PG&E said this month it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after coming under pressure from potentially crushing liabilities linked to California's wildfires in 2017 and 2018.

PG&E shares were last higher by 4.8 percent after rising as much as 15 percent earlier.

(This story corrects the attribution in headline).

(Reporting by Arundhati Sarkar in Bengaluru; Editing by Sai Sachin Ravikumar)