(San Francisco) City, PG&E investigate high-profile outage
City and Pacific Gas and Electric Company officials are still at a loss to explain what happened when two power outages briefly shutdown Candlestick Park during the nationally-televised Monday night football game.
The outage delayed the Niners game for tens of thousands sitting in the darkened stadium and millions more watching the marquee game from home.
PG&E officials initially said their equipment did not cause either of the two blackouts and that a city switch was partly to blame.
But after Mayor Ed Lee held a news conference saying there was not yet enough evidence to determine what caused the outage, PG&E officials said they had spoken too soon.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/20/BAJC1MEQ9C.DTL
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