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Los Angeles (CNN) Power is back on for 99.5% of the Northern California customers left in the dark when Pacific Gas & Electric cut off electricity to prevent wildfires.

The utility intentionally shut off power to almost 800,000 customers in Northern California on Wednesday to prevent wildfires caused by high winds downing live power equipment. PG&E official Summet Singh said the company has since restored power for almost all of affected customers -- with about 2,500 people still in the dark Saturday.

"This is not ... a climate change story as much as a story about greed and mismanagement over the course of decades," Newsom said Thursday . "Neglect, a desire to advance not public safety but profits."

The financial impact of the shutoff has been devastating.

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