PG&E must pay back $43 million to customers for forced outage but critics worry about future costs

Four years after an alleged mismanaged forced outage of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, the California Public Utilities Commission ordered Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) to return $43.2 million in replacement power costs paid by ratepayers. “The first disallowance is for forced outage four at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, which PG&E failed to prevent by failing to manage vibrations from the Unit 2 generator,” the commission said in its June 26 decision…