US EditionPower Restored to Most of San Francisco After Blackout Hits 130,000
A fire at a PG&E substation contributed to the outage affecting about 30% of San Francisco's customers, causing major transit disruptions and business closures 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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Power restored for about 110K customers in San Francisco after outage | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Power was restored for about 110,000 customers in San Francisco after a sizable part of the city was hit by an outage on Saturday, according to the city’s emergency management department and its main utility firm, Pacific Gas and Electric Company. The blackout affected about 130,000 residents in the California city of around 800,000 people, PG&E said.
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) has reported that some 130,000 homes have run out of power in the U.S. city of San Francisco and that work continues to reverse the situation."We are working with emergency personnel and municipal authorities to solve a power outage in San Francisco that affects approximately 130,000 customers," the electrical company said.The network has been stabilized so it is not expected that the cuts can spread to other area…
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