Interestingly enough, the San Francisco area (San Francisco, Berkeley, San Jose) are beginning to require that new residential and commercial construction not have natural gas hook-ups and instead use all-electric.
Berkeley becomes first U.S. city to ban natural gas in new homes
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted to mandate new construction projects over 500,000 square to rely fully on renewable electricity by 2022
No doubt the big commercial installations will still have those evil hydrocarbon-powered emergency generators, but I doubt if many of the in-town residential homes will make the investment.
There's no way that PG&E in California will be able to fully create fuel-free zones around their high-voltage transmission lines. Where we live these lines run on tall poles through extremely rugged and forested terrain. Undergrounding these would be damn near impossible, and if you want to see the locals protest, just try cutting down one of our "old growth" redwoods. Even minor trimming often creates an outrage.
I understand that much of the complaining after the local power shut-downs was due to the several days delay before the power could be restored. This delay was in large part due to the inspection procedure required by state regulators, where virtually every switch-point and distribution junction requires visual inspection by PG&E crews. This obviously takes a while.
PG&E is going to get the blame even when they have committed nothing wrong. This is because they are the "deep pockets" and are the source of billions of $$$ of compensation payments. You should have heard the screams of anguish here when a local fire agency found that one of the recent fires was not caused by PG&E, but instead was started where someone had an illegal power connection to a home in the woods. The lawyers are not done though, and no doubt PG&E (and the state ratepayers) will still end up paying.