Sunday, May 12, 5 pm: Service has been restored to the entire campus. Thank you for your patience.
Sunday, May 12, 3 pm: Service has been restored to most of the affected areas of the campus. Some buildings in the performing arts area continue to be without power.
Sunday, May 12, 1 pm: Service continues to be restored to affected areas. Buildings still without power are Music Facility, Theater Arts, and the University House.
Sunday, May 12, 12:30 pm: The science hill circuit and most of housing power was restored within an hour of the start of the outage (approximately 8 am). Buildings or areas of the campus that are on the problem circuit include the ARC, Bookstore, Camper Park, Classroom Unit, Communications, Farm/Agro, Cowell Apartments, Graduate Housing, Hahn Services, Kresge East, McHenry library, Music Facility, PE Fitness, Quarry Village, Student Ctr., Theater Arts, and University House.
As the campus crew troubleshoots the circuit, power may be restored to the affected buildings/areas and then interrupted again as breakers and switches are operated.
Sunday, May 12, 11 am: Physical Plant staff report that the power outage was caused by a campus breaker that would not reset after PG&E began operating its switches. Power has been restored to:
• Much of Science Hill, with the exception of the Earth & Marine Sciences Building.
It is unknown at this time when power will be restored to those areas of the campus that are still affected.
As soon as additional information is known, it will be posted on this web page. Please check back for updated information.
Thank you for your patience.
Sunday, May 12, 9 am: A large-scale power outage is currently affecting the UCSC campus. PG&E crews have been alerted and are working with Physical Plant staff to identify and repair the problem.
In the case of an emergency, please call 9-1-1 immediately.
As soon as additional information is known, it will be posted on this web page. Please check back for updated information.
Thank you for your patience.
