San Francisco Power Outage: Theories, Blame, and Underlying Causes
Power was largely restored to San Francisco Sunday following a widespread outage that affected 130,000 customers the previous day. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) reported approximately 17,000 customers still without power as of noon Sunday, with an estimated full restoration by 2 p.m. Monday. The outage, which was triggered by a fire at a substation, caused widespread disruptions, including transit delays and business closures, on a busy shopping day. PG&E is currently investigating the cause of the outage.
John Q. Hosedrinker