SF News PG&E Warns of Possible Power Shutoffs For Parts of Five Bay Area Counties Starting Thursday With the announcement of a Red Flag Warning and forecast of a significant Diablo wind event, we now get the inevitable follow-up announcement from PG&E about pre-emptive power shutoffs.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Power Outage Hits Central San Francisco A power outage was impacting over 4,000 PG&E customers around Japantown and Lower Nob Hill this a.m.; the Union Square North Beach store is closing; and Grocery Outlet just opened in Marin City.
SF News Residents of Westside Neighborhoods In SF Meet With PG&E About Frequent Power Outages SF Supervisor Myrna Melgar organized a special meeting with PG&E Monday for residents of her district frustrated with the fact that they've experienced multiple power outages so far this year.
SF News Underground Vault Fire Sends Smoke Into SoMa, Closes Mission & Third Intersection An underground electrical fire was creating some traffic in and around SoMa Tuesday afternoon, so be warned.
SF News Over 7,000 PG&E Customers Lose Power In San Francisco; Outage to Be Fully Resolved By Afternoon On Wednesday morning, an estimated 7,050 households and businesses lost electricity in the center of San Francisco, and as of late morning, over 1,000 customers were still without power.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: PG&E Settles Last Wildfire Lawsuit From 2020 Oakland police are investigating a shooting in which a 9-year-old was shot in the leg; the CA legislature has advanced a bunch of fentanyl-related bills; and PG&E has settled its criminal prosecution relating to the 2020 Zogg Fire in Shasta County.
SF News Newsom Calls For Federal Investigation Into Out-Of-Control Energy Prices You’re not the only one whose PG&E bill has gone through the roof, and Governor Newsom is calling for a federal investigation into possible market manipulation with these crazy price hikes.
California PG&E Wants to Raise Your Monthly Bill by 16% Starting This Fall, Separate From This Winter's Sticker Shock Customers have likely seen and will continue to see significant increases in their bills this winter, to the tune of about a 32% spike.
SF News Judge Rules PG&E Can Be Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter in 2020 Zogg Fire PG&E had tried to get out of any criminal charges over four deaths in the 2020 Zogg Fire, but a Shasta County judge has just ruled that the utility can be taken to trial for involuntary manslaughter and a slew of other charges.
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 Will Pay You to Conserve Electricity During Peak Usage Hours — Starting Today Now you can score a little rebate for conserving electricity during the most brutal hours the California power grid experiences, as a Flex Alert rebate program kicks in today at 4 p.m.
SF News PG&E Reports Profits Declined by 10%, Which Likely Means They’ll Just Jack Up Your Bills Again Yes, your PG&E bills are higher. And they’re probably going to go up even more, because PG&E needs to bury power lines and pay off manslaughter victims’ families, and the investors would rather you pay for that instead of them.
SF News PG&E Not Only Caused the Massive Dixie Fire, a New Report Says It Also Was 'Excessively Delayed' In Responding to It PG&E is once again on the defensive following the release of a state report on the 2021 Dixie Fire that not only suggests the utility was negligent in its tree-removal program, which helped spark the fire, but also that their response the day of the fire was "excessively delayed."
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: PG&E Submits Incident Report Pertaining to Old Fire It's the umpteenth election day of 2022 and we're voting both on a DA recall and a new congressperson, Oakland police are investigating two fatal overnight shootings, and PG&E could end up being to blame for last week's Old Fire in Napa.
Arts & Entertainment John Oliver Calls PG&E 'A Fire Company That Occasionally Delivers Power To People’s Homes’ Sunday’s episode of ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ featured a lengthy stemwinder shredding PG&E to bits, and for good measure, razzing Gavin Newsom for going so easy on the wildfire-plagued utility.
SF News PG&E On the Hook for $6.7 Million After ‘Shoddy Work’ Destroyed an SF Home, Damaged Five Others The SF Board of Supervisors just approved a $6.75 million settlement from PG&E, after a 2016 incident where the utility’s faulty gas line work caused six Sherwood Forest houses to slide down a hill.
SF News Decades Late to the Game, PG&E Begins Putting Power Lines Underground PG&E has officially launched a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar project to put a portion of its transmission lines underground — having waited to do so until it faced multiple lawsuits and a bankruptcy following multiple devastating wildfires caused by its transmission lines.
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.
