A PG&E executive testified that Mayor Lurie demanded the lights be turned back on during the Dec. 20 blackout for his daughter’s Nutcracker performance, but now PG&E is backtracking on that claim. <\/p>\n
There\u2019s still plenty of finger-pointing and recriminations<\/a> going around over the December 20 PG&E blackout<\/a> that left more than 200,000 households and businesses without power. And one very minor issue was why PG&E put emphasis on a Nutcracker performance that day when there were clearly other larger problems to be sorted out.<\/p>\n Well, the SF Board of Supervisors had their much-ballyhooed hearings about the blackout<\/a> on Thursday, and Supervisor Bilial Mahmood was not pleased about this Nutcracker business. \u201cYou prioritize the opera where no one is living to restore service before you prioritize restoring service in communities,\u201d Mahmood said at the hearing.<\/p>\n But PG&E CEO Sumeet Singh pushed back (or at least he did at first).<\/p>\n \u201cWe did not make that decision on our own accord,\u201d Singh told Mahmood. \u201cWe were requested by the mayor to provide temporary generation to that specific location and we responded to that and by that time we had about 90% of our customers restored.\u201d<\/p>\n