Pacific Gas and Electric Company
The move would lower costs for customers and shift the company's priorities away from paying dividends to shareholders, they wrote.
As the Golden State suffers blackouts and wildfires, the progressive stalwart joined Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders in calling for public power.
The latest brush fire broke out in Simi Valley outside of Los Angeles, forcing the library and nearby homes to evacuate.
The utility company shut off power to over 2 million people over the weekend as part of its fire prevention efforts.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
About 100,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate and more than 2 million are expected to lose power.
Fires raging in Northern and Southern California have already forced thousands from their homes.
Around 179,000 customers across 17 counties will be affected this time, the Northern California utility company said.
As many as 209,000 Pacific Gas & Electric customers may lose power in an effort to prevent wildfires.
“Californians should not pay the price for decades of PG&E’s greed and neglect,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said.
Multiple car crashes as well as a related shooting have been reported amid the outage that's expected to last up to five days.