In San Francisco, on Saturday, December 20, a large-scale power outage was recorded, affecting about 130,000 customers.
It was by reported by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), the main supplier of electricity and gas in northern California.
PG&E said that emergency services quickly began to eliminate the consequences of the incident, the network was stabilized, and no new outages are currently expected for consumers.
San Francisco power outage leaves 130,000 in the dark https://t.co/Ir8Vjxt57S pic.twitter.com/vLGSguIJY3
— New York Post (@nypost) December 21, 2025
Later, the power company informed about the gradual resumption of electricity supply. As of 9 p.m. Saturday local time (7 a.m. Sunday Kyiv time), about 90,000 customers had electricity again. The company estimates that about 40,000 more customers should be connected in the near future. Emergency crews continue to work at night, and further restoration depends on the results of safety checks.
According to The New York Times, the power outage has had a significant impact on the city. Shops, cafes, and restaurants were closed, unmanned taxis stopped operating, and some public transportation stations were closed. The San Francisco Ballet canceled its performance of The Nutcracker.
Nearly 125,000 San Francisco households and businesses lost power Saturday due to PG&E blackouts that brought a massive portion of the city to a halt — darkening businesses and homes, causing traffic jams and forcing BART trains to bypass at least two downtown stations. pic.twitter.com/Yiyazu0Ujz
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) December 21, 2025
The cause of the accident was not immediately clear. According to San Francisco Fire Department spokesman Mariano Elias, one of the factors was a fire at a PG&E substation. At the same time, a map of blackouts shows that in some parts of the city, electricity was lost even before the fire broke out on Saturday afternoon. A sharp increase in the number of de-energized customers - by tens of thousands - occurred around the same time as the fire.
the san francisco blackout has caused the waymos to give up pic.twitter.com/nfgM7dmQ9z
— Devin Clark (@devin_clark) December 21, 2025
As a reminder, in Odesa, residents of houses that had been without electricity for a long time staged protests with traffic blocking. The Odesa Regional Military Administration called on the citizens to refrain from radical actions and remain calm.
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