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http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Keep-EVs-charged-N-CA-Counties-power-shutoff-warning-Butte-El-Dorado-Nevada-Placer-Sutter-Yuba-v-tp4695144.html ] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Live-updates-PG-E-again-delays-Bay-Area-outages-14505854.php Live updates: PG&E CEO admits company ‘was not adequately prepared’ for mass outages Oct. 11, 2019 Lauren Hernández, Rachel Swan, Alejandro Serrano &Anna Bauman [image / Sarahbeth Maney https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/06/16/14/18408246/5/gallery_xlarge.jpg Whole Foods employees load perishable food items into refrigerated trucks outside of Whole Foods Market in Lafayette on Wednesday ] These are developments on the PG&E shut-off, up to 11:34 p.m. Thursday. Click here to see the most recent updates. 11:34 p.m. Power restored to some Contra Costa County cities: PG&E crews restored power to portions of Kensington, Pinole and El Sobrante Thursday night, according to county Supervisor John Gioia. Additional power restorations were expected to occur on a “rolling basis,” Gioia said. 10:56 p.m. PG&E releases restoration percentages for Bay Area counties: PG&E officials released a list of the percentage of customer accounts with restored power in each Bay Area county. • Alameda: 78% restored • Contra Costa: 85% restored • Marin: 80% restored • Napa: 59% restored • San Mateo: 84% restored • Santa Clara: 88% restored • Solano: 94% restored • Sonoma: 46% restored 10:40 p.m. PG&E restores power to 58% of customer accounts: Roughly 426,000 out of a total 738,000 customers had their power restored by late Thursday night, including full restoration in Humboldt, Siskiyou and Trinity counties, according to PG&E officials. Roughly 312,000 customers remain without power, utility officials said. As of 10 p.m. Thursday, PG&E officials said its crews found 11 instances of “Weather-related damage to its system in the PSPS-impacted areas.” 10:18 p.m. Oakland Unified School District schools to open on Friday: All schools in Oakland Unified School District are scheduled to be open on Friday, according to school district officials. 9:50 p.m. Pacific Gas & Electric crews work to restore power to Palo Alto foothills: PG&E crews were working to restore power to the Palo Alto foothills soon after a red flag warning was lifted in the region, according to Palo Alto city officials. Crews did not find any issues with Palo Alto utility equipment, officials said. 8:31 p.m. Less than 3,000 customers in Alameda County awaiting power restoration: Approximately 2,936 customers in Alameda County were still without power Thursday night, according to the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. The “majority” of Alameda County cities should expect to see power restored. As for Castro Valley customers, sheriff’s officials said, “We are sorry but you may have to wait a bit longer. Keep you posted.” 8:23 p.m. UC Berkeley cancels classes: UC Berkeley called off classes scheduled for Friday. University officials advised students, faculty and staff to refrain from visiting campus. Campus buildings will be locked, officials said. 8:20 p.m. Lake County expects 98% of power will be restored by 11 p.m. Friday: Pacific Gas & Electric officials said 98% of power to be restored in Lake County by 11 p.m. on Friday, according to the Lakeport Police Department. 7:59 p.m. Power restored to Sonoma State University: Crews with the university’s facilities team inspected campus equipment after power was restored to ensure that all services were functioning properly. While the university’s internet and network services were functioning Thursday night, university officials said all campus activities remain canceled through Saturday. The campus will be open to normal operations on Sunday. 7:53 p.m. Power in Fremont restored: Fremont Police Department announced that it confirmed power was restored to the city of Fremont “a short time ago” Thursday. Officials thanked residents for being patient over the course of the outage, saying, “We know this was stressful and you have all been through a lot this week. We hope you all have a relaxing weekend!” 7:47 p.m. Sonoma County warns residents of surges when power is restored: Officials advised residents to turn off or unplug any appliances that were on when the power went out — such as air conditioners, refrigerators, washers and furnaces — to prevent any electrical surges when power is restored. Surges can damage equipment like computers and motors in home appliances, officials said. 7:28 p.m. Sonoma County expects 98% of power will be restored by 11 p.m. Friday: Twenty-one of 39 traffic signals that went dark in Santa Rosa during the outage were back in service Thursday night, according to city officials. They said power was gradually sweeping through the dark city. Two of the four fire stations that have been without power were restored Thursday night, according to the Santa Rosa Fire Department. 7:10 p.m. West Contra Costa Unified School District to reopen 5 schools Friday: With power restored to five campuses affected by the blackouts, West Contra Costa Unified School District announced that all of its school will be open and running on a normal schedule Friday. 6:59 p.m. Eleven percent of power is back in Alameda County, with no timeline for full restoration: Oakland city officials said Thursday night that they were waiting for the utility to finish inspections and repairs, and did not know definitively when all the power would come back. 6:44 p.m. PG&E’s chief customer officer apologizes for utility’s communication failures: “This is a difficult day to be the chief customer officer,” Laurie Giammona told reporters at PG&E’s Beale Street headquarters. Acknowledging that communication channels had become “fragile and unstable at times” during the blackouts, she made a pledge: “We accept it, we own it, we will do better.” 6:40 p.m. San Jose anticipates 99 percent blackout recovery by Friday: The city expected that 99 percent of account-holders who lost their electricity would get it back by Friday, with no specified time. 6:37 p.m. Contra Costa expects power to be fully restored by Friday evening: The county anticipated that its residents and businesses would have electricity running by Friday at 6 p.m., according to PG&E. 6:21 p.m. PG&E says it wasn’t well prepared for mass outage: PG&E CEO Johnson admits the company did not communicate well and “was not adequately prepared” for a power outage this large. 6:19 p.m. PG&E says it has found damaged equipment: VP Sumeet Singh says PG&E has already found “multiple cases” of damage since inspecting equipment it shut off, including fallen branches onto power lines that could have started a fire. 6:12 p.m. PG&E CEO says blackouts can happen again: At San Francisco’s headquarters, PG&E CEO Bill Johnson acknowledges his company put “millions of people” without a “fundamental service they expect and deserve... This is not how we want to serve you,” he says. 5:41 p.m. All of the affected 34 counties cleared for restoration: PG&E said it is now working to check electrical lines and equipment of all 34 counties affected by the mass outage. All but Yuba County got “all clears” for the work to begin. Yuba got a partial clearance. Once lines and equipment are deemed safe, power can be restored, a process that can take hours to days, the utility has said. 5:36 p.m. Governor lambastes PG&E for “greed and mismanagement”: Speaking to reporters at the Office of Emergency Services in Mather, Gov. Gavin Newsom accused California’s investor-owned utility of putting profit ahead of public safety. “This is not from my perspective a climate change story as much as a story about greed and mismanagement over the course of decades,” he said. 5 p.m. PG&E clears 12 counties for restoration: First, workers must inspect electrical lines and equipment. Once workers determine the lines and equipment are safe, they can restore power. The process can take hours depending on how much needs checking. The utility said it has 6,300 field personnel and 45 helicopters doing this work. These are the 12 counties: Alpine Amador Calaveras Mariposa El Dorado Placer San Joaquin San Mateo Tuolumne Stanislaus Santa Cruz Santa Clara 4:52 p.m. Red-flag warnings end at 5 p.m.: As high winds die down around the Bay Area, the National Weather Service is ending its red flag warning Thursday at 5 p.m. 4:45 p.m. Power coming back on in Lafayette: The winds have softened and PG&E has started restoring power, an advisory from Lafayette Police Department said. But it didn’t give concrete times or specific locations, noting that the process could take anywhere from one to five days, depending on inspections. 4:42 p.m. PG&E releases updated blackout numbers: The utility said a total of 726,000 account-holders were affected by the shut-offs. 4:38 p.m. Lights come on in Kensington: Several businesses reported their power was back on Thursday afternoon, the Kensington Police Department said. 4:27 p.m. Restoration begins in Richmond: Officials posted a tweet saying power is coming back on in affected communities. 4:13 p.m. Service restoration begins in Moraga: The extreme weather has passed, said an alert sent by Moraga Police Department. PG&E has begun restoring power in the central Contra Costa town. 3:50 p.m. Transformer explodes in San Anselmo: A branch fell into the wire at 2:53 p.m., causing it catch fire and leaving 4,242 PG&E customers on the border of San Anselmo and Fairfax without power, according to Jake Peterson, acting battalion chief for the Ross Valley Fire Department. Alerts from the utility said that two elementary schools, Brookside and Hidden Valley, went dark. The incident appears to be unrelated to the power shut-offs. 3:02 p.m. Alameda County cleared for power line inspections: PG&E crews have been cleared to begin inspecting power lines in Alameda County to restore power. However, many customers could be without through the night or longer. 2:54 p.m. Moraga fire 100% contained: All residents who were evacuated were allowed to return to their homes and the fire was 100% contained by 11:15 a.m. Firefighters were patrolling the area and the cause remains under investigation. “The winds have died down significantly,” said Dennis Rein, fire information officer for the Moraga Orinda Fire District. 2:50 p.m. PG&E issues all-clear for certain counties: The company will start inspecting power lines in 14 counties to begin restoring power. Santa Clara County where 38,250 customers had power cut, got the all-clear to begin inspections. San Mateo, where 14,766 customers were affected, received a partial clearance. 1:53 p.m. San Bruno Mountain fire 60% contained: The Northern California Fire Authority reports that the fire in Brisbane has burned 11 acres and reached 60% containment. 1:50 p.m. UC Berkeley will open Friday if power is restored: The university said it assumes power will be restored Friday. If that is the case, classes and normal operations will resume. The decision will be made when power turns back on. 1:36 p.m. PG&E to assess impact of Brisbane fire on power lines: The Brisbane fire sparked in an area with low fire risk, PG&E officials said. The power lines, which were directly above the flames on San Bruno Hill, were not affected by the shut-off. PG&E crews are at the active fire scene and will assess the infrastructure when it is safe. 1:30 p.m. Unexpected outage hits Caltrain’s Morgan Hill Station: The Morgan Hill Station lost power at 7:30 a.m. due to the PG&E shut-off and it has not yet been restored. PG&E originally said Caltrain would not be affected by the blackout. Normal rail operations will continue and staff will have battery-powered Clipper card readers if riders prefer not to purchase a paper ticket. 1:16 p.m. Firefighters gain ground on San Bruno Mountain fire: The 5-acre blaze is 50% contained and isn’t expected to spread further, city officials said. No structures were endangered, said Clyde Preston, a spokesman for the North County Fire Authority 1:07 p.m. Brisbane fire 40% contained: The fire on San Bruno Mountain in Brisbane has been 40% contained, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. Voluntary evacuations have been lifted. 1:02 p.m. Alameda County restoration delayed: Initiation of power restoration has been delayed from noon to 2 p.m. in Alameda County, according to the sheriff’s office. Officials say the process will take one to five days. 12:41 p.m. Berkeley clarifies Tweet confusion: In response to a flood of Twitter outrage, the city clarified that it deployed many resources and sent dozens of staff out to check on customers with medical needs. An earlier tweet from the city said that people with power-dependent medical needs should use their own resources to get to an unaffected area, or call 911 to be transported to the ER, triggering hundreds of angry replies. Many of the tweets came from non-residents, said Matthai Chakko, the city’s spokesman. “We’re less concerned with what people say about us on Twitter than we are with the actions we take to help people,” Chakko said. 12:38 p.m. Firefighters containing San Bruno Mountain fire: A tweet by the city of Brisbane noted that the fire is 30% contained and has burned 5 acres. The blaze is not expected to grow beyond that size, officials said. 12:24 p.m. No injuries reported in San Bruno Mountain fire: An earlier tweet by the North County Fire Authority showed a helicopter responding and noted no injuries. The tweet said the fire was reported at 4 acres, but it is believed to have grown since that time. 12:21 p.m. Voluntary evacuations for San Bruno Mountain fire: Officials overseeing the response to the vegetation fire in Brisbane issued voluntary evacuations for Humboldt Road, Kings Road, Margaret Avenue, Paul Avenue and San Mateo Lane in Brisbane. 12:10 p.m. Brisbane officials to hold news conference: An official for the city’s Fire Department said more information about the San Bruno Mountain fire will be released at a news conference at City Hall. No time was given for the news conference. 11:59 a.m. San Bruno Mountain fire spreads under power lines. The fire started in Guadalupe Canyon in Brisbane, according to the Northern California Fire District. Police and firefighters were at the scene after the blaze began to spread under Jefferson Martin power lines. People were advised to avoid the area where hand and air crews are extinguishing the fire. Mandatory evacuations had not been ordered as of 11:50 a.m., and no part of South San Francisco is in danger, officials said. 11:53 a.m. WeWork opens five Bay Area co-working offices to residents who need power: The company said free power, internet and work spaces are available during normal working hours to people affected by the shut-offs at: 1900 Powell St. in Emeryville; 75 E. Santa Clara St. in San Jose; and 50-60 Francisco St., 995 Market St. and 1460 Mission St. in San Francisco. For more information, email powe...@wework.com. [© sfchronicle.com] https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/wildfire/pollock-pines-dies-after-pge-power-shutdown/103-028cec66-4d01-4578-ae90-80b564a3e70e PG&E power shutdown did not kill Pollock Pines man, El Dorado Coroner says According to his family, Robert Joseph Mardis relied on the use of several electric machines to treat the progressive breathing disease. October 11, 2019 + https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/12/how-pges-power-shutdown-threatened-a-nasa-mission/ How PG&E’s power shutdown threatened a NASA mission October 12, 2019 Sometimes you only get a box of band aids and rubberbands. That was the case here.” ... “Overall ... pushing a shopping cart stuffed with $1,000 worth of electrical cords for a $175 million satellite ... https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ICON.jpg For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
