PG&E Determines Cause Of Widespread Rohnert Park Outage

ROHNERT PARK, CA — PG&E has determined a faulty underground cable is what caused a widespread power outage Monday night in Rohnert Park.

"PG&E safely restored power to most of the 11,689 customers who were impacted by the power outage in Rohnert Park by 10:30 last night," PG&E Spokeswoman Deanna Contreras wrote in an email to Patch.

"The remaining few customers had power by 7:30 this morning. The fault, and the cause of the power outage, was determined to be with an underground cable on Huddis Street."

The outage started just before 5 p.m. Monday.

At 5:53 p.m., the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety issued an advisory about the outage, asking community members not to call dispatchers unless it was for an emergency. Police also asked motorists to use caution while driving, and to treat intersections as if they were stop signs.

At 7:51 p.m., PG&E advised that the electric outage was affecting 6,024 customers but that crews were at the scene and were investigating the cause.