{"id":103785,"date":"2025-12-21T13:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T13:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/103785\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T13:34:09","slug":"san-francisco-power-outage-hits-130000-homes-and-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/103785\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco power outage hits 130,000 homes and businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A massive power outage plunged large swaths of San Francisco<\/a> into darkness Saturday, knocking out electricity to about 130,000 homes and businesses and leaving self-driving cars stalled in city streets.<\/p>\n

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. did not immediately say what caused blackouts<\/a> to roughly one-third of the utility company\u2019s customers in the city. Fire officials posted on X at about 3:15 p.m. that at least some of the blackouts were caused by a fire that broke out inside<\/a> a PG&E substation at 8th and Mission streets.<\/p>\n

The outage darkened large parts of the city\u2019s north side, starting in the Richmond and Presidio neighborhoods and areas around Golden Gate Park early in the afternoon before spreading further.<\/p>\n

Autonomous vehicles stalled in the middle of streets, triggering traffic jams across affected areas.<\/p>\n

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Fog and power outages darken the skyline as traffic moves in San Francisco, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jeff Chiu)<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management said on X there were “significant transit disruptions” happening citywide and urged residents to avoid nonessential travel and treat down traffic signals as four-way stops.<\/p>\n

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A Waymo vehicle sits idling at an intersection with no operating traffic lights due to power outages, in San Francisco, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jeff Chiu)<\/p>\n

Waymo temporarily suspended its autonomous ride-hailing service in the wake of the blackout, SFGate reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Fox News Digital reached out to Waymo for comment but did not immediately hear back.<\/p>\n

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A bicyclist drives past headlights from an oncoming vehicle as power outages darken the streets, in San Francisco, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jeff Chiu)<\/p>\n

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PG&E later said that as of 11:30 p.m. Saturday, crews had restored power to about 95,000 customers<\/a>, with about 35,000 customers remaining without power. The utility company added that crews would continue working through the night.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A massive power outage plunged large swaths of San Francisco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7,31087,101,103,102,104,106,105,1181],"class_list":["post-103785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-california","tag-disasters-us","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}