Inside look at San Francisco's bid to split with PG&E

Inside look at San Francisco's bid to split with PG&E

San Francisco’s stalled bid to break up with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and provide public power appears to be gaining traction amid frustration over the massive blackout in December and state regulators having recently given PG&E until October to set a justifiable price for the city to acquire its grid. The fire and outage at PG&E’s Mission substation south of market left merchants on Irving Street in the city’s Sunset District wit…