Nearly 5,000 PG&E customers in Mountain View lost power Wednesday afternoon, the utility company reported. According to the utility company's outage center, power was restored later in the evening.
The outage impacted the entire Monta Loma neighborhood, and spilling into the Rex Manor neighborhood. Additional homes were without power along Central Expressway into Jackson Park and Old Mountain View. The entire outage impacted 4,996 customers as of 5 p.m. on March 22.
"Storms have caused widespread outages," PG&E wrote. "Crews may be reassigned to prioritize emergency calls from local police and fire departments."
The preliminary determination is that the outage was caused by the weather.
Large swaths of Mountain View have lost power multiple times in recent weeks due to frequent stormy weather, with rain and heavy wind causing utility issues all over the Bay Area. Earlier in the week patches of neighborhoods ranging from San Antonio to Sylvan park were without power, affecting roughly 3,000 customers.
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Monta Loma
on Mar 23, 2023 at 8:45 am
Registered user
on Mar 23, 2023 at 8:45 am
This is getting ridiculous. We really need to invest in our power grid infrastructure to improve resiliency. What if more buildings had solar panels and on-site batteries? Would that have helped?
It's all the more important because it's urgent that we do more electrification and less fossil fuels, which pollute our children's lungs and accelerate the devastation of global warming.
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St. Francis Acres
on Mar 23, 2023 at 11:39 am
Registered user
on Mar 23, 2023 at 11:39 am
Really wish Mountain View had a program to underground utilities like San Diego's:
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15 miles of undergrounding a year via a franchise tax
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Gemello
on Mar 23, 2023 at 1:02 pm
Registered user
on Mar 23, 2023 at 1:02 pm
These outages are not too bad at the moment as compared to when we switch to EV's, heat pumps, electric stoves... My own overhead service to underground project with PGE has taken nearly 3 years, and is still ongoing. Through my business contacts, I hear similar stories from throughout NorCal. Something has to change. Mixing tall trees with high-voltage lines is a bad idea, and so is a monopolistic bureaucratic utility!