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SFPUC describes multi-day Treasure Island outage traced to damaged underwater cable; fuel and generator issues complicated response
Summary
An outage affecting Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island was traced to a dug-and-abraded underground cable on the Oakland side; SFPUC moved customers to on-island generators, faced a generator failure and fuel-delivery problems, and is planning an after-action report.
San Francisco ' The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission reviewed an outage that left Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island without grid power in mid-November and described recovery steps and follow-up work.
Barbara Hale, Assistant General Manager for Power, said crews determined the outage originated on the Oakland side of the systems serving both islands, on an underwater cable that feeds from a Port of Oakland substation. Staff followed an…
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