Electric service and its failures.
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City leaders called the utility’s figure inflated. PG&E says the city’s $3.4 billion estimate leaves out key costs. When reacting to Pacific Gas & Electric’s price tag for its San Francisco grid — a whopping $20 billion — city officials pulled no punches Thursday.
More than 11,000 PG&E customers in the Bay Area could see dayslong power outages starting Wednesday as part of the utility’s proactive shutoffs to avoid its equipment from sparking wildfires. Robert Handa reports. PG&E implements what it calls Public…
Downtown Novato lost power for hundreds of customers Wednesday morning, darkening traffic signals across the area and prompting local police to warn drivers to treat affected intersections as four-way stops. The outage struck 912 customers and was reported at 8:44 a.m., according to…
A PG&E power outage knocked out electricity for 6,491 Peninsula customers Tuesday and disrupted BART service to San Francisco International Airport, with crews scrambling to pinpoint the damage and get the lights back on. PG&E estimated restoration at about…
KRON4 reported that 6,605 customers were without power as of 11:55 a.m. across the Haight-Ashbury and Mission neighborhoods. By 12:30 p.m., Patch reported the count had dropped to 3,238 customers, with the outage then spread across Haight-Ashbury and parts of the Mission District and Potrero Hill, according…
San Francisco leaders are again pressing California utility regulators to investigate Pacific Gas and Electric Co., arguing that a steady stream of major power outages and recent fires show the city is not receiving the reliable electric service it deserves.
A large, unplanned power outage knocked out electricity to Bayview and Visitacion Valley Tuesday morning, leaving roughly 2,694 PG&E customers in the dark across San Francisco's southeastern neighborhoods. The disruption, first flagged in a social media alert, is the latest…
The two outages occurred on consecutive days in San Francisco. The October 1 blackout followed a disruption along the Embarcadero on September 30. The repeated outages have fueled a political fight over who should control San Francisco's electric grid. On September 22, the…
A large, unplanned power outage is hitting PG&E customers across San Francisco's Richmond and Sunset neighborhoods, according to an alert shared Monday afternoon. The scope of the disruption, its cause, and how long residents might be without power all…