{"id":396450,"date":"2026-07-13T10:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/396450\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T10:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:48:16","slug":"san-francisco-clears-environmental-review-for-potential-pge-grid-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/396450\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco clears environmental review for potential PG&#038;E grid purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">San Francisco has reached a key milestone in its effort to expand public power after the city\u2019s Planning Commission unanimously certified the final environmental impact report for a proposed acquisition of Pacific Gas &amp; Electric Co.\u2019s electric distribution assets serving the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report, required under the <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/environment\/ceqa\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/environment\/ceqa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">California Environmental Quality Act<\/a>, evaluates the environmental effects of purchasing PG&amp;E\u2019s local electric infrastructure and the work needed to separate San Francisco\u2019s electric grid from the utility\u2019s broader system, the Public Utilities Commission said.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly roundup in your inbox. <\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco has reached a key milestone in its effort to expand public power after the city\u2019s Planning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[13997,57174,94634,15511,8076,10139,3604,10652,4253,101,103,102,104,106,105,23415],"class_list":["post-396450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-california-environmental-quality-act","tag-cleanpowersf","tag-electric-grid","tag-electricity","tag-infrastructure","tag-pacific-gas-and-electric-company","tag-pge","tag-power-grid","tag-public-utilities","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-tax-revenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396450","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=396450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}