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> This may be a naive question, but why aren't they being bankrupted (or hurt financially) for cutting off the power voluntarily?

Well, lots of reasons, but one absolute blocker is that they are already bankrupt because of their liability for wildfires in 2017 and 2018.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Com...



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