Update, 9:51 p.m. Saturday: PG&E is restoring power for tens of thousands of households and businesses across San Francisco.
As of 9:30 p.m. Saturday night, the outage was affecting just over 40,000 customers, down from a high of 130,000 without power.
In a video posted on X, PG&E said crews were working from the substation on 8th and Mission to restore power. That substation was the site of a fire that the San Francisco Fire Department worked to extinguish Saturday evening.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
In an email, PG&E spokesperson Edgar Hopida said that power restoration would continue through the night, and warned it could stretch into the early morning hours on Sunday.
The multi-hour power outage caused large traffic jams in the city, with many stoplights out of service.
Transit systems were also impacted, but by 7:35 p.m. Saturday evening, BART said it had reopened both the Powell and Civic Center stations, and normal train service had resumed in all directions.
MUNI service also resumed through the Central Subway, but transit officials said service through the Market St. Subway would remained closed through Saturday evening.
Original article, 5:49 p.m. Saturday: Around 130,000 PG&E residential and business customers are without power in San Francisco as of 5 p.m. on Saturday because of a widespread power outage.
Residents in the Presidio, Sunset and Richmond districts are among those affected by the outage.
The company said at around 5 p.m. that it had “stabilized the grid” and that additional outages are not expected.
