Numerous San Francisco elected officials ratcheted up the pressure for a potential takeover of Pacific Gas & Electric’s transmission grid in The City this week, reflecting deep discontent with the utility after recent outages that at one point in December left 130,000 people without power.
“We are done, and it is time for San Francisco to break up with PG&E,” state Sen. Scott Wiener said Monday on the steps of City Hall, where he was flanked by Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman and Supervisors Matt Dorsey, Bilal Mahmood and Danny Sauter.
Wiener, a longtime PG&E critic who in 2020 unsuccessfully pushed legislation to turn the company into a public utility, was there to unveil state Senate Bill 875, a measure aimed at making it easier for cities to seek separation from private utilities through the California Public Utilities Commission…
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