{"id":494986,"date":"2026-10-13T20:08:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T20:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/494986\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T20:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T20:08:37","slug":"over-7000-sf-residents-and-businesses-lost-power-monday-morning-in-unplanned-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/494986\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 7,000 SF Residents and Businesses Lost Power Monday Morning In Unplanned Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upwards of 6,600 PG&amp;E customers \u2014 representing well over 10,000 residents and businesses, if not closer to 20,000 \u2014 were without power Monday morning as PG&amp;E deals with yet another unplanned outage.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s unplanned outage began around 11:38 am, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/bay-area\/thousands-without-power-in-san-francisco-monday-due-to-unplanned-outage\/?ref=sfist.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KRON4 reports<\/a>, and was impacting parts of Corona Heights, Haight-Ashbury, Duboce Triangle, Castro, and the Mission District. Similar unplanned outages occurred earlier this year affecting these same areas \u2014 leading to PG&amp;E deploying a temporary generator in the Castro \u2014 and two weeks ago, an unplanned outage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/bay-area\/sf-ferry-building-left-in-the-dark-after-power-outage-hits-waterfront\/?ref=sfist.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closed down the Ferry Building<\/a> and impacted part of the Embarcadero.<\/p>\n<p>The initial outage map on Monday, seen below, showed a wide swath of the Mission District impacted. But a PG&amp;E spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/article\/power-outage-pge-22473892.php?ref=sfist.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the Chronicle<\/a>, &#8220;We were able to restore more than half of the affected customers almost immediately by switching them to an unaffected distribution line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pge-outage-map-10-12-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"724\"\/>Initial outage map from PG&amp;E via KRON4<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, PG&amp;E said that the outage was continuing to impact &#8220;2,950 remaining customers&#8221; as of 12:40 pm, with the impact appearing to be concentrated in Corona Heights\/Upper Market, several blocks of the Castro near Market Street, several blocks along Guerrero Street, and the 16th Street corridor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pge-outage-map-10-12-2.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"838\"\/>Outage map as of 12:40 pm, via PG&amp;E<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the outage remains unclear, however for part of the Castro around Market, Noe, and Sanchez streets, this is repeat of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/san-francisco-market-street-power-outage\/4108899\/?ref=sfist.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a similar outage that took days to repair<\/a> back in early July \u2014 impacting residents as well as bars that were trying to show World Cup matches.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a bad 12 months overall for PG&amp;E and its infrastructure in San Francisco, following that <a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2025\/12\/20\/massive-power-outage-in-san-francisco-leaves-65-000-customers-in\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">massive outage<\/a> the weekend before Christmas impacting half the city, which led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/bay-area\/thousands-to-lose-power-in-san-francisco-for-pge-repairs\/?ref=sfist.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">outages that went on for weeks<\/a> into the new year for certain neighborhoods. Around 7,000 PG&amp;E customers also <a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2026\/03\/20\/over-7-000-golden-gate-park-and-sunset-district-pg-e-customers-lose-power-friday\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost power during that March heatwave<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As today&#8217;s outage continued, PG&amp;E said, &#8220;[We]\u00a0have a troubleworker (PG&amp;E first responder) on scene making assessments and determining repairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Upwards of 6,600 PG&amp;E customers \u2014 representing well over 10,000 residents and businesses, if not closer to 20,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-494986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","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\/494986","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=494986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}