SF News Activists Furious at Newsom for Granting PG&E a Safety Certification, Given All the Manslaughter Charges and Whatnot Critics did not mince words after the state gave PG&E a renewed safety certification Monday, saying that Gavin Newsom “handed a license to burn back to the most murderous corporation in history.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Wins Legal Decision Against PG&E An appeals court has sided with SF in a battle with PG&E, Omicron may not have peaked yet in some parts of the Bay Area, and the SF Board of Supervisors vote to offer a formal apology for past wrongs to the Chinese community.
SF News PG&E About to Finish Criminal Probation for San Bruno Explosion, Judge Says They're Still a ‘Menace to California’ During its five years of criminal probation, PG&E has been blamed for more than 30 wildfires, destroying 23,000 homes, and killing 113 Californians, raising questions about the effectiveness of corporate probation.
SF News Yep, PG&E Lines Responsible for Dixie Fire We already knew, less than a week after the record-shattering Dixie Fire began last July, that PG&E would likely again be to blame for starting the blaze. And now Cal Fire has confirmed it with the conclusion of their investigation into the fire.
SF News Morning Power Outage Impacts Transit Center, Downtown Businesses A Friday morning power outage in the Financial District and SoMa was impacting multiple downtown businesses, as well as the Salesforce/Transbay Transit Center.
SF News PG&E Has Now Been Charged With Manslaughter In 2020 Zogg Fire Pacific Gas & Electric has once again been criminally charged in the deaths of four people during the Zogg Fire in Shasta County last year.
SF News PG&E Warns of PSPS Outages Starting Tuesday PG&E announced late Sunday that it was giving its mandated 48 hours advance warning of possible public safety power shutoffs (PSPS) in 16 counties due to dry winds starting on Tuesday night.
SF News PG&E Finally Has Plans to Put Electrical Lines Underground In Fire-Prone Areas A week after a new wildfire appears to have been potentially sparked by a tree hitting PG&E transmission lines in Butte County, the company gave a press conference to announce a ten-year plan to bury 10,000 miles of power lines.
SF News PG&E Equipment May Be to Blame For Sparking Dixie Fire Near Where Camp Fire Began The Dixie Fire now burning in Butte and Plumas counties has grown to over 30,000 acres since starting last week, and PG&E is now admitting that its equipment may once again be to blame for the initial sparks.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Old Mandarin Islamic Restaurant Cries Foul After PG&E Forces Removal of Parklet An Outer Sunset restaurant is complaining that the SF Department of Public Works and PG&E showed little sympathy for their small business in demanding the removal of a parklet they spent thousands of dollars to construct.
Arts & Entertainment Downtown SF Peregrine Falcon Brood Remains Healthy, Four Chicks Getting Well Fed All four of the baby peregrine falcons that hatched in the nest atop the PG&E building on Beale Street in downtown SF have survived their first month and will soon begin to fledge — gaining the adult feathers they need for flight.
Arts & Entertainment Video: San Francisco Peregrine Falcon Pair Has Three Hatchlings and Counting Success! In addition to other good news this week, we have an egg-cellent development to share over at the falcon's nest on top of PG&E's Beale Street headquarters: Not one but two of the eggs that Val laid in March have hatched.
SF News A Federal Judge's Ruling May Mean Even More PG&E Power Shutoffs This Fire Season The judge overseeing PG&E's corporate criminal probation said Tuesday that he was considering imposing more strict guidance over how often the utility preemptively shuts off power in nine Northern California counties during high-wind events.
SF News In the First of Likely Many Lawsuits, Eight Sonoma County Agencies Sue PG&E For Negligence in Kincade Fire Before a final report on the fire has even been finalized by the state, eight agencies in Sonoma County including four city governments have sued PG&E in an effort to recoup damages for impacts on infrastructure and public property.
SF News Small Fire Breaks Out In Sonoma County Just After Power Is Restored, Downed Power Lines Found Nearby Another possible near-miss for PG&E was recorded Tuesday night in northern Sonoma County when a vegetation fire broke out just minutes after power was restored in one area — and apparently there were two downed power lines in the vicinity that were missed in the utility's inspections.
SF News One Red Flag Warning Ends and Another Begins As North and East Bay Residents Brace for More Wind Predicted Diablo winds between Monday night and Wednesday morning failed to materialize in most parts of the Bay, however a second wind event is forecast to begin Wednesday night and into Thursday morning.
SF News PG&E Warns Of More Power-Shutoffs Later This Week For North & East Bay A Red Flag Warning goes into effect Monday night that's currently scheduled to expire Wednesday morning. But starting Wednesday evening, PG&E's forecasters are saying there is an elevated risk of another Diablo wind event that could lead to a two- or three-day PSPS.
SF News PG&E Gives County-by-County Timelines For Likely Shutoffs Wednesday A full schedule of public safety power shutoff (PSPS) duration estimates is now available for October 14 to 16, and PG&E says around 54,000 customers in 24 counties are likely to be affected.
SF News Ignition Point Of Glass Fire Identified and It's *Possible* It Wasn't PG&E's Fault Cal Fire investigators appear to have found the general area where the Glass Fire first ignited around 3:30 a.m. on September 27. A PG&E transmission line runs through the area, but an initial investigation has not pointed immediately to PG&E as the likely culprit, for a change.
SF News PG&E Admits That Rolling Blackouts In August Were Partly Due to a F**k-Up By Them Even though pre-announced rolling blackouts due to overloads of the electrical grid were not as severe or prolonged as they sounded like they would be last month, PG&E did have to cut off power for some communities due to what they now say was an internal communications error.
SF News PG&E Issues 'All Clear': When Is Power Coming Back On In Napa and Sonoma? On Wednesday morning, PG&E issued an "all clear" for the most recent wind event in the North Bay and the Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) that impacted a broad swath of Northern California.
SF News PG&E to Spend the Fall Doing 'Accelerated' Inspections of Transmission Lines by Drone and Helicopter As the traditional height of fire season approaches — these lightning fires we saw in August were an early-season surprise — PG&E says it will be conducting "accelerated" inspections of transmission lines starting in areas of Marin and Sonoma counties by drone and helicopter.
SF News Here's Where to Check If Your Power Is Getting Shut Off Tonight Around the Bay Area PG&E is continuing rolling blackouts Tuesday, as necessary, to reduce strain on the electrical grid during this heatwave. And though you won't get advance warning as you would for a fire-safety shutoff, you can check a map to see if you're losing power at some point Tuesday afternoon or evening.
SF News Update: Metallic Balloon Causes Swath of North Beach and Russian Hill to Lose Power Approximately 7,600 PG&E customers lost power Tuesday morning just before 11 a.m., and the company says the cause of the outage remains under investigation.
SF News PG&E Says Power Shutoffs Will Be Briefer, More Targeted This Year We all should know by now what PG&E's promises are worth. But the still-standing utility is making new pledges aimed at quelling the anger over public safety power shutoffs (PSPS) that seriously impacted many lives and businesses last fall.
