SAN FRANCISCO >> PG&E on Tuesday disclosed details about hundreds of job cuts that it plans for March, and it braced for complaints from some customers about rising monthly bills.

The utility, which became a convicted felon in January when it was sentenced for crimes linked to a fatal pipeline explosion in San Bruno, filed announcements with state labor officials that it would eliminate about 265 jobs in the Bay Area and more outside of this region.

PG&E is cutting 132 jobs in San Francisco, where it is headquartered, it said in documents filed with the state Employment Development Department. It is cutting another 112 jobs in the East Bay, including 94 in San Ramon.

The PG&E job cuts are scheduled for mid-March, the documents said.

In January, PG&E announced plans to eventually eliminate 450 jobs, although the net effect would be a loss of 390 positions after an estimated 60 workers are transferred to other positions within the company.

“These were corporate support services-type people and functions as opposed to front-line, customer-facing positions,” said Brian Hertzog, a PG&E spokesman. “The cuts were spread across a dozen units in the company.”

In addition, the utility said it has outsourced about 100 information technology jobs out of 1,800 IT people. About 70 jobs are being outsourced to a site in India and about 30 to an IT third-party provider in the Bay Area, Hertzog said.

The San Francisco-based PG&E also faces criticism by some customers for big increases in their monthly bills that began in January, as part of an increase in monthly gas and electric costs that this newspaper first disclosed on Dec. 30.

On New Year’s Day, the average PG&E residential customer’s electricity bill rose $1.36 a month to $99.13 a month but remained below the nationwide average of $114.86.

At the same time, the average PG&E residential gas bill rose 29 cents a month to $54.33, compared with $59.17 nationwide.

Residential PG&E customers with combined gas and electricity saw their bills rise by an average of $1.66 a month in January to $153.46 — but that average remained 13.4 percent below the $174.03 nationwide average for such a bill, PG&E said.

All told during 2016, residential customers’ average monthly PG&E bills jumped 11.5 percent higher than the average monthly bill of $137.66 at the end of 2015.

“We have gotten a lot of complaints from customers about their bills doubling and tripling — about a dozen complaints,” Mark Toney, executive director of The Utility Reform Network, said Tuesday.

The biggest increase for gas rates took effect in August, the result of a gas transmission and storage case that the state Public Utilities Commission approved during 2016. But many customers didn’t feel the brunt of those higher rates until months after they kicked in last summer.

“You don’t have to heat your home as much when it’s 90 degrees, but the impact was really felt as the weather got colder,” said Donald Cutler, a PG&E spokesman. “But the rates did go up. We’re not shying away from that.”

While still below the nationwide average, PG&E’s rate hikes mean its customers’ energy bills are closing the gap. The national average for combined gas and power bills at the end of 2015 was 32 percent higher than the PG&E average bill at that time. As of Jan. 1, the difference narrowed to just 13.4 percent.

Critics of PG&E say they are particularly concerned about this year’s rate increases because much of the costs for customers is for a natural gas system that investigations show was neglected by the utility in the years before the fatal San Bruno blast.

“We always had questions about how much of the upgrades to the gas system were needed because of PG&E’s neglect, what would be the cost, and who should pay for it,” Toney said. “We felt the lion’s share of these rate increases should have been borne by PG&E shareholders.”

The utility said it offers an array of tools that customers can employ to moderate their energy usage and bills.

“We understand that higher-than-expected bills are frustrating,” Cutler said. “We want our customers to know that we are here to help them manage their energy costs. PG&E provides a range of programs and tools that help customers actively manage and take control of their energy use and bills.”