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Feb. 15, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Last year, metallic balloons caused about 450 outages in PG&E’s service area in Northern and central California, halting power to more than 250,000 homes and businesses, the utility reported.ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A Valentine's Day balloon filled with helium drifted into a power line Sunday, sparking an outage that temporarily plunged more than 2,300 Fresno households into the dark. Pacific Gas & Electric spokeswoman Karly Hernandez said that the outage began about 8 p.m. in an area east of Valentine Avenue, Th...

Why the massive power outages in Texas are so much worse than California's summer blackouts FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 People wait in line at a mall to get inside an H-E-B supermarket in Round Rock, Texas, on February 16, 2021. Millions were left without power as a deadly winter storm gripped the southern and central United States Tuesday. Hardest hit was Texas, where freezing conditions prompted utility companies to implement rotating blackouts to stop the power grid being overloaded by the surge in demand.SUZANNE CORDEIRO / AFP via Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less 2of6 Alvin DeCuier, left, wat...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A Valentine's Day balloon filled with helium drifted into a power...

Electric leadership in small California town Feb. 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail A view of some of the 749,088 solar panels at the California Valley Solar Farm near Santa Margarita (San Luis Obispo County) in 2015.Michael Macor / The Chronicle 2015 If California is lucky, our energy future could look like a small town in the rural Salinas Valley. Longtime readers of this column will not be surprised to learn that the town in question is Gonzales, the California municipal version of the “Little Engine That Could.” Its small, working-class population of just 9,000, many of them farmworkers, ...

Neighborhood Spotlight: Financial District Feb. 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail San Francisco skyline and Bay Bridge at sunset.Shutterstock The Transamerica Pyramid alone makes San Francisco’s skyline one of the most identifiable on Earth, but there’s plenty of other architectural gems in the Financial District. Home to Fortune 500 headquarters, consulates and landmarks, San Francisco’s Financial District serves as a thriving hub in one of the world’s most famous cities. The blocks of the Financial District are defined by handsome buildings with stately architecture. There’s malls, art...