Over 20,700 utility customers in San Francisco are still in the dark after a massive outage on Saturday left homes and businesses without power. <\/p>\n
The significant outage began impacting the city at around 1:09 p.m. Saturday and reached its peak two hours later with 130,000 homes and businesses affected, according to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. PG&E restored power to around 95,000 customers by 11 p.m. Saturday night. <\/p>\n
On Sunday, the bulk of the outages appeared to be in the heavily residential Richmond District, sandwiched between Golden Gate Park on the south and the Presidio on the north.<\/p>\n
The cause of the outage was not immediately clear on Sunday. The outage represents roughly one-third of the utility company\u2019s customers in the city.<\/p>\n
Social media posts and local media reported mass closures of restaurants and shops and darkened street lights and Christmas decorations.<\/p>\n
The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management said on X there were \u201csignificant transit disruptions\u201d happening citywide and urged residents to avoid nonessential travel and treat down traffic signals as four-way stops.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s transportation agencies said they were bypassing some Muni bus and BART train stations because of the power outages.<\/p>\n
At least some of the blackouts were caused by a fire that broke out inside a PG&E substation at 8th and Mission streets, fire officials posted on X at about 3:15 p.m.<\/p>\n
PG&E said that it has stabilized the power grid and is not expecting additional outages. <\/p>\n
“We have crews on scene and will share more information as it becomes available,” the electric company said Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 20,700 utility customers in San Francisco are still in the dark after a massive outage on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-362168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}