SAN JOSE (CBS SF) -- A group of small business owners in San Jose are complaining that PG&E completely short-circuited their businesses and cost them tens of thousands of dollars. PG&E cut power to The Market Place shopping center just north of downtown San Jose in order to install c...
PG&E said it began de-energizing customers at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday evening as part of its planned Public Safety Power Shutoffs in areas prone to wildfires. The outages began with 1,339 customers in Lake and Sonoma counties and continued at 7 p.m. with 1,019 customers losing power in Nap...
PG&E Declares Another Large-Scale Planned Power Outage for Monday September 20, 2021 11:34 am Another large “public safety power shutoff” spanning 10 counties was announced was announced by utility company Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) on Sunday, raising more questions about the company’s ...
Friday morning, PG&E interrupted power to a section of north Paso Robles so they could work on power lines.About one hundred customers in the area around 32nd and Oak lost their electricity for several hours.The outage was planned. Residents were warned well in advance of the power ...
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get. It was slow to distribute electronic maps showing who would lose power, making it harder for emergency responders to know exactly where to send resources. The utility also balked at providing the addresses of medically needy customers to local officials who planned to check on them in ...
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said it had been in touch with Betsy Ann Cowley to inform her about future planned work on a power line that had been shut down. Cowley has said the utility emailed her last Wednesday, a day before the blaze ignited, about getting access to her property ...
that power along the transmission lines in that section of Sonoma County was not turned off because wind-speeds didn't reach high enough levels to trigger its planned shutoff protocol. PG&E says the wind speeds of concern for transmission lines are higher than those for lines that ...
It failed to inform Caltrans of a planned outage to a crucial Bay Area tunnel until the last minute, then relented and kept the power on. It failed to forewarn the nation's top public university, UC Berkeley, until the morning its power was cut. Some customers were lucky enough to ...
get. It was slow to distribute electronic maps showing who would lose power, making it harder for emergency responders to know exactly where to send resources. The utility also balked at providing the addresses of medically needy customers to local officials who planned to check on them in ...