And my use case would be cycling it every day (time shifting), not for infrequent events such as wildfire outage backups. I may be misunderstanding your goal, but if you are a massive net generator for the year, there is not a big point to time-shifting. Peak rates vs non-peak rat...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- PG&E is warning customers to prepare for a winter storm that could cause power outages this week. The National Weather Service hasissued a wind advisory for the entire Bay Areastarting at 2 a.m. Thursday because of winds of more than 35 mph expected along with ...
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 cha...
PG&E is reporting a large power outage in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood. The outage was first reported at about 2:15 a.m. Wednesday. At one time, PG&E's online outage map reported at least 5,000 customers were affected. Utility crews worked on restoring power overnight, and the num...
PG&E says it continues to install anti-wildfire technologies that can and do reroute power in storms as well. "We have been installing sectionalizers. This helps us switch customers from one line to another and so, in some cases, when there's an outage, we can switch the bulk of custome...
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All of those incidents were relatively small vegetation fires in rural areas. All but one caused a power outage, and most of them involved a PG&E conductor making contact with another object. There were five instances where equipment or facility failure may have sparked the ignition. ...
- PG&E is working to restore power to approximately 3,000 customers, affecting an estimated 8,500 residents, on Santa Rosa's east side, including areas near Spring Lake Park and Trione-Annadel State Park. The outage was reported about 2:55 p.m. Sunday, said PG&E spokesman J...
For this recent New York transplant, the massive outage was a new lesson in drastic measures taken to prevent west coast wildfires. "I was just blown away. I didn't know that a whole state could basically just pull the plug. I never heard of that before," said Laura Tuck...