More than 6,000 Pacific Gas & Electric Co. customers lost power in Contra Costa County on Thursday afternoon during an unplanned outage, according to the utility’s outage center.
The outage was reported to PG&E at 3:50 p.m. and affected 6,033 customers as of 4:20 p.m., according to PG&E outage information. There was no estimated restoration time.
- PG&E OutageMap: See real-time shut-off zones in Northern California.
PG&E said a crew was working to restore power and that its team was evaluating the electrical system to identify damaged sections and make repairs before safely restoring service.
The cause of the outage was not immediately clear…