Nearly a week after a massive power outage took out electricity to a third of San Francisco, residents of one neighborhood are still dealing with the aftermath: a pack of noisy generators some say are keeping them up at night.
The generators, housed in containers on truck trailers and fed by diesel fuel, were first spotted in the Richmond District on Sunday and have been running since Monday, around the clock, as an alternate power source at Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s substation at 24th Avenue and Balboa Street.
“We have seven 2 megawatt generators onsite to provide temporary power for customers impacted by Saturday’s large San Francisco outage,” PG&E officials said Friday afternoon in a statement to the Chronicle. “These units were put into service on Monday morning, and will be turned off as soon as repairs are complete.”…