PASADENA, Calif.— Pasadena Water and Power (PWP) will offer residential customers who are federal employees the option to defer utility bill payments without penalty until March 1, 2019, or until the federal government resumes full operations. The utility will postpone collection activity and late fees for affected federal employees upon request. The partial government shutdown, which began on December 22, 2018, has affected approximately 800,000 federal workers throughout the country. “The benefit of being a locally-owned utility is that it...