SF News PG&E Warns of Possible Power Shutoffs In East Bay, Marin, Due to Coming Winds Hot, dry conditions and some incoming high winds mean that PG&E is warning of potential PSPS events in the next two days for multiple counties, including three in the Bay Area.
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 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 Get Ready for Blackouts This Summer As 'Unprecedented' Strain Could Affect CA's Power Grid While it's not exactly a surprise nowadays, it's still wild to think that because California's out-of-date power grid is so incompetent, residents of the state expect scheduled power outages and random blackouts regularly — which, for this summer, might affect some 1.3 million.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Who's Losing Power Today? Most of today's PG&E power shutoffs are in Solano County and eastern Napa County, Southwest Airlines canceled over 1,000 flights over the weekend, and that German cargo ship that was being investigated in the oil spill has been let off the hook.
SF News Potential PG&E Power Shutoffs Could Affect Up to 25,000 Customer Accounts Tomorrow With much of the East Bay and North Bay under a Red Flag Warning Sunday through Tuesday, PG&E has warned that as many as 25,000 customer accounts across the state could lose power Monday.
SF News There's Likely Going to Be a Power Shutoff Event on Monday for 13 California Counties After a Red Flag Warning was issued for various parts of NorCal Sunday, it was inevitable that a PG&E Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) Outage Watch would follow suit for some areas. And that's exactly what 13 counties can expect on Monday, according to the utility company.
SF News Red Flag Warning Issued For Parts of North and East Bay With Winds Expected As strong, gusty winds arrive, the National Weather Service issued a Red Flag warning for parts of the Bay Area beginning at 11 p.m. Tuesday and extending through 3 p.m. on Wednesday.
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 A Federal Judge's Ruling May Mean Even More PG&E Power Shutoffs This Fire Season The judge overseeing PG&E's corporate criminal probation said Tuesday that he was considering imposing more strict guidance over how often the utility preemptively shuts off power in nine Northern California counties during high-wind events.
SF News 'Likely' PSPS Events Could Leave Thousands in Wine Country Without Power Due to alarmingly dry conditions, PG&E says Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events are possible across parts of Wine Country (and elsewhere in California) starting early Monday, December 7.
SF News Extreme Wind Event Arrives Early Next Week With Even Greater Potential Fire Danger, More PSPS Likely The relentlessness of 2020 with its anxieties and miseries lumbers on with yet another fire weather forecast that no one wants to hear. But a coming wind event that begins Sunday brings the most danger so far, according to one meteorologist.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Power Shutoff Primarily Impacts Napa Residents Senate Democrats boycotted a vote to advance Amy Coney Barrett's nomination, San Mateo County opens dedicated COVID testing line for families, and a new park opened on the eastern end of the Bay Bridge.
SF News One Red Flag Warning Ends and Another Begins As North and East Bay Residents Brace for More Wind Predicted Diablo winds between Monday night and Wednesday morning failed to materialize in most parts of the Bay, however a second wind event is forecast to begin Wednesday night and into Thursday morning.
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 Predicted Mid-Week High Winds Means More Likely Power Shutoffs for North Bay Higher temperatures and gusty offshore winds later this week have PG&E warning customers in the North Bay and elsewhere that there could be another PSPS (public safety power shutoff) in their future.
SF News Amid COVID-19 and Unhealthy Air, PG&E Keeps Saying That Shutoffs Will Be Briefer This Fall The California wildfires have now collectively burned over 3.2 million acres across the state — an area the size of Connecticut — with the August Complex fire still just 30 percent contained. To thwart further catastrophe, PG&E is warning account holders to prepare for more power shutoffs… again.
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.
