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PG&E Restores Power After Massive Outage, but Can We Ever Depend on Them To Keep the Lights On?
PG&E had restored power to all but 7,387 Bay Area customers just before noon Tuesday. That number is fairly impressive when you consider that about 140,000 customers across the region were without power at a single point Sunday afternoon. PG&E spokesman Jason King said Monday that somewhere around 646,000 Bay
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PG&E Power Shut-Off Season Is Back
It’s the tail end of September, and you know what that means — PG&E is shutting off power for thousands of California customers. About 14,000 customers in the East Bay lost their power on Sunday, and things will only get worse and more widespread on Monday, as the utility company
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The Fun Things To Do On Alameda Island
We got to the East Bay in 20 minutes & never worried about traffic, a bridge toll, parking…or any other hassle. Our only concern was drinking in the beautiful views on the SF Bay Ferry.
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PG&E Forced To Sell SF Headquarters To Pay Back Customers
The PG&E building at 245 Market Street will not be a PG&E building much longer. The bankrupt and beleaguered Pacific Gas & Electric Co. announced Monday morning that they were selling off their San Francisco headquarters for $800 million according to the Chronicle. That sounds like a nice deal for
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Bay Area Braces for Wet and Wild Winter Storm
The storm brewing overhead will deliver desperately needed rain throughout the region, but it unfortunately comes in the form of an atmospheric river that will create as much damage as it does benefit. The winter rainstorm quickly descending on the Bay Area has prompted widespread evacuations in the Santa Cruz
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The Areas & Times Effected by PG&E Power Outages & Why
If you do not have power this morning, it may be because a) you forgot to pay your bill or, b) you’re part of PG&E’s Public Safety Power Shutoff Program. Which seems a bit chaotic, but that’s mostly because PG&E isn’t taking any chances with causing any more wildfires. They
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The Power Apocalypse is About to Hit the Bay Area
Update, 1:50 p.m.: PG&E tortures residents by postponing the scheduled shutoff in many East Bay cities until 8 p.m. Wednesday evening. A bunch of kids woke up today in parts of Northern California thrilled that schools were closed, that is until they realized their phones won’t charge and microwaves can’t
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Berkeley Bans Natural Gas Buildings
The city of Berkeley made a bold move at Tuesday’s City Council meeting by banning natural gas pipes in future building developments. The legislation makes the East Bay city the first in the state to pass such a strong anti-natural gas policy. There will of course be exceptions to the
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Doing Away With Private Utilities Is a Matter of Life and Death
By Ryan Smith The toll of this year’s wildfires is the second in as many years to break entirely too many state records, increasing the call to hold private utility companies like Pacific Gas & Electric to the flames of their own making. When the last embers cooled there was