PG&E Power Outages For The Tri-Valley: The Latest

TRI-VALLEY, CA — Power was slowing being restored to PG&E customers in the Tri-Valley area Thursday after a shutoff that began late Wednesday. Transmission lines were being repaired to restore power to roughly 126,000 customers in the San Ramon and nearby areas. The remaining lines remained down until the wind event ended, but lines are not being re-energized until they are inspected and repaired.

The Red Flag Warning for the Santa Cruz Mountains expired at noon on Thursday. The East and North Bays had Red Flag Warnings in effect until 5 p.m. Thursday. Even as the warnings expired, the threat for fire danger remains high, according to the National Weather Service.

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Find more power outage updates for Livermore, Pleasanton, Dublin, San Ramon and Danville below:

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Many residents in the Bay Area still remain without power. PG&E continued the second phase of its Public Safety Planned Shutoff late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, with locales in and near the Peninsula, Berkeley, Oakland, San Jose, Santa Clara Valley and the Santa Cruz area losing power.

PG&E officials haven't provided an estimate to when power will be fully restored to all areas.
Thursday afternoon the utility did announce that several counties have been given the "all clear" and crews were beginning safety inspections and repair and restoration efforts. Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Mariposa, Merced, Monterey, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties have been given the "all clear," while El Dorado, Placer, San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties are in "partial all clear" status, meaning some parts of the counties are safe to resume electricity services.

Nearly 800,000 PG&E customers in parts of 34 counties in Northern and Central California lost power during the shutoff.

Solar customers are also affected by the shutdown.

"When PG&E restores power, rooftop solar systems should re-engage automatically," PG&E officials said in a statement. "Solar systems cannot be powered off a generator as the two technologies do not work together. Customers who have a home battery system paired with their solar system may generally have up to two hours of backup power, depending on the size of their battery."

PG&E officials said the company doesn't reimburse customers for losses during shutdown events "as power will be shut off for safety when gusty winds and dry conditions, combined with a heightened fire risk, threaten a portion of the electric system."

Despite the fact that reimbursement is unlikely, PG&E officials said customers can file claims that are reviewed on a case-by-case basis at any time at https://www.pge.com/en_US/resi...

PG&E opened a number of Community Resource Centers across Northern and Central California to support ratepayers in areas affected by the utility's Public Safety Power Shutoff.

In Contra Costa County, a center is open at the Bishop Ranch parking lot, 2600 Camino Ramon, San Ramon, from 8 a.m. to dusk. The center will have restrooms, bottled water, electronic-device charging and air-conditioned seating for up to 100 people.

A total of 28 centers will open in counties affected by the shutdown. Local libraries and other city facilities across the area that are unaffected by the shutdown remain open to residents.

Residents and businesses are urged to take necessary preparedness steps to be without power for up to several days.

PUBLIC SAFETY REMINDER: Traffic signals are non-operational in some areas. The California Vehicle Code requires motorists to treat those intersections as four-way stops.

—Bay City News contributed to this report.