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San Francisco Power Outage Hits 130,000 as PG&E Stabilizes Grid, Works to Restore Service

A substation fire contributed to the blackout, prompting officials to urge residents to stay home.

Overview

  • Roughly 130,000 PG&E customers lost power across San Francisco after outages that started in the west early Saturday.
  • PG&E said the grid is stabilized and it does not expect further losses, yet it has offered no firm estimate for full restoration.
  • A fire inside a PG&E substation was cited by a fire department official as a cause of part of the blackout.
  • Transit and traffic were snarled, with darkened signals and BART trains temporarily skipping downtown stations.
  • Waymo suspended its driverless service during the outage as Mayor Daniel Lurie urged residents to stay off the roads.