Overview
- Plaintiffs plan to accuse PG&E of systemic service failures tied to December’s power disruptions, with attorneys expecting at least 40 businesses to join and litigation lasting two to three years.
- The Dec. 20 fire at PG&E’s Mission substation cut electricity to roughly a third of the city on a peak shopping day, forcing widespread closures and losses.
- PG&E offered $200 to residential customers and $2,500 to commercial accounts, but business owners report damages far exceeding those sums and say some claims remain unpaid.
- The utility says it has received more than 2,600 claims and resolved about 81% while conducting bilingual merchant walks in the Sunset to help file documentation and answer questions.
- City officials scheduled a Feb. 12 hearing with PG&E and advanced steps to study public-power options, as PG&E attributes last week’s Sunset outages to separate equipment failures.