PG&E Safely Restores Power to San Francisco, Thanks Customers for their Patience; Substation Scheduled for Modernization
April 21 2017 - 8:51PM
Business Wire
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has safely restored
power to all 88,000 customers impacted by a major power outage in
San Francisco today. The outage was caused by equipment failure at
the Larkin Substation.
The substation responsible for today’s outage is undergoing
already planned extensive upgrades over the next year. The $100
million project is scheduled to be completed by early 2018.
PG&E will replace and upgrade the existing infrastructure to
enhance electric reliability and increase capacity to meet future
power needs.
PG&E is grateful to the City of San Francisco, San Francisco
Fire Department, San Francisco Police Department, San Francisco
Department of Emergency Management and the San Francisco Municipal
Transportation Agency for their cooperation during this incident
and to its customers for their patience as it worked to make
repairs and restore power.
“I’d like to extend our apologies to this community and our
customers. We know it was very frustrating to have a power outage
of this magnitude. There was a significant equipment failure at our
substation, and we worked safely and as quickly as possible to
restore power to this great city,” said Barry Anderson, PG&E
vice president of Electric Distribution.
The equipment failure led to a brief fire at the substation
located at Larkin and Eddy Streets. PG&E crews, working with
the San Francisco Fire Department, responded quickly to the scene
and safely extinguished the fire. There were no injuries to the
public or PG&E employees.
Initial information suggests a circuit breaker failed, igniting
insulation, causing the fire at the substation. PG&E will
conduct a thorough investigation to determine the factors that led
to the equipment failure and subsequent power outage.
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E
Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas
and electric energy companies in the United States. Based in San
Francisco, with more than 20,000 employees, the company delivers
some of the nation’s cleanest energy to nearly 16 million people in
Northern and Central California. For more information, visit
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