the Utility’s total transmission and distribution equity rate base and would apply for a three calendar-year period. The disallowance cap is inapplicable in certain circumstances, including if the Wildfire Fund administrator determines that the electric utility company’s actions or inactions that resulted in the applicable wildfire constituted “conscious or willful disregard for the rights and safety of others,” or the electric utility company failed to maintain a valid safety certification. Costs that the CPUC determines to be just and only forreasonable in accordance with the 2017 Northern California wildfires, any amountsprudency standard in excessAB 1054 will not be reimbursed to the Wildfire Fund, resulting in a draw-down of the CHT.Wildfire Fund.

On January 10, 2019,Before the CPUC adopted an OIR,expiration of any current safety certification, the Utility must request a new safety certification from the OEIS, which establishes a processthe Utility expects to develop criteria and a methodologybe issued within 90 days if the Utility has provided documentation that it has satisfied the requirements for the safety certification pursuant to inform determinations of the CHT in future applications under Section 451.2(a)8389(e) of the Public Utilities Code, added by AB 1054. An issued safety certification is valid for recovery12 months or until a timely request for a new safety certification is acted upon, whichever occurs later. The safety certification is separate from the CPUC’s enforcement authority and does not preclude the CPUC from pursuing remedies for safety or other applicable violations. On December 13, 2022, OEIS approved the Utility’s 2022 application and issued the Utility’s 2022 safety certification.

The Wildfire Fund and disallowance cap will be terminated when the amounts therein are exhausted. The Wildfire Fund is expected to be capitalized with (i) $10.5 billion of costsproceeds of bonds supported by a 15-year extension of the DWR charge to customers, (ii) $7.5 billion in initial contributions from California’s three large electric IOUs and (iii) $300 million in annual contributions paid by California’s three large electric IOUs for a 10-year period.

The Wildfire Fund will only be available for payment of eligible claims so long as there are sufficient funds remaining in the Wildfire Fund. Such funds could be depleted more quickly than expected, including as a result of claims made by California’s other participating electric utility companies. The Wildfire Fund is available to pay for the Utility’s eligible claims arising as of July 12, 2019, the effective date of AB 1054, subject to a limit of 40% of the allowed amount of such claims arising between the effective date of AB 1054 and the Utility’s emergence from Chapter 11. The 40% limit does not apply to eligible claims that arise after the Utility’s emergence from Chapter 11.

As of December 31, 2022, PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded $175 million in Other noncurrent assets for Wildfire Fund receivables related to the 2021 Dixie fire.

For more information see Note 3 above.

Wildfire-Related Securities Claims, Fire Victim Trust D&O Claims and Related Insurance Recoveries Overview

As further described under the headings “Wildfire-Related Securities Class Action” and “Wildfire-Related Securities Claims—Claims in the Bankruptcy Court Process,” PG&E Corporation and the Utility face certain wildfire-related securities claims related to the 2017 Northern California wildfires.wildfires and other claims related to the 2018 Camp fire and the PSPS program in the Chapter 11 Cases (i.e., the Subordinated Claims), and certain former directors, current and former officers, and underwriters of certain note offerings face wildfire-related securities claims in the District Court action. These securities claims are collectively referred to in this section as the “Wildfire-Related Securities Claims.”

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Based on discussions with certain holders of Wildfire-Related Securities Claims, as well as the CPUC issued a decision in the CHT proceeding. The decision adopts a methodology to determine the CHT based on (1) the maximum additional debt that a utility can take on and maintain a minimum investment grade credit rating; (2) excess cash available to the utility; (3) a potential regulatory adjustment of 20%terms of the CHT or 5 percentFVT D&O Claims Settlement Agreement (as defined below) and the settlement agreements with certain carriers of the total disallowed wildfire liabilities; and (4) an adjustment to preserve for ratepayers any tax benefits associatedD&O Insurance policies, PG&E Corporation believes it is probable that it will incur a loss in connection with the CHT. The decision also requires a utility to include proposed ratepayer protection measures to mitigate harm to ratepayersWildfire-Related Securities Claims. As of December 31, 2022 and each as part of an application under Section 451.2(b).further described below:

Pursuant to SB 901 andFor the CPUC’s methodology adoptedWildfire-Related Securities Claims, based on discussions with the plaintiffs in the CHT OIR, on April 30, 2020,consolidated securities action, PG&E Corporation recorded a liability in the aggregate amount of $300 million (before available insurance), which represents its best estimate of probable losses for such claims, though actual losses could be greater or less than this estimate.

For the Insurance Coverage Claims, PG&E Corporation entered into agreements with certain of its D&O Insurance carriers to settle the majority of the Insurance Coverage Claims and has received the full settlement amount of $272 million.

For the Fire Victim Trust D&O Claims, the parties entered into a settlement agreement (the “FVT D&O Claims Settlement Agreement”) pursuant to which PG&E Corporation, the Utility, filed an application with the CPUC seeking authorization for a post-emergence transaction to securitize $7.5 billion of 2017 wildfire claims costs that is designed to not impact amounts billed to customers, with the proceeds used to pay or reimburse the Utility for the payment of wildfire claims costs associated with the 2017 Northern California wildfires. As a result of the proposed transaction, the Utility would retire $6.0 billion of Utility debt and accelerate a $592certain former director and officer defendants paid $117 million payment due to the Fire Victim Trust.Trust from D&O insurance policy proceeds. PG&E Corporation intends to apply the remaining proceeds to the Wildfire-Related Securities Claims.

Failure to obtainAs a substantial or full recoveryresult, PG&E Corporation believes it is probable that it will incur a net loss of costs related to wildfires could have a material effect$145 million in connection with these matters. As of December 31, 2022, the net loss is reflected in Other income (expense), net on PG&E Corporation’s Consolidated Statements of Income.

In the event that one or more of the settlements in these matters does not become effective, some or all parties are expected to continue to litigate, and at least some of the Utility’s financial condition, resultsamounts of operations, liquidity and cash flows.PG&E Corporation’s expected liabilities will remain uncertain.

Wildfire-Related Derivative Litigation

NaNTwo purported derivative lawsuits alleging claims for breach of fiduciary duties and unjust enrichment were filed in the San Francisco County Superior Court on November 16, 2017 and November 20, 2017, respectively, naming as defendants certain currentthen-current and former members of the Boardboards of Directorsdirectors and certain currentthen-current and former officers of PG&E Corporation and the Utility. PG&E Corporation and the Utility arewere named as nominal defendants. These lawsuits were consolidated by the court on February 14, 2018 and are denominated In Re California North Bay Fire Derivative Litigation.Litigation (now re-captioned Trotter v. Williams et al.). On April 13, 2018, the plaintiffs filed a consolidated complaint. After the parties reached an agreement regarding a stay of the derivative proceeding pending resolution of the tort actions described above and any regulatory proceeding relating to the 2017 Northern California wildfires, on April 24, 2018, the court entered a stipulation and order to stay. The stay was subject to certain conditions regarding the plaintiffs’ access to discovery in other actions. On January 28, 2019, the plaintiffs filed a request to lift the stay for the purposes of amending their complaint to add allegations regarding the 2018 Camp fire. Prior to resolution of the plaintiffs’ request to lift the stay, this matter was automatically stayed by PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s commencement of the Chapter 11 Cases, as discussed below. On November 12, 2020,Cases. PG&E Corporation’s and the Trustee forUtility’s rights with respect to PG&E Corporation’s and the Fire Victim Trust filed a motionUtility’s claims, if any, directly or indirectly related to intervene to substitute asany of the plaintiffFires (as defined in the matter. A case management conference is currently scheduled for March 18, 2021, at which time the court will also hear the motion to intervene.

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On August 3, 2018, a third purported derivative lawsuit, entitled Oklahoma Firefighters PensionPlan) against former officers and Retirement System v. Chew, et al. (now captioned Trotter v. PG&E Corp., et al.), was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, naming as defendants certain current and former members of the Board of Directors and certain current and former officersdirectors of PG&E Corporation and the Utility.Utility were assigned to the Fire Victim Trust under the Plan (the “Fire Victim Trust D&O Claims”). Any such recovery was limited to the extent of any D&O Insurance policy proceeds paid by any insurance carrier on behalf of PG&E Corporation is named as a nominal defendant. The lawsuit alleges claimsor the Utility for breachamounts owed pursuant to their indemnification obligations in connection with such causes of fiduciary duties and unjust enrichment as well as a claim under Section 14(a) of the federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934 alleging that PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s 2017 proxy statement contained misrepresentations regarding the companies’ risk management and safety programs.action. On October 15, 2018, PG&E Corporation filed a motion to stay the litigation. Prior to the scheduled hearing on this motion, this matter was automatically stayed by PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s commencement of the Chapter 11 Cases, as discussed below. On December 14, 2020,March 8, 2021, the court enteredgranted a stipulation and orderby the parties to substitute the trustee for the Fire Victim Trust as the plaintiff. A case management conference is currently set for April 15, 2021.

On October 23, 2018, a fourth purported derivative lawsuit, entitled City of Warren Police and Fire Retirement System v. Chew, et al., was filed in San Francisco County Superior Court, alleging claims for breach of fiduciary duty, corporate waste and unjust enrichment. It named as defendants certain current and former members of the Board of Directors and certain current and former officers of PG&E Corporation, and named PG&E Corporation as a nominal defendant. The plaintiff filed a request with the court seeking the voluntary dismissal of this matter without prejudice on January 18, 2019.

On November 21, 2018, a fifth purported derivative lawsuit, entitled Williams v. Earley, Jr., et al. (now captioned Trotter v. Earley, et al.), was filed in federal court in San Francisco, alleging claims identical to those alleged in the Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System v. Chew, et al. lawsuit listed above against certain current and former officers and directors, and naming PG&E Corporation and the Utility as nominal defendants. This lawsuit includes allegations related to the 2017 Northern California wildfires and the 2018 Camp fire. This action was stayed by stipulation of the parties and order of the court on December 21, 2018, subject to resolution of the pending securities class action. On January 7, 2021, the court entered a stipulation and order to substitute the Fire Victim Trust as the plaintiff. A case management conference is currently set for April 15, 2021.

On December 24, 2018, a sixth purportedseparate derivative lawsuit, entitled Bowlinger v. Chew, et al. (now captioned Trotter v. Chew, et alal..), was filed in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging claims for breach of fiduciary duty, abuse of control, corporate waste, and unjust enrichment in connection with the 2018 Camp fire against certain currentthen-current and former officers and directors, and naming PG&E Corporation and the Utility as nominal defendants. On February 5, 2019, the plaintiff filed a response to the notice asserting that the automatic stay did not apply to his claims. PG&E Corporation and the Utility accordingly filed a Motion to Enforce the Automatic Stay with the Bankruptcy Court as to the Bowlinger action, which was granted. On November 5, 2020, the court entered a stipulation and order to substitute the trustee for the Fire Victim Trust as the plaintiff.

On February 24, 2021, the Fire Victim Trusttrustee filed an amended complaint alleging 2 causes ofin the Trotter v. Chew action, asserting two direct claims for breach of fiduciary duty against certain former officers and directors. The first cause of action alleges breaches of fiduciary duty in connection with the 2017 Northern California wildfires,PG&E Corporation’s and the second cause of action alleges breaches of fiduciary duty in connection with the 2018 Camp fire.Utility’s former directors and officers. Neither PG&E Corporation nor the Utility was a party to the action. On March 30, 2021, the Trotter v. Chew and Trotter v. Williams actions were consolidated. On April 26, 2021, the defendants filed demurrers to the amended complaint, which the court sustained in part and overruled in part on November 8, 2021. On November 18, 2021, the trustee filed a second amended complaint. On December 21, 2021, the defendants filed demurrers to the second amended complaint, which the court overruled. On March 10, 2022, the defendants filed motions for summary judgment.

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On July 26, 2022, PG&E Corporation, the Utility, certain former director and officer defendants, and the Fire Victim Trust entered into the FVT D&O Claims Settlement Agreement, pursuant to which PG&E Corporation, the Utility, are no longer named as nominal defendants. A case management conference is currently set for March 18, 2021.and certain former director and officer defendants paid $117 million to the Fire Victim Trust from D&O Insurance policy proceeds, and in return, the Fire Victim Trust released, among other things, any claims related to the assigned claims and the pursuit of the Trotter v. Chew action. Pursuant to the Plan, the settlement was paid solely from the insurance proceeds from the “Side B” D&O Insurance coverage. As a result of the FVT D&O Claims Settlement Agreement, the Trotter v. Chew action was dismissed with prejudice on December 29, 2022.

On January 25, 2019, a seventhseparate purported derivative lawsuit, entitled Hagberg v. Chew, et al., was filed in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging claims for breach of fiduciary duty, abuse of control, corporate waste, and unjust enrichment in connection with the 2018 Camp fire against certain currentthen-current and former officers and directors, and naming PG&E Corporation and the Utility as nominal defendants. A case management conference is currently set for July 7, 2021.

On January 28, 2019, an eighth purported derivative lawsuit, entitled Blackburn v. Meserve, et al. (now captioned Trotter v. Meserve, et al.), wasThe plaintiff filed in federal court alleging claims for breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment,a request to dismiss this action, and waste of corporate assets in connection with the 2017 Northern California wildfires and the 2018 Camp fire against certain current and former officers and directors, and naming PG&E Corporation as a nominal defendant. On January 8, 2021,on October 12, 2022, the court entered a stipulation and order to substitutedismissed the Fire Victim Trust as the plaintiff. A case management conference is currently set for April 15, 2021.action.

Due to the commencement of the Chapter 11 Cases, PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed notices in each of these proceedings on February 1, 2019, reflecting that the proceedings were automatically stayed through the Effective Date pursuant to section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s rights with respect to the derivative claims asserted against former officers and directors of PG&E Corporation and the Utility were assigned to the Fire Victim Trust under the TCC RSA. The assignment became effective as of the Effective Date of the Plan.

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The above purported derivative lawsuits were brought against the named defendants on behalf of PG&E Corporation and/or the Utility. As a result of the assignment of these claims to the Fire Victim Trust, any recovery based on these claims would be paid to the Fire Victim Trust. Any such recovery is limited to the extent of any director and officer insurance policy proceeds paid by any insurance carrier to reimburse PG&E Corporation and/or the Utility for amounts paid pursuant to their indemnification obligations in connection with such causes of action.

Securities Class Action Litigation

Wildfire-Related Securities Class Action

In June 2018, 2two purported securities class actions were filed in the United States District Court, for the Northern District of California, naming PG&E Corporation and certain of its currentthen-current and former officers as defendants, entitledDavid C. Weston v. PG&E Corporation, et al.and and Jon Paul Moretti v. PG&E Corporation, et al., respectively. The complaints alleged material misrepresentations and omissions in various PG&E Corporation public disclosures related to, among other things, vegetation management and transmission line safety in various PG&E Corporation public disclosures.other issues connected to the 2017 Northern California wildfires. The complaints asserted claims under Section 10(b) and Section 20(a) of the federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, and sought unspecified monetary relief, interest, attorneys’ fees and other costs. Both complaints identified a proposed class period of April 29, 2015 to June 8, 2018. On September 10, 2018, the court consolidated both cases, and the litigation is now denominated In re PG&E Corporation Securities Litigation,. U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Case No. 18-03509. The court also appointed the Public Employees Retirement Association of New Mexico (“PERA”)PERA as lead plaintiff. The plaintiffPERA filed a consolidated amended complaint on November 9, 2018. After the plaintiff requested leave to amend itsOn December 14, 2018, PERA filed a second amended consolidated complaint to add allegations regarding the 2018 Camp fire, including allegations regarding transmission line safety and the plaintiff filed a second amended consolidated complaint on December 14, 2018.PSPS program.

Due to the commencement of the Chapter 11 Cases, PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed a notice on February 1, 2019, reflecting that the proceedings were automatically stayed as to PG&E Corporation and the Utility pursuant to section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. On February 15, 2019, PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed a complaint in Bankruptcy Court against the plaintiff seeking preliminary and permanent injunctive relief to extend the stay to the claims alleged against the individual officer defendants.Utility.

On February 22, 2019, a third purported securities class action was filed in the United States District Court, for the Northern District of California, entitled York County on behalf of the York County Retirement Fund, et al. v. Rambo, et al. (the “York County Action”). The complaint namesnamed as defendants certain currentthen-current and former officers and directors, as well as the underwriters of 4four public offerings of notes from 2016 to 2018. Neither PG&E Corporation nor the Utility iswas named as a defendant. The complaint allegesasserted claims under Section 11 of the Securities Act based on alleged material misrepresentations and omissions in connection with the note offerings related to, among other things, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s vegetation management and wildfire safety measures. The complaint asserts claims under Section 11 and Section 15 of the Securities Act of 1933, and seeks unspecified monetary relief, attorneys’ fees and other costs, and injunctive relief. On May 7, 2019, the York County Action was consolidated with In re PG&E Corporation Securities Litigation.

On May 28, 2019, the plaintiffs in the consolidated securities actions filed a third amended consolidated class action complaint, which includes the claims asserted in the previously filed actions and names as defendants PG&E Corporation, the Utility, certain current and former officers and former directors, and the underwriters. On August 28, 2019, the Bankruptcy Court denied PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s request to extend the stay to the claims against the officer, director, and underwriter defendants. On October 4, 2019, the officer, director, and underwriter defendants filed motions to dismiss the third amended complaint, which motions are currently under submission with the District Court. On September 30, 2022, the District Court issued an order staying the action pending resolution of the bankruptcy proceedings. Accordingly, the District Court administratively closed the case, subject to a motion by the parties thereto to reopen the case. On October 31, 2022, PERA filed a notice of appeal of the District Court’s order staying the action. PERA’s opening brief for the appeal is due March 6, 2023, and the answering brief is due April 5, 2023.

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SatisfactionBased on discussions with the plaintiffs in this matter, PG&E Corporation believes it is probable that it will incur a loss in connection with this matter. In the second quarter of HoldCo Rescission2022, PG&E Corporation recorded a liability in the aggregate amount of $300 million (before available insurance), which represents its best estimate of probable losses for the Wildfire-Related Securities Claims. PG&E Corporation believes that it is reasonably possible that the amount of loss could be greater or Damage less than the accrued estimated amount but is unable to reasonably estimate any additional loss because the amount of the liability has not been agreed or otherwise determined, and even if PG&E Corporation were to enter into an agreement with representatives of the plaintiffs in this matter (which would also resolve proofs of claim by these plaintiffs in the bankruptcy), any such agreement would be subject to, among other things, approval by the Bankruptcy Court and the District Court, and class members would have the right to opt out of any such agreement.

Wildfire-Related Securities Claims—Claims and Subordinated Debt Claimsin the Bankruptcy Court Process

Claims against PG&E Corporation and the Utility intend to resolve claims filed in the bankruptcy relating to, among others, the 3three purported securities class actions (described above) that have been consolidated and denominated In re PG&E Corporation Securities Litigation, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Case No. 18-03509, will be resolved pursuant to the Plan. As described above, these claims consist of pre-petition claims under the federal securities laws related to, among other things, allegedly misleading statements or omissions with respect to vegetation management and wildfire safety disclosures, and are classified into separate categories under the Plan, each of which is subject to subordination under the Bankruptcy Code. The first category of claims consists of pre-petition claims arising from or related to the common stock of PG&E Corporation (such claims, with certain other similar claims against PG&E Corporation, the “HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims”). The second category of pre-petition claims, which comprises two separate classes under the Plan, consists of claims arising from debt securities issued by PG&E Corporation and the Utility (such claims, with certain other similar claims against PG&E Corporation and the Utility, the “Subordinated Debt Claims,” and together with the HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims, the “Subordinated Claims”).

While PG&E Corporation and the Utility believe they have defenses to the Subordinated Claims, as well as insurance coverage that may be available inwith respect ofto the Subordinated Claims, these defenses may not prevail and any such insurance coverage may not be adequate to cover the full amount of the allowed claims. In that case, PG&E Corporation and the Utility will be required, pursuant to the Plan, to satisfy any such allowed claims as follows:

each holder of an allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim will receive a number of shares of common stock of PG&E Corporation equal to such holder’s HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claim Share (as such term is defined in the Plan); and

each holder of an allowed Subordinated Debt Claim will receive payment in full in cash.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility have been engaged in settlement efforts with respect to the Subordinated Claims. If any of the Subordinated Claims are ultimately not settled, (with any such resolution being subject to the approval of the Bankruptcy Court), PG&E Corporation and the Utility expect that thethose Subordinated Claims will be resolved by the Bankruptcy Court in the claims reconciliation process and treated as described above under the Plan. Under the Plan, after the EffectiveEmergence Date, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have the authority to compromise, settle, object to, or otherwise resolve proofs of claim, and the Bankruptcy Court retains jurisdiction to hear disputes arising in connection with disputed claims. With respect to the Subordinated Claims, the claims reconciliation process may include litigation of the merits of such claims, including the filing of motions, fact discovery, and expert discovery. The total number and amount of allowed Subordinated Claims, if any, was not determined at the EffectiveEmergence Date. To the extent any such claims are allowed, the total amount of such claims could be material, and therefore could result in (a) the issuance of a material number of shares of common stock of PG&E Corporation with respect to allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims, and/or (b) the payment of a material amount of cash with respect to allowed Subordinated Debt Claims. There can be no assurance that such claims will not have a material adverse impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s business, financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

Further, if shares are issued in respect of allowed HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims, it may be determined that, under the Plan, the Fire Victim Trust should receive additional shares of common stock of PG&E Corporation (assuming, for this purpose,such that it would have owned 22.19% of the outstanding common stock of reorganized PG&E Corporation on the Emergence Date, assuming that such issuance of shares issued in respectsatisfaction of the HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims were issuedhad occurred on the Effective Date).Emergence Date.

The named plaintiffs in the consolidated securities actions filed proofs of claim with the Bankruptcy Court on or before the bar date that reflect their securities litigation claims against PG&E Corporation and the Utility. On December 9, 2019, the lead plaintiff in the consolidated securities actions filed a motion seeking approval from the Bankruptcy Court to treat its proof of claim as a class proof of claim. On February 27, 2020, the Bankruptcy Court issued an order denying the motion, but extending the bar date for putative class members to file proofs of claim until April 16, 2020. On March 6, 2020, the lead plaintiff filed a notice of appeal regarding the denial of its motion. On May 15, 2020, the lead plaintiff filed the opening brief for its appeal. On June 15, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed its brief in response. On June 29, 2020, the lead plaintiff filed its reply. No hearing date has been set.
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On July 2, 2020, PERA filed a notice of appeal of the Confirmation Order to the District Court, solely to the extent of seeking review of that part of the Confirmation Order approving the Insurance Deduction (as defined in the Plan) with respect to the formula for the determination of the HoldCo Rescission or Damage Claims Share. On August 10, 2021, the District Court issued an order affirming the Bankruptcy Court’s ruling with respect to the Insurance Deduction. On September 3, 2020,9, 2021, PERA filed a notice of appeal of the District Court’s order to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and on December 15, 2021, PERA filed its principal briefopening brief. On February 14, 2022 and February 17, 2022, the Official Committee of Tort Claimants appointed in support of the appeal. On October 5, 2020,Chapter 11 Cases and both PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed their response brief.answering briefs, respectively. On May 20, 2022, the Official Committee of Tort Claimants filed a motion to dismiss the case. On June 21, 2022, PERA filed its reply brief on October 26, 2020. No hearing date has been set.opposition, and PG&E Corporation and the Utility joined the motion to dismiss. On June 28, 2022, the Official Committee of Tort Claimants filed its reply. On January 13, 2023, PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed a joint motion with PERA requesting the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stay and hold PERA’s appeal in abeyance to allow the parties to continue to negotiate a settlement of the matters underlying the appeal. On January 25, 2023, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals entered an order granting the joint motion. PERA’s appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals remains pending.

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On September 1, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed a motion (the “Securities Claims Procedures Motion”) with the Bankruptcy Court to approve procedures to allow forhelp facilitate the resolution of the outstanding and unresolved Subordinated Claims, whichClaims. The motion, among other things, requestsrequested approval of certainprocedures which would allow PG&E Corporation and the Utility to collect trading information request procedures, standard and abbreviated mediation processes, and procedures with respect to the potential filing ofSubordinated Claims, to engage in an alternative dispute resolution process for resolving disputed Subordinated Claims, and to file certain omnibus claim objections with respect to the Subordinated Claims. PERA and a number of other parties filed objections toOn January 25, 2021, the Bankruptcy Court granted the Securities Claims Procedures Motion.

On September 28, 2020, PERA filed a second motion requesting the Bankruptcy Court exercise its discretion pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 7023 to allow PERA to file a class proof of claim on behalf of the holders of Subordinated Claims (the “Renewed 7023 Motion”). The Bankruptcy Court set a briefing schedule that, among other things, (i) adjourned the hearing on the Securities Claims Procedures Motion to November 17, 2020, and (ii) established a briefing scheduled with respect to the Renewed 7023 Motion with a hearing on the motion also scheduled for November 17, 2020. PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed their objectionhave worked to resolve the Renewed 7023 Motion on October 29, 2020. On December 4, 2020,Subordinated Claims in accordance with the Bankruptcy Court issued an oral decision approving PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Securities Claims Procedures Motion and denying PERA’s Renewed 7023 Motion. On January 25, 2021, following a timeline setprocedures approved by the Bankruptcy Court, as partincluding by collecting trading information from holders of the oral decisionSubordinated Claims. Also, pursuant to resolve any outstanding non-substantive objections to PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s proposed order granting the Securities Claims Procedures Motion,those procedures, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have filed a revised proposed order, whichnumerous omnibus objections in the Bankruptcy Court enteredto certain of the same day. On January 26, 2021, theSubordinated Claims. The Bankruptcy Court has entered a written order denying the Renewed 7023 Motion.

De-energization Class Action

On October 25, 2019, a purported securities class action was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, entitled Vataj v. Johnson et al. The complaint named as defendants a current directorseveral orders disallowing and expunging Subordinated Claims that were subject to these omnibus objections, and certain current and former officers of PG&E Corporation. Neither PG&E Corporation nor the Utility was named as a defendant. The complaint alleged materially false and misleading statements regarding PG&E Corporation’s wildfire prevention and safety protocols and policies, including regarding the Utility’s public safety power shutoffs, that allegedly resulted in losses and damages to holders of PG&E Corporation’s securities. The complaint asserted claims under Section 10(b) and Section 20(a) of the federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, and sought unspecified monetary relief, attorneys’ fees and other costs. On February 3, 2020, the District Court granted a stipulation appointing Iron Workers Local 580 Joint Funds, Ironworkers Locals 40, 361 & 417 Union Security Funds and Robert Allustiarti co-lead plaintiffs and approving the selection of the plaintiffs’ counsel, and further ordered the parties to submit a proposed schedule by February 13, 2020. On February 20, 2020, the District Court issued a scheduling order that required the amended complaint to be filed by April 17, 2020.

On April 17, 2020, the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint asserting the same claims. The amended complaint added PG&E Corporation and a former officer of PG&E Corporation as defendants, and no longer asserts claims against the other two officers of PG&E Corporation previously named in the action.

On May 15, 2020 the officer defendants filed their motion to dismiss in Vataj. On June 19, 2020, the lead plaintiff filed its opposition to the motion to dismiss. On July 10, 2020 the officer defendants filed their reply. In October 2020, the parties reached a settlement agreement in principle, and on October 29, 2020, filed a joint notice of settlement, informing the District Court that they have agreed in principle to settle the matter.

On February 16, 2021, plaintiffs filed a motion for preliminary approval of the settlement with the District Court, and the District Court issued an order terminating as moot the pending motion to dismiss, without prejudice. Pursuant to the settlement stipulation,Subordinated Claims subject to certain conditions: (1) PG&E Corporation will pay $10 million into an interest-bearing escrow account within 14 days after the District Court’s preliminary approval of the settlement; and (2) plaintiffs and the Settlement Class (as defined in the stipulation of settlement) will release the Released Persons (as defined the stipulation of settlement, includingthese omnibus objections remain pending. PG&E Corporation and the Utility and each of their officers, directors, as well as the current and former officers named in both the original and amended complaints) from all claims that have been or could have been asserted by or on behalf of PG&E Corporation shareholders that relateexpect to (a) allegations that were asserted or could have been asserted in eitherfile additional omnibus objections with respect to certain of the complaints in Vataj,Subordinated Claims and (b) investments in PG&E Corporation’s stock duringto continue to act under the relevant period specified inprocedures approved by the stipulated settlement.Bankruptcy Court to resolve the Subordinated Claims.

The settlement is subject to the District Court’s approval and its terms may change as a result of the settlement approval process. The preliminary settlement approval hearing is currently scheduled for March 11, 2021. The final approval hearing is not yet scheduled. If the District Court approves the settlement and enters a judgment substantially in the form requested by the parties, the settlement will become effective when certain conditions specified in the settlement stipulation are satisfied, including the expiration of any right to appeal the judgment.

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Indemnification Obligations and D&O Insurance Coverage

To the extent permitted by law, PG&E Corporation and the Utility have obligations to indemnify directors and officers for certain events or occurrences while a director or officer is or was serving in such capacity, which indemnification obligations may extend to the claims asserted against thecertain directors and officers in the securities class action.actions and in the litigation matters enumerated above under the heading “Wildfire-Related Derivative Litigation.” PG&E Corporation and the Utility maintain directors’ and officers’ insuranceD&O Insurance coverage to reduce their exposure to such indemnification obligations. PG&E Corporation and the Utility have provided notice to their insurance carriers of the claims asserted in the wildfire-related securities class actionslitigation matters enumerated above under the headings “Wildfire-Related Securities Class Action” and derivative litigation,“Wildfire-Related Derivative Litigation,” and are in communicationarbitration with thecertain carriers regarding, among other things, the applicability of the directors and officers insuranceone year of D&O Insurance policies to those matters. matters (the “Insurance Coverage Claims”).

In July 2022, PG&E Corporation, the Utility, and the former director and officer defendants settled the majority of the Insurance Coverage Claims with certain of their D&O Insurance carriers. As a result of these agreements, PG&E Corporation received insurance proceeds in an aggregate amount of $272 million. Proceeds from the D&O Insurance coverage were paid to the Fire Victim Trust for the Fire Victim Trust D&O Claims, and PG&E Corporation intends to apply the remaining proceeds to the Wildfire-Related Securities Claims.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility additionally have potential indemnification obligations to the underwriters for the Utility’s note offerings, pursuant to the underwriting agreements associated with those offerings. PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s indemnification obligations to the officers, directors and underwriters may be limited or affected by the Chapter 11 Cases.Cases, among other things.

Butte County District Attorneys’ Offices InvestigationsAttorney’s Office Investigation into the 2018 Camp Fire

Following the 2018 Camp fire, the Butte County District Attorney’s Office and the California Attorney General’s Office opened a criminal investigation of the 2018 Camp fire. PG&E Corporation and the Utility were informed by the Butte County District Attorney’s Office and the California Attorney General’s Office that a grand jury had been empaneled in Butte County.

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On March 17, 2020, the Utility entered into the Plea Agreement and Settlement (the “Plea Agreement”) with the People of the State of California, by and through the Butte County District Attorney’s office (the “People” and the “Butte DA,” respectively)Office to resolve the criminal prosecution of the Utility in connection with the 2018 Camp fire. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Plea Agreement, the Utility agreed to pleadpleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter in violation of Penal Code section 192(b) and one count of unlawfully causing a fire in violation of Penal Code section 452, and to admit special allegations pursuant to Penal Code sections 452.1(a)(2), 452.1(a)(3) and 452.1(a)(4).

Per the Plea Agreement, the Utility was sentenced to pay the maximum total fine and penalty of approximately $3.5 million. The Utility also agreed to pay $500,000 to the Butte County District Attorney Environmental and Consumer Protection Fund to reimburse costs spent on the investigation of the 2018 Camp fire.

Simultaneous with entry into the Plea Agreement, the Utility has committed to spend up to $15 million over five years to provide water to Butte County residents impacted by damage to the Utility’s Miocene Canal caused by the 2018 Camp fire. In addition, the Utility has consented to the Butte District Attorney’s consulting, sharing information with and receiving information from the Monitor overseeing the Utility’s probation related to the San Bruno explosion through the expiration of the Utility’s term of probation and in no event until later than January 31, 2022.

On June 16, 2020 through June 18, 2020, the Butte County Superior Court held proceedings at which the Utility pled guilty and was sentenced according to the terms of the Plea Agreement. On July 21, 2020, the Utility paid the $3.5 million fine and penalty to the Butte County Superior Court and $500,000 to the Butte County District Attorney Environmental and Consumer Protection Fund.

On January 15,August 20, 2021, the Butte County Superior Court held a brief hearing on the status of restitution, which involves distribution of funds from the Fire Victim Trust, which was established under the Company’s Plan of Reorganization in BankruptcyTrust. The Butte County Superior Court and is managed by a Trustee and a Claims Administrator. The Courthas since continued the hearing to August 20, 2021 for a further update.

Cal Fire announced that it had determined that “the Kincade Fire was caused by electrical transmission lines owned and operated by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) located northeast of Geyserville. Tinder dry vegetation and strong winds combined with low humidity and warm temperatures contributed to extreme rates of fire spread.” Cal Fire also indicated that its investigative report has been forwarded to the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office, which is currently conducting an investigation of the fire. On February 24, 2021, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office sent a search warrant to the Utility through its counsel in connection with the investigation. The Utility expects to produce documents and respond to other requests for information in connection with the investigation and the search warrant. For more information see “2019 Kincade Fire” above.

The Shasta County District Attorney’s Office is investigating the 2020 Zogg fire. See “2020 Zogg Fire” above for further information.

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Additional investigations and other actions may arise out of the 2019 Kincade fire or the 2020 Zogg fire. The timing and outcome for resolution of any such investigations are uncertain.May 19, 2023.

SEC Investigation

On March 20, 2019, PG&E Corporation learned that the SEC’s San Francisco Regional Office was conducting an investigation related to PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s public disclosures and accounting for losses associated with the 2018 Camp fire, the 2017 Northern California wildfires and the 2015 Butte fire. PG&E Corporation and the Utility are unable to predict the timing and outcome of the investigation.

Wildfire Fund under AB 1054

On July 12, 2019, the California governor signed into law AB 1054, a bill which provides for the establishment of a statewide fund that will be available for eligible electric utility companies to pay eligible claims for liabilities arising from wildfires occurring after July 12, 2019 that are caused by the applicable electric utility company’s equipment, subject to the terms and conditions of AB 1054. Eligible claims are claims for third party damages resulting from any such wildfires, limited to the portion of such claims that exceeds the greater of (i) $1.0 billion in the aggregate in any year and (ii) the amount of insurance coverage required to be in place for the electric utility company pursuant to Section 3293 of the Public Utilities Code, added by AB 1054.

Electric utility companies that draw from the Wildfire Fund will only be required to repay amounts that are determined by the CPUC in an application for cost recovery not to be just and reasonable, subject to a rolling three-year disallowance cap equal to 20% of the electric utility company’s transmission and distribution equity rate base. For the Utility, this disallowance cap is expected to be approximately $2.7 billion for the three-year period starting in 2019, subject to adjustment based on changes in the Utility’s total transmission and distribution equity rate base. The disallowance cap is inapplicable in certain circumstances, including if the Wildfire Fund administrator determines that the electric utility company’s actions or inactions that resulted in the applicable wildfire constituted “conscious or willful disregard for the rights and safety of others,” or the electric utility company fails to maintain a valid safety certification. Costs that the CPUC determines to be just and reasonable will not need to be repaid to the Wildfire Fund, resulting in a draw-down of the Wildfire Fund.

On August 23, 2019, the CPUC approved the Utility’s Initial Safety Certification, which under AB 1054 entitles the Utility to certain benefits, including eligibility for a cap on Wildfire Fund reimbursement and for a reformed prudent manager standard. The Utility satisfied the required elements for its Initial Safety Certificate, as follows: (i) the electrical corporation has an approved WMP, (ii) the electrical corporation is in good standing, which can be satisfied by the electrical corporation having agreed to implement the findings of its most recent safety culture assessment, if applicable, (iii) the electrical corporation has established a safety committee of its board of directors composed of members with relevant safety experience, and (iv) the electrical corporation has established board-of-director-level reporting to the CPUC on safety issues. Before the expiration of any current safety certification, the Utility must request a new safety certification for the following 12 months, which shall be issued within 90 days if the Utility has provided documentation that it has satisfied the requirements for the safety certification pursuant to Section 8389(e) of the Public Utilities Code, added by AB 1054. On July 29, 2020, the Utility submitted its application for a new safety certification. On January 14, 2021, the WSD approved the Utility’s 2020 application and issued the Utility’s 2020 Safety Certification pursuant to the requirements of AB 1054. The safety certification is separate from the CPUC’s enforcement authority and does not preclude the CPUC from pursuing remedies for safety or other applicable violations. The 2020 Safety Certification is valid for 12 months or until a timely request for a new safety certification is acted upon, whichever occurs later. On January 26, 2021, TURN filed with the CPUC a request for review of WSD’s issuance of the safety certification.

The Wildfire Fund and disallowance cap will be terminated when the amounts therein are exhausted. The Wildfire Fund is expected to be capitalized with (i) $10.5 billion of proceeds of bonds supported by a 15-year extension of the Department of Water Resources charge to ratepayers, (ii) $7.5 billion in initial contributions from California’s three IOU companies and (iii) $300 million in annual contributions paid by California’s three IOU companies for at least a 10 year period. The contributions from the IOU companies will be effectively borne by their respective shareholders, as they will not be permitted to recover these costs from ratepayers. The costs of the initial and annual contributions are allocated among the three IOU companies pursuant to a “Wildfire Fund allocation metric” set forth in AB 1054 based on land area in the applicable utility’s service territory classified as high fire threat districts and adjusted to account for risk mitigation efforts. The Utility’s Wildfire Fund allocation metric is 64.2% (representing an initial contribution of approximately $4.8 billion and annual contributions of approximately $193 million). The Wildfire Fund will only be available for payment of eligible claims so long as there are sufficient funds remaining in the Wildfire Fund. Such funds could be depleted more quickly than expected, including as a result of claims made by California’s other participating electric utility companies.
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AB 1054 also provides that the first $5.0 billion expended in the aggregate by California’s three IOU companies on fire risk mitigation capital expenditures included in their respective approved WMPs will be excluded from their respective equity rate bases. The $5.0 billion of capital expenditures will be allocated among the IOU companies in accordance with their Wildfire Fund allocation metrics (described above). The Utility’s allocation is $3.21 billion. AB 1054 contemplates that such capital expenditures may be securitized through a customer charge.

On the Effective Date, having satisfied the conditions for the Utility’s initial participation in the Wildfire Fund, PG&E Corporation and the Utility contributed, in accordance with AB 1054, an initial contribution of approximately $4.8 billion and first annual contribution of approximately $193 million to the Wildfire Fund to secure participation of the Utility therein. SDG&E and Edison made their initial contributions to the Wildfire Fund in September 2019. On December 30, 2020, the Utility made its second annual contribution of $193 million to the Wildfire Fund.

As of the Effective Date, the Wildfire Fund became available to the Utility to pay for eligible claims arising on or after the effective date of AB 1054, July 12, 2019, subject to a limit of 40% of the amount of allowed claims arising between the effective date of AB 1054 and the Effective Date of the Plan.

For additional information on the Wildfire Fund, see Note 3 above.

NOTE 15:16: OTHER CONTINGENCIES AND COMMITMENTS

PG&E Corporation and the Utility have significant contingencies arising from their operations, including contingencies related to enforcement and litigation matters and environmental remediation.  A provision for a loss contingency is recorded when it is both probable that a loss has been incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated.  PG&E Corporation and the Utility evaluate the range of reasonably estimated losses and record a provision based on the lower end of the range, unless an amount within the range is a better estimate than any other amount.  The assessment of whether a loss is probable or reasonably possible, and whether the loss or a range of loss is estimable, often involves a series of complex judgments about future events.  Loss contingencies are reviewed quarterly and estimates are adjusted to reflect the impact of all known information, such as negotiations, discovery, settlements and payments, rulings, penalties related to regulatory compliance, advice of legal counsel, and other information and events pertaining to a particular matter.  PG&E Corporation’sCorporation and the Utility’s policy is toUtility exclude anticipated legal costs from the provision for loss and expense these costs as incurred. The Utility also has substantial financial commitments in connection with agreements entered into to support its operating activities.  See “Purchase Commitments” below.  PG&E Corporation and the Utility have financial commitments described in “Other Commitments” below.  PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows may be materially affected by the outcome of the following matters.

Enforcement Matters

U.S. District Court Matters and Probation

In connection with the Utility’s probation proceeding, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has the ability to impose additional probation conditions on the Utility. Additional conditions, if implemented, could be wide-ranging and would impact the Utility’s operations, number of employees, costs and financial performance. Depending on the terms of these additional requirements, costs in connections with such requirements could have a material effect on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and cash flows.

CPUC and FERC Matters

Order Instituting Investigation into the 2017 Northern California Wildfires and the 2018 Camp Fire

On June 27, 2019, the CPUC issued the Wildfires OII to determine whether the Utility “violated any provision(s) of the California Public Utilities Code (PU Code), Commission General Orders (GO) or decisions, or other applicable rules or requirements pertaining to the maintenance and operation of its electric facilities that were involved in igniting fires in its service territory in 2017.” On December 5, 2019, the assigned commissioner issued a second amended scoping memo and ruling that amended the scope of issues to be considered in this proceeding to include the 2018 Camp fire.

As previously disclosed, on December 17, 2019, the Utility, the SED of the CPUC, the CPUC’s OSA, and CUE jointly submitted to the CPUC a proposed settlement agreement in connection with this proceeding and jointly moved for its approval.

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Pursuant to the settlement agreement, the Utility agreed to (i) not seek rate recovery of wildfire-related expenses and capital expenditures in future applications in the amount of $1.625 billion, as specified below, and (ii) incur costs of $50 million in shareholder-funded system enhancement initiatives as described further in the settlement agreement. The settlement agreement stipulates that no violations have been identified in the Tubbs fire. While, as a result of this finding, the settlement agreement does not prevent the Utility from seeking recovery of costs associated with the Tubbs fire through rates, the Utility has committed not to seek rate recovery for the Tubbs fire except through securitization. The amounts set forth in the table below include actual recorded costs and forecasted cost estimates as of the date of the settlement agreement for expenses and capital expenditures which the Utility has incurred or planned to incur to comply with its legal obligations to provide safe and reliable service. While actual costs incurred for certain cost categories are different than what was assumed in the settlement agreement, the Utility has recorded $1.625 billion of the disallowed costs through December 31, 2020.

(in millions)
Description(1)
ExpenseCapitalTotal
Distribution Safety Inspections and Repairs Expense (FRMMA/WMPMA)$236 $$236 
Transmission Safety Inspections and Repairs Expense (TO)(2)
433 433 
Vegetation Management Support Costs (FHPMA)36 36 
2017 Northern California Wildfires CEMA Expense and Capital (CEMA)82 66 148 
2018 Camp Fire CEMA Expense (CEMA)435 435 
2018 Camp Fire CEMA Capital for Restoration (CEMA)253 253 
2018 Camp Fire CEMA Capital for Temporary Facilities (CEMA)84 84 
Total$1,222 $403 $1,625 
(1) All amounts included in the table reflect actual recorded costs for 2019 and 2020.
(2) Transmission amounts are under the FERC’s regulatory authority.

PG&E Corporation and the Utility record a charge when it is both probable that costs incurred or projected to be incurred for recently completed plant will not be recoverable through rates charged to customers and the amount of disallowance can be reasonably estimated.

The Utility expects that the system enhancement spending pursuant to the settlement agreement will occur through 2025.

On April 20, 2020, the assigned commissioner issued a Decision Different adopting, with changes, the proposed modifications set forth in the request for review. The Decision Different (i) increases the amount of disallowed wildfire expenditures by $198 million (as set forth in the POD); (ii) increases the amount of shareholder funding for System Enhancement Initiatives by $64 million (as set forth in the POD); (iii) imposes a $200 million fine but permanently suspends payment of the fine; and (iii) limits the tax savings that must be returned to ratepayers to those savings generated by disallowed operating expenditures. The Decision Different also denies all pending appeals of the POD and denies, in part, the Utility’s motion requesting other relief. On April 30, 2020, the Utility submitted its comments on the Decision Different to the CPUC, accepting the modifications. The CPUC approved the Decision Different on May 7, 2020.

The settlement agreement, as modified by the Decision Different, became effective upon: (i) approval by the CPUC in the Decision Different, (ii) following such approval by the CPUC, the June 20, 2020 approval of the Bankruptcy Court, and (iii) the July 1, 2020 effectiveness of the Plan.

As it relates to the additional $198 million in disallowed costs as adopted in the Decision Different, the Utility has recorded charges of $152 million primarily in WMPMAas of December 31, 2020 and intends to record the remaining charges of $46 million in 2021.

On June 8, 2020, 2 parties filed separate applications for rehearing, the purpose of which was to challenge the CPUC’s approval of the settlement agreement, as modified. On June 23, 2020, the Utility and CUE filed a joint response opposing the Applications for Rehearing. On December 3, 2020, the CPUC issued a decision denying the application for rehearing. On January 4, 2021, 1 party filed a petition for review of the CPUC decision with the California court of appeals. The Utility is unable to predict the timing and outcome of the petition.

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Transmission Owner Rate Case Revenue Subject to Refund

The FERC determines the amount of authorized revenue requirements, including the rate of return on electric transmission assets, that the Utility may collect in rates in the TO rate case. The FERC typically authorizes the Utility to charge new rates based on the requested revenue requirement, subject to refund, before the FERC has issued a final decision. The Utility bills and records revenue based on the amounts requested in its rate case filing and records a reserve for its estimate of the amounts that are probable of refund. Rates subject to refund went into effect on March 1, 2017, March 1, 2018, and May 1, 2019 for TO18, TO19,the TO rate case for 2017 (“TO18”), the TO rate case for 2018 (“TO19”), and TO20,the TO rate case for 2019 (“TO20”), respectively.

On October 1, 2018, the ALJ issued an initial decision in the TO18 rate case and the Utility filed initial briefs on October 31, 2018, in response to the ALJ’s recommendations. On October 15, 2020, the FERC issued an order that, affirmed in part and reversed in part the initial decision. The order reopens the record for the limited purpose of allowing the participants to this proceeding an opportunity to present written evidence concerning the FERC’s revised ROE methodology adopted in the FERC Opinion No. 569-A, issued on May 21, 2020, that refined the methodology it established in Opinion No. 569 for setting the ROE that electric utilities are authorized to earn on electric transmission investments. Initial briefs were filed December 14, 2020 and reply briefs were filed February 12, 2021. In addition, the order approves depreciation rates that yield an estimated composite depreciation rate of 2.94% compared to the Utility’s request of 3.25%. Further, the decision reduces forecasted capital, operations and maintenance, and cost of debt expense to actual costs incurred for the rate case period. Finally, the order upheld the initial decision’s rejection ofamong other things, rejected the Utility’s direct assignment of common plant to FERC and required the allocation of all common plant between CPUC and FERC jurisdiction be based on operating and maintenance labor ratios. ApplicationThe order reopened the record for the limited purpose of allowing the parties an opportunity to present written evidence concerning the FERC’s revised ROE methodology adopted in FERC Opinion No. 569-A, issued on May 21, 2020.

On December 17, 2020 and June 17, 2021, the FERC issued orders denying requests for rehearing submitted by the Utility and intervenors. In 2021, the Utility filed four appeals. The appeals related to two issues: (i) impact of the operatingTax Act on TO18 rates in January and maintenance labor rates would result in an allocation of 6.15% of common plant to FERC in comparison to 8.84% under the Utility’s direct assignment method. The Utility filed a request for rehearing of certainFebruary 2018 and (ii) aspects of the rehearing order which was denied byother than the Tax Act. The appeals have been consolidated and are being held in abeyance until the FERC addresses the ROE issue on December 17, 2020. The Utility filedrehearing.

As a petition for reviewresult of an order denying rehearing on the order on February 11, 2021, and a separate petition for review was jointly filed the same day by two other parties. The ultimate outcome of the items for whichcommon plant allocation, the Utility requested rehearing could also impactincreased its regulatory liabilities for amounts previously collected during the revenues recorded for theTO18, TO19, and TO20 periods.rate case periods from 2017 through the fourth quarter of 2022 by approximately $416 million. A portion of these common plant costs are expected to be recovered at the CPUC in a separate application and as a result, the Utility recorded approximately $258 million to Regulatory assets.

On September 21, 2018, the Utility filed an all-party settlement with the FERC, which was approved by the FERC on December 20, 2018, in connection with TO19. As part of the settlement, the TO19 revenue requirement will be set at 98.85% of the revenue requirement for TO18 that will be determined upon issuance of a final unappealable decision in TO18.

The Utility is unable to predict the timing or outcome of the FERC’s decisions in the TO18 proceeding.

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On December 30, 2020, the FERC approved an all-party settlement agreement in connection with TO20. The TO20 settlement resolved all issues of the Utility’s formula rate. However, some of the formula rate issues are contingent on the outcome of TO18, including the allocation of costs related to common, general and intangible plant. The settlement provides that the formula rate will remain in effect through December 31, 2023. The TO20 rate case provides that the transmission revenue requirement and rates are to be updated annually on January 1, subject to true-up. The Utility is required to make a successor rate filing in 2023, which would go into effect on January 1, 2024.

Under its formula rate, the Utility submits an annual update to the FERC each December for rates to go into effect on January 1 of the following year. Parties have protested the Utility’s annual updates, and these protests are pending before the FERC.

On March 17, 2022, the FERC issued a further order in the TO18 rate case proceeding finding that 9.26% is the just and reasonable base ROE for the Utility. With the incentive component of 50-basis points for the Utility’s continuing participation in the CAISO, the resulting ROE would be 9.76%. As a result, the Utility increased its regulatory liabilities for amounts previously collected during the TO18 and TO19 rate case periods from March 2017 through the first quarter of 2022 by approximately $62.5 million. On April 18, 2022, the Utility and several other parties sought rehearing of the FERC’s determination of the base ROE finding. On May 19, 2022, the FERC denied all parties’ rehearing requests. The Utility has filed an appeal in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, as have the other parties that sought rehearing. The appeal is being held in abeyance until the FERC issues a substantive order on rehearing on the ROE issue.

On May 16, 2022 and May 31, 2022, the Utility filed a compliance filing and a refund report describing the adjustments made to the transmission revenue requirement, adjusted rates, and the calculation and mechanism of the refunds. The Utility expects to issue the refund after the FERC issues a decision on the compliance filing.

2022 Cost of Capital Application

The Utility’s annual cost of capital adjustment mechanism provides that in any year in which the difference between (i) the average Moody’s utility bond rates (as measured in the 12-month period from October through September (the “Index”)) and (ii) 4.5% exceeds 100 basis points, the Utility’s ROE will be adjusted by one-half of such difference, and the cost of debt will be trued up to the most recent recorded cost of debt. The Utility is to initiate this adjustment mechanism by filing an advice letter on or before October 15 of the year in which the mechanism triggered, to become effective on January 1 of the next year.

On August 23, 2021, the Utility filed an off-cycle 2022 cost of capital application with the CPUC based on the extraordinary event of the COVID-19 pandemic and related government response, which has decreased interest rates but has not reduced the cost of capital for electric utilities in general, and the Utility in particular, to the same extent as the overall financial markets (the “2022 cost of capital application”). The 2022 cost of capital application requested that the CPUC authorize the Utility's cost of capital for its electric generation, electric distribution, natural gas distribution, and natural gas transmission and storage rate base beginning on January 1, 2022 for 2022, 2023, and 2024. The Utility requested that the CPUC approve the Utility’s proposed ratemaking capital structure, ROE, cost of preferred stock, and cost of debt. The Utility proposed to establish a cost of long-term debt of 4.14%, a return on preferred stock of 5.52%, a ROE of 11%, and to retain the existing capital structure.

In September 2021, the cost of capital adjustment mechanism was triggered because the Index was 117 basis points below the benchmark. As the 2022 cost of capital application was pending, the Utility did not file the October 15, 2021 advice letter to adjust rates. Subsequently, on October 28, 2021, the CPUC ruled that the 2022 cost of capital application did not suspend the adjustment mechanism as requested by the application. The ruling also required that the Utility comply with the cost of capital mechanism by filing the information that would have been included in the October 15, 2021 advice letter in the 2022 cost of capital application proceeding on November 8, 2021, which the Utility did.

On December 17, 2021, the CPUC issued a final decision authorizing the Utility’s request to establish memorandum accounts to track revenue requirement changes beginning on January 1, 2022 and leaving the cost of capital rates at current levels, subject to true-up based on the CPUC’s decision on the 2022 cost of capital application. As of December 31, 2022, the Utility had not recorded a reserve for refunds related to these memorandum accounts.

On November 3, 2022, the CPUC issued a final decision finding that an extraordinary event occurred, and that the cost of capital adjustment mechanism should not be implemented for 2022. The final decision retains the cost of capital previously authorized in the 2020 cost of capital proceeding, as adjusted, and closes this proceeding. On December 5, 2022, intervenors filed an application for rehearing. On December 20, 2022, the Utility filed a response to the application for rehearing.

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Other Matters

PG&E Corporation and the Utility are subject to various claims and lawsuits that separately are not considered material.  Accruals for contingencies related to such matters (excluding amounts related to the contingencies discussed above under “Enforcement and Litigation Matters”) totaled $144$69 million and $116$77 million atas of December 31, 20202022 and December 31, 2019,2021, respectively. These amounts were included in LSTC at December 31, 2019 and were included in Other current liabilities at December 31, 2020.on the Consolidated Financial Statements. PG&E Corporation and the Utility do not believe it is reasonably possible that the resolution of these matters will have a material impact on their financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows.

PSPS Class Action

On December 19, 2019, a complaint was filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California naming PG&E Corporation and the Utility. The plaintiff seeks certification of a class consisting of all California residents and business owners who had their power shut off by the Utility during the October 9, October 23, October 26, October 28, or November 20, 2019 power outages and any subsequent voluntary outages occurring during the course of litigation. The plaintiff alleges that the necessity for the October and November 2019 power shutoff events was caused by the Utility’s negligence in failing to properly maintain its electrical lines and surrounding vegetation. The complaint seeks up to $2.5 billion in special and general damages, punitive and exemplary damages and injunctive relief to require the Utility to properly maintain and inspect its power grid. PG&E Corporation and the Utility believe the allegations are without merit and intend to defend this lawsuit vigorously.

On January 21,March 30, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility filedBankruptcy Court granted a motion to dismiss the complaint or in the alternative strike thethis class action allegations. The motion to dismiss and strike was heard by the Bankruptcy Court on March 10, 2020, and onUtility because the plaintiff’s class action claims are preempted as a matter of law by the California Public Utilities Code. On April 3, 2020, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order dismissing the action without leave to amend, finding that the action was preempted under the California Public Utilities Code.amend.

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The plaintiff appealed the decision dismissing the complaint to the District Court. On March 30, 2020,26, 2021, the District Court affirmed the Bankruptcy Court issued an opinion granting the Utility's motion to dismissCourt’s dismissal of this class action. The court held that the plaintiff’s class action, claims are preempted as a matter of law by section 1759 of the California Public Utilities Code and thus the plaintiffs could not pursue civil damages. The court stated that “any claim for damages caused by PSPS events approved by the CPUC, even if based on pre-existing events that may or may not have contributed to the necessity of the PSPS events, would interfere with the CPUC’s policy-making decisions.”

On April 6, 2020, the plaintiff filed a notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. On February 28, 2022, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals entered an order certifying two questions of state law to the California Supreme Court. On June 1, 2022, the California Supreme Court accepted certification of the Bankruptcy Court decision dismissing the complaint.questions. The plaintiff has elected to have the appeal heard by the District Court, rather than the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. The plaintiff filed a designation of the record and statement of the issues on April 20, 2020.

On June 8, 2020, the plaintiff filed its opening brief with the District Court. The Utility filed its opposition brief on July 6, 2020.1, 2022. The Utility’s answering brief was filed on August 31, 2022, and the plaintiff’s reply brief was filed on August 4, 2020 with a request for oral argument. On October 20, 2020, the District Court denied the plaintiff’s request for oral argument and stated that if it wants to hear oral argument, it will inform the parties and schedule a hearing.

The Utility is unable to determine the timing and outcome of this proceeding.

GT&S Capital Expenditures 2011-2014

On June 23, 2016, the CPUC approved a final phase one decision in the Utility’s 2015 GT&S rate case.  The phase one decision excluded from rate base $696 million of capital spending in 2011 through 2014 in excess of the amount adopted in the prior GT&S rate case. The decision permanently disallowed $120 million of that amount and ordered that the remaining $576 million be subject to a review of reasonableness to be conducted, or overseen, by the CPUC staff. The review was completed on June 1, 2020 and did not result in any additional disallowances. The report certified $512 million for future recovery. The difference between the certified amount and the $576 million previously disallowed is primarily a result of differences between capital expenditures forecasted in the 2015 GT&S rate case and recorded capital expenditures.

On July 31, 2020, the Utility filed an application seeking recovery of revenue requirements on the $512 million of capital expenditures retroactive to January 1, 2015. On October 16, 2020, the assigned commissioner issued a scoping memo establishing the scope and schedule for the proceeding. On January 20, 2021, the Utility provided supplemental testimony and supporting working papers addressing the reasonableness of the capital expenditures. The scoping memo calls for the issuance of a proposed decision in the fourth quarter of 2021.2022.

The Utility is unable to determine the timing and outcome of this proceeding.

CZU Lightning Complex Fire Notices of Violation

SeveralBetween November 2020 and January 2021, several governmental entities have raised concerns regarding the Utility’s emergency response to the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex fire, including Cal Fire, alleging violations of Public Resource Code sections related to timber harvest regulations and Forest Practice Rules, the California Coastal Commission, alleging violations of the Coastal Act related to unpermitted development in the coastal zone, the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, alleging unpermitted discharge to waters, and the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors adopting a resolution to file aalleging environmental, vegetation management, and unpermitted work violations. In the matter of Santa Cruz County’s complaint with the CPUC. The concerns include potential environmental impacts related to erosion and sedimentation from hazard tree removal and access road use, work in sensitive habitats,CPUC, the parties reached a settlement, and the management of wood debris.CPUC dismissed the complaint on December 15, 2021. The Utility continues to work with the California Coastal Commission, issued a Notice of Violation letter to the Utility on November 20, 2020,Cal Fire, and the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board issued a Notice of Violation letter on December 15, 2020, Cal Fire has issued 5 Notices of Violation through February 8, 2021,to resolve any outstanding issues and Santa Cruz County filed a complaint with the CPUC on January 25, 2021. The Utility continues to work with all agencies, as well as Santa Cruz County to resolve any outstanding issues.implement the terms of the settlement agreement. Violations can result in penalties, remediation, and other relief.

Based on the information currently available, PG&E Corporation and the Utility believe it is probable that a liability has been incurred. TheAccordingly, PG&E Corporation and the Utility recorded charges during the fourth quarters of 2021 and 2022, each for an amount that is unable to reasonably estimate the amount or range of potential penalties that could be incurred given the number of factors that can be considered in determining penalties.not material. PG&E Corporation and the Utility do not believe that the resolution of these matters will have a material impact on their financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows. Violations can result in penalties, remediation and other relief.

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Environmental Remediation Contingencies

Given the complexities of the legal and regulatory environment and the inherent uncertainties involved in the early stages of a remediation project, the process for estimating remediation liabilities requires significant judgment. The Utility records an environmental remediation liability when the site assessments indicate that remediation is probable, and the Utility can reasonably estimate the loss or a range of probable amounts. The Utility records an environmental remediation liability based on the lower end of the range of estimated probable costs, unless an amount within the range is a better estimate than any other amount. Key factors that inform the development of estimated costs include site feasibility studies and investigations, applicable remediation actions, operations and maintenance activities, post-remediation monitoring, and the cost of technologies that are expected to be approved to remediate the site. Amounts recorded are not discounted to their present value. The Utility’s environmental remediation liability is primarily included in non-current liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets and is comprised of the following:
 Balance at
(in millions)December 31, 2020December 31, 2019
Topock natural gas compressor station$303 $362 
Hinkley natural gas compressor station132 138 
Former manufactured gas plant sites owned by the Utility or third parties (1)
659 568 
Utility-owned generation facilities (other than fossil fuel-fired),
  other facilities, and third-party disposal sites (2)
111 101 
Fossil fuel-fired generation facilities and sites (3)
96 106 
Total environmental remediation liability$1,301 $1,275 
 Balance at
(in millions)December 31, 2022December 31, 2021
Topock natural gas compressor station$284 $299 
Hinkley natural gas compressor station110 123 
Former MGP sites owned by the Utility or third parties (1)
750 667 
Utility-owned generation facilities (other than fossil fuel-fired), other facilities, and third-party disposal sites (2)
112 104 
Fossil fuel-fired generation facilities and sites (3)
26 70 
Total environmental remediation liability$1,282 $1,263 
(1) Primarily driven by the following sites: San Francisco Beach Street, Vallejo, Napa, and San Francisco East Harbor.
(2) Primarily driven by Geothermalgeothermal landfill and Shell Pond site.
(3) Primarily driven by the San Francisco Potrero Power Plant.

The Utility’s gas compressor stations, former manufactured gas plantMGP sites, power plant sites, gas gathering sites, and sites used by the Utility for the storage, recycling, and disposal of potentially hazardous substances are subject to requirements issued by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act in addition to other state laws relating to hazardous waste laws.substances.  The Utility has a comprehensive program in place designed to comply with federal, state, and local laws and regulations related to hazardous materials, waste, remediation activities, and other environmental requirements.  The Utility assesses and monitors the environmental requirements on an ongoing basis and implements changes to its program as deemed appropriate. The Utility’s remediation activities are overseen by the DTSC, several California regional water quality control boards, and various other federal, state, and local agencies.

The Utility’s environmental remediation liability atas of December 31, 2020,2022, reflects its best estimate of probable future costs for remediation based on the current assessment data and regulatory obligations. Future costs will depend on many factors, including the extent of work necessary to implement final remediation plans, the Utility’s time frame for remediation, and unanticipated claims filed against the Utility.  The Utility may incur actual costs in the future that are materially different than this estimate and such costs could have a material impact on results of operations, financial condition, and cash flows during the period in which they are recorded. AtAs of December 31, 2020,2022, the Utility expected to recover $986 million$1.05 billion of its environmental remediation liability for certain sites through various ratemaking mechanisms authorized by the CPUC. 

Natural Gas Compressor Station Sites

The Utility is legally responsible for remediating groundwater contamination caused by hexavalent chromium used in the past at the Utility’s natural gas compressor stations. The Utility is also required to take measures to abate the effects of the contamination on the environment.

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Topock Site

The Utility’s remediation and abatement efforts at the Topock site are subject to the regulatory authority of the California DTSC and the U.S. Department of the Interior. On April 24, 2018, the DTSC authorized the Utility to build an in-situ groundwater treatment system to convert hexavalent chromium into a non-toxic and non-soluble form of chromium. Construction activities began in October 2018, and the initial phase of construction was completed in 2021. Additional phases of construction will continue for several years. The Utility’s undiscounted future costs associated with the Topock site may increase by as much as $216$240 million if the extent of contamination or necessary remediation is greater than anticipated. The costs associated with environmental remediation at the Topock site are expected to be recovered primarily through the HSM,HSMA, where 90% of the costs are recovered inthrough rates.

Hinkley Site

The Utility has been implementing remediation measures at the Hinkley site to reduce the mass of the chromium plume in groundwater and to monitor and control movement of the plume. The Utility’s remediation and abatement efforts at the Hinkley site are subject to the regulatory authority of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Lahontan Region. In November 2015, the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Lahontan Region adopted a clean-up and abatement order directing the Utility to contain and remediate the underground plume of hexavalent chromium and the potential environmental impacts. The final order states that the Utility must continue and improve its remediation efforts, define the boundaries of the chromium plume, and take other action. Additionally, the final order sets plume capture requirements, requires a monitoring and reporting program, and includes deadlines for the Utility to meet interim cleanup targets. The United States Geological Survey team is currently conducting a background study on the site to better define the chromium plume boundaries. A draft background report was received in January 2020 and is expected to be finalized in 2021.2023. The Utility’s undiscounted future costs associated with the Hinkley site may increase by as much as $138$126 million if the extent of contamination or necessary remediation is greater than anticipated. The costs associated with environmental remediation at the Hinkley site will not be recovered through rates.

Former Manufactured Gas Plants

Former MGPs used coal and oil to produce gas for use by the Utility’s customers before natural gas became available. The by-products and residues of this process were often disposed of at the MGPs themselves. The Utility has a program to manage the residues left behind as a result of the manufacturing process; many of the sites in the program have been addressed. The Utility’s undiscounted future costs associated with MGP sites may increase by as much as $460$511 million if the extent of contamination or necessary remediation at currently identified MGP sites is greater than anticipated. The costs associated with environmental remediation at the MGP sites are recovered through the HSM,HSMA, where 90% of the costs are recovered inthrough rates.

Utility-Owned Generation Facilities and Third-Party Disposal Sites

Utility-owned generation facilities and third-party disposal sites often involve long-term remediation. The Utility’s undiscounted future costs associated with Utility-owned generation facilities and third-party disposal sites may increase by as much as $67$51 million if the extent of contamination or necessary remediation is greater than anticipated. The environmental remediation costs associated with the Utility-owned generation facilities and third-party disposal sites are recovered through the HSM,HSMA, where 90% of the costs are recovered inthrough rates.

Fossil Fuel-Fired Generation Sites

In 1998, the Utility divested its generation power plant business as part of generation deregulation. Although the Utility sold its fossil-fueled power plants, the Utility retained the environmental remediation liability associated with each site. The Utility’s undiscounted future costs associated with fossil fuel-fired generation sites may increase by as much as $43$50 million if the extent of contamination or necessary remediation is greater than anticipated. The environmental remediation costs associated with the fossil fuel-fired sites will not be recovered through rates.

Nuclear Insurance

The Utility maintains multiple insurance policies through NEIL, a mutual insurer owned by utilities with nuclear facilities, and EMANI, covering nuclear or non-nuclear events at the Utility’s 2two nuclear generating units at Diablo Canyon and the retired Humboldt Bay Unit 3.  

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NEIL provides insurance coverage for property damages and business interruption losses incurred by the Utility if a nuclear or non-nuclear event were to occur at the Utility’s two nuclear generating units at Diablo Canyon. NEIL provides property damage and business interruption coverage of up to $3.2 billion per nuclear incident and $2.7$2.5 billion per non-nuclear incident for Diablo Canyon. For Humboldt Bay Unit 3, NEIL provides up to $50 million of coverage for nuclear and non-nuclear property damages.

NEIL also provides coverage for damages caused by acts of terrorism at nuclear power plants. Through NEIL, there is up to $3.2 billion available to the membership to cover this exposure. This coverage amount is shared by all NEIL members and applies to allone or more terrorist acts occurring within a 12-month period againstat member sites. NEIL also provides coverage for damages caused by cyber events at nuclear power plants. Through NEIL, there is up to $3.2 billion available to the membership to cover one or more commercialcyber events occurring within a 12-month period at member sites. These coverage amounts are shared by all NEIL members and all nuclear power plants insuredand non-nuclear property insurance policies issued by NEIL.

In addition to the nuclear insurance the Utility maintains through NEIL, the Utility also is a member of EMANI. EMANI shares losses with NEIL as part of the first $400 million in coverage for nuclear or non-nuclear property damages. Additional coverage is procured through EMANI, which provides excess insurance coverage for property damages and business interruption losses incurred by the Utility if a nuclear or non-nuclear event were to occur at Diablo Canyon. The excess insurance coverage through EMANI provides an additional $200 million for any one accident and in the annual aggregate excess of the combined amount recoverable under the Utility’s NEIL policies. The coverage procured through EMANI also includes protection for acts of terrorism.

If NEIL losses in any policy year exceed accumulated funds, the Utility could be subject to a retrospective assessment.  If NEIL were to exercise this assessment, the maximum aggregate annual retrospective premium obligation for the Utility would be approximately $43$41 million.  If EMANI losses in any policy year exceed accumulated funds, the Utility could be subject to a retrospective assessment of approximately $4 million. 

Under the Price-Anderson Act, public liability claims that arise from nuclear incidents that occur at Diablo Canyon, and that occur during the transportation of material to and from Diablo Canyon are limited to approximately $13.8$13.7 billion. The Utility purchases the maximum available public liability insurance of $450 million for Diablo Canyon. The balance of the $13.8$13.7 billion of liability protection is provided under a loss-sharing program among utilities owning nuclear reactors.reactor owners. The Utility may be assessed up to $275 million per nuclear incident under this loss sharing program, with payments in each year limited to a maximum of $41 million per incident. Both the maximum assessment and the maximum yearly assessment are adjusted for inflation at least every five years.

The Price-Anderson Act does not apply to claims that arise from nuclear incidents that occur during shipping of nuclear material from the nuclear fuel enricher to a fuel fabricator or that occur at the fuel fabricator’s facility. The Utility has a separate policy that provides coverage for claims arising from some of these incidents up to a maximum of $450 million per incident. In addition, the Utility has approximately $53 million of liability insurance for Humboldt Bay Unit 3 and has a $500 million indemnification from the NRC for public liability arising from nuclear incidents for Humboldt Bay Unit 3, covering liabilities in excess of the $53 million in liability insurance.

Diablo Canyon Outages

Diablo Canyon Unit 2 has experienced 4 outages between July 2020 and February 24, 2021, each due or related to malfunctions within the main generator associated with excessive vibrations. Additional inspections and replacement of a redesigned component of the generator are expected to occur during Unit 2’s planned spring 2021 refueling outage. The affected component is part of the secondary system and does not involve a risk of release of radioactive material into the environment. The Utility is working with the vendor that supplied the affected component to understand the root cause and to develop appropriate corrective actions.

If additional shutdowns occur in the future, or if the planned refueling outage is extended due to the inspections and replacement of the affected component, the Utility may incur incremental costs or forgo additional power market revenues. The Utility will also be subject to a review of the reasonableness of its actions before the CPUC.

Diablo Canyon carries property damage and outage insurance issued by NEIL. The Utility has notified NEIL of its potential claims for loss recovery.
The Utility is unable to reasonably estimate the occurrence or length of future outages, the cost to repair the generator, the loss of power market revenues, or the results of a reasonableness review by the CPUC.

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Purchase Commitments

The following table shows the undiscounted future expected obligations under power purchase agreements that have been approved by the CPUC and have met specified construction milestones as well as undiscounted future expected payment obligations for natural gas supplies, natural gas transportation, natural gas storage, and nuclear fuel as of December 31, 2020:2022:
 Power Purchase Agreements   
(in millions)Renewable
Energy
Conventional
Energy
OtherNatural
Gas
Nuclear
Fuel
Total
2023$2,081 $482 $60 $1,746 $47 $4,416 
20242,052 378 61 195 11 2,697 
20252,040 715 61 140 — 2,956 
20261,980 663 21 129 — 2,793 
20271,919 579 53 — 2,558 
Thereafter17,807 1,565 13 — — 19,385 
Total purchase commitments$27,879 $4,382 $223 $2,263 $58 $34,805 
 Power Purchase Agreements   
(in millions)Renewable
Energy
Conventional
Energy
OtherNatural
Gas
Nuclear
Fuel
Total
2021$2,270 $582 $65 $466 $64 $3,447 
20222,042 511 62 191 54 2,860 
20231,997 223 61 158 49 2,488 
20241,972 72 61 151 47 2,303 
20251,962 70 61 151 2,244 
Thereafter21,335 281 41 184 21,841 
Total purchase commitments$31,578 $1,739 $351 $1,301 $214 $35,183 
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Third-Party Power Purchase Agreements

In the ordinary course of business, the Utility enters into various agreements, including renewable energy agreements, QF agreements, and other power purchase agreements to purchase power and electric capacity.  The price of purchased power may be fixed or variable.  Variable pricing is generally based on the current market price of either natural gas or electricity at the date of delivery.

Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements. In order to comply with California’s RPS requirements, the Utility is required to deliver renewable energy to its customers at a gradually increasing rate.  The Utility has entered into various agreements to purchase renewable energy to help meet California’s requirement. The Utility’s obligations under a significant portion of these agreements are contingent on the third party’s construction of new generation facilities, which are expected to grow.  As of December 31, 2020,These renewable energy contracts expire at various dates between 20212023 and 2043.

Conventional Energy Power Purchase Agreements. The Utility has entered into many power purchase agreements for conventional generation resources, which include tolling agreements and resource adequacyRA agreements.  The Utility’s obligationobligations under a portion of these agreements isare contingent on the third parties’ development of new generation facilities to provide capacity and energy products to the Utility. As of December 31, 2020, theseThese power purchase agreements expire at various dates between 20212023 and 2033.2041.

Other Power Purchase Agreements. The Utility has entered into agreements to purchase energy and capacity with independent power producers that own generation facilities that meet the definition of a QF under federal law. As of December 31, 2020,2022, QF contracts in operation expire at various dates between 20212023 and 2049.2041.  In addition, the Utility has agreements with various irrigation districts and water agencies to purchase hydroelectric power.

The net costs incurred for all power purchases and electric capacity amounted towere $2.8 billion in 2022, $3.0 billion in 2021, and $2.9 billion in 2020, $3.0 billion in 2019, and $3.1 billion in 2018.2020.

Natural Gas Supply, Transportation, and Storage Commitments 

The Utility purchases natural gas directly from producers and marketers in both Canada and the United States to serve its core customers and to fuel its owned-generation facilities.  The Utility also contracts for natural gas transportation from the points at which the Utility takes delivery (typically in Canada, the USUnited States Rocky Mountain supply area, and the southwestern United States) to the points at which the Utility’s natural gas transportation system begins.  These agreements expire at various dates between 20212023 and 2026.2041.  In addition, the Utility has contracted for natural gas storage services in northernNorthern California to more reliably meet customers’ loads.

Costs incurred for natural gas purchases, natural gas transportation services, and natural gas storage, which include contracts with terms of less than 1 year, amounted towere $2.4 billion in 2022, $1.2 billion in 2021, and $0.8 billion in 2020, $0.9 billion in 2019, and $0.6 billion in 2018.2020.

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Nuclear Fuel Agreements

The Utility has entered into several purchase agreements for nuclear fuel.  These agreements expire at various dates between 20212023 and 2024 and are intended to ensure long-term nuclear fuel supply.  The Utility relies on a number of international producers of nuclear fuel in order to diversify its sources and provide security of supply.  Pricing terms are also diversified, ranging from market-based prices to base prices that are escalated using published indices. 

Payments for nuclear fuel amounted towere $44 million in 2022, $79 million in 2021, and $111 million in 2020, $74 million in 2019, and $73 million in 2018.2020.

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Other Commitments

PG&E Corporation and the Utility have other commitments primarily related to office facilities and land leases, which expire at various dates between 20212023 and 2052.2057.  At December 31, 2020,2022, the future minimum payments related to these commitments were as follows:
(in millions)Other Commitments
2021$40 
202230 
202346 
202465 
202560 
Thereafter2,924 
Total minimum lease payments$3,165 
(in millions)Other Commitments
2023$88 
202485 
202583 
202681 
202780 
Thereafter3,518 
Total minimum lease payments$3,935 

Payments for other commitments amounted towere $63 million in 2022, $50 million in 2021, and $45 million in 2020, $48 million in 2019, and $43 million in 2018.2020.  Certain office facility leases contain escalation clauses requiring annual increases in rent.  The rents may increase by a fixed amount each year, a percentage of the base rent, or the consumer price index.  There are options to extend these leases for one to five years.

One of these commitments is treated as a financing lease. At December 31, 2020 and 2019, net financing leases reflected in property, plant, and equipment on the Consolidated Balance Sheets were $7 million and $9 million including accumulated amortization of $11 million and $9 million, respectively.  The present value of the future minimum lease payments due under these agreements included $2 million and $2 million in Current Liabilities and $5 million and $7 million in Noncurrent Liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheet, at December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

Oakland Headquarters Lease

On June 5, 2020, the Utility entered into an Agreement to Enter Into Lease and Purchase Option (the “Agreement”) with TMG Bay Area Investments II, LLC (“TMG”). The Agreement provides that, contingent on (i) entry of an order by the Bankruptcy Court authorizing the Utility to enter into the Agreement and the Lease Agreement (as defined below), subject to certain conditions, and (ii) acquisition of the Lakeside Building by BA2 300 Lakeside LLC (“Landlord”), a wholly owned subsidiary of TMG, the Utility and Landlord will enter into an office lease agreement (the “Lease Agreement”) for approximately 910,000 rentable square feet of space within the building located at the Lakeside Building to serve as the Utility’s principal administrative headquarters (the “Lease”). On June 9, 2020, PG&E Corporation and the Utility filed a motion with the Bankruptcy Court authorizing them to enter into the Agreement and grant related relief. The Bankruptcy Court entered an order approving the motion on June 24, 2020.

Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, concurrent with the Landlord’s acquisition of the Lakeside Building, on October 23, 2020, the Utility and the Landlord entered into the Lease, and the Utility issued to Landlord (i) an option payment letter of credit in the amount of $75 million, and (ii) and a lease security letter of credit in the amount of $75 million.

The term of the Lease will begin on or about March 1, 2022. The Lease term will expire 34 years and 11 months after the commencement date, unless earlier terminated in accordance with the terms of the Lease. In addition to base rent, the Utility will be responsible for certain costs and charges specifiedcommitments in the Lease, including insurance costs, maintenance costs and taxes.

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The Lease requires the Landlordtable above, pursuant to pursue approvals to subdivide the real estate it owns surrounding the Lakeside Building to createSB 901, a separate legal parcel that contains the Lakeside Building (the “Property”) that can be soldshareholder contribution to the Utility. The Lease grants to the Utility an option to purchase the Property, following such subdivision, at a pricecustomer credit trust of $892 million, subject to certain adjustments (the “Purchase Price”). The Purchase Price would not be paid until 2023.

In connection with entry into the Agreement, the Utility intends to sell its current office space generally located at 77 Beale Street, 215 Market Street, 245 Market Street and 50 Main Street, San Francisco, California 94105, and associated properties owned by the Utility (“SFGO”). Any sale of the SFGO would be subject to approval by the CPUC. On September 30, 2020, the Utility filed an application with the CPUC seeking authorization to sell the SFGO.

At December 31, 2020, the Lease Agreement had no impact on PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Consolidated Financial Statements.

NOTE 16: SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

Sale of Transmission Tower Wireless Licenses

On February 16, 2021, the Utility granted to a subsidiary of SBA Communications Corporation (such subsidiary, “SBA”) an exclusive license enabling SBA to sublicense and market wireless communications equipment attachment locations (“Cell Sites”) on more than 700 of the Utility’s electric transmission towers, telecommunications towers, monopoles, buildings or other structures (collectively, the “Effective Date Towers”) to wireless telecommunication carriers (“Carriers”) for attachment of wireless communications equipment, as contemplated by a Master Transaction Agreement (the “Transaction Agreement”) dated February 2, 2021, between the Utility and SBA. Pursuant to the Transaction Agreement, the Utility also assigned to SBA license agreements between the Utility and Carriers for substantially all of the existing Cell Sites on the Effective Date Towers.

The exclusive license was granted pursuant to a Master Multi-Site License Agreement (the “License Agreement”) between the Utility and SBA. The term of the License Agreement$1.0 billion is for 100 years. The Utility has the right to terminate the license for individual Cell Sites for certain regulatory or utility operational reasons, with a corresponding payment to SBA. Pursuant to the License Agreement, SBA is entitled to the sublicensing revenue generated by new sublicenses of Cell Sites on the Effective Date Towers, subject to the Utility’s right to a percentage of such sublicensing revenue.

In exchange for the exclusive license and entry into the License Agreement, SBA agreed to pay the Utility a purchase price of $973 million, subject to customary adjustments. SBA paid the Utility $954 million of such purchase price at the closing pursuant to the Transaction Agreement, which also contemplates the post-closing assignment of additional specified Cell Sites to SBA upon the satisfaction of certain terms and conditions, for which SBA will make additional purchase price payments to the Utility. The closing settlement also reflected an adjustment for an estimated amount of payments received by the Utility from Carriers in the pre-closing period that are allocable to licenses in the post-closing period, resulting in initial cash proceeds of $945 million. The purchase price is subject to further adjustment pursuant to the terms of the Transaction Agreement.

The Utility and SBA also entered into a Master Transmission Tower Site License Agreement (the “Tower Site Agreement”), pursuant to which SBA received the exclusive rights to sublicense and market potential additional attachment locations on approximately 28,000 of the Utility’s other electric transmission towers to Carriers for attachment of wireless communications equipment. The Tower Site Agreement provides for a split of license fees from Carriers between the Utility and SBA. The Tower Site Agreement has a licensing period of up to 15 years, depending on SBA’s achievement of certain performance metrics, and any sites licensed during such licensing period will continue to be subject to the Tower Site Agreement for the same term as the License Agreement.made in 2024.

MANAGEMENT’S REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING

Management of PG&E Corporation and the Utility is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting.  PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP.  Internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of PG&E Corporation and the Utility, (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP and that receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of PG&E Corporation and the Utility, and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
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Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.  Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

Management assessed the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020,2022, based on the criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.  Based on its assessment and those criteria, management has concluded that PG&E Corporation and the Utility maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020.2022.

Deloitte & Touche LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, has audited PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020,2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the shareholders and the Board of Directors of PG&E Corporation

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of PG&E Corporation and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, equity and cash flows, for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2020,2022, and the related notes and the schedules listed in the Index at Item 15 (collectively, referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2020,2022, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.America (GAAP).

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020,2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control —Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, and our report dated February 25, 2021,22, 2023, expressed an unqualified opinion on the Company'sCompany’s internal control over financial reporting.

Emergence from Chapter 11

As discussed in Note 2 to the financial statements, the Company emerged from Chapter 11 on July 1, 2020. Under the plan of reorganization, the Company is required to comply with certain terms and conditions as described in Note 2 to the financial statements.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the auditaudits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matters

The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current-period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.

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Regulation and Regulated Operations—Refer to Notes 3, 4 and 1415 to the financial statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

The Company’s subsidiary, Pacific Gas & Electric Company (the “Utility”), follows accounting principles for rate-regulated entities and collects rates from customers to recover “revenue requirements” that have been authorized by the California Public UtilityUtilities Commission (the “CPUC”) or the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (the “FERC”) based on its cost of providing service. Pacific Gas & Electric CompanyThe Utility records assets and liabilities that result from the regulated ratemaking process that would not be recorded under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for nonregulated entities. Pacific Gas & Electric CompanyThe Utility capitalizes and records, as regulatory assets, costs that would otherwise be charged to expense if it is probable that the incurred costs will be recovered in future rates.rates and records regulatory liabilities for amounts that are likely to be refunded to customers. Accounting for the economics of rate regulation impacts multiple financial statement line items and disclosures.

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We identified the impact of rate regulation as a critical audit matter due to the significant judgments made by management to support its assertions about impacted account balances and disclosures and the highsignificant degree of subjectivity involved in assessing the likelihood of recovery of incurred costs in current or future rates due in part to the uncertainty related to future decisions by the rate regulators.regulators, as well as likelihood of refunds to customers. This required specialized knowledge of accounting for rate regulation and the rate setting process due to its inherent complexities and a highsignificant degree of auditor judgment when performing audit procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of management’s conclusions that the costs approved by a CPUC or FERC decision for tracking purposes meet the definition of a regulatory asset or likely refund as a regulatory liability under GAAP and are recorded at the appropriate amount.

How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to the application of specialized rules to account for the effects of cost-based rate regulation related to the uncertainty of future decisions by the rate regulators and that the costs approved by a CPUC or FERC decision for tracking purposes meet the definition of a regulatory asset or regulatory liability and are recorded at the appropriate amount included the following, among others:

We tested the effectiveness of controls over (1) the evaluation of the likelihood of (a) the recovery in future rates of costs deferred as regulatory assets; and (b) regulatory developments that may affect the likelihood of recovering costs in future rates or of a future reduction in rates; (2) management’s determination that costs approved by a CPUC or FERC decision for tracking purposes meet the definition of a regulatory asset or regulatory liability and are recorded at the appropriate amount; and (3) the review of disclosures related to these matters.

We read relevant regulatory orders issued by the CPUC and FERC for the CompanyUtility and other public utilities in California, procedural filings, filings made by intervenors, and other publicly available information to assess the likelihood of recovery in future rates based on precedents of the CPUC’s and FERC’s treatment of similar costs under similar circumstances. We evaluated the external information and compared to management’s recorded regulatory asset balances for completeness.

For regulatory matters in process (e.g., applications for cost recovery), we inspected the Company’sUtility’s filings with the CPUC and FERC and the filings with the CPUC and FERC by intervenors that may impact the Company’sUtility’s future rates, for any evidence that might contradict management’s assertions.

For regulatory assets approved by a CPUC decision for tracking purposes, we selected samples of costs and evaluated whether they met the definition of a regulatory asset by comparing the costs to the description of the costs approved by a CPUC decision and were recorded at the appropriate amount. For regulatory liabilities, we selected samples of regulatory liabilities and evaluated whether the Company met the definition of a refund or a future reduction in rates.

We evaluated whether the Company’s disclosures related to the impacts of rate regulation, including the balances recorded and regulatory developments, were appropriate and consistent with the information obtained in our procedures.

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Common Stock Ownership Restrictions – Deferred Tax Asset Valuation—Wildfire-Related Contingencies and Recoveries—Refer to Note 6 to the financial statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

Under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code, if a corporation (or a consolidated group) undergoes an “ownership change,” net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes may be subject to certain limitations (which could limit the Company’s ability to use deferred tax assets to offset taxable income). In general, an ownership change occurs if the aggregate stock ownership of certain shareholders increases by more than 50% over such shareholders’ lowest percentage ownership during the testing period (generally three years). It is more likely than not that the Company has not undergone an ownership change and the Company’s net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes are not limited by Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code.

We identified the Company’s conclusion and disclosure that it has not undergone an ownership change as a critical audit matter due to the significant judgments made by management to interpret Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code. This required the application of a high degree of auditor judgment and the need to involve our tax specialists when performing audit procedures to evaluate the Company’s disclosure.

How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to the Company’s conclusion and disclosure that an ownership change did not occur included the following procedures, among others:

We tested the effectiveness of controls over the review of the analysis and conclusion related to the Company’s determination of whether a change in ownership occurred and the review of disclosure related to this matter.

With the assistance of our tax specialists, we evaluated the Company’s analysis of whether a change in ownership occurred, including management’s process for interpreting Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code, the opinion from the Company’s external tax advisor, and determining the aggregate stock ownership change that occurred in conjunction with the Company’s equity financing transactions.

We tested the key facts in the opinion from the Company’s external tax advisor by comparing them to underlying source information and testing the mathematical accuracy of the calculations.

We evaluated whether the disclosure appropriately included management’s conclusion that an ownership change did not occur.

Contributions to the Wildfire Fund—Refer to Notes 3 and 14 to the financial statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

On July 12, 2019, the California Governor signed into law Assembly Bill (“AB”) 1054, a bill which provides for the establishment of a statewide fund (“Wildfire Fund”) that will be available for eligible California electric utility companies to pay eligible claims for liabilities arising from wildfires occurring after July 12, 2019 that are caused by the applicable electric utility company’s equipment. The Company accounts for the contributions to the Wildfire Fund similar to prepaid insurance with expense being allocated to periods ratably based on the estimated period of coverage. As of December 31, 2020, the Wildfire Fund asset is $6.3 billion and the related amortization and accretion for the year ended December 31, 2020 is $413 million. AB 1054 did not specify a period of coverage; therefore the Company estimated the useful life using a Monte Carlo simulation.

We identified the Company’s accounting and disclosure for contributions made to the Wildfire Fund as a critical audit matter due to the significant judgments made by management to (1) determine its accounting conclusion related to the initial and annual contributions as there is no relevant explicit guidance for accounting for contributions to a statewide fund and thus accounting guidance must be applied analogously and (2) determine the useful life, including the key assumptions related to the effectiveness of wildfire mitigation efforts and the period of historic fire-loss data. This required the application of a high degree of auditor judgment, extensive audit effort, and the need to involve professionals in our firm with expertise in insurance accounting and our actuarial specialists when performing audit procedures to evaluate the Company’s accounting and disclosure for contributions to the Wildfire Fund.
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How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to the accounting for contributions to the Wildfire Fund, the key assumptions used by management in developing its estimate for the useful life of the Wildfire Fund asset, including those related to the effectiveness of wildfire mitigation efforts and the period of historic fire-loss data, and the disclosure relating to the Wildfire Fund asset included the following, among others:

We tested the effectiveness of controls over (1) the accounting for contributions to the Wildfire Fund; (2) the Company’s review of the key assumptions to the useful life estimate, including those related to the effectiveness of wildfire mitigation efforts and the period of historic fire-loss data; (3) review of the Monte Carlo simulation methodology used to develop the useful life estimate; and (4) the disclosures related to the Wildfire Fund asset and the key assumptions to the useful life estimate, including those related to the effectiveness of wildfire mitigation efforts and the period of historic fire-loss data.

With the assistance of professionals in our firm having expertise in insurance accounting, we evaluated management’s judgments related to its determination of the accounting for contributions made to the Wildfire Fund.

With the assistance of our actuarial specialists, we evaluated the appropriateness of the methodology used to determine the Wildfire Fund asset useful life. This evaluation of the modeling methodology included a detailed assessment of the Monte Carlo simulation.

We evaluated each of management’s key assumptions to the useful life estimate, including those related to the effectiveness of wildfire mitigation efforts and the period of historic fire-loss data, by inquiring of management, comparing the assumptions to the relevant source data, which included external publicly available data, including information filed with the Company’s regulator related to wildfire mitigation efforts and information related to historic fire-loss and Company-prepared data. Additionally, we inspected other publicly available information for any evidence that might contradict management’s assertions.
We evaluated whether the disclosures were appropriate and consistent with the information obtained in our procedures.

Wildfire-Related Contingencies—Refer to Note 1415 to the financial statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

The Company has recorded provisions for loss contingencies related to the 2019 Kincade fire, and 2020 Zogg fire, 2021 Dixie fire, and 2022 Mosquito fire. The Company has recorded an estimated probable losslosses of $900$1,025 million, $400 million, $1,175 million, and $100 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2020,2022, which represents the lower end of the range of reasonably possible losses in connection with each of the fires. The Company has recorded estimated recoveries of wildfire-related contingencies, including $439 million and $175 million, in the Wildfire Expense Memorandum Account (“WEMA”) and Wildfire Fund, respectively, as of December 31, 2022.

We identified wildfire-related contingencies and related-recoveries, specifically the WEMA and Wildfire Fund, as well as the related disclosures as a critical audit matter because (1) of the significant judgments made by management to estimate losses, and (2) the outcome of the wildfire-related contingencies materially affects the Company’s financial position, results of operations, and cash flows.flows and (3) the significant judgments made by management in determining whether recoveries from WEMA and the Wildfire Fund are probable. This required the application of a highsignificant degree of auditor judgment and extensive audit effort when performing audit procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of management’s estimated losses, related recoveries, and disclosure related to wildfire-related contingencies.disclosures.
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How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to management’s judgments regarding its estimated losses for wildfire-related contingencies, related recoveries, and related disclosures included the following, among others:

We tested the effectiveness of controls over (1) the Company’s determination of whether a loss was probable and/or reasonably possible;possible and whether recoveries were probable; (2) the determination of the significant assumptions used in estimating the amount of probable loss, if any, including the information gained through investigations into the cause of the fire, information from claimants, and the advice of legal counsel that may impact the valuation of the liability; and (3) the disclosures related to the wildfires.

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We evaluated management’s judgments related to whether a loss was probable and/or reasonably possible for the wildfires and whether recoveries are probable, by inquiring of management and the Company’s legal counsel regarding the amountsamount of probable andand/or reasonably possible losses for each fire and each related recovery, including the potential impact of information gained through investigations into the cause of theeach fire, information from claimants, andcommunication with insurers, the advice of legal counsel, and reading external information for any evidence that might contradict management’s assertions.

We obtained an analysis from management and external legal counsel for recoveries specific to WEMA, regarding probability of recovery for deferred costs not yet addressed in a regulatory order to assess management’s assertion that amounts are probable of recovery. We evaluated the Company’s conclusions regarding probability of recoverability of WEMA and from the Wildfire Fund, under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

We evaluated the estimation methodology for determining the amount of probable loss through inquiries with management; we tested the significant assumptions used in the valuation of the liability. With the assistance of our real estate valuation specialists, we assessed the appropriateness andof the data sources utilized to determine the assumption utilized in management’s estimate.

We read the legal letters from the Company’s external and internal legal counsel regarding known information and evaluated whether the information therein was consistent with the information obtained in our procedures.

We evaluated whether the Company’s disclosures were appropriate and consistent with the information obtained in our procedures.

SB 901 Securitization—Refer to Note 6 to the financial statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

SB 901, signed into law on September 21, 2018, authorized the CPUC to issue a financing order that permits recovery, through the issuance of recovery bonds (also referred to as “securitization”), of wildfire-related costs found to be just and reasonable by the CPUC and, only for the 2017 Northern California wildfires, any amounts in excess of the customer harm threshold (CHT) as defined in SB 901. The CPUC authorized the Utility to establish a customer credit trust funded by the Company’s shareholders that will provide a monthly credit to customers that is anticipated to equal the fixed recovery charges such that the securitization is designed to be rate neutral to customers. The Company’s subsidiary, PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC, securitized $7.5 billion of 2017 wildfire claims costs through the issuance of recovery bonds that is designed to be rate-neutral to its customers. Pursuant to the financing order, the Utility sold its right to receive revenues from the non-bypassable fixed recovery charge (“SB 901 Recovery Property”) to PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC, which, in turn, issued the recovery bonds secured by the SB 901 Recovery Property. The fixed recovery charge is designed to recover the full principal amount of the recovery bonds along with any associated interest and financing costs. In the context of the CHT decision, which is intended to insulate customers from the fixed recovery charge, there is a customer credit which is designed to equal the recovery bond principal, interest, and financing costs over the life of the recovery bonds. The customer credit is funded by the customer credit trust. The fixed recovery charges and customer credits are presented on a net basis in Operating Revenues in the Consolidated Statements of Income and had no net impact on Operating Revenues for the year ended December 31, 2022.

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Also pursuant to the CHT decision, the Utility recorded a SB 901 securitization regulatory asset in the amount of $5.5 billion, reflecting PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC’s right to recover $7.5 billion in wildfire claims costs associated with the 2017 Northern California wildfires, partially offset by the $2.0 billion in required upfront shareholder contributions to the customer credit trust. The Utility also recorded a SB 901 securitization regulatory liability which represents certain shareholder tax benefits the Utility has recognized that will be returned to customers. As the Fire Victim Trust sells the remaining shares it holds of PG&E Corporation common stock, the SB 901 securitization regulatory liability will increase, reflecting the recognition of additional income tax benefits, up to $7.59 billion as required in the CHT decision. As these tax benefits are monetized, they will be contributed to the customer credit trust. The Utility expects to amortize the SB 901 securitization regulatory asset and liability over the life of the recovery bonds, with such amortization expense reflected within Operating and maintenance expense in the Consolidated Statements of Income. At December 31, 2022, the Utility had SB 901 securitization regulatory assets of $5.5 billion and SB 901 securitization regulatory liabilities of $6.1 billion, with SB 901 securitization charges, net recorded on the Consolidated Statement of Income of $608 million.

We identified the accounting for the SB 901 securitization as a critical audit matter due to the significant judgments made by management in the application of the relevant GAAP. This required specialized knowledge of accounting for rate regulation required significant audit effort when performing audit procedures to evaluate the accounting treatment associated with the transaction.

How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to the application of accounting guidance for the SB 901 securitization included the following:

We tested the effectiveness of controls over the evaluation of the accounting treatment for the SB 901 securitization and disclosures related to the securitization.

With the assistance of professionals in our firm having expertise in accounting for rate regulation, we evaluated the conclusions regarding the regulatory asset, regulatory liability, expense and tax accounting treatment applied to the SB 901 securitization by performing the following:

Read the terms and conditions included in the financing order, as well as correspondence with the CPUC regarding the intent of the securitization.

Evaluated the conclusions regarding the GAAP applied to account for the transaction.

We evaluated whether the Company’s disclosures were appropriate and consistent with the information obtained in our procedures.

Wildfire Fund—Refer to Notes 3 and 14 to the financial statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

On July 12, 2019, the California Governor signed into law Assembly Bill (“AB”) 1054, a bill which provides for the establishment of a statewide fund that will be available for eligible electric utility companies to pay eligible claims for liabilities arising from wildfires occurring after July 12, 2019 that are caused by the applicable electric utility company’s equipment. The Company accounts for the contributions to the Wildfire Fund by capitalizing an asset, amortizing to periods ratably based on an estimated period of coverage, and incrementally adjusting for accelerated amortization as the level of coverage declines. As of December 31, 2022, the Wildfire Fund asset is $5.3 billion and the related amortization and accretion for the year ended December 31, 2022 is $477 million. AB 1054 did not specify a period of coverage; therefore the Company estimated the useful life of 15 years using a Monte Carlo simulation.

We identified the Company’s accounting for the Wildfire Fund asset as a critical audit matter due to significant judgments made by management to determine the useful life, specifically the updated assumption related to the effectiveness of wildfire mitigation efforts. This required the application of a high degree of auditor judgment, extensive audit effort, and the need to involve actuarial specialists when performing audit procedures to evaluate the Company’s accounting and disclosure related to the Wildfire Fund.

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How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to the Wildfire Fund included the following:

We tested the effectiveness of controls over (1) the Company’s review of the key assumptions to the useful life estimate, specifically the update assumption related to the effectiveness of wildfire mitigation efforts, (2) review of the Monte Carlo simulation methodology used to develop useful life estimate and (3) the disclosures related to the Wildfire Fund asset and the key assumptions to the useful life estimate, specifically the update assumption related to the effectiveness of wildfire mitigation efforts and the period of historic fire-loss data.

With the assistance of our actuarial specialists, we evaluated the appropriateness of the methodology used to determine the Wildfire Fund asset useful life. This evaluation of the modeling methodology included a detailed assessment of the Monte Carlo simulation.

We evaluated each of management’s key assumptions to the useful life estimate and judgments made by management, including those related to the effectiveness of wildfire mitigation efforts, by inquiring of management, comparing the assumptions to relevant source data, performing sensitivity analyses including information filed with the Company’s regulator related to wildfire mitigation efforts and other publicly available data. Additionally, we inspected relevant source data for any evidence that might contradict management’s assertions.

We evaluated whether the disclosures were appropriate and consistent with the information obtained in our procedures.


/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
San Francisco, California
February 25, 202122, 2023

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 1999.
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the shareholders and the Board of Directors of Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Pacific Gas and Electric Company and subsidiaries (the "Utility"“Utility”) as of December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, shareholders'shareholders’ equity and cash flows, for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2020,2022, and the related notes and the schedules listed in the Index at Item 15 (collectively, referred to as the "financial statements"“financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Utility as of December 31, 20202022 and 2019,2021, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2020,2022, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.America (GAAP).

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Utility'sUtility’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020,2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control —Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated February 25, 202122, 2023, expressed an unqualified opinion on the Utility'sUtility’s internal control over financial reporting.

Emergence from Chapter 11

As discussed in Note 2 to the financial statements, the Utility emerged from Chapter 11 on July 1, 2020. Under the plan of reorganization, the Utility is required to comply with certain terms and conditions as described in Note 2 to the financial statements.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Utility'sUtility’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Utility'sUtility’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Utility in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the auditaudits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matters

The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current-period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.

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Regulation and Regulated Operations—Refer to Notes 3, 4, and 1415 to the financial statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

The Utility follows accounting principles for rate-regulated entities and collects rates from customers to recover “revenue requirements” that have been authorized by the California Public UtilityUtilities Commission (the “CPUC”) or the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (the “FERC”) based on its cost of providing service. The Utility records assets and liabilities that result from the regulated ratemaking process that would not be recorded under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for nonregulated entities. The Utility capitalizes and records, as regulatory assets, costs that would otherwise be charged to expense if it is probable that the incurred costs will be recovered in future rates.rates and records regulatory liabilities for amounts that are likely to be refunded to customers. Accounting for the economics of rate regulation impacts multiple financial statement line items and disclosures.

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We identified the impact of rate regulation as a critical audit matter due to the significant judgments made by management to support its assertions about impacted account balances and disclosures and the highsignificant degree of subjectivity involved in assessing the likelihood of recovery of incurred costs in current or future rates due in part to the uncertainty related to future decisions by the rate regulators.regulators, as well as likelihood of refunds to customers. This required specialized knowledge of accounting for rate regulation and the rate setting process due to its inherent complexities and a highsignificant degree of auditor judgment when performing audit procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of management’s conclusions that the costs approved by a CPUC or FERC decision for tracking purposes meet the definition of a regulatory asset or likely refund as a regulatory liability under GAAP and are recorded at the appropriate amount.

How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to the application of specialized rules to account for the effects of cost-based rate regulation related to the uncertainty of future decisions by the rate regulators and that the costs approved by a CPUC or FERC decision for tracking purposes meet the definition of a regulatory asset or regulatory liability and are recorded at the appropriate amount included the following, among others:

We tested the effectiveness of controls over (1) the evaluation of the likelihood of (a) the recovery in future rates of costs deferred as regulatory assets;assets and (b) regulatory developments that may affect the likelihood of recovering costs in future rates or of a future reduction in rates; (2) management’s determination that costs approved by a CPUC or FERC decision for tracking purposes meet the definition of a regulatory asset or regulatory liability and are recorded at the appropriate amount; and (3) the review of disclosures related to these matters.

We read relevant regulatory orders issued by the CPUC and FERC for the Utility and other public utilities in California, procedural filings, filings made by intervenors, and other publicly available information to assess the likelihood of recovery in future rates based on precedents of the CPUC’s and FERC’s treatment of similar costs under similar circumstances. We evaluated the external information and compared to management’s recorded regulatory asset balances for completeness.

For regulatory matters in process (e.g., applications for cost recovery), we inspected the Utility’s filings with the CPUC and FERC and the filings with the CPUC and FERC by intervenors that may impact the Utility’s future rates, for any evidence that might contradict management’s assertions.

For regulatory assets approved by a CPUC decision for tracking purposes, we selected samples of costs and evaluated whether they met the definition of a regulatory asset by comparing the costs to the description of the costs approved by a CPUC decision and were recorded at the appropriate amount. For regulatory liabilities, we selected samples of regulatory liabilities and evaluated whether the Utility met the definition of a refund or a future reduction in rates.

We evaluated whether the Utility’s disclosures related to the impacts of rate regulation, including the balances recorded and regulatory developments, were appropriate and consistent with the information obtained in our procedures.

Wildfire-Related Contingencies and Recoveries—Refer to Note 15 to the financial statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

The Utility has recorded provisions for loss contingencies related to the 2019 Kincade fire, 2020 Zogg fire, 2021 Dixie fire and 2022 Mosquito fire. The Utility has recorded estimated probable losses of $1,025 million,$400 million, $1,175 million, and $100 million, respectively as of December 31, 2022, which represents the lower end of the range of reasonably possible losses in connection with each of the fires. The Utility has recorded estimated recoveries of wildfire‐related contingencies, including $439 million and $175 million, in the Wildfire Expense Memorandum Account (“WEMA”) and Wildfire Fund, respectively, as of December 31, 2022.

We identified wildfire-related contingencies and related-recoveries, specifically the WEMA and Wildfire Fund, as well as the related disclosures as a critical audit matter because (1) of the significant judgments made by management to estimate losses, (2) the outcome of the wildfire-related contingencies materially affects the Utility’s financial position, results of operations, and cash flows and (3) the significant judgments made by management in determining whether recoveries from WEMA and the Wildfire Fund are probable. This required the application of a significant degree of auditor judgment and audit effort when performing audit procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of management’s estimated losses, related recoveries, and disclosures.
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How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to management’s judgments regarding its estimated losses for wildfire-related contingencies, related recoveries, and disclosures included the following, among others:

We tested the effectiveness of controls over (1) the Utility’s determination of whether a loss was probable and/or reasonably possible and whether recoveries were probable; (2) the determination of the significant assumptions used in estimating the amount of probable loss, if any, including the information gained through investigations into the cause of the fire, information from claimants, and the advice of legal counsel that may impact the valuation of the liability; and (3) the disclosures related to the wildfires.

We evaluated management’s judgments related to whether a loss was probable and/or reasonably possible for the wildfires and whether recoveries are probable, by inquiring of management and the Utility’s legal counsel regarding the amount of probable and/or reasonably possible losses for each fire and each related recovery, including the potential impact of information gained through investigations into the cause of each fire, information from claimants, communication with insurers, the advice of legal counsel, and reading external information for any evidence that might contradict management’s assertions.

We obtained an analysis from management and external legal counsel for recoveries specific to WEMA, regarding probability of recovery for deferred costs not yet addressed in a regulatory order to assess management’s assertion that amounts are probable of recovery. We evaluated the Utility’s conclusions regarding probability of recoverability of WEMA and from the Wildfire Fund, under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America..

We evaluated the estimation methodology for determining the amount of probable loss through inquiries with management; we tested the significant assumptions used in the valuation of the liability. With the assistance of our real estate valuation specialists, we assessed the appropriateness of the data sources utilized to determine the assumption utilized in management’s estimate.

We read the legal letters from the Utility’s external and internal legal counsel regarding known information and evaluated whether the information therein was consistent with the information obtained in our procedures.

We evaluated whether the Utility’s disclosures were appropriate and consistent with the information obtained in our procedures.

SB 901 Securitization—Refer to Note 6 to the financial statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

Under Section 382SB 901, signed into law on September 21, 2018, authorized the CPUC to issue a financing order that permits recovery, through the issuance of recovery bonds (also referred to as “securitization”), of wildfire-related costs found to be just and reasonable by the CPUC and, only for the 2017 Northern California wildfires, any amounts in excess of the Internal Revenue Code, ifcustomer harm threshold (CHT) as defined in SB 901. The CPUC authorized the Utility to establish a corporation (or a consolidated group) undergoes an “ownership change,” net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes may be subject to certain limitations (which could limitcustomer credit trust funded by the Utility’s abilityshareholders that will provide a monthly credit to use deferredcustomers that is anticipated to equal the fixed recovery charges such that the securitization is designed to be rate neutral to customers. The Utility’s subsidiary, PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC, securitized $7.5 billion of 2017 wildfire claims costs through the issuance of recovery bonds that is designed to be rate-neutral to its customers. Pursuant to the financing order, the Utility sold its right to receive revenues from the non-bypassable fixed recovery charge (“SB 901 Recovery Property”) to PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC, which, in turn, issued the recovery bonds secured by the SB 901 Recovery Property. The fixed recovery charge is designed to recover the full principal amount of the recovery bonds along with any associated interest and financing costs. In the context of the CHT decision, which is intended to insulate customers from the fixed recovery charge, there is a customer credit which is designed to equal the recovery bond principal, interest, and financing costs over the life of the recovery bonds. The customer credit is funded by the customer credit trust. The fixed recovery charges and customer credits are presented on a net basis in Operating Revenues in the Consolidated Statements of Income and had no net impact on Operating Revenues for the year ended December 31, 2022.

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Also pursuant to the CHT decision, the Utility recorded a SB 901 securitization regulatory asset in the amount of $5.5 billion, reflecting PG&E Wildfire Recovery Funding LLC’s right to recover $7.5 billion in wildfire claims costs associated with the 2017 Northern California wildfires, partially offset by the $2.0 billion in required upfront shareholder contributions to the customer credit trust. The Utility also recorded a SB 901 securitization regulatory liability which represents certain shareholder tax assetsbenefits the Utility has recognized that will be returned to offset taxable income). In general, an ownership change occurs ifcustomers. As the aggregate stock ownershipFire Victim Trust sells the remaining shares it holds of certain shareholders increases by more than 50% over such shareholders’ lowest percentage ownership during the testing period (generally three years). It is more likely than not that PG&E Corporation has not undergone an ownership changecommon stock, the SB 901 securitization regulatory liability will increase, reflecting the recognition of additional income tax benefits, up to $7.59 billion as required in the CHT decision. As these tax benefits are monetized, they will be contributed to the customer credit trust. The Utility expects to amortize the SB 901 securitization regulatory asset and liability over the Utility’s net operating loss carryforwards and other tax attributes are not limited by Section 382life of the Internal Revenue Code.recovery bonds, with such amortization expense reflected within Operating and maintenance expense in the Consolidated Statements of Income. At December 31, 2022, the Utility had SB 901 securitization regulatory assets of $5.5 billion and SB 901 securitization regulatory liabilities of $6.1 billion, with SB 901 securitization charges, net recorded on the Consolidated Statement of Income of $608 million.

We identified the conclusion and disclosure that PG&E Corporation has not undergone an ownership changeaccounting for the SB 901 securitization as a critical audit matter due to the significant judgments made by management to interpret Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code. This requiredin the application of a high degreethe relevant GAAP. This required specialized knowledge of auditor judgment and the need to involve our tax specialistsaccounting for rate regulation required significant audit effort when performing audit procedures to evaluate the Utility’s disclosure.accounting treatment associated with the transaction.

How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to the conclusion and disclosure that an ownership change did not occurapplication of accounting guidance for the SB 901 securitization included the following procedures, among others:following:

We tested the effectiveness of controls over the reviewevaluation of the analysisaccounting treatment for the SB 901 securitization and conclusiondisclosures related to the determination of whether a change in ownership occurred and the review of disclosure related to this matter.securitization.

With the assistance of professionals in our tax specialists,firm having expertise in accounting for rate regulation, we evaluated the analysis of whether a change in ownership occurred, including management’s process for interpreting Section 382 ofconclusions regarding the Internal Revenue Code,regulatory asset, regulatory liability, expense and tax accounting treatment applied to the opinion fromSB 901 securitization by performing the external tax advisor, and determining the aggregate stock ownership change that occurred in conjunction with PG&E Corporation’s equity financing transactions.following:

We testedRead the key factsterms and conditions included in the opinion fromfinancing order, as well as correspondence with the external tax advisor by comparing them to underlying source information and testingCPUC regarding the mathematical accuracyintent of the calculations.securitization.

Evaluated the conclusions regarding the GAAP applied to account for the transaction.

We evaluated whether the disclosure appropriately included management’s conclusion that an ownership change did not occur.Utility’s disclosures were appropriate and consistent with the information obtained in our procedures.

Contributions to the Wildfire Fund—Refer to Notes 3 and 14 to the financial statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

On July 12, 2019, the California Governor signed into law Assembly Bill (“AB”) 1054, a bill which provides for the establishment of a statewide fund (“Wildfire Fund”) that will be available for eligible California electric utility companies to pay eligible claims for liabilities arising from wildfires occurring after July 12, 2019, that are caused by the applicable electric utility company’s equipment. The Utility accounts for the contributions to the Wildfire Fund similar to prepaid insurance with expense being allocatedby capitalizing an asset, amortizing to periods ratably based on thean estimated period of coverage.coverage, and incrementally adjusting for accelerated amortization as the level of coverage declines. As of December 31, 2020,2022, the Wildfire Fund asset is $6.3$5.3 billion and the related amortization and accretion for the year ended December 31, 20202022 is $413$477 million. AB 1054 did not specify a period of coverage; therefore, the Utility estimated the useful life of 15 years using a Monte Carlo simulation.

We identified the Utility’s accounting and disclosure for contributions made to the Wildfire Fund asset as a critical audit matter due to the significant judgments made by management to (1) determine its accounting conclusion related to the initial and annual contributions as there is no relevant explicit guidance for accounting for contributions to a statewide fund and thus accounting guidance must be applied analogously and (2) determine the useful life, includingspecifically the key assumptionsupdated assumption related to the effectiveness of wildfire mitigation efforts and the period of historic fire-loss data.efforts. This required the application of a high degree of auditor judgment, extensive audit effort, and the need to involve professionals in our firm with expertise in insurance accounting and our actuarial specialists when performing audit procedures to evaluate the Utility’s accounting and disclosure for contributionsrelated to the Wildfire Fund.

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How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to the accounting for contributions to the Wildfire Fund the key assumptions used by management in developing its estimate for the useful life of the Wildfire Fund asset, including those related to the effectiveness of wildfire mitigation efforts and the period of historic fire-loss data, and the disclosure relating to the Wildfire Fund asset included the following, among others:following:

We tested the effectiveness of controls over (1) the accounting for contributions to the Wildfire Fund; (2) the Utility’s review of the key assumptions to the useful life estimate, including thosespecifically the update assumption related to the effectiveness of wildfire mitigation efforts, and the period of historic fire-loss data; (3)(2) review of the Monte Carlo simulation methodology used to develop the useful life estimate;estimate and (4)(3) the disclosures related to the Wildfire Fund asset and the key assumptions to the useful life estimate, including thosespecifically the update assumption related to the effectiveness of wildfire mitigation efforts and the period of historic fire-loss data.

With the assistance of professionals in our firm having expertise in insurance accounting, we evaluated management’s judgments related to its determination of the accounting for contributions made to the Wildfire Fund.

With the assistance of our actuarial specialists, we evaluated the appropriateness of the methodology used to determine the Wildfire Fund asset useful life. This evaluation of the modeling methodology included a detailed assessment of the Monte Carlo simulation.

We evaluated each of management’s key assumptions to the useful life estimate and judgments made by management, including those related to the effectiveness of wildfire mitigation efforts, and the period of historic fire-loss data, by inquiring of management, comparing the assumptions to the relevant source data, which included external publicly available data,performing sensitivity analyses including information filed with the Utility’s regulator related to wildfire mitigation efforts and information related to historic fire-loss and Utility-preparedother publicly available data. Additionally, we inspected other publicly available informationrelevant source data for any evidence that might contradict management’s assertions.

We evaluated whether the disclosures were appropriate and consistent with the information obtained in our procedures.

Wildfire-Related Contingencies—Refer to Note 14 to the financial statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

The Utility has recorded provisions for loss contingencies related to the 2019 Kincade fire and 2020 Zogg fire. The Utility has recorded an estimated probable loss of $900 million as of December 31, 2020, which represents the lower end of the range of reasonably possible losses in connection with the fires.

We identified wildfire-related contingencies and the related disclosures as a critical audit matter because (1) of the significant judgments made by management to estimate losses and (2) the outcome of the wildfire-related contingencies materially affects the Utility’s financial position, results of operations, and cash flows. This required the application of a high degree of auditor judgment and extensive audit effort when performing audit procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of management’s estimated losses and disclosure related to wildfire-related contingencies.

How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to management’s judgments regarding its estimated losses for wildfire-related contingencies and related disclosures included the following, among others:

We tested the effectiveness of controls over (1) the Utility’s determination of whether a loss was probable and/or reasonably possible; (2) the determination of the significant assumptions, including the information gained through investigations into the cause of the fire, information from claimants, and the advice of legal counsel that may impact the valuation of the liability; and (3) the disclosures related to the wildfires.

We evaluated management’s judgments related to whether a loss was probable and/or reasonably possible for the wildfires by inquiring of management and the Utility’s legal counsel regarding the amounts of probable and reasonably possible losses, including the potential impact of information gained through investigations into the cause of the fire, information from claimants, and the advice of legal counsel, and reading external information for any evidence that might contradict management’s assertions.
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We evaluated the estimation methodology for determining the amount of probable loss through inquiries with management; we tested the significant assumptions used in the valuation of the liability. With the assistance of our real estate valuation specialists, we assessed the appropriateness and the data sources utilized to determine the assumption utilized in management’s estimate.

We read the legal letters from the Utility’s external and internal legal counsel regarding known information, and evaluated whether the information therein was consistent with the information obtained in our procedures.

We evaluated whether the Utility’s disclosures were appropriate and consistent with the information obtained in our procedures.




/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
San Francisco, California
February 25, 202122, 2023

We have served as the Utility’s auditor since 1999.1999.
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the shareholders and the Board of Directors of PG&E Corporation

Opinion on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

We have audited the internal control over financial reporting of PG&E Corporation and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2020,2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). In our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020,2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by COSO.

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2020,2022, of the Company and our report dated February 25, 2021,22, 2023, expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements and included an emphasis of a matter paragraph regarding the Company’s emergence from Chapter 11.statements.

Basis for Opinion

The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Definition and Limitations of Internal Control over Financial Reporting

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.






/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
San Francisco, California
February 25, 202122, 2023

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the shareholders and the Board of Directors of Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Opinion on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

We have audited the internal control over financial reporting of Pacific Gas and Electric Company and subsidiaries (the “Utility”) as of December 31, 2020,2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). In our opinion, the Utility maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020,2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by COSO.

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2020,2022, of the Utility and our report dated February 25, 2021,22, 2023, expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements and included an emphasis of a matter paragraph regarding the Utility’s emergence from Chapter 11.statements.

Basis for Opinion

The Utility’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Utility’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Utility in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Definition and Limitations of Internal Control over Financial Reporting

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.






/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
San Francisco, California
February 25, 202122, 2023
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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE DISCLOSURE

Not applicable.

ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Based on an evaluation of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2020,2022, PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s respective principal executive officers and principal financial officers have concluded that such controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by PG&E Corporation and the Utility in reports that the companies file or submit under the 1934 Act is (i) recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC rules and forms, and (ii) accumulated and communicated to PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s management, including PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s respective principal executive officers and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Management of PG&E Corporation and the Utility have prepared an annual report on internal control over financial reporting.  Management’s report, together with the report of the independent registered public accounting firm, appears in Item 8 of this 20202022 Form 10-K under the heading “Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting” and “Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.”

Registered Public Accounting Firm’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Deloitte & Touche LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, has audited PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2020,2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the quarter ended December 31, 20202022 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, PG&E Corporation’s or the Utility’s internal control over financial reporting.

ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION

Not applicable.

ITEM 9C. DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS

None.


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PART III 

ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Information regarding executive officers of PG&E Corporation and the Utility is set forth under “Information About Our Executive Officers” at the end of Part I of this 20202022 Form 10-K. Other information regarding directorsrequired by this Item 10 will be included in the Joint Proxy Statement relating to the 2023 Annual Meetings of Shareholders under the headingheadings “Election of Directors of PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company” in(under the Joint Proxy Statement relating to the 2021 Annual Meetings of Shareholders, which information is incorporated herein by reference.  Information regarding compliance with Section 16 of the Exchange Act will be included under the headingsubheadings “Nominees,” “Committee Responsibilities,” “Committee Membership Requirements,” and “Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance” inCompliance,”) and “User Guide” (under the Joint Proxy Statement relating to the 2021subheading “2024 Annual Meetings, of Shareholders,”) which information is incorporated herein by reference.

Website Availability of Code of Ethics, Corporate Governance and Other Documents

The following documents are available both on the Corporate Governance section of PG&E Corporation’s website (www.pgecorp.com/corp/about-us/corporate-governance.page) and on the Utility’s website (www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/company-information.page, under the Corporate Governance tab)and the Compliance & Ethics tabs): (1) the PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s code of conduct (which meets the definition of “code of ethics” of Item 406(b) of the SEC Regulation S-K) adopted by PG&E Corporation and the Utility and applicable to their directors and employees, including their respective Chief Executive Officer and Presidents, as the case may be, Chief Financial Officers, Controllersprincipal executive officers, principal financial officers, controllers, and other executive officers, (2) PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s respective corporate governance guidelines, and (3) key Board committee charters, including charters for the companies’ Audit Committees and the PG&E Corporation NominatingSustainability and Governance Committee and the People and Compensation Committee.

If any amendments are made to, or any waivers are granted with respect to, provisions of the code“code of conduct adoptedethics” by PG&E Corporation andor the Utility and that apply to theirits respective Chief Executive Officer and Presidents, as the case may be, Chief Financial Officers,principal executive officers, principal financial officers, or Controllers,controllers, PG&E Corporation andor the Utility, as appropriate, will post the amended code of ethics on their websites and will disclose any waivers to the code of conduct in a Current Report on Form 8-K.
at
www.pgecorp.com/corp/about-us/compliance-ethics/program.page.
Procedures for Shareholder Recommendations of Nominees to the Boards of Directors

There were no material changes to the procedures described in PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Joint Proxy Statement relating to the 2019 Annual Meetings of Shareholders by which security holders may recommend nominees to PG&E Corporation’s or Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Boards of Directors.

Audit Committees and Audit Committee Financial Expert

Information regarding the Audit Committees of PG&E Corporation and the Utility and the “audit committee financial experts” as defined by the SEC will be included under the headings “Board Committees and Memberships – Audit Committees” and “Board Committees and Memberships” in the Joint Proxy Statement relating to the 2021 Annual Meetings of Shareholders, which information is incorporated herein by reference. 

ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

Information responding to Item 11, for each of PG&E Corporation and the Utility, will be included under the headings “Compensation Discussion and Analysis,” “Compensation Committee Report,” “Summary Compensation Table - 2020,2022,” “Grants of Plan-Based Awards -2020,in 2022,” “Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year End - 2020,2022,” “Option Exercises and Stock Vested - 2020,during 2022,” “Pension Benefits - 2020,2022,” “Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation - 2020,2022,” “Potential Payments Upon Resignation, Retirement, Termination, Change in Control, Death, or Disability” andDisability,” “Compensation of Non-Employee Directors, – Director Compensation” and “Principal Executive Officers’ (PEO) Pay Ratio - 2020”2022,” in the Joint Proxy Statement relating to the 20212023 Annual Meetings of Shareholders, which information is incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

Information regarding the beneficial ownership of securities for each of PG&E Corporation and the Utility is set forth under the headings “Share Ownership Information – Security Ownership of Management” and “Share Ownership Information – Principal Shareholders” in the Joint Proxy Statement relating to the 20212023 Annual Meetings of Shareholders, which information is incorporated herein by reference.

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Equity Compensation Plan Information(1)

The following table provides information as of December 31, 20202022 concerning shares of PG&E Corporation common stock authorized for issuance under PG&E Corporation'sCorporation’s existing equity compensation plans.
 (a)(b)(c)
Plan Category
Number of Securities to be Issued Upon Exercise of Outstanding Options, Warrants and Rights
Weighted Average Exercise Price of Outstanding Options, Warrants and RightsNumber of Securities Remaining Available for Future Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans (Excluding Securities Reflected in Column (a))
Equity compensation plans approved by shareholders20,902,525 (2)$40.07 (3)29,174,205 (4)
Equity compensation plans not approved by shareholders—  —  —  
Total equity compensation plans20,902,525 (2)$40.07 (3)29,174,205 (4)
 (a)(b)(c)
Plan Category
Number of Securities to be Issued Upon Exercise of Outstanding Options, Warrants and Rights
Weighted Average Exercise Price of Outstanding Options, Warrants and RightsNumber of Securities Remaining Available for Future Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans (Excluding Securities Reflected in Column (a))
Equity compensation plans approved by shareholders37,654,078 (1)$40.04 (2)53,350,101 (3)
Equity compensation plans not approved by shareholders—  —  —  
Total equity compensation plans37,654,078 (1)$40.04 (2)53,350,101 (3)
(1)Subject to Compensation Committee certification
(2) Includes 160 phantom stock units, 904,0679,658,300 restricted stock units and 17,724,60319,313,387 performance shares.  The weighted average exercise price reported in column (b) does not take these awards into account. For performance shares, amounts reflected in this table assume payout in shares at 200% of target or, for performance shares granted in 2018,2021, reflects the estimated payout percentage of zero percent for performance shares using a total shareholder return and financial metric, 200% for performance shares using a safety metric, and zero percent for performance shares using a financial metric.operational metrics. The actual number of shares issued can range from zero percent to 200% of target depending on achievement of performance objectives. For performance-based stock options, amounts reflected in this table reflect actual payout of 102%. Restricted stock units and performance shares are generally settled in net shares. Upon vesting, shares with a value equal to required tax withholding will be withheld and, in lieu of issuing the shares, taxes will be paid on behalf of employees. Shares not issued due to share withholding or performance achievement below maximum will be available again for issuance.
(3)(2) This is the weighted average exercise price for the 2,273,6952,195,834 options outstanding as of December 31, 2020.2022.
(4)(3) Represents the total number of shares available for issuance under all PG&E Corporation’s equity compensation plans as of December 31, 2020.2022. Stock-based awards granted under these plans include restricted stock units, performance shares, stock options, and phantom stock units. The PG&E Corporation 2014 LTIP, which became effective on May 12, 2014, authorizesauthorized up to 17 million shares to be issued pursuant to awards granted under the LTIP. In addition, 5.5 million shares related to awards outstanding under the 2006 long-term incentive planLTIP at December 31, 2013, or awards granted under the PG&E Corporation 2006 long-term incentive planLTIP from January 1, 2014, through May 11, 2014, were cancelled, forfeited or expired and became available for issuance under the LTIP. A further 30 million shares were authorized for issuance under the PG&E Corporation 2014 LTIP on July 1, 2020, as part of the Plan. Lastly, an additional 44 million shares were authorized for issuance under the PG&E Corporation’s Chapter 11 Plan of ReorganizationCorporation 2021 LTIP on June 1, 2021.

For more information, see Note 67 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.

ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE

Information responding to Item 13, for each of PG&E Corporation and the Utility, will be included under the headings “Related Party Transactions”Transactions,” “Independence,” and “Director Diversity and Independence” and “Board Committees“Committees and Memberships” in the Joint Proxy Statement relating to the 20212023 Annual Meetings of Shareholders, which information is incorporated herein by reference.

ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

Information responding to Item 14, for each of PG&E Corporation and the Utility, will be included under the heading “Information Regarding the Independent Auditor for PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company” in the Joint Proxy Statement relating to the 20212023 Annual Meetings of Shareholders, which information is incorporated herein by reference.


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PART IV

ITEM 15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

a.    The following documents are filed as a part of this report:

1.The following consolidated financial statements, supplemental information and report of independent registered public accounting firm are filed as part of this report in Item 8:

Consolidated Statements of Income for the Years Ended December 31, 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 20182020 for each of PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the Years Ended December 31, 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 20182020 for each of PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 20202022 and 20192021 for each of PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 20182020 for each of PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

Consolidated Statements of Equity for the Years Ended December 31, 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 20182020 for PG&E Corporation.

Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity for the Years Ended December 31, 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 20182020 for Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Management’s Report on Internal Controls. 

Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (Deloitte & Touche LLP).

2.The following financial statement schedules are filed as part of this report:

Condensed Financial Information of ParentPG&E Corporation (“Parent”) as of December 31, 20202022 and 20192021 and for the Years Ended December 31, 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 2018.2020.

Consolidated Valuation and Qualifying Accounts for each of PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company for the Years Ended December 31, 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 2018.2020.

3.Exhibits required by Item 601 of Regulation S-K
Exhibit NumberExhibit Description
2.1
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
217


4.1
197


4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.8
4.9
4.10
4.11
4.12
4.13
4.14
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4.15
4.16
4.17
4.18
4.19
4.20
4.21
4.22
4.23
4.24
4.25
4.26
219199


4.27
4.28
4.29
4.30
4.31
4.32
4.33
4.344.31
4.35
4.364.32
4.37
4.38
4.39
4.40
220


4.414.33
4.424.34
4.434.35
4.444.36
4.454.37
200


4.46(a)4.38
4.39
4.40
4.41
4.42
4.43
4.44
4.45
4.46
4.47
4.48
201


4.49
4.50
4.51
4.52
4.53
4.54
4.55
4.56
4.57
4.58
4.59
4.60
4.61
4.62 (a)
4.46(b)4.62 (b)
202


10.1
10.210.1
Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of April 27, 2015, among (1) PG&E Corporation, as borrower, (2) Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent and a lender, (3) Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, and Wells Fargo Securities LLC, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, (4) Citibank N.A. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as co-syndication agents and lenders, (5) Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as documentation agent and lender, and (6) the following other lenders: Barclays Bank PLC, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Morgan Stanley Bank, N.A., Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., The Bank of New York Mellon, N.A., Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd., Royal Bank of Canada, U.S. Bank, National Association, MUFG Union Bank, N.A., TD Bank, N.A., Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, New York Branch, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (incorporated by reference to PG&E Corporation’s Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2015 (File No. 1-12609), Exhibit 10.1)
10.310.2
Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of April 27, 2015, among (1) Pacific Gas and Electric Company, as borrower, (2) Citibank N.A., as administrative agent and a lender, (3) Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, and Wells Fargo Securities LLC, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, (4) Bank of America, N.A. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as co-syndication agents and lenders, (5) Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as documentation agent and lender, and (6) the following other lenders: Barclays Bank PLC, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Morgan Stanley Bank, N.A., Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., The Bank of New York Mellon, N.A., Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd., Royal Bank of Canada, U.S. Bank National Association, MUFG Union Bank, N.A., TD Bank, N.A., Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, New York Branch, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (incorporated by reference to Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2015 (File No. 1-2348), Exhibit 10.2)
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10.22**
Restructuring Support Agreement dated as of September 22, 2019, by and among PG&E Corporation, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, certain affiliates of American International Group, Inc., Allstate Insurance Company and certain affiliates, BG Group A Creditors, BG Group B Creditors, certain affiliates of Farmers Insurance Exchange, California Insurance Guarantee Association, Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company and certain affiliates, certain affiliates of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and certain affiliates, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, State Farm County Mutual Insurance Company of Texas, State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, State Farm General Insurance Company, TLFI Investments, LLC (in its capacity as holder of an economic interest in certain Subrogation Claims), The Travelers Indemnity Company and certain of its property and casualty insurance affiliates, and certain affiliates of United Services Automobile Association (incorporated by reference to PG&E Corporation’s Form 8-K dated September 22, 2019 (File No. 1-12609, Exhibit 10.1)
10.23**
10.24**
Amended and Restated Restructuring Support Agreement dated as of November 1, 2019, by and among PG&E Corporation, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, certain affiliates of American International Group, Inc., BG Group A Creditors, BG Group B Creditors, certain affiliates of Farmers Insurance Exchange, California Insurance Guarantee Association, Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company and certain affiliates, certain affiliates of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and certain affiliates, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, State Farm County Mutual Insurance Company of Texas, State Farm General Insurance Company, TLFI Investments, LLC (in its capacity as holder of an economic interest in certain Subrogation Claims), The Travelers Indemnity Company and certain of its property and casualty insurance affiliates, and certain affiliates of United Services Automobile Association (incorporated by reference to PG&E Corporation’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 (File No. 1-12609), Exhibit 10.22)
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*This Form of Chapter 11 Plan Backstop Commitment Letter is substantially similar in all material respects to each Chapter 11 Plan Backstop Commitment Letter that is otherwise required to be filed as an exhibit, except as to the Backstop Party and the amount of such Backstop Party’s Backstop Commitment Amount (as defined in the Chapter 11 Plan Backstop Commitment Letter). In accordance with instruction no. 2 to Item 601 of Regulation S-K, the registrant has filed the form of such Chapter 11 Plan Backstop Commitment Letter, with a schedule identifying the Chapter 11 Plan Backstop Commitment Letters omitted and setting forth the material details in which each Chapter 11 Plan Backstop Commitment Letter differs from the form that was filed. The registrant acknowledges that the Securities and Exchange Commission may at any time in its discretion require filing of copies of any Chapter 11 Plan Backstop Commitment Letter so omitted.
**In accordance with Item 601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K, certain schedules or similar attachments to this exhibit have been omitted from this filing. Such omitted schedules or similar attachments include information about the Subrogation Claims held by each Consenting Subrogation Creditor. The registrant agrees to furnish a supplemental copy of any omitted schedule or similar attachment to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.
***Management contract or compensatory agreement.
****The Form of Consent Form is substantially identical in all material respects to each Consent Form that is otherwise required to be filed as an exhibit, except as to the Backstop Party, the amount of such Backstop Party’s Backstop Commitment Amount (as defined in the Backstop Commitment Letter) and the amount of such Backstop Party’s Forward Contract Purchase Commitment (as defined in the Consent Form). In accordance with instruction no. 2 to Item 601 of Regulation S-K, the registrant has filed the form of such Consent Form, with a schedule dated as of June 9, 2020 identifying the Consent Forms omitted and setting forth the material details in which each Consent Form differs from the form that was filed. The registrant acknowledges that the Securities and Exchange Commission may at any time in its discretion require filing of copies of any agreement so omitted.
*****In accordance with Item 601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K, certain schedules (or similar attachments) to this exhibit have been omitted from this filing. Such omitted schedules (or similar attachments) include information relating to the Property. The registrants will provide a copy of any omitted schedule to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request. In accordance with Item 601(b)(10)(iv) of Regulation S-K, certain provisions or terms of the Lease Agreement attached as an exhibit to the Agreement have been redacted. Such redacted information includes proprietary information about the Property. The registrants will provide an unredacted copy of the exhibit on a supplemental basis to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.
******The Form of Forward Stock Purchase Agreement is substantially identical in all material respects to each Forward Stock Purchase Agreement that is otherwise required to be filed as an exhibit, except as to the Purchaser (as defined in the Forward Stock Purchase Agreement), the amount of such Purchaser’s Greenshoe Backstop Purchase Amount and the amount of such Purchaser’s Additional Backstop Premium Shares. In accordance with instruction no. 2 to Item 601 of Regulation S-K, the Purchase Agreements omitted and setting forth the material details in which each Forward Stock Purchase Agreement differs from the form that was filed. The registrant acknowledges that the Securities and Exchange Commission may at any time in its discretion require filing of copies of any agreement so omitted.Management contract or compensatory plan, contract or arrangement.
*******Pursuant to Item 601(b)(32) of SEC Regulation S-K, these exhibits are furnished rather than filed with this report.

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ITEM 16. FORM 10-K SUMMARY

None.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrants have duly caused this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 20202022 to be signed on their behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrants and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

PG&E CORPORATIONPACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
(Registrant)(Registrant)
/s/ PATRICIA K. POPPE/s/ ADAM L. WRIGHT
Patricia K. PoppeAdam L. Wright
By:Chief Executive OfficerBy:Executive Vice President, Operations and Chief Operating Officer
Date:February 25, 202122, 2023Date:February 25, 202122, 2023
/s/ MARLENE M. SANTOS
Marlene M. Santos
By:Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer
Date:February 22, 2023
/s/ JASON M. GLICKMAN
Jason M. Glickman
By:Executive Vice President, Engineering, Planning, and Strategy
Date:February 22, 2023

SignatureTitleDate
A.  Principal Executive Officers
/s/ PATRICIA K. POPPEChief Executive OfficerFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
  Patricia K. Poppe(PG&E Corporation)

/s/ ADAM L. WRIGHTExecutive Vice President, Operations and Chief Operating OfficerFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
  Adam L. Wright(Pacific Gas and Electric Company)

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/s/ MARLENE M. SANTOSExecutive Vice President and Chief Customer OfficerFebruary 22, 2023
  Marlene M. Santos(Pacific Gas and Electric Company)
/s/ JASON M. GLICKMANExecutive Vice President, Engineering, Planning, and StrategyFebruary 22, 2023
  Jason M. Glickman(Pacific Gas and Electric Company)

B. Principal Financial Officers
/s/ CHRISTOPHER A. FOSTERExecutive Vice President and Interim Chief Financial OfficerFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
  Christopher A. Foster(PG&E Corporation)

/s/ DAVID S. THOMASONSTEPHANIE N. WILLIAMSVice President, Chief Financial Officer, andFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
  David S. ThomasonStephanie N. WilliamsController (Pacific Gas and Electric Company)

B.C. Principal Accounting Officer
/s/ DAVID S. THOMASONSTEPHANIE N. WILLIAMSVice President, Chief Financial Officer, andFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
  David S. ThomasonStephanie N. WilliamsController (Pacific Gas and Electric Company)

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C.  Directors (PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company, unless otherwise noted)
*/s/ RAJAT BAHRIDirectorFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
  Rajat Bahri

*/s/ CHERYL F. CAMPBELLDirectorFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
  Cheryl F. CampbellChair of the Board (Pacific Gas and Electric Company)

*/s/ KERRY W. COOPERDirectorFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
  Kerry W. Cooper

*/s/ JESSICA L. DENECOURDirectorFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
  Jessica L. Denecour

*/s/ MARK E. FERGUSON IIIDirectorFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
  Mark E. Ferguson III

*/s/ ROBERT C. FLEXONDirectorFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
  Robert C. FlexonChair of the Board (PG&E Corporation)

*/s/ W. CRAIG FUGATEDirectorFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
  W. Craig Fugate
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*/s/ ARNO L. HARRISDirectorFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
  Arno L. Harris

*/s/ CARLOS M. HERNANNDEZDirectorFebruary 22, 2023
  Carlos M. Hernandez
*/s/ MICHAEL R. NIGGLI JR.DirectorFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
  Michael R. Niggli Jr.

*/s/ PATRICIA K. POPPEDirectorFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
  Patricia K. Poppe

*/s/ DEAN L. SEAVERSDirectorFebruary 25, 2021
  Dean L. SeaversChair of the Board (Pacific Gas and Electric Company)
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*/s/ WILLIAM L. SMITHDirectorFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
  William L. Smith

*/s/ OLUWADARA J. TRESEDERDirectorFebruary 25, 2021
  Oluwadara J. Treseder

*/s/ BENJAMIN F. WILSONDirectorFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
  Benjamin F. Wilson

*/s/ ADAM L. WRIGHTDirector (Pacific Gas and Electric Company)February 25, 202122, 2023
  Adam L. Wright

*/s/ JOHN M. WOOLARDDirectorFebruary 25, 2021
  John M. Woolard



*By:/s/ JOHN R. SIMONFebruary 25, 202122, 2023
John R. Simon, Attorney-in-Fact

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PG&E CORPORATION
SCHEDULE I — CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF PG&E CORPORATION (“PARENT”)
CONDENSEDSTATEMENTS OF INCOME AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
 Years Ended December 31,
(in millions, except per share amounts)202220212020
Administrative service revenue$109 $118 $127 
Operating expenses(193)(124)(103)
Interest income— — 
Interest expense(261)(230)(149)
Other income (expense)(201)(54)13 
Reorganization items, net— (1,649)
Equity in earnings of subsidiaries2,154 137 411 
Income (loss) before income taxes1,611 (152)(1,350)
Income tax benefit(132)(64)(46)
Net Income (loss)$1,743 $(88)$(1,304)
Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)   
Pension and other postretirement benefit plans obligations (net of taxes of $8, $3, and $7, at respective dates)$21 $$(17)
Total other comprehensive income (loss)21 (17)
Comprehensive Income (Loss)$1,764 $(81)$(1,321)
Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding, Basic (1)
2,235 2,463 1,257 
Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding, Diluted (1)
2,380 2,463 1,257 
Net earnings (loss) per common share, basic$0.78 $(0.05)$(1.05)
Net earnings (loss) per common share, diluted$0.73 $(0.05)$(1.05)
(1) Includes 247,743,590 and 477,743,590 shares of common stock issued to ShareCo as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.


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SCHEDULE I — CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF PARENTPG&E CORPORATION (“PARENT”) – (Continued)
CONDENSED BALANCE SHEETSSTATEMENTS OF INCOME AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
 Years Ended December 31,
(in millions, except per share amounts)202020192018
Administrative service revenue$127 $138 $90 
Operating expenses(103)(114)(91)
Interest income
Interest expense(149)(21)(15)
Other income (expense)13 10 (2)
Reorganization items, net(1,649)(26)
Equity in earnings of subsidiaries411 (7,622)(6,832)
Loss before income taxes(1,350)(7,634)(6,848)
Income tax provision (benefit)(46)
Net loss$(1,304)$(7,642)$(6,851)
Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)   
Pension and other postretirement benefit plans obligations (net of taxes of $7, $0, and $2, at respective dates)$(17)$(1)$
Total other comprehensive income (loss)(17)(1)
Comprehensive Loss$(1,321)$(7,643)$(6,847)
Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding, Basic1,257 528 517 
Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding, Diluted1,257 528 513 
Net loss per common share, basic$(1.05)$(14.50)$(13.25)
Net loss per common share, diluted$(1.05)$(14.50)$(13.25)
 Balance at December 31,
(in millions)20222021
ASSETS  
Current Assets  
Cash and cash equivalents$125 $126 
Advances to affiliates46 21 
Income taxes receivable10 10 
Other current assets12 12 
Total current assets193 169 
Noncurrent Assets  
Equipment— 
Accumulated depreciation— (2)
Net equipment— — 
Investments in subsidiaries33,021 30,232 
Other investments160 181 
Deferred income taxes423 297 
Total noncurrent assets33,604 30,710 
Total Assets$33,797 $30,879 
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY  
Current Liabilities  
Long-term debt, classified as current27 27 
Accounts payable – other88 200 
Other current liabilities369 69 
Total current liabilities484 296 
Noncurrent Liabilities  
Long-term debt4,588 4,592 
Other noncurrent liabilities134 168 
Total noncurrent liabilities4,722 4,760 
Common Shareholders’ Equity  
Common stock36,132 35,129 
Reinvested earnings(7,542)(9,286)
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)(20)
Total common shareholders’ equity28,591 25,823 
Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity$33,797 $30,879 























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SCHEDULE I — CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF PARENT– (Continued)
CONDENSED BALANCE SHEETS
 Balance at December 31,
(in millions)20202019
ASSETS  
Current Assets  
Cash and cash equivalents$223 $448 
Advances to affiliates48 120 
Income taxes receivable12 12 
Other current assets13 11 
Total current assets296 591 
Noncurrent Assets  
Equipment
Accumulated depreciation(2)(2)
Net equipment
Investments in subsidiaries25,244 5,102 
Other investments186 173 
Operating lease right of use asset
Deferred income taxes237 187 
Total noncurrent assets25,670 5,468 
Total Assets$25,966 $6,059 
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY  
Current Liabilities  
Long-term debt, classified as current28 
Accounts payable – other49 47 
Operating lease liabilities
Other current liabilities72 
Total current liabilities152 53 
Noncurrent Liabilities  
Debtor-in-possession financing4,624 
Operating lease liabilities
Other noncurrent liabilities191 58 
Total noncurrent liabilities4,815 61 
Liabilities Subject to Compromise0 810 
Common Shareholders’ Equity  
Common stock30,224 13,038 
Reinvested earnings(9,198)(7,893)
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)(27)(10)
Total common shareholders’ equity20,999 5,135 
Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity$25,966 $6,059 

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SCHEDULE I – CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF PARENTPG&E CORPORATION (“PARENT”) – (Continued)
CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(in millions)
 Year ended December 31,
 202020192018
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:   
Net loss$(1,304)$(7,642)$(6,851)
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:   
Stock-based compensation amortization28 43 78 
Equity in earnings of subsidiaries(412)7,622 6,833 
Deferred income taxes and tax credits-net(50)(62)
Reorganization items, net (Note 2)1,548 11 
Current income taxes receivable/payable
Liabilities subject to compromise12 28 
Other97 (62)41 
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
(81)6 48 
Cash Flows From Investing Activities:   
Investment in subsidiaries(12,986)(45)
Net cash used in investing activities
(12,986)0 (45)
Cash Flows From Financing Activities:   
Debtor-in-possession credit facility debt issuance costs(16)
Bridge facility financing fees(40)
Borrowings under revolving credit facility425 
Repayments under revolving credit facility(125)
Net repayments of commercial paper(132)
Short-term debt financing350 
Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt4,660 
Repayment of long-term debt(664)(350)
Common stock issued7,582 85 200 
Equity Units issued1,304 
Net cash provided by financing activities12,842 69 368 
Net change in cash and cash equivalents(225)75 371 
Cash and cash equivalents at January 1448 373 2 
Cash and cash equivalents at December 31$223 $448 $373 
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information   
Cash received (paid) for:   
Interest, net of amounts capitalized$(105)$(3)$(13)
Income taxes, net10 
Supplemental disclosures of noncash investing and financing activities
Operating lease liabilities arising from obtaining ROU assets$$$
Common stock issued in satisfaction of liabilities8,276 
 Year ended December 31,
 202220212020
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:   
Net income (loss)$1,743 $(88)$(1,304)
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:   
Stock-based compensation amortization95 51 28 
Equity in earnings of subsidiaries(2,160)(139)(412)
Deferred income taxes and tax credits, net(126)(60)(50)
Reorganization items, net (Note 2)— (32)1,548 
Current income taxes receivable/payable— — 
Liabilities subject to compromise— — 12 
Other339 81 97 
Net cash used in operating activities
(109)(185)(81)
Cash Flows From Investing Activities:   
Investment in subsidiaries(994)— (12,986)
Dividends received from subsidiaries (1)
1,275 — — 
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities
281  (12,986)
Cash Flows From Financing Activities:   
Bridge facility financing fees— — (40)
Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt— — 4,660 
Repayment of long-term debt(28)(28)(664)
Proceeds from (repayments of) intercompany note from the Utility(145)145 — 
Common stock issued— — 7,582 
Equity Units issued— — 1,304 
Other— (29)— 
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities(173)88 12,842 
Net change in cash and cash equivalents(1)(97)(225)
Cash and cash equivalents at January 1126 223 448 
Cash and cash equivalents at December 31$125 $126 $223 
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information   
Cash received (paid) for:   
Interest, net of amounts capitalized$(233)$(207)$(105)
Income taxes, net— — 
Supplemental disclosures of noncash investing and financing activities
Common stock issued in satisfaction of liabilities— — 8,276 
Changes to PG&E Corporation common stock and treasury stock in connection
    with the Share Exchange and Tax Matters Agreement
(2,337)4,854 — 

(1)


Because of its nature as a holding company, PG&E Corporation classifies dividends received from subsidiaries as an investing cash flow. On June 15, 2022, the Board of Directors of the Utility reinstated the dividend on the Utility’s common stock.
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SCHEDULE II – CONSOLIDATED VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 2018
(in millions) Additions  
DescriptionBalance at Beginning of Period
Charged to Costs and Expenses
Charged to Other Accounts
Deductions (2)
Balance at End of Period
Valuation and qualifying accounts deducted from assets:     
2020:     
      Allowance for uncollectible accounts (1)
$43 $138 $$35 $146 
2019: 
      Allowance for uncollectible accounts (1)
$56 $$$13 $43 
2018: 
      Allowance for uncollectible accounts (1)
$64 $34 $$42 $56 
2020
(in millions) Additions  
DescriptionBalance at Beginning of Period
Charged to Costs and Expenses
Charged to Other Accounts
Deductions (2)
Balance at End of Period
Valuation and qualifying accounts deducted from assets:     
2022:     
      Allowance for uncollectible accounts (1)
$171 $146 $— $151 $166 
2021: 
      Allowance for uncollectible accounts (1)
$146 $136 $— $111 $171 
2020: 
      Allowance for uncollectible accounts (1)
$43 $138 $— $35 $146 
(1) Allowance for uncollectible accounts is deducted from “Accounts receivable - Customers.”
(2) Deductions consist principally of write-offs, net of collections of receivables previously written off.
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SCHEDULE II – CONSOLIDATED VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2020, 2019,2022, 2021, and 2018
(in millions) Additions  
DescriptionBalance at Beginning of PeriodCharged to Costs and Expenses
Charged to Other Accounts
Deductions (2)
Balance at End of Period
Valuation and qualifying accounts deducted from assets:     
2020:     
      Allowance for uncollectible accounts (1)
$43 $138 $$35 $146 
2019:
      Allowance for uncollectible accounts (1)
$56 $$$13 $43 
2018:
      Allowance for uncollectible accounts (1)
$64 $34 $$42 $56 
2020
(in millions) Additions  
DescriptionBalance at Beginning of PeriodCharged to Costs and Expenses
Charged to Other Accounts
Deductions (2)
Balance at End of Period
Valuation and qualifying accounts deducted from assets:     
2022:     
      Allowance for uncollectible accounts (1)
$171 $146 $— $151 $166 
2021:
      Allowance for uncollectible accounts (1)
$146 $136 $— $111 $171 
2020:
      Allowance for uncollectible accounts (1)
$43 $138 $— $35 $146 
(1) Allowance for uncollectible accounts is deducted from “Accounts receivable - Customers.”
(2) Deductions consist principally of write-offs, net of collections of receivables previously written off.

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