As widely reported by numerous media outlets, California’s largest power utility, Pacific Gas and Electric which is known as PG&E, cut electricity to parts of an estimated 22 to 35 California counties, including parts greater San Francisco region between October 9th to October 12th, 2019. These pre-emptive power outages impacted an estimated 800,000 PG&E customer’s electrical meters with local media reports stating as many as 2 million Californians had no power for several days. By Saturday, October 12th, the utility reported that power had been restored to on or about 100% of its customer’s meters.
