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2017 |
| Oct.11 |
PG&E believes downed power lines, blown transformers started deadly fires Napa:
2013 |
| Dec.10 |
Oakland natural gas fire out |
2010 |
| Sep.9 |
53 homes destroyed, 120 damaged in fire
Map of Skyline Boulevard and San Bruno Avenue San Bruno San Bruno: A fire is incinerating dozens of homes and killing at least one person, as it roared through a mostly residential neighborhood. At least one fatality. PG&E has acknowledged a company gas transmission lin... | |
2006 |
| Jun.16 |
3-Alarm Grass Fire Near PG&E Facility. San Mateo
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2005 |
| Sep.13 |
PG&E meter reader bitten by 2 pit bulls. Vallejo
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2010 |
| Feb.25 |
Safety concerns over PG&E SmartMeters Sebastopol: Some residents have questioned whether radio frequency radiation from the meters, which transmit the data, could threaten their health
| Feb.17 |
PG&E soil tests to force tenants to move
Map of Riverside Drive and Elm Street Napa Napa: Tenants of an apartment complex have six months to leave their homes before PG&E closes and bulldozes the buildings, looking for contaminated soil | |
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2015 |
| Dec.27 |
PG&E says 6,200 customers in Discovery Bay without gas The utility says an increase in the demand for gas due to cold temperatures resulted in a failure in the distribution system
2011 |
| Nov.10 |
PG&E pipeline in Palo Alto had corrosion
| Nov.4 |
Testing indicates small leak in pipeline |
| Sep.21 |
Repairs completed on broken gas main |
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2015 |
| Aug.29 |
PG&E will close all lanes of Highway 101
Burlingame: PG&E will close all lanes of on Sunday, at 9 p.m. until Monday, August 31, until 4 a.m. to restring and re-energize the power lines.
2010 |
| Apr.2 |
Peninsula 101 Shut: Seagulls Hit Wires. San Mateo
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2014 |
| Mar.12 |
PG&E restores power after outage along Highway 101 |
2012 |
| Jan.23 |
PG&E working to restore power S. of Market |
2011 |
| Dec.21 |
S.F., PG&E probe outages at 49ers game. SF City Hall
2010 |
| Jun.27 |
Equipment Failure Knocks Out Power. Pleasanton
| Jan.20 |
11,600 PG&E customers without power
2009 |
| Nov.9 |
Outage Hits 6,800 PG&E Customers. Daly City
| Sep.10 |
9,000 PG&E customers without power. Fremont
2008 |
| Apr.28 |
Brief Power Outage Strikes SF, Peninsula
| Jan.25 |
Storm Knocks Out Power To Thousands. Larkspur
| Jan.8 |
PG&E's blacked-out is 10-year record An estimated 1.9 million to 2.1 million customers lost electricity after the storm's howling winds and driving rain
2007 |
| Jun.25 |
24,000 PG&E customers without power. San Francisco
| Apr.21 |
2,400 residents experience power outage. Russian Hill
| Feb.9 |
Power outage at elementary school. Pinole
2006 |
| Dec.30 |
Power, Knocked Out By Winds, Restored. San Francisco
| Jul.26 |
Power Outages Persist In Bay Area
| Jul.23 |
25,746 PG&E customers in dark East Contra Costa: Temperatures soared to triple-digit levels and the power grid saw record energy consumption
| May.20 |
100's without power after vehicle crash. East Oakland
| Feb.27 |
30,000 PG&E customers in dark Daly City: Outages have also knocked out power to 11,000 in Pacifica, 9,800 in South SF, 5,900 in San Bruno
2005 |
| Sep.20 |
15,000 customers in dark after lighting. Livermore
| Jul.6 |
Power Outage Affects 8,800 Customers. Pittsburg
| Mar.26 |
25,000 out of power SF Downtown: A problem during the fire-fighting process at a PG&E substation has shut down 2 BART stations and Market st.
2004 |
| Nov.20 |
3,000 remained without power |
2003 |
| Dec.23 |
Delayed Response Worsened Outage PG&E says its delayed response to a circuit failure may have added to the severity of power outage
| Jan.20 |
7,500 people were without power |
2002 |
| May.22 |
27,570 customers lost power. El Cerrito
| Mar.1 |
5000 out of power |
2001 |
| Dec.2 |
Power Outages |
| Jan.17 |
Rolling Blackouts Start San Francisco: Stoplights went dark, store owners turned to pocket calculators, students were trapped on elevators
Gov. Gray Davis declared a state of emergency. The outages affected 400,000 customers for between 60 and 90 min. at a time. The blackouts lasted about 2 hours, ending at 1:40 p.m. PG&E defaulted on paying $76 million to holders of the a form of short-term debt
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2010 |
| Mar.17 |
PG&E Worker Electrocuted Benicia: 26-year-old Max Martinez was installing transformers with three other employees but was the only one inside a vault containing transformers
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2017 |
| Jun.20 |
Bay Area temperatures rise, and the power grid strains More stifling heat is expected to blanket the Bay Area in the coming days, raising the specter of additional power outages | |
2008 |
| Jan.27 |
Rain Keeps Coming; Power Outages
2005 |
| Dec.1 |
Winter storm caused power outages. San Rafael
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2015 |
| Sep.26 |
2 injured as PG&E transformer explodes in Bernal Heights
2014 |
| Aug.18 |
PG&E pleaded not guilty to new federal criminal charges
New federal criminal charges came out of the San Bruno gas pipeline explosion four years ago. The utility faces record fines, if convicted.
| Mar.27 |
PG&E expects criminal charges for deadly San Bruno blast
2012 |
| Feb.15 |
PG&E stops talks on fund for pipeline blast San Bruno: The city of San Bruno says PG&E has broken off settlement talks with the city about a compensation fund for a deadly gas pipeline explosion
2011 |
| Sep.2 |
NTSB investigating gas line explosion Cupertino: Federal investigators are looking into a gas line explosion at a condominium complex, one day after NTSB slammed PG&E
| Jun.8 |
NTSB: San Bruno pipe had prior leak PG&E admitted a pipeline involved in last year's San Bruno neighborhood explosion had experienced a leak in 1988
| Mar.9 |
San Bruno marks 6 months since explosion At exactly 6:11 p.m., San Bruno residents will gather to remember the victims of the deadly PG&E pipeline explosion
| Mar.1 |
PG&E memo said valves of little value PG&E acknowledged that 4 years before the accident they rejected installing valves that could have automatically shut off the flow of gas
| Jan.22 |
Report on blast cause finds weld defects. San Bruno
2010 |
| Oct.15 |
PG&E to turn over documents in blast
2005 |
| Sep.19 |
PG&E: Moisture Cause Of Explosion. SF Downtown
| Aug.19 |
Woman burned in underground explosion SF Downtown: The blast appeared to have come from a PG&E vault and was centered around the Crocker Galleria buckling the sidewalk | |
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2017 |
| Feb.19 |
Orinda mudslide could compromise transmission tower
Map of Highway 24 and Wilder Road Orinda Rain could make a landslide even worse in Orinda where a transmission tower is being threatened by a slide