{"id":318476,"date":"2026-05-16T05:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/318476\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T05:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:44:08","slug":"pge-warns-northern-california-counties-of-likely-power-shutoffs-starting-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/318476\/","title":{"rendered":"PG&#038;E warns Northern California counties of likely power shutoffs starting Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Gas &amp; Electric Company is warning residents in several Northern California counties that power shutoffs will be likely starting later this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>High winds and dry conditions are forecasted across the region in the coming days \u2013 prime weather for fire danger. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/bay-area-central-coast-weather-high-wind-fire-danger-beach-hazards\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A Red Flag Warning<\/a> is already set to go into effect for parts of Solano County, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the Sacramento Valley and the entire Central Valley by Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Now, PG&amp;E is alerting customers in the following counties that shutoffs will be likely on Sunday and Monday: Alameda, Colusa, Contra Costa, Fresno, Glenn, Lake, Merced, Napa, San Benito, San Joaquin, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Tehama and Yolo.<\/p>\n<p>Likely shutoffs are also listed on Tuesday, but only for Colusa, Fresno, Glenn, San Benito and Tehama.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The exact number of possible customers facing shutoffs has not been fully detailed by PG&amp;E, but outages in recent years have been less widespread.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pacific Gas &amp; Electric Company is warning residents in several Northern California counties that power shutoffs will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,3936,10139],"class_list":["post-318476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-california-wildfires","tag-pacific-gas-and-electric-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318476","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=318476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}