Preparing For Potential Power Shutoffs: What You Need To Know
PG&E will decide Wednesday morning whether to cut power to approximately 184,000 customers in 16 counties for fire safety, including more than 130,000 customers in the Sacramento region.
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PG&E will decide Wednesday morning whether to cut power to approximately 184,000 customers in 16 counties for fire safety, including more than 130,000 customers in the Sacramento region.
With another round of PG&E Public Safety Power Shutoffs looming Wednesday, a simple tip from a viral Facebook post may help save some food in your freezer.
Over one million Californians were left in the dark earlier this month during the Pacific Gas and Electric power shutoff, and now hundreds of thousands more in the Bay Area and Foothills are facing the same fate as fire weather moves across Northern Calfornia.
Less than two weeks after blacking out much of Northern California, the state's largest utility is warning that dangerous fire weather could prompt it to shut off power to about a half-million people.
The windy weather may leave thousands of PG&E customers in the dark, but some fire agencies still have controlled burns on the schedule.
Pacific Gas and Electric is expecting another round of shutoffs later this week ahead of dry and windy conditions.
PG&E said they are monitoring a severe wind event that may lead to more power shutoffs later in the week that may impact up to 17 counties across northern California.
California's top regulator excoriated top executives of the state's largest utility even as Pacific Gas & Electric repeatedly said they know they failed to meet public expectations when the company cut the power to more than 2 million people last week.
The CEO of California's largest utility says it will take about a decade for PG&E to get to the point where widespread safety outages are not necessary when wildfire danger is high.
The leader of the California Senate asked a committee Thursday to investigate a utility company's decision to cut off power to more than 2 million people to prevent wildfires.
A top Pacific Gas and Electric Co. executive who was among a group of employees who wined and dined top customers just before the utility's mass power outage last week is no longer with the company.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has also criticized PG&E for its performance during the outage, blaming what he called decades of mismanagement, underinvestment and lousy communication with the public.
Millions of Californians spent part of the week in the dark in an unprecedented effort by the state's large electrical utilities to prevent another devastating wildfire. It was the fifth time Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has preemptively cut the power but by far the largest to date in the utility's effort to prevent a deadly wildfire sparked by its power lines.
PG&E announced Saturday evening that all power has been restored following Wednesday's massive public safety power shutoffs.
Placer County is taking steps to ensure residents dispose of spoiled food properly.
Approximately 21,000 customers are still without power Friday night, going on three days in the dark.
The planned power outages resulted in thousands of dollars of losses for Auburn businesses.
The El Dorado County coroner says PG&E's power shutoffs did not cause the death of a Pollock Pines man who died 12 minutes after the power was cut and relied on oxygen and CPAP machines to live.
According to the county, disposing of food at the transfer station will deter bears and wildlife from being drawn to residential trash cans filled with extra food waste.
Pacific Gas and Electric says it has restored power to more than half of the nearly 2 million people left in the dark in Northern California after the utility shut down power to prevent its equipment from sparking wildfires during dry, windy weather.
Several school districts in the Sacramento region have announced they will close once again today, due to the power shutoff.
Hot, dry winds sweeping into Southern California raised concerns that the region's largest utility could widen power shut-offs Friday to prevent its equipment from sparking wildfires, as a new blaze swept through the San Fernando Valley's northern foothills.
It's the second night for thousands in our area still without power. This as PG&E responds to the Governor's harsh criticism about the planned power outages.
s more than 600,000 customers across Northern California are still without electricity, PG&E announced that calmer wind conditions in some affected areas will allow safety inspections to begin this afternoon to determine if they can move forward with more restorations.
PG&E CEO Bill Johnson admitted during a Thursday evening press conference that the utility thoroughly botched its Public Safety Power Shutoff, apologizing to customers.
