About 25,000 customers in Berkeley, 19,000 in El Cerrito and 3,500 in Richmond were affected.
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IT stared around 7:30 a.m. PG&E officials said power was restored around 11 a.m.
Around 10:15 a.m., BART officials said the downtown Berkeley station was reopened and they are in the process of restoring normal service.
Around 9 a.m., there was a 20-minute delay in both directions on the Richmond line. Passengers were still able to get in and out through the North Berkeley or Ashby stations.
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About an hour after that power issue was resolved, another outage hit, this time in San Francisco.
It affected about 2,000 customers. Power was restored about three hours later.
PG&E will only say equipment failure caused both outages, but would not give details.