Despite this week’s heat wave, utility company and fire officials insist that the high temperatures did not play a role in the recent fires and power outages experienced in Berkeley. Read More…
The Donald Vial Center for Employment in the Green Economy – part of UC Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment – will begin consulting the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on developing new training programs for employees in the utilities industry as part of a statewide initiative to reduce carbon emissions and increase environmental sustainability.
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BART resumed service around 10:20 a.m. Sunday after a power circuit failure earlier in the morning resulted in a mass shutdown of all trains. Read More…
A power outage from a failed substation cable rattled routines and disrupted studying for many students Monday night. The outage first struck at 9:38 p.m. and affected more than 12,000 PG&E customers throughout Berkeley. Read More…
Several thousand Berkeley residents experienced a power outage Monday night and into Tuesday morning due to an underground cable failure. Read More…
A car crashed into a UC Berkeley dormitory building early Wednesday morning, rupturing a natural gas pipe in the building and forcing the evacuation of about 400 students. Read More…
A power outage across the city of Berkeley has left thousands of residents without electricity and temporarily shut down BART service to the Downtown Berkeley station. Read More…
Pacific Gas and Electric, which services the city of Berkeley, unveiled a new program that would enable customers to buy energy from 100 percent renewable sources. The Green Option is voluntary for customers, who would pay six dollars more per month to support sustainable energy production, according to PG&E spokesperson Jonathan Read More…
Authorities closed the Downtown Berkeley Bay Area Rapid Transit station Tuesday after a power outage hit the Downtown area, preventing commuters from stopping at or leaving the station for almost two hours. About 1,150 customers were affected when an underground cable failed just before 4 p.m. near the intersection of Read More…
A power outage at the Downtown Berkeley BART station closed down the station for more than an hour and a half Tuesday afternoon. The power went out at 3:57 p.m., according to Tamar Sarkissian, spokesperson for PG&E. At the peak of the outage, about 1,150 customers in the Downtown area Read More…
