Thousands of San Francisco residents were briefly left in the dark after the power went out in a series of outages across The City early Wednesday.
A PG&E representative confirmed a “large outage” in San Francisco to SFBay around 12:45 a.m. but made no further details available. A message left for a spokesperson was not returned.
@SF311 – The City’s official Twitter account for citizen complaints — tweeted nearly 38,000 people were left without electricity in 31 separate outages that hit around midnight.
It is not known what caused the outages.
@SF311 tweeted shortly after 1 a.m. that service had been restored to most of the affected customers:
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If nuclear power can run submarines and aircraft carriers and not refuel for 25 years, it seems to me that the smaller size nuclear engines could be used for electricity in small cities and suburbs
My guess is that the wind stopped blowing.
38,000 without power for hours - that is a good thing - reduces global warming.
Might try paying the power bill... Oh I forgot your broke! Just raise some more taxes it'll be fine.
This is not unexpected, go to youtube and type in pattie brassard.
Outages will remain a major concern for the entire state of California until the citizens of that state prevail upon the bureaucracy to construct a number of new powerplants sufficient to meet their current and future needs.
California has been too dependent on energy generated in other states for far too long.
Refusing to consider the benefits of nuclear power (e.g., most efficient use of resources, no atmospheric polution, low waste impact [very little if we adopt European waste reprocessing technology], etc.) in those parts of the state that are seismically stable enough to support energy production remains one of the most short-sighted decisions made in California.
Wake up and accept that your state needs to become energy independent of the other states if it wishes to be more prosperous and independent.
Good Luck!
If submarines and aircraft carriers can run on nuclear power and not be refueled for 25 years, it seems to me that this sort of power could be used in small cities and suburbs