San Francisco · 2026-10-09
San Francisco lists 40 big blackouts since December and wants a public probe
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The city's Oct. 8 letter to state regulators also objects to PG&E's plan to sell Substation I, a SoMa property.
San Francisco leaders say the city has had 40 large-scale blackouts, each affecting more than 1,000 customers, since the Dec. 20 outage. That is nearly one a week, according to their letter to the California Public Utilities Commission. More than 25% hit the west side, where December's blackout lasted longest.
Sources and notes
- There have been 40 PG&E blackouts since December’s disaster. The city is pissed · The San Francisco Standard
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