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Bloomberg
PG&E Corp will cut the lights to as many as 1.8 million Californians in a deliberate mass shutoff, the latest in an unprecedented string of blackouts that the bankrupt California utility giant has orchestrated to prevent wildfires.
PG&E will start cutting the lights to as many as 605,000 homes and businesses in parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, California’s iconic wine country and areas around Sacramento, to keep high winds from knocking down its equipment and sparking blazes. The company was trying to shrink the scope of the shutoff by returning some high-voltage lines to service. Gusts were forecast to pick up further.
The San Francisco-based company has taken increasingly extreme measures to avoid fires after its equipment was blamed for a string of deadly blazes in 2017 and 2018.