Power restored to most in San Francisco after massive outage

SAN FRANCISCO -- Power was restored Sunday greeting to the bulk of the 130,000 homes and businesses successful San Francisco impacted by a monolithic outage connected Saturday that caused large disruptions successful the city.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s outage representation showed much than 20,000 customers inactive remained without energy arsenic of 5 a.m. PST, portion crews worked to afloat reconstruct service.

The outage, which occurred soon aft 1 p.m. connected Saturday, near a ample swath of the bluish portion of the metropolis without powerfulness that began to turn successful size. At its peak, the outage represented astir one-third of the inferior company's customers successful the city.

Social media posts and section media reported wide closures of restaurants and shops and darkened thoroughfare lights and Christmas decorations connected Saturday, 1 of the busiest buying days of the year.

The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management said connected X determination were "significant transit disruptions" happening citywide and urged residents to debar nonessential question and dainty down postulation signals arsenic four-way stops. Waymo, the relation of driverless ride-hailing vehicles, suspended its services. At slightest 1 video posted connected societal media appeared to amusement a Waymo conveyance stopped successful the mediate of an intersection.

Some of the blackouts were caused by a occurrence that broke retired wrong a PG&E substation astatine 8th and Mission streets, occurrence officials posted connected X astatine astir 3:15 p.m. The afloat origin remained nether investigation.

At astir 4 p.m.., PG&E posted connected X that it had stabilized the grid and nary further outages were expected.