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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A huge storm system hit the Bay Area this past weekend, leaving many across the 9 counties without power. At its peak, an estimated 1.5 million customers were without electricity statewide, marking the third-largest single-day outage in PG&E’s history. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED’s Dan Brekke tells us why this storm was so bad, what about our infrastructure is lacking, and how we can be better prepared for more storms like this one going forward.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC2662180444&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Hi, I’m Alan Montecillo, in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. And welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Bay Area residents are picking up the pieces after a weekend full of rain and very strong winds. At least three people died in Northern California as a result of the storms, and more than a million people lost power. Some people, like Ashley in South San Francisco, haven’t had power for days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ashley: \u003c/strong>Our power has been out for the past 48 hours, to the point where I’m glad that my grandma is in the hospital so that she wouldn’t be in a cold, dark house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Others, like Eric near Point Reyes, are lucky to be alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eric: \u003c/strong>We were sitting in the living room and heard the trees wailing around, and suddenly it just started to get really intense. Looked out the window and watched the 60 foot cypress tree fall onto our house. Everybody screaming. Everybody yelling. I mean, we were so lucky. Another couple feeding a different direction and we’d be having a very different conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Today. I talked with KQED s Dan Brekke about what made this storm so strong, and what we can do to prevent power outages of this scale in the future. How bad were the storms this past weekend?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>So what we saw Saturday evening and all day Sunday was a very special kind of storm. It built up very quickly and moved through relatively rapidly compared to the forecasts. This storm underperformed in terms of the rain it dropped, but the winds were something else because this was such a rapidly developing storm and became so strong so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>It was very, very windy. And so we saw winds that you might see once or twice a generation. There were a couple spots in Marin County, for instance. One was recorded with a 102 mile an hour wind gust. Another close by had 99 miles an hour. That was a really spectacular instance of Pacific storms rolling into California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So rain wasn’t as bad as we feared, at least in the Bay area, but winds were super strong. How much of that has to do with climate change?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>You know, it’s really hard to say about any particular storm, what the specific contribution of global warming or climate change is. There is a scientific consensus that changing climatic conditions are making severe storms of this nature more likely. But this was a really remarkable storm. I mean, I haven’t used the term yet, but it’s what’s called a bomb cyclone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>That’s a term that Norwegian meteorologists came up with during World War two to describe a rapidly developing low pressure center, a storm that seemingly comes out of nowhere and can have really high winds and other severe effects. And that’s what we had off the coast here. A very rapidly developing storm that is very unusual and according to the National Weather Service, was the strongest storm we’ve had off the California coast in 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What kind of damage did these winds cause? Like, what is the range of things that you’ve seen or that that we’ve, we’ve heard reported so far?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>Well, the number one thing is lots of trees down. You know, there’s no precise count, but it’s safe to say thousands of trees went down. So what happens when a tree falls? I mean, it may block a road. It may fall on a car and injure somebody, or worse, it may fall on a house and cause major damage. It may take down power lines. There was some flooding that went along with the storm, even though, as I said, in most places, the rain was not as much as forecast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>But since the soil here is so saturated, all the water that was falling from the sky wound up as runoff and going into creeks and rivers, which which rose very quickly and caused some some flooding. And when you hear about power lines down, well, you know, it’s one thing when it happens in your neighborhood. But this was happening all across Northern California and Central California over most of PG and E’s 70,000 square mile service territory. So this was the really big impact from this storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What did that damage look like in the Bay area? Like what parts of our region were hit the hardest?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>It looks like there were, two main zones of of damage. If you judge by power outages, one was in the South Bay and the peninsula. San Mateo County in Santa Clara County had lots of trees down, lots of wires down, and lots of people in the dark because they lost their power. And then the other place was the North Bay. Mostly Sonoma County, but, also Marin and Napa County had unusual numbers of, people without power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>But, you know, once I say that, I mean, I’m thinking, you know, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen the number of customers, PGA customers who went without power in places like Alameda County, in Contra Costa County, you know, 20, 30, 40,000 people out at one time on Sunday night. So it was pretty widely distributed. But those were the two places that really stood out North and South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>At its peak. How many people in the Bay area lost power?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>You know, the largest number I saw at one time was close to half a million customers. But, you know, that was just a snapshot in time. And PGE is actually still counting up the numbers. You know, I talked to PGA spokesperson Jeff Smith, who’s based in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Smith: \u003c/strong>You know, we’re working really, really hard to get as many customers restored as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>He gave me some numbers at midday on Monday, and he was saying that 900,000 customers have been restored, which is a huge number, and 400,000 across the state were still out. And so I added those numbers together and asked him, so we’re talking 1.3 million. And he said, yes, that’s right. But what does customer mean? Well, customers are mostly households. When you look at a number like 1.3 million customers out, that means maybe close to 4 million people were in the dark at some point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>And in the Bay area, at least a million people working these numbers a little further, about one inch for PG and E customers throughout the state. And maybe 1 in 10 Californians suffered a power outage sometime during that storm through midday on Monday. And then I asked, so where does this rank and in PGA history? And he had an interesting answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Smith: \u003c/strong>Right now it is the third biggest single storm in PGA history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>Now that goes back to the early 20th century more than 100 years ago. I think PGA e probably is at the point where they’ve reconnected most of the people who were easy to connect. And Smith said, you know, when you’re going out to restore power, sometimes you can restring a line or, you know, you get a tree out of the way and restore the line and you’ll reconnect 2000 people at once. But he said, a lot of places, you know, that are more remote. Doing the same thing may only reconnect two customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Smith: \u003c/strong>And so there’s just a lot of outages. And sometimes there are there are extensive repairs that take multiple hours. And you only bring back a handful of customers, once that returns May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Coming up. What we know and don’t know about why there were so many power outages across the Bay area. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So we’ve been talking about why these storms were so strong, why the winds were so high, why we got so much rain. But let’s talk more about power outages specifically. Why were there so many power outages, Dan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>I think the main reason there were outages distributed over such a wide area is that we had such prolonged high winds. They started to ramp up on Saturday night and then all day Sunday until early Monday morning hours. Really. You saw the same thing distributed over a huge area of sustained winds, maybe in the 30 to 40 mile an hour range and then gusts up to 60, 70, 80, 90 miles an hour. So I think that’s really the main explanation. Now, there are parts of this that we still don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>For instance, PGA is known to have a backlog of power poles that it needs to replace. So how many locations do we have where power poles might might have failed because they were old and needed to be replaced? We don’t know. How many places did some other infrastructure that maybe should have been hardened or better maintained failed? We don’t know that yet. So this will all probably come to light because the utility is required to file a report with the California Public Utilities Commission on any major outage. And of course, this is perhaps the biggest outage they’ve ever had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I want to drill down to that a little more like what is PPG and his role here? How should we be thinking about this utility in the context of these massive power outages? Because, you know, almost all of us get our power from this utility. We all rely on it. You know, we don’t have to rehash our state’s troubled history with PGE, but what is what is the role here, you think?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>Well, you know, that’s a really huge question. And people are thinking and talking about that a lot right now for reasons other than a big power outage. What’s happening with PGA right now across the state is people are seeing very high energy bills and of course, in much of California. And I’m really talking about northern and central California. PGA is the only game in town if you want electricity. So when something goes wrong, all fingers I think rightly point to PGA for explanations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>So in the past we’ve seen, you know, proposals to try to do more, to, ensure that PGA is doing all the things it needs to do to make sure that the power system is both safe and reliable. It’s a hard industry to regulate, and I think the California Public Utilities Commission and the legislature have both struggled and some would say have failed to do it effectively because PGA has a history of problems. We just happened to go through a year, 2023 where PGA did not start a major fire. But that’s exceptional, right. And its performance in in times like this, when there’s severe winter weather is something that people will continue to scrutinize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>How can we be better prepared then. So we don’t have as many power outages next time there are heavy winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>So I think there are a couple things people look at when they think about making the power system more reliable. I mean, of course, one obvious thing is the best maintenance practices. So make sure that all your equipment is up to date and well-maintained. And Pgti has been very severely criticized for the condition of some of their infrastructure in the past, especially, for instance, in connection with something like the campfire. But beyond things like that, which, as I say, seem obvious, you know, I don’t want to make it sound simple. PGA has a vast network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>They have more than 100,000 miles of power lines, so that’s a complex task. But beyond that, I mean, people are talking about things like microgrids, for instance. Creating much smaller areas can be self-contained, like islands, essentially, where the power is generated and consumed within one small area and not dependent on what’s happening in the larger grid. You know, it’s hard to say that we’re going to see anything like that on a large scale. There are places where it’s working now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>There’s a little town up in Napa County called Angwin, which has its own little self-contained power island or power system. And PGA is actually played a role in setting that up. Those are the major things. But beyond that, I think what people really want to see is accountability from the regulators, the California Public Utilities Commission, and they want the legislature to actually do a better job of making sure that PGA and the CPUc are accountable for how the power utilities perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>And just to be fair to PGA, this is not just a question for them. There are big power utilities in Southern California. They’re called investor owned utilities. And they’ve had their own problems in the past. And they’re being looked at too, for the same kinds of things that PGA is the the sort of prices they’re charging and whether they’re operating efficiently enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Dan, as I said, we’re talking on Tuesday. People will hear this Wednesday. Hopefully a lot of the damage will have been fixed. But how long would it take before everyone’s power is back and, you know, damage from falling trees, whether it’s on your car or your home? How long would it take for those kind of fixes to be to be complete?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>I think in the case of PGD, most people will see their lights come back on in the next day or two. That’s still a long time to be out of power. There are some places that are remote where the damage to infrastructure is a little bit more complicated to fix or get at, and people there might be out for a week or two. We’ve seen this happen in the past. You know, in terms of, you know, the kinds of things that we see along the streets, tree trees down. 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This episode was cut down and edited by Dana Cronin. I added the tape in the music with production help from our intern, Ellie Prickett-Morgan. Music courtesy of NPR, First come music and Bluedot sessions. Special thanks to the team at KQED’s Forum, for Eric’s call that you heard at the top of the show. The Bay is a production of member supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Hi, I’m Alan Montecillo, in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. And welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Bay Area residents are picking up the pieces after a weekend full of rain and very strong winds. At least three people died in Northern California as a result of the storms, and more than a million people lost power. Some people, like Ashley in South San Francisco, haven’t had power for days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ashley: \u003c/strong>Our power has been out for the past 48 hours, to the point where I’m glad that my grandma is in the hospital so that she wouldn’t be in a cold, dark house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Others, like Eric near Point Reyes, are lucky to be alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eric: \u003c/strong>We were sitting in the living room and heard the trees wailing around, and suddenly it just started to get really intense. Looked out the window and watched the 60 foot cypress tree fall onto our house. Everybody screaming. Everybody yelling. I mean, we were so lucky. Another couple feeding a different direction and we’d be having a very different conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Today. I talked with KQED s Dan Brekke about what made this storm so strong, and what we can do to prevent power outages of this scale in the future. How bad were the storms this past weekend?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>So what we saw Saturday evening and all day Sunday was a very special kind of storm. It built up very quickly and moved through relatively rapidly compared to the forecasts. This storm underperformed in terms of the rain it dropped, but the winds were something else because this was such a rapidly developing storm and became so strong so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>It was very, very windy. And so we saw winds that you might see once or twice a generation. There were a couple spots in Marin County, for instance. One was recorded with a 102 mile an hour wind gust. Another close by had 99 miles an hour. That was a really spectacular instance of Pacific storms rolling into California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So rain wasn’t as bad as we feared, at least in the Bay area, but winds were super strong. How much of that has to do with climate change?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>You know, it’s really hard to say about any particular storm, what the specific contribution of global warming or climate change is. There is a scientific consensus that changing climatic conditions are making severe storms of this nature more likely. But this was a really remarkable storm. I mean, I haven’t used the term yet, but it’s what’s called a bomb cyclone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>That’s a term that Norwegian meteorologists came up with during World War two to describe a rapidly developing low pressure center, a storm that seemingly comes out of nowhere and can have really high winds and other severe effects. And that’s what we had off the coast here. A very rapidly developing storm that is very unusual and according to the National Weather Service, was the strongest storm we’ve had off the California coast in 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What kind of damage did these winds cause? Like, what is the range of things that you’ve seen or that that we’ve, we’ve heard reported so far?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>Well, the number one thing is lots of trees down. You know, there’s no precise count, but it’s safe to say thousands of trees went down. So what happens when a tree falls? I mean, it may block a road. It may fall on a car and injure somebody, or worse, it may fall on a house and cause major damage. It may take down power lines. There was some flooding that went along with the storm, even though, as I said, in most places, the rain was not as much as forecast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>But since the soil here is so saturated, all the water that was falling from the sky wound up as runoff and going into creeks and rivers, which which rose very quickly and caused some some flooding. And when you hear about power lines down, well, you know, it’s one thing when it happens in your neighborhood. But this was happening all across Northern California and Central California over most of PG and E’s 70,000 square mile service territory. So this was the really big impact from this storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What did that damage look like in the Bay area? Like what parts of our region were hit the hardest?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>It looks like there were, two main zones of of damage. If you judge by power outages, one was in the South Bay and the peninsula. San Mateo County in Santa Clara County had lots of trees down, lots of wires down, and lots of people in the dark because they lost their power. And then the other place was the North Bay. Mostly Sonoma County, but, also Marin and Napa County had unusual numbers of, people without power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>But, you know, once I say that, I mean, I’m thinking, you know, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen the number of customers, PGA customers who went without power in places like Alameda County, in Contra Costa County, you know, 20, 30, 40,000 people out at one time on Sunday night. So it was pretty widely distributed. But those were the two places that really stood out North and South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>At its peak. How many people in the Bay area lost power?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>You know, the largest number I saw at one time was close to half a million customers. But, you know, that was just a snapshot in time. And PGE is actually still counting up the numbers. You know, I talked to PGA spokesperson Jeff Smith, who’s based in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Smith: \u003c/strong>You know, we’re working really, really hard to get as many customers restored as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>He gave me some numbers at midday on Monday, and he was saying that 900,000 customers have been restored, which is a huge number, and 400,000 across the state were still out. And so I added those numbers together and asked him, so we’re talking 1.3 million. And he said, yes, that’s right. But what does customer mean? Well, customers are mostly households. When you look at a number like 1.3 million customers out, that means maybe close to 4 million people were in the dark at some point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>And in the Bay area, at least a million people working these numbers a little further, about one inch for PG and E customers throughout the state. And maybe 1 in 10 Californians suffered a power outage sometime during that storm through midday on Monday. And then I asked, so where does this rank and in PGA history? And he had an interesting answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Smith: \u003c/strong>Right now it is the third biggest single storm in PGA history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>Now that goes back to the early 20th century more than 100 years ago. I think PGA e probably is at the point where they’ve reconnected most of the people who were easy to connect. And Smith said, you know, when you’re going out to restore power, sometimes you can restring a line or, you know, you get a tree out of the way and restore the line and you’ll reconnect 2000 people at once. But he said, a lot of places, you know, that are more remote. Doing the same thing may only reconnect two customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Smith: \u003c/strong>And so there’s just a lot of outages. And sometimes there are there are extensive repairs that take multiple hours. And you only bring back a handful of customers, once that returns May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Coming up. What we know and don’t know about why there were so many power outages across the Bay area. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So we’ve been talking about why these storms were so strong, why the winds were so high, why we got so much rain. But let’s talk more about power outages specifically. Why were there so many power outages, Dan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>I think the main reason there were outages distributed over such a wide area is that we had such prolonged high winds. They started to ramp up on Saturday night and then all day Sunday until early Monday morning hours. Really. You saw the same thing distributed over a huge area of sustained winds, maybe in the 30 to 40 mile an hour range and then gusts up to 60, 70, 80, 90 miles an hour. So I think that’s really the main explanation. Now, there are parts of this that we still don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>For instance, PGA is known to have a backlog of power poles that it needs to replace. So how many locations do we have where power poles might might have failed because they were old and needed to be replaced? We don’t know. How many places did some other infrastructure that maybe should have been hardened or better maintained failed? We don’t know that yet. So this will all probably come to light because the utility is required to file a report with the California Public Utilities Commission on any major outage. And of course, this is perhaps the biggest outage they’ve ever had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I want to drill down to that a little more like what is PPG and his role here? How should we be thinking about this utility in the context of these massive power outages? Because, you know, almost all of us get our power from this utility. We all rely on it. You know, we don’t have to rehash our state’s troubled history with PGE, but what is what is the role here, you think?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>Well, you know, that’s a really huge question. And people are thinking and talking about that a lot right now for reasons other than a big power outage. What’s happening with PGA right now across the state is people are seeing very high energy bills and of course, in much of California. And I’m really talking about northern and central California. PGA is the only game in town if you want electricity. So when something goes wrong, all fingers I think rightly point to PGA for explanations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>So in the past we’ve seen, you know, proposals to try to do more, to, ensure that PGA is doing all the things it needs to do to make sure that the power system is both safe and reliable. It’s a hard industry to regulate, and I think the California Public Utilities Commission and the legislature have both struggled and some would say have failed to do it effectively because PGA has a history of problems. We just happened to go through a year, 2023 where PGA did not start a major fire. But that’s exceptional, right. And its performance in in times like this, when there’s severe winter weather is something that people will continue to scrutinize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>How can we be better prepared then. So we don’t have as many power outages next time there are heavy winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>So I think there are a couple things people look at when they think about making the power system more reliable. I mean, of course, one obvious thing is the best maintenance practices. So make sure that all your equipment is up to date and well-maintained. And Pgti has been very severely criticized for the condition of some of their infrastructure in the past, especially, for instance, in connection with something like the campfire. But beyond things like that, which, as I say, seem obvious, you know, I don’t want to make it sound simple. PGA has a vast network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>They have more than 100,000 miles of power lines, so that’s a complex task. But beyond that, I mean, people are talking about things like microgrids, for instance. Creating much smaller areas can be self-contained, like islands, essentially, where the power is generated and consumed within one small area and not dependent on what’s happening in the larger grid. You know, it’s hard to say that we’re going to see anything like that on a large scale. There are places where it’s working now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>There’s a little town up in Napa County called Angwin, which has its own little self-contained power island or power system. And PGA is actually played a role in setting that up. Those are the major things. But beyond that, I think what people really want to see is accountability from the regulators, the California Public Utilities Commission, and they want the legislature to actually do a better job of making sure that PGA and the CPUc are accountable for how the power utilities perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>And just to be fair to PGA, this is not just a question for them. There are big power utilities in Southern California. They’re called investor owned utilities. And they’ve had their own problems in the past. And they’re being looked at too, for the same kinds of things that PGA is the the sort of prices they’re charging and whether they’re operating efficiently enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Dan, as I said, we’re talking on Tuesday. People will hear this Wednesday. Hopefully a lot of the damage will have been fixed. But how long would it take before everyone’s power is back and, you know, damage from falling trees, whether it’s on your car or your home? How long would it take for those kind of fixes to be to be complete?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>I think in the case of PGD, most people will see their lights come back on in the next day or two. That’s still a long time to be out of power. There are some places that are remote where the damage to infrastructure is a little bit more complicated to fix or get at, and people there might be out for a week or two. We’ve seen this happen in the past. You know, in terms of, you know, the kinds of things that we see along the streets, tree trees down. You know, that stuff is dealt with pretty quickly, but we’ll see the effects of it for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>And that’s really minor compared to what’s happening in places like Sonoma County, Marin, rural parts of Napa, and, you know, other parts of the Bay area where it will take probably weeks to get all the storm damage cleaned up. And and there’s a possibility that we haven’t seen all the damage yet. With the ground so saturated. There could be landslides that will cause further damage. Bring more trees down. So we’re not really done with the damage from this storm yet? Probably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well Dan, thank you so much. Really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke: \u003c/strong>It’s always a pleasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#claimoutage\">How to get reimbursed after a power outage\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">recent run of storms in the Bay Area\u003c/a> has brought high winds and downed trees — which has meant a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em> of power outages for people across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big way that losing power can affect you, your household \u003cem>and\u003c/em> your finances: When your fridge and your freezer shut down for an extended period, much of your fresh food ends up spoiled and unsafe to eat. \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2021/08/18/avoid-foodborne-illness-during-temporary-power-outages#:~:text=4%2DHour%20Window%3A%20Your%20refrigerator,food%20to%20determine%20its%20safety.\">Food safety guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u003c/a> explicitly state that a refrigerator without power will only keep food safe to eat for up to four hours during a power outage, and that after that you should “discard refrigerated perishable food,” specifically meat, poultry, fish, eggs and leftovers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when food costs keep rising and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943420/your-calfresh-benefits-will-drop-in-april-heres-what-you-can-do\">food benefits are about to drop\u003c/a>, losing a fridge or freezer’s worth of food can mean a serious loss for a home that’s trying to make every dollar stretch. If this happened to you, you’re by no means alone, says Mark Toney, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.turn.org/\">The Utility Reform Network (TURN)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need to know right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard a lot of complaints from people who, because of these storms, because the electricity lines have been brought down by trees, that absolutely — they were without power for a day, two days, and lost everything in their refrigerator,” said Toney. “What’s hard is … [holding] the utility company responsible for some of these weather events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the good news is, there \u003cem>are\u003c/em> avenues available to potentially claim back the costs of food you lost due to a shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The not-so-good news: These routes aren’t always simple or guaranteed to work. But they do exist, so keep reading for what you should know about trying to claim compensation for spoiled food.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What you need to know about claiming the costs of spoiled food\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can try to clam compensation from two sources:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>PG&E, your utility provider; or,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your insurance provider, if you have one.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For claiming compensation, it matters what kind of outage you were affected by — that is:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>What caused the outage: whether it was a weather event, like a storm, or a mistake by PG&E; and,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How long the outage was.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In any case, seeking compensation from either PG&E or your insurance provider may prove time-consuming and potentially confusing, and isn’t necessarily guaranteed to result in a payment. But this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. Keep reading for the details.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"claimoutage\">\u003c/a>How to claim compensation directly from PG&E\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>PG&E generally has \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/current-outages/report-view-an-electric-outage/additional-resources/extended-outage-compensation/faq/outage-compensation-faqs.page\">two routes for getting compensated\u003c/a> for lost food during an outage: the company’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/claims/claims.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_claim\">regular claims process\u003c/a>, and their \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/current-outages/report-view-an-electric-outage/additional-resources/extended-outage-compensation/extended-outage-compensation.page\">Safety Net program\u003c/a>, which automatically provides Storm Inconvenience Payments. The process you choose depends on what caused your outage and how long you were without power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seeking compensation through Storm Inconvenience Payments from PG&E’s Safety Net program\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to PG&E, the Safety Net program is intended to compensate customers who experience outages caused by weather, through an automatic Storm Inconvenience Payment — but the outage \u003cem>must\u003c/em> have lasted 48 hours or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How it’s meant to work: PG&E says that if your household is affected by a power outage that lasts for two days or longer, its Safety Net program will pay “$25 to $100 automatically 60 to 120 days after the outage.”[pullquote size='medium' align='right']Tip: If you were affected by an outage of 48 hours or more, put a reminder on your calendar for four months’ time — by that time you should have received an automatic PG&E Storm Inconvenience Payment.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should not have to do anything to receive this payment, or actively make a claim, but if four months have passed with no sign of your Storm Inconvenience Payment, you can call PG&E’s extended outage line at (888) PGE-4PGE (1-888-743-4743).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The payment is tiered according to how long your outage lasted, and your bill will be credited $25 for every 24-hour period you’ve been without power — but only after you’ve been without power for 24 hours:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>48–72 hours (i.e., 2–3 days): $25 payment\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>72–96 hours (i.e., 3–4 days): $50 payment\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>96–120 hours (i.e., 4–5 days): $75 payment\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>120 hours or more (i.e., 5 days or longer): $100 payment, maximum\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Businesses, agricultural accounts, multifamily-building common areas, streetlights “and all other non-residential accounts” are not eligible to receive Storm Inconvenience Payments, even if the outage was 48 hour or longer. Clients who experienced what PG&E call a public safety power shutoff (PSPS) during a period of high wildfire risk also don’t qualify for these payments. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/current-outages/report-view-an-electric-outage/additional-resources/extended-outage-compensation/extended-outage-compensation.page\">Read more about what’s \u003cem>not\u003c/em> covered by a Storm Inconvenience Payment\u003c/a> under PG&E’s Safety Net program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claiming compensation through PG&E’s regular claims process\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/pge_global/common/pdfs/customer-service/help/claims/form_lossclaim.pdf\">file a compensation claim for specific damages caused by a power outage using the form linked here (PDF)\u003c/a>. You can claim back the costs of spoiled food but also expenses related to a personal injury, property damage and lost wages. But according to PG&E, the outage \u003cem>cannot\u003c/em> have been caused by weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This form states that “generally speaking, PG&E is responsible for damages that result from its negligence” but also adds that the company is “not responsible for damages that we do not cause or that are the result of forces beyond our control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s beyond PG&E’s control? According to the utility company, outages that are “caused by earthquakes [or] weather conditions (such as lightning, floods, heavy storms, extreme heat or winds).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Guides from KQED' tag='kqed-guides']\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/claims/claims.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_claim\">You can submit a claim to PG&E online, by email, by fax or by mail.\u003c/a> This process will ask you for a lot of documentation, including photographs of the spoiled food, so be sure to take photos before you toss anything. You’ll also be asked for receipts for the food. If you do not have receipts for all the food you lost, you \u003cem>could\u003c/em> try to submit the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Receipts for any replacement food you had to buy.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Screenshots from your grocery’s store website that shows the specific food items lost with their prices.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An online receipt, if you have a membership or an account with the store you purchased your food from that tracks your purchases (for example, Target Circle).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>PG&E says they assess food spoilage complaints based on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/claims/claims.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_claim\">USDA guidelines regarding how long food stays cold\u003c/a>. Those guidelines say:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Fully stocked freezers usually keep food frozen for two days after losing power.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Half-full freezers usually keep food frozen for about one day.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Refrigerators usually keep food cold for up to four hours if the door remains unopened.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This means that you probably won’t be able to claim compensation for, say, a half-full freezer that had no power for half a day — or for the contents of a fully stocked freezer that lost power for one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The outage that spoiled my food was during the storms, but it lasted less than 48 hours. 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Like \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/claims/claims.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_claim\">filing a claim directly through PG&E\u003c/a>, you’ll most likely have to provide documentation and evidence of food spoilage, so take photos of your food before you throw it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this isn’t guaranteed, and you’ll need to either contact your insurer directly to inquire, or consult your policy details.[pullquote size='medium' align='right']Tip: Before you throw out food, be sure to take photos of it, in your fridge and outside it.[/pullquote]Mark Toney of \u003ca href=\"https://www.turn.org/\">TURN\u003c/a> also recommends being aware of the potential consequences of claiming for spoiled food on your insurance: Make sure you’re aware of the amount of the deductible you’d have to pay to receive a payout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only that, but “just remember that there’s a trade-off,” cautions Toney. “Insurance companies have been known to increase premiums after a claim.\u003ci>“\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If you’ve lost your food due to outages and can’t buy more right now\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If your food has spoiled in your fridge or your freezer, and you are finding it difficult to replace it and secure food for your household, you have options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943420/your-calfresh-benefits-will-drop-in-april-heres-what-you-can-do#foodsupport\">our guide to finding food assistance near you\u003c/a>, from food banks and community pantries to options for picking up free or low-cost groceries in your county. You can also call 211, 24 hours a day, if you are in immediate need of food assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, helpful explainers and guides about issues like COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#claimoutage\">How to get reimbursed after a power outage\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">recent run of storms in the Bay Area\u003c/a> has brought high winds and downed trees — which has meant a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em> of power outages for people across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big way that losing power can affect you, your household \u003cem>and\u003c/em> your finances: When your fridge and your freezer shut down for an extended period, much of your fresh food ends up spoiled and unsafe to eat. \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2021/08/18/avoid-foodborne-illness-during-temporary-power-outages#:~:text=4%2DHour%20Window%3A%20Your%20refrigerator,food%20to%20determine%20its%20safety.\">Food safety guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u003c/a> explicitly state that a refrigerator without power will only keep food safe to eat for up to four hours during a power outage, and that after that you should “discard refrigerated perishable food,” specifically meat, poultry, fish, eggs and leftovers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when food costs keep rising and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943420/your-calfresh-benefits-will-drop-in-april-heres-what-you-can-do\">food benefits are about to drop\u003c/a>, losing a fridge or freezer’s worth of food can mean a serious loss for a home that’s trying to make every dollar stretch. If this happened to you, you’re by no means alone, says Mark Toney, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.turn.org/\">The Utility Reform Network (TURN)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need to know right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard a lot of complaints from people who, because of these storms, because the electricity lines have been brought down by trees, that absolutely — they were without power for a day, two days, and lost everything in their refrigerator,” said Toney. “What’s hard is … [holding] the utility company responsible for some of these weather events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the good news is, there \u003cem>are\u003c/em> avenues available to potentially claim back the costs of food you lost due to a shutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The not-so-good news: These routes aren’t always simple or guaranteed to work. But they do exist, so keep reading for what you should know about trying to claim compensation for spoiled food.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What you need to know about claiming the costs of spoiled food\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can try to clam compensation from two sources:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>PG&E, your utility provider; or,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your insurance provider, if you have one.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For claiming compensation, it matters what kind of outage you were affected by — that is:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>What caused the outage: whether it was a weather event, like a storm, or a mistake by PG&E; and,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How long the outage was.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In any case, seeking compensation from either PG&E or your insurance provider may prove time-consuming and potentially confusing, and isn’t necessarily guaranteed to result in a payment. But this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. Keep reading for the details.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"claimoutage\">\u003c/a>How to claim compensation directly from PG&E\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>PG&E generally has \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/current-outages/report-view-an-electric-outage/additional-resources/extended-outage-compensation/faq/outage-compensation-faqs.page\">two routes for getting compensated\u003c/a> for lost food during an outage: the company’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/customer-service/help/claims/claims.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_claim\">regular claims process\u003c/a>, and their \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/current-outages/report-view-an-electric-outage/additional-resources/extended-outage-compensation/extended-outage-compensation.page\">Safety Net program\u003c/a>, which automatically provides Storm Inconvenience Payments. The process you choose depends on what caused your outage and how long you were without power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seeking compensation through Storm Inconvenience Payments from PG&E’s Safety Net program\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to PG&E, the Safety Net program is intended to compensate customers who experience outages caused by weather, through an automatic Storm Inconvenience Payment — but the outage \u003cem>must\u003c/em> have lasted 48 hours or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How it’s meant to work: PG&E says that if your household is affected by a power outage that lasts for two days or longer, its Safety Net program will pay “$25 to $100 automatically 60 to 120 days after the outage.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>I never paid much attention to my house’s electrical panel, until a huge blue spruce next door crashed down on our driveway and adjacent power lines, ripping my panel off the wall during a storm on Jan. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately, our street in Oakland went dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E crews restored service to the rest of my neighbors the next day. But not for us. Instead, our household has spent 10 long days without electricity, and counting. Trying to repair that box and get our lights back on has been a bureaucratic ordeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the damaged electrical panel and service line were on private property, we discovered we are on the hook for thousands of dollars in repairs — at least, until and unless our insurance covers the cost. And before an electrician could even start the work, we had to apply for a city permit and other documents, according to representatives with the Oakland Planning and Building Department and PG&E.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Eric Kofoed, Farida's husband\"]‘It’s very frustrating. If it was really treated as an emergency, things would get done quicker. The permitting just adds more barriers or more hurdles to get over.’[/pullquote]“It feels really sad that we still don’t have power,” said my daughter Anisha, 8, summing up the feeling inside our house on a recent cold evening. “Usually, we have lights and it’s easier to do stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2.3 million PG&E customers in California have experienced power outages since the storms on New Year’s Eve, according to the utility. The series of atmospheric river storms pounding the state have toppled trees, caused major flooding and evacuations, and led to the deaths of at least 19 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most customers, about 92%, have been reconnected to service within 24 hours, said PG&E. But others are seeing much longer delays, as crews struggle to access sites safely for repairs, or for other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand how important electricity is for keeping you and your family safe in the winter months, and we will continue working tirelessly to restore power,” said Tamar Sarkissian, a PG&E spokesperson. “This is the largest storm response in company history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility said it has 5,000 personnel responding to the historic deluge conditions throughout its \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/profile/profile.page\">service area\u003c/a>, which spans from Bakersfield in the south to Eureka in the north. That figure includes contractors and other professionals brought in to help from states like Wisconsin and New Mexico, and even Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how many Bay Area residents have dealt with extended outages like mine. Building inspection departments in Oakland, San Francisco and San José told me they haven’t seen a dramatic spike in permit applications for these kinds of electrical repairs yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with hundreds of reports of downed trees, flooding and water-saturated soils, electricians like Phil Lopes are fielding a lot of calls from distressed residents facing damage to their property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s happening more frequently because of the storms,” said Lopes, who owns PSL Electric in Oakland and was born and raised in the Bay Area. “I haven’t seen so many downed trees since I’ve been living out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The long journey to restore power\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In our case, it took about two days to get a contractor to remove the mass of tree limbs and branches that blocked our driveway and garage. Chain saw sounds reverberated through the neighborhood as passersby contemplated the wreckage. It felt like progress when I could finally drive my car out of the garage onto the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despair started sinking in shortly after, on a Friday, when we submitted a request to PG&E for the first document we were told we needed to start electrical repairs — a confirmation of discussion, or \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/PGE-COD021119.pdf\">COD (PDF)\u003c/a>, approving the location of the new panel. Right off the bat, a company representative said they wouldn’t be able to get to it until at least the following Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, we needed a city permit approving the project and an inspection. I tried visiting the Oakland Planning and Building offices slightly after 2 p.m., but they were closed; due to the pandemic, the agency is \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/planning-building-reopening-services-permit-processes\">open to walk-ins\u003c/a> only on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very frustrating,” said Eric, my husband, while slumped on our couch, wearing a headlamp. “If it was really treated as an emergency, things would get done quicker. The permitting just adds more hurdles to get over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After additional calls to PG&E, city representatives sped their end of the process up. Two Planning and Building staffers called my KQED phone the same morning, offering to help. One of them said someone at the utility had given them a heads-up about our situation. The day before, I had asked PG&E questions as a reporter for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62025_IMG_6850-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a beanie prepares to work next to a garage door.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62025_IMG_6850-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62025_IMG_6850-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62025_IMG_6850-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62025_IMG_6850-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62025_IMG_6850-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil Lopes, owner of PSL Electric in Oakland, prepares to work on repairs needed to restore power to a home on Jan. 10, 2023. Lopes and other electricians said they have received many calls from distressed residents in need of electrical repairs due to the storms battering California. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mercifully, the city department granted the permit the day we were able to apply, and sent an inspector to review the repairs by Lopes hours after they were completed. But they also clarified that the PG&E approval we spent three days waiting for wasn’t needed after all, because … it was an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why were we told to jump through that hoop? I couldn’t get an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be clear, the COD is not required for emergency repairs,” said the city’s building department in a statement. Typically, however, a city inspector examining electrical work on-site will verify that the information on the COD is accurate and up to code and sign off on it for PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a condition that PG&E has put in place, not the City of Oakland,” the building department added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and San José told me they don’t require that step for this kind of repair. (PG&E did not respond to questions on why it is needed in Oakland.) But you still need a permit and inspection. Patrick Hannan, with the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection, said that’s to prevent safety hazards like fires, electric shock and electrical shorts that can damage a property, or adjacent ones.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Anisha, 8\"]‘It feels really sad that we still don’t have power. Usually, we have lights and it’s easier to do stuff.’[/pullquote]“An electrical permit is required to make sure the repair work has been done safely and is code compliant,” Hannan said. “For power outages on private property, the length of time to restore energy is largely dependent on how long it takes the owner to hire a contractor and the contractor to repair the damaged components. Once we are contacted for an inspection, we try to get an electrical inspector to the site within a couple of hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, we can cook, take showers and keep our refrigerator and cellphones going at our place thanks to a noisy generator that we run from morning to dusk. But extended outages could spell disaster for others. Households where residents may be using medical equipment essential for life are especially at risk, said Mark Toney, who directs TURN, The Utility Reform Network, in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Accommodations for the medically vulnerable\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sarkissian, with PG&E, said they are working with counties and tribes to fulfill nearly 300 requests for small generators for customers with long outages. Older adults and people with disabilities may be eligible for portable batteries, lodging, food replacement and transportation through a \u003ca href=\"https://disabilitydisasteraccess.org/\">disaster access\u003c/a> initiative the utility said it’s supporting. And PG&E has the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help-paying-your-bill/longer-term-assistance/medical-condition-related/medical-baseline-allowance/medical-baseline-allowance.page\">Medical Baseline Program\u003c/a>, which offers extra notifications about outages to medically vulnerable people who sign up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Toney said most of those who are eligible don’t know about the program and may not be getting the help they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938120\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62021_IMG_6814-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A downed and broken electrical panel.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62021_IMG_6814-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62021_IMG_6814-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62021_IMG_6814-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62021_IMG_6814-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62021_IMG_6814-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A damaged electrical panel lies on the ground after a tree fell on service lines and dislodged it from the wall on Jan. 4, 2023, in Oakland. The home’s residents haven’t had power for more than 10 days. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“PG&E must work closer with county health departments, closer with community-based organizations that are serving vulnerable populations to build up the list of Medical Baseline to get more people signed up so that they can be reached when we have these emergencies,” said Toney, of TURN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At our house, my kids keep asking when we’ll be able to switch the lights on. Anisha, a third grader, already has a plan for what she’ll do when life regains normalcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to play with my dolls that I got for Christmas, and color without having to bring a flashlight,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We now have a brand-new electrical panel and service line. 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But others are seeing much longer delays, as crews struggle to access sites safely for repairs, or for other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand how important electricity is for keeping you and your family safe in the winter months, and we will continue working tirelessly to restore power,” said Tamar Sarkissian, a PG&E spokesperson. “This is the largest storm response in company history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility said it has 5,000 personnel responding to the historic deluge conditions throughout its \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/profile/profile.page\">service area\u003c/a>, which spans from Bakersfield in the south to Eureka in the north. That figure includes contractors and other professionals brought in to help from states like Wisconsin and New Mexico, and even Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how many Bay Area residents have dealt with extended outages like mine. Building inspection departments in Oakland, San Francisco and San José told me they haven’t seen a dramatic spike in permit applications for these kinds of electrical repairs yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with hundreds of reports of downed trees, flooding and water-saturated soils, electricians like Phil Lopes are fielding a lot of calls from distressed residents facing damage to their property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s happening more frequently because of the storms,” said Lopes, who owns PSL Electric in Oakland and was born and raised in the Bay Area. “I haven’t seen so many downed trees since I’ve been living out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The long journey to restore power\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In our case, it took about two days to get a contractor to remove the mass of tree limbs and branches that blocked our driveway and garage. Chain saw sounds reverberated through the neighborhood as passersby contemplated the wreckage. It felt like progress when I could finally drive my car out of the garage onto the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despair started sinking in shortly after, on a Friday, when we submitted a request to PG&E for the first document we were told we needed to start electrical repairs — a confirmation of discussion, or \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/PGE-COD021119.pdf\">COD (PDF)\u003c/a>, approving the location of the new panel. Right off the bat, a company representative said they wouldn’t be able to get to it until at least the following Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, we needed a city permit approving the project and an inspection. I tried visiting the Oakland Planning and Building offices slightly after 2 p.m., but they were closed; due to the pandemic, the agency is \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/planning-building-reopening-services-permit-processes\">open to walk-ins\u003c/a> only on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very frustrating,” said Eric, my husband, while slumped on our couch, wearing a headlamp. “If it was really treated as an emergency, things would get done quicker. The permitting just adds more hurdles to get over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After additional calls to PG&E, city representatives sped their end of the process up. Two Planning and Building staffers called my KQED phone the same morning, offering to help. One of them said someone at the utility had given them a heads-up about our situation. 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The National Weather Service’s Sacramento office warned of “potentially historic rain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11893594\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11893594 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Large tree branch fallen on red parked car on rain-soaked two-way street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/Image-from-iOS-1.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Category 5 atmospheric river is expected to bring anywhere between 2 and 5 inches of rain to many parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County has issued an emergency evacuation order to the CZU Lightning Complex burn area. 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He’s particularly worried about areas in the North Bay scarred by wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jan Null with Golden Gate Weather Services said it’s been 19 years since we’ve had a storm this strong. “The classic storm that every meteorologist in the Bay Area should be able to tell you about was back on December 12 in 1995, and that had a perfect score of 10 on the Bay Area storm index,” said Null. “Today is probably going to be about a 9.5 that would tie it as the fifth-highest storm that we have seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Null said this storm will effectively end the fire season in Northern California, but the state will still need more than 140% of normal rainfall for the entire season to end the drought. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Dec. 25, 2020 at 8:45 a.m. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State water quality regulators are investigating a large wastewater spill that sent close to 100,000 gallons of untreated sewage into an Alameda lagoon last week, prompting the East Bay’s largest water agency to urge people to stay out of the body of water for eight days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A power outage at an East Bay Municipal Utility District pumping station, along with a problem with a backup generator, led to the release of the sludge on Bay Farm Island on Dec. 16, according to the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release marks the second time in the last four months that power problems at the agency led to a major sewage spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11852616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11852616 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46485_IMG_4624-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A sign that reads 'Sanitary Sewer Overflow Advisory' near a lagoon in Alameda.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46485_IMG_4624-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46485_IMG_4624-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46485_IMG_4624-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46485_IMG_4624-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46485_IMG_4624-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46485_IMG_4624-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46485_IMG_4624-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46485_IMG_4624-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46485_IMG_4624-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/RS46485_IMG_4624-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Alameda lagoon where a power outage resulted in a massive sewage spill. \u003ccite>(Mary Spicer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In August, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835999/east-bay-municipal-utility-district-major-oakland-sewage-spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a series of electrical failures\u003c/a> at EBMUD’s main wastewater treatment plant caused the release of 47,000 gallons of untreated sewage and 3.7 million gallons of partially treated wastewater into the Oakland Estuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two large sewage spills resulting from power outages and backup generator failures in a matter of months can no longer be excused as an accident,” said Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper, which for years has pushed EBMUD to do more to prevent wastewater spills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper']‘Two large sewage spills resulting from power outages and backup generator failures in a matter of months can no longer be excused as an accident.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This appears to be an operational problem that EBMUD needs to solve in order to prevent these kinds of spills from posing a significant health threat to the Bay and the people of the Bay Area,” Choksi-Chugh said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland estuary release in August garnered significant media attention. It came at around the same time California put in place rolling blackouts for the first time in decades, when public scrutiny of the state’s infrastructure was heightened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EBMUD representative Andrea Pook stresses that the summer spill and last week’s spill in Alameda are not connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were two spills due to power outages but they were completely different circumstances,” Pook said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent spill took place near Robert Davey Jr. Drive and Packet Landing Road by Earhart Elementary School. Initially, crews reported that around 10,000 gallons had been released. Two days later, EBMUD revised up its estimate to 97,000 gallons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TedrickG/status/1340122131091214336?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pook said the agency is trying to find out what led to the outage, but that it was not caused by a problem with Alameda Municipal Power, which supplies electricity to the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the sewage seeped out of storm drains as it made its way west toward the lagoon, prompting odor complaints from some Harbor Bay residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s the horrible rotten egg smell now?” one resident asked on the neighborhood social network Nextdoor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pook said crews were called out to clean the wastewater from the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lagoon where the sewage emptied into has gates that blocked the sludge from entering the San Francisco Bay, according to EBMUD and state water regulators. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 9:30 a.m. on August 15\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in nearly two decades, state power managers ordered rolling power outages across California. Hundreds of thousands lost power Friday night as a heat wave strained the state's electrical system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Independent System Operator, which manages the power grid, declared a Stage 3 emergency around 6:30 p.m. and directed utilities around the state to shed their power loads. A Stage 3 Emergency indicates the demand for power outstrips the available supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before 9 p.m., the grid operator lifted the emergency declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Extreme heat is really the driver behind this,” said Anne Gonzales, spokeswoman for the power grid operator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, the state’s largest utility, tweeted that it would turn off power to about 200,000 to 250,000 customers in rotating outages for about an hour at a time until around 11 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to implement rolling outages came as temperatures around the state hit triple digits in many areas, and air-conditioning use soared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heat wave is expected to last through next week and the power grid operator will decide whether to continue the rolling outages on a day-to-day basis, Gonzales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re dealing with weather, clouds, wildfires ... these are quickly evolving situations, quickly changing,” Gonzales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University energy researcher Michael Wara said energy regulators were faced with a choice: “Cross their fingers and hope for the best” or preemptively turn off power for customers. “If you don't make it over that peak, if you're not lucky when you cross your fingers, you can get a system-wide blackout that would have extended beyond California's borders and might have lasted for several days,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E spokesperson Jeff Smith said \"we would just encourage all of our customers to conserve as much energy as possible over the course of the next few days as we're going to see continued multiple days of extreme heat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PGE4Me/status/1294493895485661185\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California ISO's Gonzales said temperatures were 10 to 20 degrees above normal in some areas, and that cloudy weather from the remnants of a recent tropical weather system reduced power generation from solar plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state urged the utility to buy more power, but a high-pressure system building over Western states meant there was less available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temperatures and energy use dropped during the evening, and California ISO said the outages ended by 9 p.m.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jeff Smith, PG&E\"]'We would just encourage all of our customers to conserve as much energy as possible over the course of the next few days as we're going to see continued multiple days of extreme heat.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the state ordered rolling outages was during an energy crisis in 2001. Blackouts occurred several times from January to May, including one that affected more than 1.5 million customers in March. The cause was a combination of energy shortages and market manipulation by energy wholesalers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11779330/newsom-pge-and-the-perils-of-power-politics\">including Enron Corp., which infamously drove up prices by withholding energy supplies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties up and down the state reported scattered outages, although the city of Los Angeles, which has its own power generating system, wasn’t affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police departments warned people to watch out on roads where stoplights were out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, the Santa Rosa Police Department received a flood of calls and pleaded with residents: “Please do not call 911 unless you have an emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Heat wave continues\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The heat surpassed historical records in several cities Friday. 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Due to the coronavirus pandemic, cooling centers will require people to have their temperatures taken and answer some health screening questions before they enter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlotte Graham from San Jose's Parks and Recreation Department says she's never seen the centers reach capacity but that could change this year: \"With places like malls and movie theaters being closed where people might go to get air-conditioning, those are not available right now, so we very well could see an uptick in visitation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1207/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose's cooling centers\u003c/a> will remain open until at least next Wednesday, Aug. 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in San Francisco, on the other hand, are concerned about coronavirus transmissions during the heat wave. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 9:30 a.m. on August 15\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in nearly two decades, state power managers ordered rolling power outages across California. Hundreds of thousands lost power Friday night as a heat wave strained the state's electrical system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Independent System Operator, which manages the power grid, declared a Stage 3 emergency around 6:30 p.m. and directed utilities around the state to shed their power loads. A Stage 3 Emergency indicates the demand for power outstrips the available supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before 9 p.m., the grid operator lifted the emergency declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Extreme heat is really the driver behind this,” said Anne Gonzales, spokeswoman for the power grid operator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, the state’s largest utility, tweeted that it would turn off power to about 200,000 to 250,000 customers in rotating outages for about an hour at a time until around 11 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision to implement rolling outages came as temperatures around the state hit triple digits in many areas, and air-conditioning use soared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heat wave is expected to last through next week and the power grid operator will decide whether to continue the rolling outages on a day-to-day basis, Gonzales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re dealing with weather, clouds, wildfires ... these are quickly evolving situations, quickly changing,” Gonzales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University energy researcher Michael Wara said energy regulators were faced with a choice: “Cross their fingers and hope for the best” or preemptively turn off power for customers. “If you don't make it over that peak, if you're not lucky when you cross your fingers, you can get a system-wide blackout that would have extended beyond California's borders and might have lasted for several days,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E spokesperson Jeff Smith said \"we would just encourage all of our customers to conserve as much energy as possible over the course of the next few days as we're going to see continued multiple days of extreme heat.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the state ordered rolling outages was during an energy crisis in 2001. Blackouts occurred several times from January to May, including one that affected more than 1.5 million customers in March. The cause was a combination of energy shortages and market manipulation by energy wholesalers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11779330/newsom-pge-and-the-perils-of-power-politics\">including Enron Corp., which infamously drove up prices by withholding energy supplies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties up and down the state reported scattered outages, although the city of Los Angeles, which has its own power generating system, wasn’t affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police departments warned people to watch out on roads where stoplights were out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, the Santa Rosa Police Department received a flood of calls and pleaded with residents: “Please do not call 911 unless you have an emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Heat wave continues\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The heat surpassed historical records in several cities Friday. Downtown San Francisco hit 90 degrees, topping a high of 86 that was set on Aug. 14, 1995. Salinas hit 102, 18 degrees above the record set just last year. Palm Springs hit 120, breaking a 2015 record by several degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sweltering weather is expected to continue into Wednesday across greater Los Angeles, the Central Valley, Sierra Nevada foothills and parts of the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oes/residents/Pages/hot-weather-information.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Clara\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/emergencysite/documents/Cooling-Centers_062020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alameda\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/civicalerts.aspx?aid=2295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contra Costa\u003c/a> counties opened cooling centers that will welcome people this weekend from the afternoon to the early evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 12 cooling centers across Santa Clara County, including three in San Jose alone. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, cooling centers will require people to have their temperatures taken and answer some health screening questions before they enter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlotte Graham from San Jose's Parks and Recreation Department says she's never seen the centers reach capacity but that could change this year: \"With places like malls and movie theaters being closed where people might go to get air-conditioning, those are not available right now, so we very well could see an uptick in visitation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1207/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose's cooling centers\u003c/a> will remain open until at least next Wednesday, Aug. 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in San Francisco, on the other hand, are concerned about coronavirus transmissions during the heat wave. As a result, the city won't be operating cooling centers, according to Mary Ellen Carroll, executive director of the city's Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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