Pacific Gas & Electric Company

2001

$36 billion in pre-filing assets

California's largest publicly owned utility filed for bankruptcy after deregulation led the company to incur billions of dollars in debt from the rising cost of wholesale energy. Wholesale prices eventually dropped, and the day the company emerged from bankruptcy in 2004, its stock was worth three times as much as when it filed for protection.

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