San Francisco lawmaker to propose plan to let cities break away from PG&E
Just two months ago, a massive power outage left parts of San Francisco in the dark for days, and some lawmakers are trying to make sure it never happens again.
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Just two months ago, a massive power outage left parts of San Francisco in the dark for days, and some lawmakers are trying to make sure it never happens again.
PG&E says the neighborhood blackouts are just random incidents, but residents think it's happening far too often to just be bad luck.
During that time, PG&E will complete its final tests of the Mission Substation equipment that was damaged in the fire on Dec. 20.
The NTSB released an initial report on the explosion and fire that destroyed a home near Hayward last month, but is still analyzing the handling of the response to a gas leak before the explosion.
After a few power outages last week, PG&E discovered gasoline was leaking into some of its electric vaults in Burlingame. The petroleum product came from a third-party source, according to a PG&E spokesperson,
Professor Severin Borenstein, the faculty director of UC Berkeley's Energy Institute at Haas, says a split from PG&E is logistically possible but would be a lengthy and complex process that would likely end up in court.
Another power outage in San Francisco left thousands of Pacific Gas and Electric customers in the dark Sunday night.
According to PG&E's outage website, there were 6,050 customers in Golden Gate Park, part of the Sunset and the Panhandle, without power on Saturday morning.
Several thousand people in the Bay Area remain without power Friday morning after a series of storms battered the area Christmas week.
Tens of thousands of PG&E customers across the Bay Area are again without power on Christmas morning after another wet and windy storm moves through Northern California.
PG&E has activated its Emergency Operations Center as well as regional and local storm rooms as forecasts call for a new round of storms that are expected to bring damaging winds along with heavy rainfall.
Pacific Gas and Electric said about 5,000 customers were still without power Monday after a massive outage over the weekend affected about 130,000 customers.
Thousands in San Francisco's Civic Center are still without power, and one resident said PG&E's lack of an accurate timeline has been frustrating.
At 25th and Clement Produce Market, owner Spiros Johnson said the prolonged outage wiped out thousands of dollars in perishable inventory.
About 30% of San Francisco was without power at the height of the outage, according to utility provider PG&E.
A Bay Area engineer who was convicted of blowing up Pacific Gas & Electric Co. transformers in the San Jose area been sentenced to a decade in federal prison, prosecutors said.
Utility crews have capped a gas leak in the community of Los Altos that prompted evacuations of the downtown area, officials said.
Pacific Gas and Electric announced that crews have undergrounded about 1,000 miles of power lines in high-wildfire-risk areas across the San Francisco Bay Area and Central California.
One Fremont-based group created an AI platform to predict climate and extreme weather months in advance, and they're hoping they'll be one of the groups to be awarded part of the total $25 million PG&E funding.
Pacific Gas and Electric customers who have fallen behind on their payments may be able to get some help paying their energy bills, the utility said this week.
Elevated wildfire concerns have prompted PG&E to issue Public Safety Power Shutoffs for parts of Northern and Central California into the weekend.
Gusty winds and dry humidity in the afternoon will create conditions for fast-spreading grass fires, the NWS said.
State lawmakers are getting closer to a vote on a bill that would, once again, change the way owners of rooftop solar power systems are compensated for the energy they add to the grid.
Last week, PG&E informed Monterey County that it wants to reactivate its Elkhorn Battery Energy Storage Facility by June 1, but the county said that it is too soon.
A San Jose engineer has admitted to bombing two PG&E transformers. Peter Karasev pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to the bombings in December 2022 and January 2023.
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Macklin Celebrini scored twice in the third period, including an empty-netter with 1:45 remaining, to reach 44 goals on the season and the San Jose Sharks beat the Nashville Predators 3-2 to end a 15-game losing streak in the series.
Amy Hillyard, a mother of two and owner of Farley's coffee shops in Oakland and San Francisco, has been missing since March 25 and was last seen around 2 p.m. near the 500 block of Radnor Road in Oakland.
Five of the eight people arrested in connection with last year's Esparto explosion, which killed seven men, were arraigned in Yolo County court on Monday.
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San Francisco police said a person walking near Mission Street and South Van Ness Avenue was fatally struck by a vehicle around 3:20 p.m.
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Two people were arrested after shots were fired in the Russian Hill area of San Francisco early Sunday morning, police said.
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Amy Hillyard, a mother of two and owner of Farley's coffee shops in Oakland and San Francisco, has been missing since March 25 and was last seen around 2 p.m. near the 500 block of Radnor Road in Oakland.
According to the CHP, investigators believe the driver of a Jeep had a medical emergency, lost control of their vehicle and crashed into a big rig.
A federal grand jury has indicted a San Francisco Bay Area man for allegedly enticing children to engage in sexual activity online after he was convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material.
A man suspected of fatally shooting a woman in Antioch earlier this year has been arrested in Southern California, police said.
Saturday will have the greatest potential for thunderstorms, according to the National Weather Service. The storm is expected to move north to south across the Bay Area beginning around 2 p.m.
A program called "Bike Love" pays Palo Alto commuters $5 a day — up to $600 a year — to ride a bike, e-scooter or e-bike to work. The initiative runs through an app called Motion, which tracks trips automatically on your phone.
A pedestrian was killed in San Jose by a suspected drunk driver in one of two fatal collisions in the city over the weekend, police said.
A woman who was crossing a street in East San Jose died after being struck by a driver Wednesday night, police
A man suspected in dozens of storage-unit burglaries in the city of Santa Clara and in other communities has been arrested, police said.
The pedestrian was struck near South White Road and Mt. McKinley Drive, around 8:10 p.m. Police said they were seriously injured and taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
A woman wielding a knife allegedly threatened people outside a supermarket in Santa Rosa before officers used less-than-lethal devices to immobilize her and take her into custody, police said on Monday.
A homeowner in Fairfield armed with a shovel fought off an intruder during a confrontation caught on video, police said.
Multiple teens were injured during a crash early Saturday morning in Novato, police said. One of them died, and the others remain in critical condition.
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San Francisco police said a person walking near Mission Street and South Van Ness Avenue was fatally struck by a vehicle around 3:20 p.m.
A woman wielding a knife allegedly threatened people outside a supermarket in Santa Rosa before officers used less-than-lethal devices to immobilize her and take her into custody, police said on Monday.
A pedestrian was killed in San Jose by a suspected drunk driver in one of two fatal collisions in the city over the weekend, police said.
A homeowner in Fairfield armed with a shovel fought off an intruder during a confrontation caught on video, police said.
A federal grand jury has indicted a San Francisco Bay Area man for allegedly enticing children to engage in sexual activity online after he was convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material.
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