PG&E

The area of the 2900 block of Dwight Way, near Clark Kerr Campus and east of Hillside Avenue, is to be avoided due to a fallen tree and downed power line, according to a campus WarnMe alert sent at 1:06 p.m. Tuesday.

At approximately 1:30 p.m. today, a power outage affected large portions of West and South Berkeley, as well as some units in North Berkeley.

A power outage in Berkeley affected 5,066 PG&E customers Wednesday evening, according to PG&E spokesperson J.D. Guidi.

East Bay Clean Power Alliance raised concerns over East Bay Community Energy’s, or EBCE’s, proposal to allocate funds to the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland for the purpose of creating an asthma treatment program. 

UC Berkeley researchers published a recent study that revealed the high price of utility bills in California has created an inequitable electricity “tax” on millions of households.

The city of Berkeley will enact an opt-out policy to switch all Berkeley businesses to a 100% renewable energy-sourced utility plan beginning in October.

While campus community members support PG&E's efforts to implement automated power shut-off technology, some express concerns about potential side effects.

According to a PG&E press release, meteorologists are expecting storms to afflict parts of California in the coming week — including the city of Berkeley.

Several buildings north of the UC Berkeley campus lost power beginning Sunday morning.

Nearly 9,000 PG&E customers in the Alameda and Contra Costa counties faced storm-related power outages this past weekend.