Power restored in San Francisco after outage

Power was restored on Sunday to the bulk of the 1,30,000 homes and businesses in San Francisco impacted by a massive outage a day earlier that caused major disruptions in the city. About 17,000 customers remained without power as of noon on Sunday, Pacific Gas and Electric Co said. PG&E said earlier its crews were working to restore electricity in several neighbourhoods and small areas of downtown San Francisco following Saturday’s outage. PG&E, in a statement, said it expects to restore power to remaining customers no later than 2 pm. Monday. “The damage from the fire in our substation was significant and extensive, and the repairs and safe restoration will be complex,” the utility said, referring to the substation at 8th and Mission streets.