A series of electrical outages in North Berkeley at 12:56 12:25 p.m. today is affecting more than 5,000 houses and businesses. PG&E do not yet know the cause of the outage or the expected time to restore power. Among the sites affected is Berkeley High School, with its 3,200 students. Principal Pasquale Scuderi activated the […]
PG&E
Posted inNature
PG&E cuts more than tree branches — UPDATED
Some of Berkeleyside took a quick vacation over the weekend. We returned home late Sunday night, but when I eagerly went downstairs to check the latest in yesterday’s Netherlands vs Slovakia World Cup match, I found a blank TV. No signal. We also had no phone and no Internet. “Damn that Comcast,” I thought. A […]
Posted inSchools
Comment: The greenwashing academy?
A lengthy article in the East Bay Express today questions whether Berkeley High’s new Green Academy is an exercise in greenwashing because of support from utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric. The Green Academy, which will open in September, will be BHS’s seventh “small learning community”. It’s one of several green initiatives in California high […]
Posted inCommunity
Berkeley gets smart power meters
By Becca Freed In the past couple of weeks, PG&E has begun installing so-called SmartMeters on Berkeley residences. One showed up at my house even before PG&E’s letter arrived announcing the retrofit. SmartMeters are supposed to let consumers monitor their household energy consumption, with reports on hourly electricity use and daily gas use. Presumably this […]
