Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers who are still without power due to Sunday’s storm may see money coming from the utility company.
According to PG&E’s Storm Inconvenience Payment program, residential customers who experienced a power outage of two days or longer due to a weather-related event may qualify for a payment of up to $100, depending on the length of the outage.
To qualify, customers must have an account in good standing at the time of the outage, and the outage must come from a weather-related event that damaged PG&E’s electric distribution system. Businesses are not qualified, the company said.
Payments are sent directly to customers, they do not need to apply for them.
The payments start at $25 for an outage of 48-72 hours, and increase by $25 per day. Outages of 120 hours or more will qualify for the maximum amount of $100.
Payments are typically sent out 45-60 days after the outage, the company said.
Customers are not qualified for payments if the power outage was the result of a planned public safety shut-off or a natural disaster such as an earthquake or wildfire.