San Francisco outages leaves 130,000 without power

A monolithic outage knocked retired powerfulness to 130,000 homes and businesses successful San Francisco connected Saturday (December 20, 2025), Pacific Gas and Electric Co said.

The powerfulness nonaccomplishment near a ample swath of the bluish portion of the metropolis successful the dark, opening with the Richmond and Presidio neighborhoods and areas astir Golden Gate Park successful the aboriginal day and increasing successful size.

PG&E did not instantly respond to requests for remark connected the origin of the blackouts. The outage represents astir one-third of the inferior company's customers successful the city.

Social media posts and section media reported wide closures of restaurants and shops and darkened thoroughfare lights and Christmas decorations.

The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management said connected X that determination were “significant transit disruptions” happening citywide and urged residents to debar nonessential question and dainty downed postulation signals arsenic four-way stops.

The city's proscription agencies said they were bypassing immoderate Muni autobus and BART bid stations due to the fact that of the powerfulness outages.

At slightest immoderate of the blackouts were caused by a occurrence that broke retired wrong a PG&E substation astatine 8th and Mission streets, occurrence officials posted connected X astatine astir 3:15 p.m..

At astir 4 p.m., PG&E posted connected X that it had stabilised the powerfulness grid and was not expecting further lawsuit outages. The institution said it was incapable to corroborate if powerfulness would beryllium restored by aboriginal Saturday (December 20).