{"id":103610,"date":"2025-12-21T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/power-returning-across-san-francisco\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T11:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:00:58","slug":"power-returning-across-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/21\/power-returning-across-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Returning Across San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Update, 9:51 p.m. Saturday: <\/strong>PG&amp;E is restoring power for tens of thousands of households and businesses across San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PGE4Me\/status\/2002597756448198853\">video posted on X<\/a>, PG&amp;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.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>In an email, PG&amp;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.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-hour power outage caused large traffic jams in the city, with many stoplights out of service.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>MUNI service also resumed through the Central Subway, but transit officials said service through the Market St. Subway would remained closed through Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original article, 5:49 p.m. Saturday: <\/strong>Around 130,000 PG&amp;E residential and business customers are without power in San Francisco as of 5 p.m. on Saturday because of a widespread power outage.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in the Presidio, Sunset and Richmond districts are among those affected by the outage.<\/p>\n<p>The company said at around 5 p.m. that it had \u201cstabilized the grid\u201d and that additional outages are not expected.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/news\/2025\/12\/20\/pge-outage-leaves-130000-across-san-francisco-without-power\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update, 9:51 p.m. Saturday: PG&amp;E is restoring power for tens of thousands of households and businesses across San Francisco. As of 9:30 p.m. Saturday night,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}