The power outages in December caused severe disruptions across the city, affecting households, restaurants and even City Hall. Shortly after the power outages began, PG&E offered customers relief in the form of reimbursements and some hotel stays. But many residents said they struggled to secure claims.<\/p>\n
In the wake of the electrical failures, which were in some cases caused by a fire, some city supervisors have suggested breaking ties with PG&E. The city is actively exploring options for a public utility alternative.<\/p>\n
Supervisor Bilal Mahmood is sponsoring a separate hearing with PG&E, set to take place on March 2 at the Land Use and Transportation Committee.<\/p>\n
That hearing will focus on robotaxis, such as Waymos, which stalled in the street and caused traffic jams blocking public safety responders during the December power outages.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe heard from residents, businesses and city departments that PG&E and Waymo\u2019s handling of this outage was unacceptable,\u201d Mahmood said in a statement. \u201cWe want to send a clear message that San Francisco expects accountability and the highest standards from its services and road users, and that improvements are needed from the first non-functioning stoplight to the last refund check.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The power outages in December caused severe disruptions across the city, affecting households, restaurants and even City Hall.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-175204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175204","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=175204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}