SF News February 28th Economic Blackout Gaining Steam Posts on social media have been calling for a mass boycott of major retailers on Friday. The event appears to be attributed to People's Union USA, whose mission is a bit vague.
SF News Possible PG&E Power Shut-Offs Loom in North Bay, East Bay as Major Heat Wave Approaches It’s now officially PG&E power outage season again as the impending heat dome rolls in, with public safety power shutoffs possible this week for eight NorCal counties, including Napa County and Solano County.
SF News Weekend Heat Wave Caused More Than 11,000 Bay Area Households To Lose Power Sunday Though Sunday was cooler than Saturday’s scorcher, PG&E outages still started striking the Bay Area, and particularly the East Bay, starting at about 5 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
SF News Knock On Wood: State Officials Say Power Outages Unlikely This Summer The California Energy Commission says that this winter's downpours were enough of a boon to the state’s hydroelectric power plants and other new sources that we are supposedly unlikely to have power shortages and grid problems this summer.
SF News Alameda, Healdsburg, and Palo Alto Lost Power Over ‘Miscommunication,’ Blackouts Weren’t Ordered An hour of power loss in three NorCal cities didn’t have to happen Tuesday night, and you’d better believe that various power agencies are pointing fingers over the snafu.
SF News Last Year’s PG&E Blackouts Attributed to Staff Being Mostly Untrained A “staggering failure of common sense” blamed for the October 2019 PG&E blackouts that caused more than two million northern Californians to lose electricity, many for days.
SF News Treasure Island Suffers Eighth Power Outage of 2020, Highlighting Need for 'Back-Up Batteries' Treasure Island had a four-hour blackout Thursday, its eighth one of 2020. And now that we're all at the mercy of our modern-day niceties (Wifi, cable, etc.) this recent power outage only highlights the need to pursue a literal back-up plan for Treasure Island.
SF News PG&E Equipment Fire Causes Blackout In Hayes Valley and Haight, Shuts Down Ballet A reportedly "small" fire in an underground PG&E vault near the intersection of Laguna and Hayes streets Wednesday night caused a power outage for 9,000 utility customers — including the San Francisco Ballet, performing at the War Memorial Opera House.
SF News PG&E Tells All Customers To Prepare For Multi-Day Blackouts; Sacramento Pushes Back Late summer and fall in parts of Northern California could be eerily silent and dark as PG&E is preparing us for the potential of week-long blackouts to prevent wildfires.
SF News Power Goes Out For 4,000 In Japantown and Cathedral Hill PG&E and the Bay Area apparently can't handle the heat, and following large power outages Tuesday that impacted 17,000 households and businesses outside of San Francisco, two new outages are impacting a swath of the city and Lafayette.
SF News Dispatch Transcripts Indicate PG&E Foot-Dragging During Last Month's Blackout The involuntary three-day weekend caused the Friday, April 21 San Francisco blackout has already raised substantial ire toward California utility company and supervillain collective PG&E, and a newly acquired batch of
SF News SF Businesses File Big Claims Against PG&E Over Last Month's Blackout Today marks three weeks to the day since the massive downtown PG&E blackout of April 21 that lasted eight hours, affected some 95,000 customers, and throwing the Financial District into
SF News City Pens Angry Letter To PG&E About Blackout, Says Communication That Day Was 'Nonexistent' City officials are tallying up the economic impacts of Friday's eight-hour blackout which affected some of the densest and busiest parts of San Francisco, shutting down 21 schools and impacting countless businesses for
SF News Post Blackout, Mayor Ed Lee Calls For Review Of SF's PG&E Substations Though many were quick to think there was something more nefarious going on Friday when multiple major cities experienced significant power outages (or just Mercury retrograde?), the FBI and PG&E confirmed
SF News Drone Blamed For Sunday Night Power Outage In SF It's disturbingly easy to throw PG&E off their power-supply game, as errant raccoons, balloons, and big-rigs have illustrated. But now the energy company can add another baddie to their enemies list:
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Polk Street Blackout Oh dear. Erik Wilson snapped this shot of a partial blackout Saturday on Polk Street.
SF News Blackout in SOMA ...and not the good kind. According to SFist James, power is out in parts of SOMA now (poor Western SOMA!) He report that: The scene at Harrison and 8th, one block from my
