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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – DECEMBER 20: A view of traffic from above as more than 130,000 PG&E customers without power in San Francisco, California, United States on December 20, 2025. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun\/Anadolu via Getty Images) <\/p>\n
SAN FRANCISCO – Power remained out for more than 10,000 homes and businesses in San Francisco on Monday morning following a massive outage that began over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pacific Gas & Electric said electricity had been restored to about 9,000 customers since Saturday night and that crews expected power to be restored to the remaining customers by 2 p.m. Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And even though that was down from the peak outage on Saturday affecting 125,000 PG&E customers, the blackout continued to affect the area around Civic Center, prompting the closure of several city buildings on Monday, including City Hall, the main library and the Civic Center garage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officials said outages were largely concentrated around Golden Gate Park.<\/p>\n
The outages affected about one-third of the city, disrupting transit and traffic across San Francisco, with some BART trains unable to run through city stations, Waymo suspending its services <\/a>and traffic backing up as streetlights went dark.<\/p>\n PG&E said the outage was caused by a fire at a Mission Street substation.<\/p>\n The prolonged outage forced restaurants to discard spoiled food and left residents without electricity for much of the weekend.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s been a lot of changing information, that\u2019s been the toughest,” said David Chein, owner of Sushi Bistro.\u00a0<\/p>\n Chein said he would have moved food earlier if he had known power would be out as long as PG&E later indicated. Despite using ice chests and other cooling methods, he said much of his product would be lost.<\/p>\n Residents also described the challenges of being without power.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I\u2019ve gone out to other friends\u2019 houses that have power so I can charge my phone and devices,” said Leslie Ramirez. “It\u2019s just been really dark at my place.”<\/p>\n