Big San Ramon Power Outage Narrows
- A widespread outage that at one point affected about 6,000 San Ramon customers has been reduced to hundreds. - Service crews isolated the problem around Alcosta Boulevard and Bollinger Canyon Road, restoring many connections. - Officials warn some residents still lack power and ask patience as repairs continue (patch.com).
A San Ramon power outage that knocked out electricity for more than 6,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers on Tuesday afternoon was cut to 847 within about 40 minutes. (patch.com) Patch reported the outage was first logged at 1:50 p.m. on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in a residential area east of Alcosta Boulevard and south of Bollinger Canyon Road. Pacific Gas and Electric crews isolated the trouble spot and restored service to most customers by 2:30 p.m. (patch.com) Pacific Gas and Electric’s outage center says customers can track active outages by address or city and report a loss of power directly through its online tools. The utility’s public guidance also tells customers to stay away from downed lines and call 911 if they see an immediate hazard. (pge.com) San Ramon sits in Contra Costa County’s Interstate 680 corridor, where a single neighborhood outage can affect thousands of homes if a feeder line or switching point fails. Utilities often restore service in stages by isolating the damaged section and re-energizing the rest of the circuit first. (patch.com) (pge.com) Pacific Gas and Electric’s broader system page said 99.9% of customers had power as of April 14, 2026, even with 78 current outages affecting 816 customers across its territory. That systemwide snapshot shows how a single city outage can loom large locally even when the wider grid is mostly operating normally. (pge.com) California’s Office of Emergency Services maintains a statewide power-outage dataset that updates every 15 minutes, reflecting how closely utilities and emergency officials track restoration work. For residents still without electricity in San Ramon, the immediate issue remained neighborhood repairs rather than a wider regional shortage. (gis.data.ca.gov) (patch.com) By late afternoon, the San Ramon outage had narrowed from a city-scale disruption to a smaller pocket near Alcosta and Bollinger Canyon, with some homes still waiting for crews to finish repairs. (patch.com)
