SF News PG&E, Now In Full Crisis Mode, Offering $200 Credits to SF Residents, $2500 to Businesses for Weekend Outage Utility provider PG&E is hoping you’ll forget about this weekend’s three-day power outage with a $200 credit for residential customers and a $2,500 credit for businesses, though some businesses say they lost ten times that much.
SF News Sunday Links: SF Also Had a Huge Outage on December 20 in 2003, Starting at the Same PG&E Substation If you bought gas from any Bay Area 7-Elevens recently, make sure you weren't charged 100 times what you paid; the SF immigration court is down to four judges from 21; and a third of the city also lost power 22 years ago, also on a Saturday, December 20.
SF News Waymos Freeze in Place, Snarl Traffic En Masse During Saturday’s Citywide Power Outage Amid Saturday’s PG&E outage, social media was flooded with posts showing dozens of confused Waymos pausing at intersections as they fruitlessly attempted to contact central command, causing frazzled humans to navigate around them, which led to a temporary halt in service.
SF News Here We Go Again — PG&E Says First Power Shutoffs of Fire Season ‘Likely’ This Weekend A pretty wide net of PG&E customers in Alameda, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara counties could see their first wildfire-related PG&E power shutoff of the season as early as Thursday, thanks to this weekend’s looming high winds and dry conditions.
SF News Day Around the Bay: About 5,000 Lost Power In SF's Mission Bay Today About 5,000 people were impacted by a power outage in SF's Mission Bay Monday; Heather Knight explains the Great Highway drama in the New York Times; and at least 78 million Americans have voted early in this election.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Red Flag Warnings and Possible Power Shut-Offs Loom This Week BART Police arrested a suspect in Saturday’s 24th Street station stabbing; two SF Walgreens stores suffered smash-and-grabs within an hour of each other; and high winds could prompt some Bay Area PG&E power shut-offs this week.
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 Power Outage Hits Russian Hill, Pac Heights, Presidio and Marina District A fairly significant power outage left thousands in the dark Tuesday morning across a northern swath of San Francisco.
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.
east bay Large Power Outage Affects 50,000 People In East Bay and Leaves Alameda Drawbridge Stuck Half-Open The outage has also affected BART and AC Transit services, as well as stalled passengers going through Oakland Airport.
SF News PG&E Warning of Public Safety Power Shut-Offs Due to Wind Forecast In North Bay PG&E on Friday issued a heads-up that the power may be going out in parts of northern Napa and Sonoma counties, as well as nine other counties, due to some high winds in the forecast this weekend.
SF News PG&E Power Outage Affects 2,500 San Francisco Customer Accounts, Thousands More in the East Bay On Sunday, thousands of residents around the Bay Area — mostly those in the East Bay, but a sizeable amount in San Francisco, as well — experienced an unplanned PG&E power outage that's been tied to this weekend’s light rain (and neglected power lines).
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 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 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 More, Wider-Spread Power Shutoffs Likely Coming To Bay Area Sunday After shutoffs that have already gotten underway in Sonoma and Napa counties and elsewhere Wednesday, with more to begin Wednesday night, weather models suggest windy conditions that could lead to power shutoffs for an even wider swath of Northern California on Sunday and Monday.
SF News Power Begins Coming Back On In Bay Area As Winds Die Down As of early Friday morning, PG&E was turning the power back on for much of the Bay Area, however over 50,000 homes and business are still without power in Sonoma and Napa.
SF News The PG&E Shut-Offs Are Done, But It Could Be Five Days Until Power is Restored There will be no more new outages, PG&E declares, though it may take until Tuesday for the utility to turn everyone’s electricity back on.
SF News PG&E Delays Shutoffs for Heavily Populated Parts of Bay Area; Turning Power Back On Could Take Days PG&E has said it will be delaying planned power outages for several Bay Area counties until 8 p.m. Wednesday.
SF News [Update] PG&E Blackouts Hit 500,000 Customers So Far, With More To Come Marin and Napa customers got their power cut last night, while Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo counties will lose power today, as the PG&E power outage disaster is mushrooming by the minute.
SF News PG&E Issues Power Shutoff Warning For Most Of Northern California Except SF This is basically an earthquake kit situation without the earthquake, and will potentially affect millions of Californians between Wednesday morning and Thursday afternoon.
SF News 50,000 Lose Power in Berkeley, Richmond, and Elsewhere In East Bay A PG&E equipment failure is being blamed for a Sunday morning power outage that affected around 50,000 customers.
SF News Napa and Sonoma To Keep Power On Monday, Still May Lose Power Tuesday PG&E just announced that it will be keeping power flowing to Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties today, though as the hot, dry weather is expected to continue tomorrow and Wednesday, they're not totally in the clear.
SF News Power Outage Shuts Down Muni Metro, Impacts 22,000 Customers In SF A PG&E power outage that extends from Dogpatch and Mission Bay to Twin Peaks has caused a rush-hour nightmare for Muni commuters as all Muni Metro service was stopped as a result.
