North Bay residents 'likely' to lose power in PG&E power shutoff this weekend

Sunday, September 27, 2020
NAPA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- A PG&E Public Safety Power Shutoff is likely in parts of Napa County Sunday night, continuing through Monday, county emergency officials said Saturday afternoon.

The power shutoff is estimated to affect a total of 216 PG&E customers in the county. PG&E officials add that only 2 customers will be impacted in Sonoma County.

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The outage will likely to begin at 4 p.m. Sunday, with power restoration between 8 p.m. and midnight on Monday.

Because of dry and windy weather conditions this weekend in California, PG&E is warning of shutoffs in 16 counties, including Napa County. The power outages could affect 89,000 customers statewide, the utility said in a briefing on Saturday.

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The most impacted counties are El Dorado and Butte counties.

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PG&E said it began notifying potentially affected customers on Thursday.

The counties included in this round of power shutoffs are: Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Kern, Lake, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Tehama and Yuba counties.
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28 community resource centers are expected to open for impacted customers across the 16 Northern California counties.
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To see if your address is expected to be impacted by a power shutoff, click here.



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