Power Shutdown Northern California Power Outage

The widespread outage began sunday morning as customers in shasta tehama glenn colusa and lake counties reportedly became the first to lose power.

Power shutdown northern california power outage. Late last month pge cut power to more than 48000 northern california customers as a precaution in dry and windy conditions. Pge began shutting off power wednesday morning cutting off more than 500000 homes and businesses in northern california. Fierce diablo winds are expected to kick up in northern california this week bringing an increased fire risk to the burn scarred region and prompting pacific gas electric co. About 225000 customers were affected by 6.

Nov 16 2020 1039. The utility on sunday shut off power to 65000. The lights are back on for tens of thousands of northern californians following a public safety power shutoff pacific gas electric co. The utility turned off electricity for another 234000 in major cities.

It was the second consecutive public safety power shutoff in that week. Pacific gas electric began shutting off power in 34 california counties early wednesday oct. Nov 16 2020 1039 am pst updated. It would be the biggest power shutdown so far as utilities across the state attempt to reduce wildfire risk due to heavy wind.

Pacific gas electrics online map of public safety power shutoffs shows large clusters of outages in the northern sacramento valley and the northern sierra nevada foothills and a few elsewhere.