SF News Waymos Freeze in Place, Snarl Traffic En Masse During Saturday’s Citywide Power Outage Amid Saturday’s PG&E outage, social media was flooded with posts showing dozens of confused Waymos pausing at intersections as they fruitlessly attempted to contact central command, causing frazzled humans to navigate around them, which led to a temporary halt in service.
SF News Possible PG&E Power Shut-Offs Loom in North Bay, East Bay as Major Heat Wave Approaches It’s now officially PG&E power outage season again as the impending heat dome rolls in, with public safety power shutoffs possible this week for eight NorCal counties, including Napa County and Solano County.
SF News Knock On Wood: State Officials Say Power Outages Unlikely This Summer The California Energy Commission says that this winter's downpours were enough of a boon to the state’s hydroelectric power plants and other new sources that we are supposedly unlikely to have power shortages and grid problems this summer.
SF News Alameda, Healdsburg, and Palo Alto Lost Power Over ‘Miscommunication,’ Blackouts Weren’t Ordered An hour of power loss in three NorCal cities didn’t have to happen Tuesday night, and you’d better believe that various power agencies are pointing fingers over the snafu.
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 More Than 3,000 Without Power In Livermore After Temperatures Hit 116 Degrees Monday Today could be one of the most taxing days ever on the California power grid, and it got off to a troublesome start, as thousands are without power in Livermore due to transformer failures.
SF News Rolling Blackouts Remain a Possibility Tuesday as Power Grid Gets Strained In Heatwave Californians are being asked to conserve energy use Tuesday afternoon if at all possible, as the threat of blackouts looms with the pending demand for power during the late-day heat.
SF News Charge Your Power Banks: Rotating Blackouts and Power Shutoffs Possible In Parts of Bay Area This Week To contend with both the heatwave and a looming high wind event, both rolling blackouts and a PG&E “Public Safety Power Shutoff" (PSPS) might be called this week in order to lower the chances of wildfires popping up across the Bay Area.
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.
