{"id":472091,"date":"2026-09-22T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/472091\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:06:10","slug":"sf-could-move-closer-to-potential-takeover-of-pge-power-grid-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/472091\/","title":{"rendered":"SF could move closer to potential takeover of PG&E power grid \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco could move one step closer Tuesday to a potential takeover of PG&E’s power grid in the city.<\/p>\n

The city has considered taking over PG&E’s power grid for years, but the issue was reignited following a widespread blackout last December<\/a> that left a third of San Francisco in the dark in the days leading up to the Christmas holiday.<\/p>\n

Since then, steps to expand public power have followed.<\/p>\n

In July, the San Francisco Planning Commission unanimously certified the final environmental impact report for a proposed acquisition of PG&E’s assets.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, PG&E is appealing that decision to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.<\/p>\n

If the board rejects the appeal, it would clear one hurdle for the city to potentially use eminent domain for public power.<\/p>\n

Several hurdles would still remain, including determining how much PG&E’s assets are worth.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has previously estimated the value at between $3 billion and $4 billion. PG&E says that estimate is significantly lower than what its assets are worth.<\/p>\n

If supervisors reject PG&E’s appeal Tuesday, it would allow the potential public takeover to move forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco could move one step closer Tuesday to a potential takeover of PG&E’s power grid in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[3604,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-472091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-pge","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472091","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=472091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}