PG&E is notifying tens of thousands of customers that it may shut off their power Monday due to potentially dry, windy conditions that will create an increased fire risk.
The utility announced Saturday that 44,000 customers in parts of 32 counties – including Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties – may lose electricity Monday. PG&E is sending these customers two-day notices. Seven tribes also may be affected.
According to PG&E, its meteorologists are monitoring a potential weather system that will bring dry, gusty offshore winds to parts of the northern, central and southern regions of the company’s service area beginning Monday morning. The weather system combined with extreme to exceptional drought and extremely dry vegetation, will pose an increased fire risk, PG&E said.
PG&E is notifying customers of the possible outage, described by the utility as a Public Safety Power Shutoff.
The potential Monday morning shutoffs could begin in portions of the North Valley, Sacramento, and San Joaquin Foothills. Potential shutoffs for the Northern Sierra Foothills, North Bay, North Coast regions, Bay Area hills and the Central Valley could begin Monday evening, depending on the timing of the wind event, the utility said.
Notifications via text, email and automated phone call began Saturday, the utility said.
Customers can also look up their address online to find out if their location is being monitored for the potential safety shutoff at pge.com/pspsupdates.
“Many counties will only have small portions of expected outages, some fewer than 100 customers,” the utility said in a news release. PG&E also noted that conditions could change.
Solano County is the Bay Area county with the most customers who could be affected by the outages, according to PG&E. In Solano County, 4,559 customers and 423 Medical Baseline customers could be affected.
In Napa County, 2,207 customers and 107 Medical Baseline customers could be affected. The utility said 601 customers and 40 Medical Baseline customers could be affected in Contra Costa County, while 134 customers and 10 Medical Baseline customers could be affected in Alameda County.
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This is NWO, WEF, green new deal, agenda 2030 Sustainable development in your face. This won’t get better. California deserves gavin
Here we go again.
They “may, might, possibly, slight chance” shut off power, then again they may not do crap..
Pge with a incident waiting to happen..or not.
So pg&e psps map says possible outrage for your are. Be look address look up says no planned outage for your areas. Generator ready always. What a joke of reliable power companies.
What???
Just in time for the baseball playoffs! Hopefully there aren’t any SF Giants fans in the shutoff areas.
I love how PG&E has taken a situation in which they were at fault and turns it into punishment for their customers. Really beautifully done, if you are a fan of corporate monopoly power.
But how am I going to charge my electric car to get to work? (Sarcasm)
That’s fine. Rather the power shut off then be up in smoke.
Useful idiots are the main weapon of communists. They are also the first to be gotten rid of. You will one day realize who you are supporting. As soon as you do, off to the gulag.
Oh, the problem is you have already been burned….
Those crooks over at PG&E have it pretty sweet.
They run the place like a whore house.
Then the SHTF they get fined, pay the fine, up their charges and reduce service.
They go bankrupt every few years.
Give the exec’s huge bonuses to stay saying the very same people who caused the bankruptcy are the ONLY people who can fix it.
Then they up the rates and reduce services.
Great scam, and we taxpayer and rate payers pay for everything.
Newsom just signed into law AB-1346 .Outlawing _ALL_ new generators, chainsaws, weed wackers, lawn mowers and water fire pumps and anything that uses fossil fuels. Hope PG&E doesn’t plan on shutting off the power in the future. What a S-Show.
Good thing there are Home Depots and Lowes in Nevada.
Newsom is such a greasy, slimeball idiot.
@Ray, yes, and based off data collected from 2020, which, I would questions intensely, as we know these types select data that support their narrative/goal. Now, they are regulating the SOREs because of ROGs (these legislator/regulators love their little acronyms – in this case, small off road engine and reactive organic gases). I get a kick out of banning carbon fueled generators, which many are used when there is no electricity, an apparently seasonal occurrence in this state. Add to that, this s-show state is now funding/providing feminine hygiene products (how long until the trans complain that these are “feminine”) in schools and our legislators also are busy-bodying themselves in now store aisle management, mandating, yes mandating, stores have gender neutral store aisles. At what point do we once free people say enough is enough….
The map of projected outages is at https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outages/map/?type=forecasted
If you live near Marsh Creek Road southeast of Clayton you may be affected.
Goooo A’s
What a bunch of!!!! What about the people who can’t afford generators. How do we keep our food from spoiling. We live paycheck to paycheck. We cant go out and buy non perishables because we’ve already spent our grocery money on good for the week, why are we being punished just because the big wigs need to make their big bucks.
PGE is ridiculous and completely incompetent. We are the 5th largest economy in the world and we are not able to provide power during a weather event with high winds and low humidity. Ridiculous!
Do not blame PG&E!
It is those Eco-terrorist and liberal progressives that is not only fomenting anger but driving the baselines complaining!
Actually, as one who is very familiar with the situation but does not speak as an employee or representative of PG&E.
You can blame pg&e for being onboard with the “WOKE ” agenda. Plenty on Unskilled employees causing the skilled workers to go back and do every job twice.
But hey, as long as the corporation can pat itself on the back about how “diverse” it is….
@Anon..I have heard the same description, not in relation to PG&E, but other companies/agencies where this kind of technical labor is required, where, because of unskilled employees (either here illegally or hired because of much lower pay) not effectively installing/repairing what is needed, a skilled has to then go out and correct, usually at 2x the cost.
And the weather forecasters are calling for “GAIL” Force Wind warnings!?? I thought Gail Warnings were for winds over 50MPH.
More Henny Penny behavior. The Sky is not Falling!
i also had to spend money on groceries milk etc just for it to go bad since my family doesnt contribute. now 2 whole gallons of milk are gonna go bad
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How will we charge our Tesla?
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Enough already. So are they going to refund monies for the times the power is turned off for the inconvenience????????
Newsom being in bed with PG&E (quite funny as for once not in bed with a human like his wife’s best friend) just continues to show his true colors… The color of money in his own pockets.
And they signed legislation to ban generators!
There are over 39 million people and counting in California. That means that roughly 30 million plus people drive gasoline engine cars in this state, albeit a certain number of electric vehicles. So Newsom now thinks he can save the environment by banning small gasoline motors which doesn’t even compare to the pollution caused by all the cars, trucks,buildings, fires and industrial smog. Newsom and his voters are whacked….
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