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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.
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Several buildings north of the UC Berkeley campus lost power beginning Sunday morning.
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Nearly 9,000 PG&E customers in the Alameda and Contra Costa counties faced storm-related power outages this past weekend.
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In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, local businesses in Berkeley struggled to adapt to ever-changing regulations and customer influxes as they continued to seek external support.
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As of the beginning of fall 2021, Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, has begun utilizing electric school buses in lieu of more traditional options.
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UC Berkeley researchers in the Energy and Resources Group, or ERG, released a study Sept. 13 showing that electrical grid limitations could exacerbate existing racial inequities in California.
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A state program will now allow California residents to save up to $8,000 in unpaid balances on PG&E bills and keep their power after the statewide ban on disconnecting electricity comes to an end Sept. 30.
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PG&E announced a safety initiative to protect communities from the threat of wildfire by moving 10,000 miles of power lines in areas with high fire risk underground.
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As a major heat wave impacts states across the Western United States, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an emergency proclamation Thursday freeing up energy capacity across the state.
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In response to the hardships that “mom-and-pop” restaurants are facing because of the pandemic, the California Restaurant Association, or CRA, and PG&E announced Monday that 109 locally-owned restaurants in Northern and Central California will receive $3,500 grants from the Restaurants Care Resilience Fund.
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