SAN FRANCISCO--(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
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