Power was restored early Tuesday morning for all customers in and near San Francisco’s Richmond District after a planned overnight outage, PG&E officials said.
According to PG&E, the outage was needed to help return its Mission Substation and the related electric grid to normal operations. The power company announced the service restoration around 12:25 a.m.
The Richmond District outage had been scheduled to begin shortly after midnight and affect about 14,000 customers. A small portion of the Sunset District, between 19th and 27th avenues just south of Lincoln Way, was also expected to be affected.
The work followed another planned outage that affected about 3,600 customers near the Civic Center. Electricity was restored by Monday morning, PG&E officials said.
Both outages are linked to repairs and testing at the Mission Substation, where a fire on Dec. 20 knocked out electricity to roughly a third of the city for up to three days. After that, PG&E has used temporary generators and alternate grid configurations to keep power flowing while permanent fixes were completed.
