{"id":495502,"date":"2026-10-14T06:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495502\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T06:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:14:15","slug":"pge-power-shutoffs-possible-across-bay-area-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495502\/","title":{"rendered":"PG&#038;E power shutoffs possible across Bay Area counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mtyji7jksikh4pzf.jpg\" alt=\"PGE employs AI for fire weather forecasting\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/mtyji7jksikh4pzf.jpg\" alt=\"PGE employs AI for fire weather forecasting\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-fab1b86c=\"\"\/>   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/video\/fmc-b82f7xdmwfsnezee\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PGE employs AI for fire weather forecasting<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-892ef6a8=\"\">PG&amp;E has begun using artificial intelligence to stay ahead of potential fires. The power company&#8217;s machine learning model will help determine if planned power shut-offs will be necessary to prevent wildfires this summer.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/organization\/pge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pacific Gas and Electric<\/a> could shut off power in parts of the Bay Area over the next several days due to forecast offshore winds and warm, dry conditions.<\/p>\n<p>   Potential power shutoffs across Bay Area counties <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">PG&amp;E said power shutoffs could occur Wednesday through Saturday in parts of Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">The potential outages are tied to elevated fire weather conditions expected in some areas of the utility\u2019s service territory.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Offshore winds are expected to continue as a weather system stalls over Southern California. Winds are forecast to peak Thursday in Northern California and Friday in Southern California before the system moves out Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> How to check for a potential outage <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">PG&amp;E customers can find out whether their address could be affected up to two days before a potential shutoff.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Customers can enter their service address <a href=\"https:\/\/pgealerts.alerts.pge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here <\/a>to check their status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story is based on a PG&amp;E Public Safety Power Shutoff notification and the utility\u2019s seven-day forecast.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/organization\/pge\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PG&amp;E<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PGE employs AI for fire weather forecasting PG&amp;E has begun using artificial intelligence to stay ahead of potential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[100,143,145,144,1768,3604,19],"class_list":["post-495502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-organization","tag-pge","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495502","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=495502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}