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.
SF News PG&E To Sell Its SF Headquarters, Move to Oakland The company that began as San Francisco Gas Company in 1852, incorporating at PG&E in 1905, is in the process of both trying to emerge from bankruptcy and reinventing itself as a more responsible corporation whose equipment doesn't spark deadly wildfires every fall.
SF News PG&E Claims Wildfire Victims Have ‘Overwhelming’ Support for Half-Cash, Half-Stock Settlement Deal PG&E stock seems like pretty curious compensation for 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter, but victims do seem in favor of the deal so they can finally get some renumeration.
SF Politics Newsom Vows to Holds PG&E’s Feet to the Fire as Wildfires and COVID-19 Collide Gavin has strong words for PG&E (but evasive words for Elon Musk’s defiance) as wildfire season is underway in the age of coronavirus.
SF News PG&E Shuts Off Power to Orinda and Danville to Do Scheduled Maintenance; Homebound Residents Are Pissed When all we have to amuse ourselves with right now besides 2000-piece puzzles are television and the internet, it seems sorely unfair that PG&E is pushing ahead with power shutoffs during shelter-in-place orders.
Business & Tech PG&E Pleads Guilty In Camp Fire Manslaughter Case Brought By Butte County The latest development in the painfully slow bankruptcy clownshow of Pacific Gas & Electric is a proposed settlement in a case brought by the Butte County district attorney and county officials.
SF News California Regulators Propose Three-Day Power Backups for Cell Towers Millions of Californians lost cell phone and landline service during PG&E’s premeditated wildfire-prevention blackouts. Now, California utility regulators and two state senators are pushing to make sure we’re not in for a repeat of that next time around.
SF News Utilities Commissioner Suggests Revoking PG&E's License to Operate In a new 16-page proposal that's now under review by the powerful California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), the commission president is suggesting several milestones for PG&E to reach as it emerges from bankruptcy.
SF Politics New Bernie Sanders Ad Specifically Comes After PG&E A new three-minute ad from the Bernie Sanders campaign is squarely aimed at Democratic voters in California, and makes the case that only Sanders will have what it takes to fight corporate interests like PG&E that value profits over human life.
SF News PG&E Equipment Fire Causes Blackout In Hayes Valley and Haight, Shuts Down Ballet A reportedly "small" fire in an underground PG&E vault near the intersection of Laguna and Hayes streets Wednesday night caused a power outage for 9,000 utility customers — including the San Francisco Ballet, performing at the War Memorial Opera House.
SF News Humpday Headlines: PG&E Lays Out Plans for This Year's Power Shutoffs BART has lost almost 10 million riders on nights and weekends, unlicensed contractors nabbed trying to bid on work in Paradise, and yes, PG&E does plan to keep shutting off the power when it's windy and dry this year.
SF News PG&E Is Still Operating a 'Rickety' Power Line With Rusted Parts Near the One That Sparked the Camp Fire An expert hired by wildfire victims' attorneys recently did an independent inspection of PG&E power lines that are still operational in the vicinity of Paradise, California, and they have found one in terrible shape just 100 yards from the Caribou-Palermo line which sparked the 2018 Camp Fire.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Newsom Says PG&E 'No Longer Exists' A man was killed Wednesday night when an Amtrak train struck his car in Oakland, an East Bay school district is suing Juul, and Gov. Gavin Newsom is once again repeating his tough talk on the future of PG&E.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonoma County Brewery Releases PG&E-Themed 'Mandatory Blackout' Porter Sonoma County craft brewers have been reacting to this fire season's pre-emptive power shutoffs with themed beers. The latest example is Barrel Brothers Brewing's Mandatory Blackout imperial porter.
SF News Gavin Newsom Rejects PG&E Bankruptcy Plan Pacific Gas and Electric has until Tuesday to submit another revised restructuring plan to emerge from bankruptcy after what the Sacramento Bee calls a "stunning rebuke" by Governor Gavin Newsom.
SF News PG&E Reaches $13.5 Billion Settlement for Victims of Wildfires, Ghost Ship Fire PG&E announced Monday that it had reached a settlement valued around $13.5 billion to compensate victims of wildfires in 2015, 2017, and 2018 that have been linked to the utility's equipment, as well as to families of the victims of the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland.
SF News Elected Officials Statewide Push for Consumer Takeover of PG&E PG&E would be radically transformed into a customer-owned co-op under a new plan being pushed by more than 100 California elected officials.
