About 1,300 Pacific Gas & Electric customers in the East Bay briefly lost power Friday afternoon, far fewer than the roughly 20,000 customers initially shown on the utility’s outage map, a spokesperson said.
All affected customers were restored in less than 10 minutes, said Tamar Sarkissian.
Sarkissian said PG&E’s Distribution Management System “misread the signal on an associated device,” causing an incorrect 20,000-customer outage to appear on the company’s outage map.
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PG&E’s outage center had shown more than 20,000 customers affected in Contra Costa County between around 12:20 to 2 p.m., but the utility later said that figure was incorrect…