US EditionPower Restored to Most of San Francisco After Blackout Hits 130,000
A fire at a PG&E substation contributed to the outage that left about 130,000 customers without power, impacting transit and businesses during the holiday weekend.
- A major outage hit San Francisco on Saturday, leaving 130,000 Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers—roughly 30% of the city—without power during the holiday season.
- San Francisco Fire Department officials said a fire inside a PG&E substation at Eighth and Mission appeared to contribute to the blackout, with the blaze under control by 4:24 p.m. and the substation turned over to PG&E.
- The outage began in the morning, when PG&E first reported an Inner Sunset outage affecting just under 15,000 customers around 9:40 a.m., and crews stabilized the grid by 4 p.m.
- By evening, PG&E reported 97.8 percent of customers had power restored by 6:41 p.m. PST, with 125,043 affected and 161 outages remaining; city agencies urged residents to avoid nonessential travel and turn off major appliances.
- Ahead of forecast rain moving toward Los Angeles, the outage disrupted city commerce and forced local restaurants and shops to close, dimming holiday shoppers’ experience.
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